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No longer 'stuck,' but healed
A couple of years ago, a growth developed on the top of my head. Looking back, I guess I didn’t pray about it at first because the growth’s development was so gradual that it took a while before it seemed like an actual issue. But over time it grew substantially, and I couldn’t hold off addressing the situation any longer.
In fact, the growth was in my thought almost constantly. I was troubled about the condition itself, but even more so by the control over my thinking that it had. I wanted nothing more than to be rid of it, and I knew that my thinking was the place to start.
My first effort in prayer was to get past the material picture that was being constantly presented to me. I established firmly in thought the fact that my true identity is spiritual, not material. I understood that God is Spirit and His creation, which includes me, must therefore be entirely spiritual. I am not a vulnerable chunk of matter subject to random or negative influences. I am a wholly intact spiritual idea of God, and what appeared to be a material growth was actually an unreal perception of my true being.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
January 14, 2013 &
January 21, 2013
double issue
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Letters
Barbara Chapline Waldner, JSH-Online comments
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On family, children, and faith
Katie Martin
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Fear not, little flock
Vicki Turpen
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To 'hold crime in check'
Lynn Buckley-Quirk
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A God's-eye view
Diane S. Staples
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Three L's for Life
Jill Gooding
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Love—the road to eternal life
Kathleen Collins
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Take a spiritual walk
Madelon Maupin
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Bible translations: old & new
Roy Gessford, E. Ann Wild, Eduardo Torfer
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God—always #1
Carter
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Safe in the rainforest
Sapphire Johnston
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No longer 'stuck,' but healed
Wendy Landry
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Teeth back to normal
Holly Wayman
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Symptoms of food poisoning gone
Bruce Higley
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Gratitude leads to adoption
Karen Rose Banks
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God's law of completion
The Editors