Testimony of Healing February 24, 2003 Issue

The word of God brings healing

Originally published in O Arauto da Christian Science

Harry Ringenberg

I wish to thank God for the healing of a problem that had me very worried at one time. Through my study of Christian Science, healing came that was complete and permanent.

In the beginning of 1994, I began to feel pain in one of my hip joints. I had already had pain in that area a few months before, but it had soon passed. This time, however, the weeks went by and the pain grew worse. It was difficult for me to walk or lean down, and when I sat, I wasn't able to bend my leg. Since I had already scheduled some vacation from work, I thought that if I rested a while, the leg would go back to normal. But that's not what happened, and there was no improvement whatsoever.

I had already prayed about this, but at this point I understood that I needed to pray more deeply and with greater consecration. I used a Bible concordance and looked up passages that referred to "joints" and "articulations." A verse from Hebrews was very striking to me: "The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" (4:12). Science and Health says the following about this Bible verse: "The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the truth of being, to destroy the error. This corrective is an alterative, reaching to every part of the human system. According to Scripture, it searches 'the joints and marrow,' and it restores the harmony of man" (p. 423).

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