Prayer and the Power of Intention

I'm reading The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggert. It's a books that's fascinating but not your every day beach reading, so I work on it awhile, walk away, come back... It's intriguing because it covers the topic of the power of intention, and that's very familiar territory for me since I learned about prayer before I could walk. The more scientific experiments I read which produce incredible outcomes, the more I think, well, I knew that. We learned about that in Sunday School, only we called it something different. Let me write a passage from page 143-144, and see if things sound familiar to any of you who spent time in Sunday School.
      
Braud's other studies also suggested that we can most influence others to become more "ordered" when we ourselves are ordered. For instance, in his studies, calm people were the most successful at sending mental influence to calm down highly nervous people, and focused people the best at helping distracted people focus. Braud's work also suggests that the greatest effects occur when the person most needs help.

Scientific evidence also reveals that we can affect virtually any other living thing as well. The enormous body of research on healing gathered by Dr. Daniel Benor shows that thoughts can have powerful effects on a variety of plants, seeds, single-celled organisms such as bacteria and yeast, and insects and other small animals... All these possibilities suggest that we have an awesome level of responsibility when generating our thoughts. Each of us is a potential Frankenstein, with an extraordinary power to affect the living world around us. How many of us, after all, are sending out mostly positive thoughts?

After reading that, I closed the book, put it on the table, and these words popped in my head from the old King James I memorized as a child," The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." In a more modern version of James 5:16 it reads, "The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective."  I love that verse, and now science has proven it to be true. I didn't have to read the experiments to know that. I already know it, but it's like icing on a cake to see it proven to skeptics.

                                   Peace. 
                                                                        Love, Linda