Article June 2, 2008 ISSUE

THE SIMPLE PRAYER THAT TRANSFORMS

BY KEITH WOMMACK

While teaching Sunday School, I asked my class of first graders, "What would you do if someone wanted you to pray for them?" A visitor to the class, a young girl, spoke up and confidently said, "I would tell them they were safe in God's pocket." I appreciated her comment.

After church, my phone rang. It was a man asking for Christian Science treatment through prayer. He wasn't familiar with Christian Science, yet had heard that it healed. He was suffering physically. To my surprise, the first words out of my mouth were, "You're safe in God's pocket." He began to cry and hung up, without giving his name. A week later, that man called back to report that he'd been healed of the physical situation he'd called me about—the instant he'd hung up the phone.