Testimony of Healing July 21, 2014 Issue

An end to illness

Carlos Frederico Sampaio

Originally written in Portuguese, this testimony first appeared in the May 2014 Portuguese, Spanish, French, and German editions of The Herald of Christian Science.

On a Monday at the beginning of 2012, I was at work when I started to feel unwell. When I got home, I felt as if I had a fever. I also coughed, had pain in my chest area, and felt weak. I lay down, and as I was trying to read Christian Science literature and pray, I fell asleep.

The next morning, I didn’t feel well at all and wasn’t able to go to work. My wife, who is not a student of Christian Science, wanted to give me medicine before she left for work, but I declined to take any. Because I have been studying Christian Science for some time and have found it to be effective, my first choice is to rely on prayer to find healing.

That day, I could only stay in bed. I was so weak that I felt I wasn’t able to pray for myself. So I called a Christian Science practitioner, and she immediately agreed to pray for me. I don’t remember exactly what she told me on the phone, but her words were calm and firm, and I was more peaceful and felt a bit better after talking with her. She told me she would like to talk with me again in one hour.

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