The Healing Power of Prayer: The Surprising Connection between Prayer and Your Health

by Chester Tolson; Harold Koenig

Publisher:

Baker

, 2003

Overview

Prayer can heal you. It’s not just hype or hope or a spiritual cliché.There is actual scientific evidence to support this. Recent medical and psychological studies claim that prayer can relieve stress, improve attitudes, and mend bodies. Prayer generates peace, power, and health-a triple preventative that guards against anxiety and disease. It’s a simple act that heals.

According to Chet Tolson and Harold Koenig prayer helps people function at their best when life serves them the worst. Even on good days, it enhances the mind-body-soul connection. In The Healing Power of Prayer, these authors explain the nature of prayer, what happens when we pray, the restorative benefits of prayer, how to organize prayer, and much more. Their facts and insights will encourage believers to increase, the fainthearted to revive, and skeptics to begin a life of prayer.

From the Back Cover

Bend Your Knees, Experience Healing

“One of the best books on prayer ever written!"-Naomi Judd

"This book could not be more timely . . . I recommend you read it carefully."-Dr. Robert H. Schuller, founding pastor, The Crystal Cathedral Ministries

"A most helpful book, offering concrete ways in which God’s healing power can be appropriated. It is sure to increase your faith and strengthen your prayer life."-Dr. Bruce Larson, pastor emeritus, University Presbyterian Church


According to Drs. Chet Tolson and Harold Koenig, prayer can generate peace, power, and health in many people--a triple preventative that guards against anxiety and disease. Faith and prayer can positively improve your well-being and the body’s ability to heal itself.

In The Healing Power of Prayer, Tolson and Koenig describe the nature of prayer, its restorative benefits, how to organize prayer, and much more. "Medicine, surgery, and the other methods the doctors bring into the healing process are important,” say these medical and spiritual leaders. "However, you have a responsibility and an opportunity to participate in your own healing through prayer."

So whether you need healing or just want to stay well, you can make a difference. You can experience the healing power of prayer.

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Product Details

• Title : The Healing Power of Prayer: The Surprising Connection between Prayer and Your Health
• Authors:
  • Tolson, Chester
  • Koenig, Harold
• Publisher: Baker
• Publication Date: 2003
• ISBN: 9781441244109

About the Authors

Chester L. Tolson, Ph.D., has served as a senior pastor and denominational fund-raiser and is the executive director of Churches Uniting in Global Mission. He is the author of Proven Principles for Finding Funds and lives in California.

Harold G. Koenig, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and associate professor of medicine at Duke University in North Carolina. He is the founder and director of the Center for Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health at Duke and has written extensively in mental health, geriatrics, and religion.