Testimony of Healing December 18, 2006 Issue

PRAYER IS POWERFUL

JANEY SPARKS

I believe that Christ Jesus showed us how effective and powerful prayer is, setting a wonderful example for us to follow. I feel that praying in the way he taught, which Christian Science explains, is what brought about the many healings I have experienced. I want to share a couple.

One evening at bedtime, I started to feel symptoms of a cold. I could not go to sleep. I was having difficulty breathing because my head was very congested. My first thought was a pitiful, "Oh, no! I'm going to be sick." My second thought was, "NO!" To me, as a Christian Scientist, saying no to illness is a good start to prayer, because it helps me remember that God is all-powerful, and is always in control of my life. I continued praying and thinking about who God was—that He was "Our Father" who created me and that, therefore, I was His loved child.

According to the Bible, God made man in His image and likeness (see Gen. 1:26). And that means everyone. The book of Genesis also tells us that God made everything "very good" (1:31). As I could not imagine God, who is Spirit, having a cold, how could His image have a cold? If everything God made was good, how could I accept the idea of having something bad?

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