You don't have to take my word about God's ability to help you succeed. Even science is finally starting to come around to the fact that faith works. Study after study proves it. By monitoring people's physiological responses, scientists have learned that meditation and prayer lowers heart rate and blood pressure and improves the function of the immune system.
What about letting God help you with your goals? Well, compared to non-churchgoers, according to recent studies, those who attend church weekly are thirty-nine percent more successful at overcoming alcoholism and seventy-eight percent more successful at quitting smoking. They get fifty-four percent more exercise than non-churchgoers and are a whopping 131 percent less likely to be depressed! (And remember, this is after factors like socioeconomic level are taken into account. The only difference between these groups is their amount of faith.)
Knowing this, perhaps you won't be surprised at the biggest finding: the life expectancy of a non-churchgoer is seventy five years, while weekly churchgoers live a healthy eight-two years, and those who are involved more frequently live even longer.
Just and interesting part of my morning reading that I thought I would share.
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