{"id":5415,"date":"2019-08-05T22:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T02:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=5415"},"modified":"2022-02-17T08:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:24:20","slug":"praying-for-healing-healing-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/praying-for-healing-healing-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Healing &#8211; Healing 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/taHKsZQcIas?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Bob Schuchts talks about the importance of understanding the true deep meaning of prayer for healing. He shares some anecdotes on his personal experiences in healing and guides us through prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2019-healing-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"downloads\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"audio-mp3\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/16-Dr.-Bob-Schuchts-Praying-for-Healing.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-study-guide-pdf\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Praying-for-Healing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-transcript-pdf\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/16-Dr.-Bob-Schuchts-Praying-for-Healing-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"reflective-study-guide-questions\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cIf you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.\u201d<\/p><cite><em> John 15:7<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Even though we know God always hears our prayers, it can be easy to feel like He doesn\u2019t hear us if we don\u2019t receive what we ask for. Has there been a time in your life when you\u2019ve asked for something in prayer and you didn\u2019t receive it? How did this experience affect your trust in God? <br><br><\/li><li>When God doesn\u2019t give us what we ask for immediately, it doesn\u2019t mean He hasn\u2019t heard our prayers. Have there been times when God has answered your prayers in different ways than you\u2019ve expected? <br><br><\/li><li>God can bring healing to our lives through simple prayers. Try to think of a false belief you hold about a painful situation in your life. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you renounce these false beliefs. <br><br><\/li><li>Dr. Bob mentions the Emmanuel Prayer Process. Like he describes, try to think of a moment when you felt the presence of God in your life. Allow yourself to reenter into that experience and to pay attention to what it feels like. In these feelings, remember that you are a beloved son or daughter of God. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"text-praying-for-healing\">Text: Praying for Healing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Welcome back everybody. This is our fourth and last week of the Healing Retreat, and I pray that the Holy Spirit has been working powerfully in your life in-between times, and even as we\u2019ve met. Just to kind of give you a summary of where we\u2019ve been: The first week, we talked about Jesus as our Divine Physician. And the second week, that He operates most directly through the sacraments, and we talked about the sacraments as being healing us not only individually, but corporately. Healing the wounds of sin. And last week, we talked about redemptive <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/can-you-drink-the-chalice-im-going-to-drink-lent-2020\/\">suffering<\/a> and healing, and that those aren\u2019t opposites, but redemptive suffering brings healing. And we mentioned how every time we forgive, we enter into a <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/embracing-our-cross-redemptive-suffering-healing-2019\/\">redemptive suffering and heal<\/a> ourselves and the people that we forgive just in that simple act, but we also enter into facing our suffering as a way of moving through it, rather than staying stuck in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-direct-line\">A Direct Line<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Sometimes our suffering is ongoing, and we have to, in that, not only participate in the suffering of Christ with Him, but offer it for the good of others as a way of redemptive love. And this week we\u2019re going to talk about praying for healing. And we\u2019ve been praying for healing all the way through, but I just want to talk about it more explicitly. I believe that prayer, in addition to the sacraments, is one of the greatest gifts that God could possibly give us. The God of the universe, Father, Son, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/growing-in-relationship-with-the-holy-spirit-healing-2021\/\">Holy Spirit<\/a>, has given us the permission to have a phone, so to speak, with a personal line to the president of the universe, you know. We\u2019ve got, what do they call it? The red line? We\u2019ve got the direct line, and yet we don\u2019t even begin to appreciate the gift that that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Jesus says \u201cAbide in Me, and I in you, and ask whatever you desire and I will give it to you. And My Father Himself will give it to you.\u201d That\u2019s incredible. In the book of Hebrews, it says <strong><em>We can approach the throne of <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/sharing-gods-graces-christian-friendship\/\">grace<\/a> without shame, because the blood of Christ covers us.<\/em><\/strong> So the things that keep us to hesitate, it\u2019s just a matter of believing in everything that the church teaches, you know, the whole last section of the Catechism. Everything that scripture teaches about prayer says that we have access to the Father 24\/7. There is never a moment in which the Father doesn\u2019t hear our prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"not-a-genie-in-a-bottle\">Not a Genie in a Bottle<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, sometimes we can believe that He doesn\u2019t hear us because we\u2019re trying to get Him to fix something rather than to heal something, and I think we get into a lot of trouble that way. We want our prayers to fix now. We want it to be an extension of our manipulation of the way that we manipulate the rest of life. And one of the scriptures that has always spoken to me is in Hebrews, when it\u2019s talking about Jesus, and He says because of&#8230; <strong><em>With loud wails and cries to the Father, who could save Him from death, Jesus cried out, and because of His reverent submission He was heard.<\/em><\/strong> Well, I said to myself \u201cWell, He didn\u2019t save Him from death, did He?\u201d I mean, what does that mean? If, because of His reverent submission, He was heard, that means Jesus wouldn\u2019t have gone to death. And Jesus asked for this cup to be taken from Him, but it wasn\u2019t taken from Him, so His prayers weren\u2019t heard. So what does that scripture mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And as I prayed about it, I got the revelation. <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/jesus-wants-our-conversion-not-our-death-lent-2020\/\">Jesus was saved from death<\/a> on the backend, not the frontend. The resurrection was when the Father saved Him from death. If the Father would have saved Him from death on the frontend, none of us would have been saved. So often we want a quick answer to our prayers because we want to fix our suffering and escape from our situation. Whereas God may need to bring us through a circumstance and heal us on the backside of it, because He\u2019s healing so much more, like my brother Dave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so I think that\u2019s the biggest reason we lose hope and lose <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/trusting-in-gods-will-lent-2020\/\">trust<\/a> in prayers, is we&#8230; He\u2019s not a genie in a bottle that\u2019s magical. In fact, the Catechism talks about if we approach prayer and the sacraments in that way, you know, like it\u2019s some kind of superstitious genie in the bottle kind of approach, then that\u2019s really a sacrilege. That\u2019s really superstition. That true prayer always has the intention of bringing ourselves and everything that we\u2019re concerned about into relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. True prayer is communion with God. That\u2019s the first and primary healing. We are always healed when we pray in truth, because we\u2019re always brought into deeper communion with God, and that\u2019s healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-power-of-prayer\">The Power of Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so any kind of prayer, every kind of prayer, if it\u2019s done from the heart &#8211; whether it\u2019s a Rosary, whether it\u2019s a prayer to St. Michael, whether it\u2019s a prayer of thanksgiving, whether it\u2019s a blessing &#8211; whatever prayer, if it\u2019s done in a right heart with the right disposition, desiring to have communion with God, brings us healing. But then there are specific prayers for <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/can-god-really-heal-me-healing-2020\/\">healing in many different forms that I didn\u2019t really<\/a> learn about until I was&#8230; really after that experience that I talked about on the Christ Renews His Parish weekend. That weekend changed my understanding of prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was with a group of friends, and we were together praying and praising God when that happened, just like Jesus after His baptism. The grace of the sacrament was given, but it was in prayer that the Father spoke His blessing. And it\u2019s in prayer that we receive the blessing of the Father, that\u2019s already been given to us through the sacraments. Everything that we need, all the grace that we need is given to us in the sacraments. We have Jesus Himself, the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit. But it\u2019s in prayer, it\u2019s like prayer is the place where we draw on the grace that\u2019s been offered to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And just as Jesus said to the disciples, He says to us: \u201cGo and heal the sick, deliver those from oppression, even raise the dead.\u201d Now, that\u2019s hard for most of us to imagine, but those were Jesus\u2019 own words. And you\u2019d be surprised at how many people through the course of history, including about 400 saints, have prayed for somebody to be raised from the dead and they were raised from the dead. It\u2019s happening now. I know of hundreds of stories of that. But it\u2019s mindboggling to us. We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/calm-in-the-storm-finding-god-in-the-hard-times-healing-2021\/\">hard time<\/a> in our Western civilization to really believe, in this scientific age, that God could actually answer prayer that way. But that\u2019s how powerful He is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so whether that death is the death of our own hearts, or a death of somebody\u2019s physical body, prayer is that powerful. And, as I mentioned, I had, on that weekend, saw the power of prayer, and I began then praying with people as a therapist when they would meet with me. I would begin <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/how-to-pray-with-other-people\/\">praying with people<\/a>, prayers for the areas where they were suffering, and I began to see God do amazing things. I began to see people who had gone through deep wounds of sexual abuse, and see God heal them in a way that they weren\u2019t being healed until they had an encounter with the Holy Spirit. Now, there was a struggle in it, and we had to work through things. I saw people healed of pornography compulsions, I saw people healed of broken marriages, broken relationships, people were divorced. And in the power of prayer, in all of those circumstances, God did an amazing healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also saw, once I went down to Brazil, saw the power of prayer in physical healing. Now, actually it\u2019s a very simple prayer. When we went down there, we were just taught to say \u201cJesus, I just ask You to heal this knee,\u201d or \u201cheal this shoulder,\u201d or \u201cheal these blind eyes.\u201d It wasn\u2019t a lot of words. And we were encouraged just to expect that Jesus was going to respond to those prayers. And over and over He did, and it was surprising almost when He didn\u2019t. I remember this one young man who had been brought in on a stretcher, and I was asked with a group of people to go pray for him. And as we prayed nothing happened, and we were taught if nothing happened just to ask God if there\u2019s some barrier in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"prayer-needs-to-be-persistent\">Prayer Needs to be Persistent<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>And so when I asked the Holy Spirit to show me if there was a barrier to His healing, the words that came were \u201cunforgiveness.\u201d So I asked him \u201cIs there any area of unforgiveness in your life?\u201d And he acknowledged that there was. That he had actually gotten beat up by a gang, and that\u2019s how he got in this condition, and he hadn\u2019t forgiven them.\u201d So we led him through a forgiveness prayer, like something like what we did last week, a little shorter. And after he forgave we prayed again, and he was literally healed right before our eyes. And I\u2019ve watched that happen many times. That doesn\u2019t mean that every time we\u2019re not healed there\u2019s unforgiveness or some other issue. But because the prayer for healing is so simple, we can trust that God can work through a very simple prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s multiple times. Remember the person in the Gospel with the eye problems. Jesus prayed actually twice before he saw, and I\u2019ve seen that happen many times, where you pray for somebody repeatedly. In fact, in Be Healed I talk about this young girl who was healed of spina bifida. She had a hole in her spine. And the person who prayed for her prayed all night and all of the next day, continual prayers with the girl, and there was no healing for about eighteen hours. And then on the eighteenth hour, the healing came. Now, why is that? Did Jesus not answer the prayer the first time? I think there\u2019s something much more mysterious that we don\u2019t understand, which is all the ways in which we resist grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Catechism talks about when our hearts get hardened and we get into doubt, and unbelief, and sin, and everything else, we can resist grace, we can&#8230; grace can be present and we can resist it. And there\u2019s something that happened in those eighteen hours of continual prayer, where this young girl with the spina bifida was soaked in the power and presence of God, that somehow that prayer moved the obstacles and moved her faith, and she experienced the love of God, she experienced the presence of God to a point where the healing could take place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, some of us can pray for years and not see it, so I\u2019m not making that as a dogma. I\u2019m just saying that, sometimes, prayer needs to be persistent, like the persistent widow, until we see the results that we\u2019re praying for. Jesus says never give up praying, you know. That\u2019s why He told us the parable. Never give up. Never stop praying for the things that you are praying. And ask the Holy Spirit to guide you with how to pray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-prayer-of-renouncing\">A Prayer of Renouncing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I think of a young woman who was a mother of a couple of young children, and she was married and she was dealing with suicidal depression. And she had some really deep wounds, sexual abuse wounds, somebody had sexually abused her. But she was actually driving around in the car with a noose in her glove compartment, looking for an opportunity to hang herself, and yet she didn\u2019t want to do it to her husband and her children. But she was in that much despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she had actually read about praying for healing, and had even done some earlier, but one of the things that came back to her mind at that point was a simple prayer of renouncing. A prayer of renouncing false beliefs, and also demonic oppression. This is one of the things that all of us have been given authority in our baptism, is to pray for ourselves in that way. And just a prayer of renouncing, again, like a simple praying of physical healing, renouncing just goes \u201cIn the name of Jesus, I renounce whatever that is. Whatever that false thing is, or whatever that spiritual oppression is, I renounce that oppression, or I renounce that despair.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And she kept arguing with herself. You know, it was like the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/growing-in-relationship-with-the-holy-spirit-healing-2021\/\">Holy Spirit<\/a> was bringing this to her mind and she was saying \u201cThat won\u2019t do any good. That won\u2019t make any difference.\u201d You know. And yet it was persistent. And so finally she says \u201cOkay, just to prove it\u2019s not going to make any difference I\u2019ll do it.\u201d And so she says \u201cIn the name of Jesus Christ, I renounce despair, I renounce suicidal ideation and thoughts.\u201d And with the choice of her will and the power of that prayer in Jesus\u2019 name, she said she was stunned. She said there was something lifted. This heaviness, this despair, this oppression just lifted, and she was free from the suicidal thought. She couldn\u2019t believe that she had gotten that close to killing herself when so much of that, she thought were her thoughts, were actually demonic oppression coming down upon her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ending-with-a-prayer\">Ending with a Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So it may not be that dramatic, but we all have things, we all have areas of our lives where we\u2019re believing things, where we\u2019re taking things in, where we\u2019re making agreements with things that aren\u2019t from God. It could be just believing that nobody loves us, or believing that things will never get better, or believing that \u201cI\u2019m alone and I have to take care of myself.\u201d And so I just ask you, as we move towards closing in prayer here, to think of a situation in your life, or a belief in your life, something that\u2019s plagued you, that you\u2019ve just made agreement with, you know. \u201cMy life will never be happy,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll never be healed,\u201d or whatever that is. And I need you to think about that. \u201cI\u2019ll never have enough money.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll never have what I need.\u201d \u201cGod won\u2019t come through to me.\u201d Whatever that is. And I just ask you just very simply to pray with me, and see what God does in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the name of Jesus Christ, I renounce whatever that belief is. In the name of Jesus, I renounce the belief that God doesn\u2019t care about me. That God won\u2019t be with me. I renounce the belief that God won\u2019t take care of me, take care of my needs. And I give You permission, Holy Spirit, to restore my trust in this area. To restore my understanding that You\u2019re with me, that You love me, that You care about me.\u201d And as a way of putting it into practice, I want to end with this prayer. It\u2019s a prayer I learned from somebody who\u2019s a psychiatrist, his name is Dr. Karl Lehman. If you want to look this up on a website, he\u2019s a Minister of the Cross, the Body of Christ. But his prayer is called the Immanuel prayer process, and it\u2019s very simple, and it\u2019s remembering a moment where you felt the presence of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you can\u2019t think of a moment where you felt the presence of God, or felt God\u2019s love in some way, think of human love. A time when you felt love by somebody, or a joyful experience. And just, in this prayer process, very simply allow yourself to remember it &#8211; it\u2019s what we do with the Eucharist &#8211; remember in the present, let it be present in the moment. So go to that moment, that experience, and allow it to be present right now, and allow yourself to re-experience, and let the Holy Spirit show you, re-experience that time of encounter with God, that time of love, that time of peace, that time of joy; whatever the fruit of the Spirit was you\u2019re present with it. Just re-enter into it. St. Ignatius also teaches this, and many of the spiritual masters teach this kind of prayer process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as you enter into it, pay attention to your experience. Pay attention to what it feels like. And then, in that moment, what you believe about yourself. What do you believe about yourself in that moment of encounter? How do you feel? What do you think? Who are you? And then remember the name that God gave you. \u201cYou are My beloved son. You are My beloved daughter, in whom I delight.\u201d And just, as we end, I want to end on that note, that you would end in the reality that you\u2019re a beloved son or a beloved daughter, the Father delights in you, that Jesus is present with you, and that the fruit of the Spirit &#8211; His love, His joy, His peace, His presence &#8211; is always with you and it\u2019s accessed, it\u2019s received, as we pray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I want to end with a prayer for each of you personally that, Jesus, that You would manifest Yourself in a new way, and bring healing to the things that are deepest in the heart of each person who\u2019s participating in this. It\u2019s been a joy sharing this time with you, and I look forward to seeing you again. If you want to look at resources, JP2 Healing Center, we have a lot of resources there, and conferences, and books that you can read if you want to go deeper in this. God bless you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-dr-bob-schuchts\">About Dr. Bob Schuchts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dr-Bob-Headshot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5145 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dr-Bob-Headshot.png 310w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dr-Bob-Headshot-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-dr-bob-schuchts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bob Schuchts, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;is the founder of the John Paul II Healing Center, and is a nationally renowned speaker throughout North America and overseas. Bob is the author of&nbsp;Be Healed: Encountering the Powerful Love of Jesus in Your Life; and&nbsp;Be Transformed: The Healing Power of the Sacraments; Real Suffering: Finding Hope and Healing in the Trials of Life; and Forty Weeks: A Journey of Healing and Transformation for Priests, with Fr. William Watson.&nbsp;Bob has also contributed to numerous publications and has published resources available through the Healing Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob spent more than 30 years as a marriage and family therapist, while also teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in marriage and family relationships, human development, applied psychology, and marriage and family therapy. He held adjunct professor positions at Florida State University, Tallahassee Community College and the Center for Biblical Studies in Tallahassee, Florida. He has also taught courses at the Theology of the Body Institute and the Augustine Institute. Bob is a widower with two married daughters and eight grandchildren<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-Pray-More-Healing-Retreat-bottom-box.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1544\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Dr. Bob Schuchts talks about the importance of understanding the true deep meaning of prayer for healing. He shares some anecdotes on his personal experiences in healing and guides us through prayer. Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat! Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! 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