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A Sentinel Watch podcast and Daily Lift by Beth Packer – The Daily Lift tells of a delightful and beautiful healing. If you like this short podcast, we invite you to listen to the whole interview, Of Course God Can Heal Me.
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Daily Lift: My Children’s Prayers Healed Me
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Sentinel Watch Podcast: Of Course God Can Heal Me – Beth Packer interviewed by David Brown.
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A Sentinel Watch podcast and Daily Lift by Mary Beattie – The Daily Lift tells of a permanent healing of depression. If you like this short podcast, we invite you to listen to the whole interview, You Can Count On God.
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Daily Lift: The Depression and Anxiety Never Returned
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Is God motivated by our prayers to help or guide us? Mary Beattie, shares how she knows that God’s presence and power is always active. And it’s something we can always count on.
Sentinel Watch Podcast: You Can Count on god – Mary Beattie interviewed by Jenny Sawyer.
A Daily Lift by Robin Hoagland
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In this brief podcast Robin tells how her prayer about a spoilt prom dress led to a quick physical healing.
by Christine McHale was originally published in the April 6, 1992 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
My introduction to Christian Science was in college through a dear friend whose daily example led me to begin reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy along with my study of the Bible. I will never forget those first glimpses of light and the transformation they brought to my life. It is with great joy that I give thanks for the healings I’ve experienced through an ever-growing understanding of God and His image, man. As Christ Jesus said, “Freely ye have received, freely give.”
A short while after beginning my study of Christian Science, I hurt my ankle. A nurse who examined the injury told me that it was badly sprained. She wrapped the ankle, provided me with crutches, and advised against putting any weight on the foot for a while. After returning home I opened Science and Health, not quite understanding what I needed to do, but feeling a new, childlike trust that God would care for me. After reading for some time, I found that this trust had deepened into conviction.
I did not know then how to pray about the injury or give myself Christian Science treatment. I just continued to read Science and Health, and my concern about my ankle faded. I immersed myself in the beautiful ideas expressed in this textbook, revealing for me a tender, deeply loving God who is “a very present help in trouble” (Psalms). For the first time, I began to see this as a practical promise—I could appeal to God’s law under any circumstance, even for a physical difficulty.
By the next morning, the ankle was still discolored but I was completely free from pain. I was able to walk on the foot easily. Over several more days the ankle returned to its normal appearance.
Later I became aware of another healing that also took place around that time. Continue reading …
This article by Emily Byquist was originally published in the February 23, 2015 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
It was the 1960s, and the Vietnam War was raging. Like many members of my generation, I was opposed to the war and very much wanted to help bring it to an end. I felt impelled to pray about the conflict, but it was hard to believe that the prayers of one individual could have any real impact on such a formidable problem.
Click here to read, or listen to, the full article. In it Emily explains how, through prayer, she managed to disfuse several inharmonious and confrontational situations in her everyday life. This gave her confidence that her prayers for peace on a larger scale could be effective.
A member of the Christian Science community in Canberra was recently interviewed for a Sentinel Watch podcast titled Prayer: What’s It All About? From this was taken a Daily Lift titled We Can Know What We Need to Know. Listen to both these podcasts here.
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Prayer: What’s It All About? (Part 2)
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Daily Lift: We Can Know What We Need to Know
… the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
(The Bible – James 3: 17 KJV)
A member of the Christian Science community in Canberra offered this testimony of a recent healing.
A couple of weeks ago I played in a golf competition at a golf course in near home.
It was a team event played in teams of 4 over 18 holes of golf.
My team was finishing up on the 16th hole when I heard a loud shout followed by the sound and impact of a golf ball hitting the back of my hand. Someone from another team had hit a wayward shot.
I jumped around shaking my hand, my team-mates and the guys from the team that hit the wayward shot rushed to see what had happened.
There was concern that my hand might be broken, that I should leave and have my hand looked at, that we should immediately get ice to put on my hand.
While there was pain, I was mainly affected by the shock of the sudden and unexpected impact.
I don’t remember what I was thinking at the time, but I do remember becoming calm and reassuring everyone that I was okay and able to complete the last two holes of the competition.
I had previously been thinking about the reality of harmony and unreality of discord that had been in the weekly Bible Lessons around that time. So, as we continued, I started praying with the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer – “Our Father which art in heaven – Our Father Mother God all harmonious” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p16-17), and tried to hold to the thought that there is only harmony.
While we were sitting having drinks in the club house after the game, I remember being aware that the pain had lessened and only concerned me if the back of my hand came into contact with something, but there was swelling and bruising.
I drove home and continued to pray “Thy kingdom come” – to know that we all live in the kingdom of heaven where all is harmonious and there is no pain or any other discord.
Over the next few days, I prayed with ideas from the weekly Bible Lesson.
Since the incident happened, I have in no way been restricted from using my hand and the swelling, bruising and any pain disappeared over a few days.
I’m very grateful for this proof of the power of prayer to heal and God’s presence and care for me and everyone.
A member of the Christian Science community in Canberra had this article and testimony published in the Christian Science Sentinel.
One day as Jesus was passing by a man who was blind from his birth, his disciples asked him whether the man was born blind because of his own sin or because of his parents’ sin. Jesus answered: “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him” (John 9:3). Then Jesus healed the man of his blindness.
What this Bible passage means to me is that we are not punished for past errors. Even in situations where we initially allowed errors of thinking to go unchallenged, we can still correct our thought—and when we do, we can expect to be free of any bad effects. This rule is in fact the third tenet of Christian Science: “We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, p. 497).
An experience that we had in our family some years ago demonstrates this truth in an immediate, certain, and undeniable way. Continue reading …
A member of the Canberra Christian Science community, currently living overseas, shared this testimony which was printed in the July 31, 2023 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
I was introduced to Christian Science by a friend who regularly gave me copies of the Sentinel. I really liked what I was reading because it spoke of God as infinite Love, in which evil has no place.
I was reluctant to pursue the study of this Science at the time, as I believed the religion of my upbringing to be the one true religion. But the Christian Science publications nevertheless piqued my interest in things spiritual, and I was inspired to start reading the Bible, something I had not done before. Through this reading, I was coming to know and trust God better as divine Love. …
…Since beginning the study of Christian Science, I have had a number of healings, one of which is particularly dear to me. I had been drinking alcohol since the age of seventeen. Continue reading …
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