Chest pains healed during church

Greg Jensen

I am grateful that prayer heals by changing our thought, revealing that anything that claims to separate us from God is false. As we draw close to our Father-Mother, God, fear disappears into nothingness.

I experienced this kind of healing in church one Sunday about a year and a half ago when I was serving as Second Reader, reading the Bible Lesson on the subject “Doctrine of Atonement.” During the service I began to get severe chest pains, which continued throughout most of that hour.

I was tempted to panic because of the great fear that went with the pain. I was afraid of what the condition might mean about my health, and even afraid that I would lose consciousness or collapse. However, I relied immediately on prayer, knowing that since we reflect God, He brings nothing but peace and harmony to us, night and day, 24/7, right where we are. I felt the fear being replaced with hope and courage in my thinking.

It was particularly helpful to focus on the truth of the words being spoken in the service, like the following: “Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 475). Whenever there were brief breaks in the service, I silently repeated the first line of “the scientific statement of being” found in Science and Health, as follows: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter” (p. 468). I knew that since there is no substance in matter, matter’s false claims cannot rule us.

As I prayed in this way, the service concluded harmoniously, and both the pain and the fear were healed. In fact, after the service, when I mentioned to the First Reader what I had been struggling with, she said she had not noticed a problem.

Looking back on this healing, I think the following Bible verse applies: “Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest” (Joshua 1:9).

The healing continued when, the very next day, I felt it right to take up a planned program of jogging with no fear about whether I would feel the pain again. I still jog with no fear—and no pain—along a beautiful river trail, reflecting on how God harmoniously and peacefully directs His ideas in His universe, and how infinite Love fills all space.

Greg Jensen
Little River, California, US

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