Testimony of Healing November 9, 2015 Issue

Throat pain gone

Toni Turpen

One morning recently I woke with pain in my throat, and I was unable to swallow normally. My husband and I were scheduled to fly to Oregon that morning for a family wedding, and I was worried about being able to participate. I quickly grabbed the Christian Science Bible Lesson. That week, it was on the subject of “Sacrament.”

Right away, as I began to read the Lesson, a verse from Matthew jumped out at me. It is where two disciples answer Christ Jesus that they “are able” to drink of the cup he drinks of (see Matthew 20:22). I liked the idea of being able. And I asked myself, “What am I able to do?” The answer was to pray for myself. With that I felt confident that I could make the trip.

Next I opened the Bible and read, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (II Corinthians 5:8). I emailed a Christian Science practitioner to ask for her prayerful support and let her know that I was prayerfully working with that verse. She said that we are always “present with the Lord,” because we are spiritual, God’s very reflection, so we can’t get away from that. And she assured me I could be well now, not because I was going on a trip or looking forward to a special time, but because health, or spiritual harmony, was my natural and permanent state of being.

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