I’d like to share some healings I had, some moments when I applied the spiritual truth I’m learning in Christian Science. The healings I’m about to share showed me that God answers our prayers. All we need to do is call on Him, and He’s always there.

It all started when I went to my aunt’s house for a visit. Everything went well the first day, but on the second day I started having stomach pain. It hurt, and I began to cry. Then I realized that I could pray. I thought about how I was made in the image and likeness of God (see Gen. 1:26) and there is no room for pain in God’s creation. God feels no pain, and, therefore, I can feel no pain as His reflection.

I also read what Mary Baker Eddy called “the scientific statement of being” on page 468 of Science and Health:

Question. What is the scientific statement of being?

Answer. There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.

I read and prayed with these ideas continuously until I fell asleep. Then when I woke up, I felt like brand new. The pain or “error” that had been troubling me faded into nothingness. In this case, I felt God’s love. I saw how we can never be separated from Him—never for an instant.

Another time, when I was writing my chemistry exam, I forgot a certain formula. And I tried to remember it, but couldn’t. So I recalled what my dad says, “God is your intelligence. God is all-knowing; therefore, you, as His daughter, reflect Him and express wisdom.”

Then I remembered the formula in a flash! I completed that section of the exam satisfactorily. When I got home, I shared this with my dad. And he said that he was happy that I could apply the truth whenever I needed it.
There was another time when I prayed for a friend who needed help. I went to school as usual in the morning. When I got there, I saw my friend. She was shaking and appeared to have a fever. I went over to her and told her that she was made in the image and likeness of God. And that God loved her so she couldn’t be in pain.

She told me that maybe the pain came from God. She wanted to know how God could love her and send pain at the same time.

But I told her I’d learned that pain doesn’t come from God. It’s just an “error” or mistake about who we really are as His loved children. We are spiritual, not material. The pain was “nothing claiming to be something” (Science and Health, p. 591). She was listening to me telling her all this. She was about to go to the school infirmary, but before she did, she told me that “love put us together.”

Yes, I thought. I’d shared out of love, and that love was powerful.

My friend went off to the infirmary. But just a little while later, she came walking up the stairs to the classroom. She hadn’t taken any medicine and had been 
released because the fever was gone. People were 
surprised at her quick recovery.

She came over to meet me and thanked me because she was happy about what I’d said to her earlier. 
I should tell you also that this is a friend who always asks me about the Sentinel, and loves to read the testimonies of healing. She’s also read from my copy of Science and Health.

I love that when we pray, applying the truth to any situation, healing is so natural.

from the July 5th, 2009 Christian Science Sentinel
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