Testimony of Healing May 26, 2014 Issue

Abdominal growth healed

John Kohler

About ten years ago I started to develop a bulge in my lower abdomen. Sometimes it hurt, but usually it was painless. I prayed on and off about it, but over the next couple of years it grew in size and hurt more frequently and intensely. The growth didn’t seem to be associated with physical exertion of any kind, though I didn’t have it medically diagnosed.

One day about two years after I first noticed this bulge, I left for work feeling some pretty severe pain. It was a little tricky to walk, and by midday I was having a hard time just sitting in my chair. I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me, and told him I was going to leave work and go home.

Getting home meant riding the subway for half an hour, then walking several blocks to my apartment building. It was tough going, so with each step I repeated this passage from the book of Revelation: “The Lord God omnipotent reigneth” (19:6). When I finally got there, I found I had a hard time getting into bed, and I called the practitioner again. I had relied on Christian Science for more than 20 years and had had many healings; I knew I could put my trust in God’s care now as well. I remember feeling determined to hold to God’s view of the situation; I took heart from the Psalmist’s declaration: “He [God] only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God” (Psalms 62:6, 7).

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