A member of the Canberra Christian Science community shares her experience of a quick healing through prayer.
I would like to express gratitude for a healing I had towards the end of last year.
One morning after breakfast I suddenly felt extremely unwell and was in a lot of pain. I was able to sit down quietly on the bed and I sent a text message to a Christian Science practitioner asking for prayerful support.
Immediately the practitioner began sending back affirmations of divine Truth.
I wanted to respond with my own text messages about the material condition and why I might be having this problem, but I stopped myself and I thought, ‘No, I will send affirmations of divine Truth as well’. I reversed every material thought I had about the situation and sent only spiritual statements to the practitioner.
After ten or maybe fifteen minutes the pain had gone away, however, I still felt fearful, so I asked the practitioner if she would pray about that as well.
For my own part, I decided that I would read Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy. On page 3 I found this statement:
‘If we regard good as more natural than evil, and spiritual understanding – the true knowledge of God – as imparting the only power to heal the sick and the sinner, we shall demonstrate in our lives the power of Truth and Love’.
This helped to dissolve the fear. Three weeks later I woke up in the middle of the night with the same pain. I had a printout of the Christian Science Bible Lesson near me on the bed, so I sat up and read through all the citations from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. They talked about God’s power and as I read them, I affirmed that God’s power was the only power in my situation.
When I got to the end of the citations the pain had gone and I went back to sleep. That was the end of the matter.
I am very grateful for this healing, for Christian Science, and for Christian Science practitioners.
Christian Science Canberra 