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This is another healing story. This time it is Peter’s mother-in-law (you never hear about Peter’s wife). This woman was in bed with a high fever but when Jesus touched her hand, the fever left and she got up and prepared a meal.

How many people do you know that can be very sick one minute then the next minute be well enough to feel like cooking for a guest?

The above verses go on to tell how people were brought to Jesus and he healed all the sick.

This reminds me of Dr. Eric Pearl, you can read his story in The Reconnection He heals all kinds of diseases and teaches other to heal also! I will take a class from him sometime. Dr. Pearl refuses to see the imperfection, the problem he doesn’t even want to know what the affliction is because what he does is to see the person as perfect and whole. His belief is so strong that the perfect and whole manifest!

This also leads me to think of the many articles I have read lately concerning the placebo effect. Researchers are discovering that in many cases the placebo actually does better than the drug being tested. They have even gone back to retest established drugs and are finding this to be so.

What all this boils down to is the ceremony. All through history and different cultures there have been healers of different types, Doctors, Shamans, Medicine Men etc but all they provide is a ritual. And this ritual whether it is a pill, incantations or surgery, if the patient believes it will work it probably will! It is all placebo effect but you have to believe with an unwavering faith.

When I was young, I had warts and one doctor told me to cut a potato in half and rub my warts with it then bury the potato under the house and my warts would disappear. I really did not believe this but tried it anyway and guess what it did not work. If he had done a better sells job I might have believed and then it would have worked. Our minds are much more powerful than we may think (and it is that unbelief that limits us).