Article September 16, 2013 Issue

Prayer's impact in Kenya

Peter Tsiganyo Mudida

I live in Kenya. Our 2007 election was characterized by violent crime, threats of attack, protests, displacement, etc. A lot of this was because of ethnic conflict. It is ignorant to turn against your neighbor and harm him or her, or destroy his or her house. 

In Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the term devil is defined as, “Evil; a lie; error; neither corporeality nor mind; the opposite of Truth; a belief in sin, sickness, and death; animal magnetism or hypnotism; the lust of the flesh, which saith: ‘I am life and intelligence in matter. There is more than one mind, for I am mind,—a wicked mind, self-made or created by a tribal god …’ ” (p. 584). I saw that Kenyans were caught up in the trap of the devil and found themselves doing negative things to their neighbors.

I prayed for the people of our nation, to know the real love of God, divine Mind.