Healed through God's power

Anne Condon

Early in 2003, I began to have severe pain in one of my legs, along with what looked like an infection on one of my toes. Wearing a shoe on that foot was uncomfortable. Walking became a chore.

At first the leg pain came and went, but in time it became more constant. In addition to the discomfort, I also started worrying that what I was dealing with was hereditary. A close relative had struggled with the same condition. Fear of becoming incapacitated plagued me. And I was concerned in general about health issues commonly associated with aging.

I prayed about this. I turned to the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy for inspiration. I found two sentences from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that started my prayer out with a strong line of defense: "The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it. The utterance of truth is designed to rebuke and destroy error" (p. 233). This reminded me that the Bible records dominion as the first quality God gave to His children (see Gen. 1:26). So I reasoned that I had the ability to face down pain, infection, any sort of hereditary disorder, through prayer, with a certain "dominion."