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.

I prayed earnestly to know that God was my Life. Because God is Spirit, nothing evil can permeate Him, and therefore no element of harmful materiality could penetrate my consciousness. I knew that it is the thought of disease that is harmful, not germs or viruses themselves. Harm never comes from God.

I kept praying that way, and the next day I was able to eat a little and to retain my food. The fevers stopped. By the third day after the initial attack, I could walk freely again. I continued to pray for myself until I regained the weight I had lost. No malaria symptoms returned over the remainder of our journey, or any time since then.

In my healing practice I have found that whenever a disease is healed through prayer as I have learned it through Christian Science, the healing remains permanent.

Makengo Ma Pululu
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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