I must say that I am not very expert on the subject of prayers, I still don't know what is the best way to offer any prayers, I will give you two recent examples where my prayer offered in true honesty and devotion, worked so well that a dying cat that my Vet could offer no further treatment and told me it was best for me to put her to sleep, I brought her back, and held her against my heart, and looked deep into her sad, glazed eyes, with fixed staring daze, I looked deep into them, and could virtually feel her pain, and, with tears in my eyes, I asked that Lord, God and his son Jesus to please help this poor animal who does not deserve to die so young, I asked Jesus to heal my cat, to forgive her and me for anything wrong I may have done, and something told me (not literally) but I did not give up on my faith in medicine either, so I went back to my vet and insisted that they check her Thyroxine levels, but they kept saying there is no need to check her thyroxine as most cats her age do not suffer from a thyroxine problem.
However, all her symptoms were indicating that thyroxine gland could be responsible when cats starts to lose weight rapidly, along with possibly many other causes.
My Vet still refused to check her thyroxine, kept ruling it out, then a different locum Vet looked at her medical history, and test results, suggested that we give her some Steroid tablets, and this may start her failing kidneys again, and that was magic! the very next day the cat started to eat by herself, instead of force feeding her, and she was on to a path of recovery. That cat is now healthy, little playful thing, jumping up and down, running mad all over! Gained from 2.2kg to now well over 3.6Kg,
In my 2nd example, my ex work colleague, who became a very good friend of mine, I had known him for 35 years, contracted cancer of the lungs, he never smoked or drank, but suffered from Asthma and hayfever regularly, both his parents died of cancer.
when he was diagnosed with cancer about this time last year, I was devastated for him, but i can put my hands on my heart and say that I did not offer any prayers for him as he was an Atheist and did not believe in a God, as we would often discuss this subject, though i reassured him that he should not worry, that medical science has taken giant leaps and there are many treatments for cancer, he should be fine, just look forward to getting the best treatment to beat his cancer and he will be fine, he should not stress himself, and that he should have faith in the modern medicine. he agreed, and had faith in modern medicine, he did not appear to be highly distressed, of course he was sad that he had contracted cancer, who wouldn't be in that situation.
I was hopeful too, that his cancer treatment should see him live for at least another 5 years or more may be, little did I know that a few months later he would be dead! I could not offer any prayers for the poor chap!
If only I knew he was so gravely ill, I would have offered prayers from the bottom of my heart, which i did not.
In another example, I did not pray and left it to medical experts only:-
My mother lived for another 10 years after her kidneys failed, she was put on a home dialysis, she died at 80 through infection of peritonitis, that i saw coming, I reported the change in the colour of her dialysis fluids when she exchanged her dialysis fluid, but the hospital told me not to bring her to the hospital as they were extremely busy, and the nurse categorically told me that if I did fetch her over they would not see to her,
yet a patient booklet given to us said that it did not matter what time of the day or night it was, if my mother felt any abdominal pains or the colour of her dialysis liquid changes, i must phone them on a special 24hr dialysis ward number given to us.
Needless to say my mother died within a week because she had contracted infection that could have been cured by giving her timely medicine, in other words NHS Trust are murderers. They killed my mother who could have gone to live another 10 years, even prayers would not have saved her if she did not receive correct medical treatment on time.
