Testimony of Healing June 2, 2003 Issue

Malaria symptoms yield to prayer

Makengo Ma Pululu

In 1996 I was part of a group of about 100 people who escaped together on foot when Congolese rebels attacked refugee centers in Goma, Congo, next to the Rwandan border. At one point during our weeks of walking through the bush toward a safe zone, I suffered an attack of malaria.

Before I began the study of Christian Science some 30 years ago, whenever I suffered from malaria, I would go to hospital for diagnosis and treatment. Since in the bush our group had no doctors, nurses, or medicines, there was no possibility of conventional medical treatment. Nor could we stop walking. However, because of the consistent success I had had in treating all kinds of diseases, including malaria, through prayer, I knew I could be healed in this emergency. I had with me the books I use in my healing practice, the Bible and Science and Health.

As I prayed for healing, I turned to a passage in John's Gospel: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (4:24). I also prayed with a statement in Science and Health. "He [God] fills all space, and it is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and individuality except as infinite Spirit or Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual" (p. 331). From that standpoint, I reasoned that because God is Spirit and infinite, He must be incorporeal, bodiless. And because He fills all space, He is always present. Also, the Bible tells me that man—all men and women, including me—is God's image. Then as the image of Spirit, we are not material or limited to physique, but wholly spiritual. I reasoned that, to God, I was like Him: incorporeal, pure, perfect, holy, harmonious, spotless, and deathless.

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