READ THE PREFACE BY CHARLES MULLER

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- PREFACE by Charles Muller -

This book brings vividly to mind the dramatic and very real impact that Jesus made in his healing ministry. He was so popular that crowds came from far and wide. There was the woman with issue, determined to reach him in spite of the crushing crowds around him. The author dramatises many such instances, making us aware of what it was like to be there as it happened. Lowering the paralysed man through the roof—the desperate way to which the man and his family resorted to get to Jesus. And then there was the blind man shouting out to Jesus, even discarding his coat in his headlong rush to reach the one whose reputation as a healer had spread like wildfire throughout the land. Of the historicity of this Man of God, this Son of God, there can be no doubt! We realise that Jesus was many things – a teacher, a man of peace, a king, a saviour, a messiah, but what drew so many to him was his reputation as a healer – one who healed instantaneously, merely by speaking the word: creating, literally, a ‘moment in time’ when diseased tissue, diseased bone, diseased cells, were replaced instantly with healthy, living tissue, bone and cells.

What Dr Peprah-Gyamfi really brought home to me, in this book, is the realisation that this instant form of healing, of recreating flesh and bone and blood by the mere spoken command of our Lord, is in effect an example in microcosm of the macrocosmic command of God that created life in the first place, when He said, “Let there be light.” The book brings home to us the fact that God was capable of creating man in a moment, by mere command, just as Genesis records Adam and Eve were created. God did not need to create mankind through eons of evolution and natural selection: he has it in his power to do it instantly. After all, that was the way Jesus healed, or restored the dead putrefying flesh of Lazarus to a living and healthy body. As Dr Peprah-Gyamfi points out, what difference is there, after all, between the decaying flesh of Lazarus and the dust of the earth out of which all life was created?

The value of this book is the inspiration that comes from the author’s sincere conviction that prayer changes things. Herein lies the great blessing for every one of us: through prayer we can be in touch, not just with the hem of Jesus’ garment, but with the very loving heart of our Almighty God who, through the working of the Holy Spirit, still intervenes in the affairs of the world in various ways, including the healing of the sick. As the author points out, the Healing Ministry of Doctor Jesus did not end with His death, resurrection and ascension, for to this day those who genuinely invoke His Name in childlike faith can expect astonishing miracles, including the healing of diseases that conventional medical practice cannot handle.

Dr Peprah-Gyamfi routinely provides an overview of the medical conditions that Jesus was confronted with, and provides an interesting insight into how these conditions would have been treated today with the advantage of modern, sophisticated medical research and equipment, such as X-ray machines and electroencephalograms, MRI and CT scans to help physicians diagnose the root of the problem. As laymen, we can benefit from the insight Dr Peprah-Gyamfi gives us into routine procedure, where the physician always begins with the taking of the patient’s history, followed by a clinical analysis of his/her condition. In this we are brought to the realisation that, however sophisticated the methods and advanced the technology are today, they always, without exception, fall far short of the miraculous instant healing that takes place by the mere command of Doctor Jesus.

What makes this work unique is that it is written not just for a western readership but for an African readership—for who can be better qualified to do this than the author himself, who was born and grew up in Ghana, and knows the threats to faith presented by witchcraft and a belief in the false gods unique to African culture. The author’s chosen mission field is Africa, and as a partisan of African culture he speaks with more insight than a medical doctor born and bred in Europe—yet with the advantage of European medical training. I believe sincerely that to this end he was called—which is more apparent if one were to read his first book The Call, in which he tells of a vision he had, while still a young man in Ghana, that he would one day be a healer in Europe. Without doubt, the author was called by God, called out of Africa, to train as a doctor in Germany, and later called to medical practice in England, that he might be better equipped for his divine call—to speak, not only to us in the West who have drifted away from our Christian heritage, but to those millions in Africa who may yet be in the grip of the forces of primordial darkness, or ignorance. There was a time when England sent missionaries to Africa, before England departed from the God that made Britain great. But here is a book that comes from a missionary out of Africa, to remind not only Britain, but Africans and folk throughout the world, just who our Creator is—and who can heal us, even, ultimately, to restore our bodies to glorified bodies that will live forever, no longer subject to disease and death, in the eternal Kingdom of God.

Charles Muller.

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- BOOK INTRODUCTION -

54. And when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knew him.
55. And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
56. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

Mark 6:54-56

Have you, your relatives or acquaintance passed through the doors of one department of medicine after the other, looking for a cure for your medical condition—only to be told at the end of the day that medical science has exhausted all its possibilities and is left with no effective cure?

Well, I have a message for you. Do not give up hope. For I know a doctor whose healing powers know no bounds. Indeed, it is at the very moment when the power of ordinary men and women of flesh and blood reaches its limit that the power of Almighty God kicks in!

I want to make one point clear at the outset—I am not calling for all hospitals and medical centres of our fallen planet to be closed down with immediate effect, to be replaced with prayer centres employing the power of prayers to heal all kinds of diseases that afflict Mankind.

Neither am I calling on all workers of the medical profession in every part of the world to turn into prayer warriors praying day and night for Divine power to heal all our ailments.

Certainly, so long as the world remains in its present state, Mankind will need its doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. It is for this reason that I spent several years at medical school cracking my brains to learn stuff like human anatomy, pathology, physiology, patho-physiology, pharmacology, etc. More grease to your elbows, men and women of the medical profession, as you work around the clock to try to heal the diseases that afflict Mankind.

Nevertheless, I can say with total conviction that prayer changes things; yes, it is my sincere belief that Almighty God through the working of the Holy Spirit still intervenes in the affairs of the world in various ways, including the healing of the sick. This fact was demonstrated powerfully during the earthly Ministry of Christ Jesus, the Son of God.

56. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

The Healing Ministry of Doctor Jesus did not end with His death, resurrection and ascension. In fact, even to this day, those who genuinely invoke His Name in childlike faith can expect astounding miracles, including the healing of diseases—diseases, indeed, that conventional medical practice cannot handle.

In this book, I, though an unworthy servant of the Living Jesus and one who has wondered, and continues to wonder, why the Lord of Hosts found it necessary to bow so low as to call me to service, will invite you, dear reader, to come along with me as I revisit some of the healings performed by the Lord Jesus Christ—from the point of view of a Christian doctor in general medical practice.

In each case I will begin by explaining, in simple language, the likely cause or causes of the disease in question. Next, I will move on to consider the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities at the disposal of modern medicine to deal with the disease involved. Finally, I will present the case before the Great Physician and implore Him to have mercy on the patient.

Before I begin my deliberation, I want to make one point clear to my readers, particularly to the doctors amongst them. In Germany where I trained to become a doctor, there is a saying that goes like this: zwei Aerzte, drei Meinungen. Literally translated, the saying means: two doctors, three opinions. It alludes to the fact that doctors, often, fail to come to a consensus as to the best form of therapy to apply to heal a specific medical condition.

For example, though all doctors might agree on the underlying causes of an inflammation of the middle ear and the treatment options available, some doctors may show more restraint in the prescription of antibiotics to deal with the condition. Instead, they might prescribe only painkillers and hope the condition will resolve itself after a few days—without antibiotics.

Others, especially when confronted with a small child yelling at the very top of his/her voice in pain before an equally distressed mother pleading with the doctor to please prescribe antibiotics to help hasten a cure, may well decide to prescribe the bacteria-killer right away.

In the same way a consultant in Internal Medicine, aware of the potential risks posed by general anaesthesia and also the potential risk of post-surgical wound infection, might caution an obese or overweight patient considering surgery to siphon excess fat that had accumulated in the belly against the use of surgery, and recommend weight control by way of exercise and diet instead of a liposuction procedure.

His classmate at medical school, who in the meantime earns his/her daily bread by means of cosmetic surgery, and who has specialised in liposuction, and yes, whose daily routine centres around that procedure, may well not be so cautious or reserved.

So, dear colleagues of the medical profession, please bear with me, if you happen to disagree with my approach to the diseases dealt with in this book. One thing I can assure you—I took considerable pains to research the various cases before I set out to write down my thoughts.

I also have a word for the layman in the field of medicine. I have gone to considerable lengths to avoid language and terminology that you may find difficult to understand. There have been a few instances, however, when, despite all my efforts, I have had to retain the medical terminology for lack of suitable alternatives.

Please do not worry, however, for a knowledge of the terminology involved is not a prerequisite to the understanding of the general message the book seeks to convey.

Having said this by way of introduction, I shall proceed with the specific medical conditions that our Lord encountered and dealt with.

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