Article March 26, 2001 Issue

How a healing came

An insight about the total power of God

By Tony Periton

For some months I had been having a pain in my chest when I breathed. Eventually this pain became so bad that I felt I just couldn't go on. I had been praying for healing. But now I felt I needed to take some other action. For many years I had relied exclusively on God's power to heal me, and had had many experiences that proved to me how doing this is effective. But once in a while I had wondered whether, at some point, I would have to have a surgical operation. Now this became a very strong fear.

I realized that, in the face of surgery, I was feeling ambivalent about God's power, which I knew deep down to be omnipotent. I had doubts about the effectiveness of the power of God to heal me, and this was producing the fear. I knew that this would never heal any situation. It was important that the fact that God had made me pure and perfect, and that He maintained that state of purity and perfection, be uppermost in my thoughts.

I was a subscriber to this magazine, and many times had been greatly helped by articles within its pages. During this time an issue arrived in the mail. I opened it searching for the truth that could heal me, as it had before. In one of the articles I found a sentence about God's power on earth. As I read, I realized it was telling me that God is One, the only power. How could I give hospitality to doubt and fear if, even right where disease was apparent, the only power was God's power?