Real-Life Examples and Testimonials
John was a 45-year-old man and the father of three children. For many years of his life, he had been fighting against “debilitating” anxiety. He underwent several health treatments, but none of them worked. Eventually, John linked in with a local church group and started praying Christian prayers, and he experienced several health benefits from it. On explaining what prayer was like, John said, “I felt very peaceful and comfortable. I was no longer the awful person I thought I was. I was looking at the world with different eyes. I felt very different. It was a WOW moment!” These words paint us an entirely different picture of this man, John, from what you might have earlier imagined—he has hope. He is no longer mentally sick but mentally well.
Maria is also not the person you think she might be. Battling depression, this undergraduate university student typifies the very many young people who experience complex personal traumas while trying to get themselves through tertiary education. The key to releasing some of her health problems was similar to John. Maria described, “To pour out my deepest thoughts to someone and know that they are being listened to is comforting. The act of prayer itself is itself beneficial. I can’t say that God answers my prayers and he makes things better for me, but the act of praying is beneficial and the faith that it will work helps. You let go of the problem.” It is clear that an emotional release forms a significant part of Maria’s healing; her depression is now under control. You’re reading the narrative of her future and she will continue to participate in more prayers until she is completely healed of clinical depression. So, the concept of faith will work for her if she keeps applying it and prays Christian prayers in the context of university student-life. If it works for Maria, it will work for many other people too.