Testimony of Healing October 16, 2006 Issue

DISEASE AND ANGER YIELD TO PRAYER

CHINEZE OSEGBUE

In November 2005, in the middle of the night when it was time to nurse my four-month-old daughter, I felt a sharp pain in my breast, like that of an ant bite. But the pain was deep inside. It continued and increased, and I felt a big lump inside my breast. I tried getting up from bed, but the pain made it impossible to sit up or go back to sleep.

I became very scared when I remembered that my mother had died of breast cancer. The pain was so bad that I couldn't speak, even to wake my sister (I was visiting in her house). I began praying, asking God to heal me, and I silently recited "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, which says in part: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (p. 468). I thought of phoning a Christian Science practitioner, but since I couldn't talk, I sent her a text message on my mobile phone saying simply what I felt: "Pray for me, am dying."

At daybreak, as she usually does, my sister came in to greet the baby and noticed that I was in pain. She, too, became scared and began to ask questions, like "When did this start?" and "Why didn't you alert somebody?" She suggested that I go to the hospital, but I wanted to rely on prayer and told her I would be fine.

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