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God’s Love   1 comment

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

(The Bible KJV – Jeremiah 31:3)

Posted August 18, 2023 by cscanberra in God, Love, Spiritual Comfort, spiritual identity

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Listening to God   Leave a comment

A member of the Christian Science community in Canberra was recently interviewed for a Sentinel Watch podcast titled Listening to God. Click here to listen to this podcasts.

Listening to God:

How do you listen to God? And what can you expect to hear when you do? This week’s guest shares ideas from her own journey of learning how to listen—and the healings that have resulted.

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Instant Healing   2 comments

A member of the Christian Science community in Canberra offered this account:

Last year, my husband and I went on a road trip to visit our children and grandchildren, who live in various parts of the greater Sydney area. While we were visiting one of our daughters on the Northern beaches, we decided to go out and walk wherever our inclination took us, leaving our daughter at home to work.

It was a beautifully sunny day and we had walked, probably for a couple of hours – through the golf course, along the beach, up to the headland, and we were walking back into town for lunch when, quite suddenly, my husband seemed to collapse. He was shaking uncontrollably and didn’t seem able to stand on his own.

We stopped still, and immediately I planted my feet physically and mentally, and supported him – declaring aloud, while absolutely knowing and feeling, that all he could be was an expression of God, an expression of Spirit; that God was his life, the only Life there is; that he didn’t live in a physical body, but in God. I know he was also praying because he was declaring aloud truths about himself that he had learned in a Christian Science Sunday School.

In an instant he stopped shaking and stood upright, and we walked on. We still had quite a walk ahead of us but we never mentioned the incident again, just felt immensely grateful and awed at the power and presence of God.

Strangely enough, when this occurred, we were walking through the grounds of the local hospital, but there was never any suggestion of calling for human help or needing any other assistance. God’s presence is always with us and his help is always close at hand.

I have given this experience a lot of thought since then and it has impelled in me an ever-greater desire to understand, trust and be more constantly aware of God, infinite good – to really know God as Love; to strive, as Paul says in II Corinthians (5: 8), to be ‘absent from the body and present with the Lord’ and (II Corinthians 10:5) to bring ‘into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.’

I am so grateful to God for this wonderful Science of Christianity.

Knowing God as Parent   Leave a comment

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you:

(The Bible KJV – Isaiah 66: 13)

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Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p332)

Man – God Expressed   1 comment

Wednesday Testimony Meeting Readings.

This recording is of the readings on the topic:  Man – God Expressed

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And God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”- (The Bible – Genesis 1: 26)

man is the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p475)

Every Wednesday at 6.15pm a Testimony Meeting is held at the Christian Science church in Canberra (corner of Macquarie and Bligh Streets, Barton). At these meetings short readings on a particular topic are followed by time for members of the congregation to share how they have been helped and healed through prayer.

Everyone is welcome.

What is God?   1 comment

Posted June 4, 2023 by cscanberra in Christian Science, God

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A Prayer for Small Children   1 comment

The Love That is God   Leave a comment

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God is Love.

(The Bible – I John 4: 8)

Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p454: 18-19)

God Does Not Show Favoritism   Leave a comment

.. God does not show favoritism. (The Bible NLT – Romans 2: 11)

God is no respecter of persons: … but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. (The Bible KJV – Acts 10: 34, 35)

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: (The Bible KJV – Galatians 3: 28)

God – Parent, Shepherd, Friend   Leave a comment

Wednesday Testimony Meeting Readings.

This recording is of the readings on the topic: God – Parent, Shepherd, Friend

God is Love (The Bible – I John 4: 8)

DIVINE LOVE ] is my shepherd; I shall not want.

[LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
[LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters.

[LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]: [LOVE] leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE’S] rod and [LOVE’S] staff they comfort me.

[LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: [LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever.

(From the 23rd Psalm – Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p578)