Testimony of Healing December 22, 2025 Issue

Quick healing of neck pain

Susan Sherwood

During the Christmas season one year, I was in a shopping mall waiting for my son and his girlfriend to pick me up. When I got up from where I was sitting, I suddenly couldn’t move my neck. Every time I tried to take a step or move my neck, I would feel excruciating pain.

I called a Christian Science practitioner to help me through prayer. He told me not to be fooled by symptoms, since the problem was not physical but mental. He talked about how Christ Jesus healed by holding in thought the perfect, spiritual man of God’s creating and assured me that the carnal mind—a supposed mind opposed to the one infinite Mind, God—could not trick me into believing I was mortal. The practitioner agreed to pray for me, and we hung up.

I thought that I would just move my neck normally instead of trying not to move it, but when I did, pain shot through me, and I feared I might pass out. I called the practitioner back and said, “I’m in great pain. I wonder if I might have a pinched nerve.” He reminded me not to go down the path of self-diagnosis, because in Truth, God, there is actually no disease. The Bible tells us that “we live, and move, and have our being” in God (Acts 17:28), so we cannot get outside the allness of God, good.

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