The Healing Light (1947) by Agnes Sanford is a personal exploration and explanation of prayer and healing.
Sanford was raised Presbyterian, her Healing does not only live within the rigid confine.
While Mrs.
While some of these modern miracles were accomplished through her own prayers, many others were the result of her sharing her techniques with others and allowing them to heal themselves.
Sanford shares dozens of anecdotes of successful Healing methods.
Written in a friendly, conversational tone, Mrs.
She writes, ...just as a whole world full of electricity will not Light a house unless the house itself is prepared to receive that electricity, so the infinite and eternal life of God cannot help us unless we are prepared to receive that life within ourselves.
Similarly, when our prayers aren\'t answered and Healing doesn\'t come, it\'s not because there is no God, but because we are not properly connected to His love and energy.
If you flip on a Light switch and the Light doesn\'t come on, you would logically conclude that there is a problem with the lamp-not that electricity doesn\'t exist.
A recurring metaphor that she uses is that of electricity.
Her first book, The Healing Light, shares her simple techniques for creating the right environment within ourselves to welcome God\'s healing.
Agnes began to teach and write on the subject of healing.
As she began to study God\'s Word in depth, she found that her prayers also could heal.
But he suggested that she, too, could channel the Healing power of God.
Convinced by his Healing abilities, Agnes began sending others to Colwell for healing.
When an Episcopalian priest, Hollis Colwell, laid hands on her and prayed over her, she found immediate relief from her symptoms.
More children followed, but Agnes found herself depressed-a condition she suffered from for many years. in 1925, where Edgar received a job as a pastor in New Jersey.
The pair, along with their young son, returned to the U.
S.
It was while working as an English teacher at Soochow Academy in Shanghai that she met and married her husband, the missionary Edgar Sanford.
After completing her schooling, she returned to China in 1919.
She spent her youth and teen years in Shanghai, until leaving for the United States to attend college. 1982) was born in China, the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary. 1897, d.
Agnes Sanford (b.
Sanford explains, we can heal ourselves, each other, and the world at large.
By becoming a channel for God\'s love and power, Mrs.
The Healing Light (1947) by Agnes Sanford is a personal exploration and explanation of prayer and healing
