Emily, that is a good idea to have counseling from a cleric who would be understanding to the plight of an individual who is terminal and in pain. It probably wouldn't matter but a short time before they succumbed to the disease. But it would be easier on the family finances, planning and help with individuals wanting to say, "Goodbye."
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Jackson
I think there are two different levels we are both addressing here
1. one is the counseling through the process, independent of the conditions that may be irreversible, and yes it is important to having healing and peace for closure and to enjoy the most of those days left with family. So the healing process CAN help resolve any issues with family that might otherwise mar the quality of time they do have to enjoy with each other.
That is one level, independent of the outcome and if the situation changes or not.
2. But I'm also talking about something more than just counseling.
The spiritual healing process, especially the deliverance therapy and generational healing,
has actually changed people's conditions from terminal to perfectly restored health with no side effects or symptoms.
One woman that my friend Olivia's ministry helped,
was within 20 minutes of dying with even the onset of organ failure.
But Olivia and her prayer partner got the vision this lady was not meant to die
but meant to live and tell her testimony. And after they prayed, she was restored to perfect health -- Walking around with no symptoms of damaged organs or disease, and the doctors can't fully explain it.
Spiritually, the level of energy can boost the mind and body to heal themselves and overcome or reverse conditions that medicine, science or surgery cannot replicate. The mind and body can be changed in surprising ways, depending on each person's situation or path in life. (The key step in healing and recovery programs is FORGIVENESS, identifying areas of blockage in the mind or memories, even conflicts from past generations beyond this lifetime, and committing or praying to remove or let those blockage go, so that any negative energy attached to them is also released. And this process opens up channels for the lifegiving energy used by the mind and body to heal themselves naturally, so the process is either restored to normally or boosted above normal in cases of miraculous healing that exceeds expected results.)
Other patients that Olivia has prayed for died anyway, but their families received healing and peace, and the healing occurred on that level even though the physical disease was not changed. (in the books listed in the link, Dr. Francis MacNutt also wrote of cases where the answer to prayers did not come as expected, but the healing came indirectly through other means. So he recommends working with all available resources, not rejecting science or medicine, since all levels are needed to facilitate healing of the whole person, body mind and spirit.)
So either way, the spiritual healing can help the process, and even reverse it in some cases.
It works voluntarily, it does not work by coercion or attaching any expectations on the process or outcome.
If everyone had access to help with this, I believe we could
intervene to reduce the incidence, costs and deaths associated with
all levels of physical, mental and even criminal illness, abuse, addiction, destroyed relations,
and other social ills. And the lives and resources saved could then be invested in
better prevention and education, to improve the quality of life and health both for individuals
and collectively for society since the relations between individuals and whole institutions are also restored
by the same healing process. It just replicates and multiplies in effect, once one person heals
they share that with their families and communities and it helps other people in a chain reaction.
