Testimony of Healing May 27, 2019 Issue

Breathing problems healed

Doug Brown

During a recent physical examination required for my employment, the doctor listened to my breathing through her stethoscope and commented, “That’s a beautiful sound. I hear nothing.” I hopped on my bike and rode home, enjoying the exertion and the brisk air. It hadn’t always been that way; this checkup reminded me how grateful I am for a healing of breathing problems over forty years ago.

I grew up attending a Christian Science Sunday School. Every Sunday during the drive to church, my parents played a Christian Science radio program featuring people telling about healings they had experienced from applying the teachings of Christian Science. In my Sunday School class, we read Bible stories about healings resulting solely from prayerful reliance on God: Jesus healed; the prophets healed; the apostles healed. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered the Principle underlying these spiritual healings and named her discovery Christian Science, healed people and taught her students how to heal. And their prayers healed others.

My Sunday School classes taught me that I could pray for healing, too, and that it was not God’s will that I should be ill. The first chapter of Genesis states, “God created man in his own image .... And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (verses 27, 31). I understood that God did not make me sick and that I had a divine right to be well.

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