Testimonies of Healing

The healings we publish are verified by people who can vouch for the testifier or who know of the healing. Examples of Christian healing from individuals and families around the world have been published in the Christian Science periodicals for well over a century.

The most recently-published testimonies are at the top.

Testimony of Healing

A lifetime of healings

Martha Lemasters

I’ve been a practicing Christian Scientist all my life, and I can gratefully look back on many healings of challenges related to my employment, health, relationships, safety, and more.
Testimony of Healing

Freed from alcohol dependence

Name Withheld

Many years ago, when I was married and in my early twenties, a friend and I were offered an alcoholic drink at a show business party.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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Testimony of Healing

Agelessness proven in healings

Nancy Battey

Throughout most of my life I have enjoyed limitless energy, freedom of physical movement, and nearly continuous health with few cases of sickness, pain, or disease.

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Testimony of Healing

Quick recovery after bike accident

Shannon Nordling

A number of years ago, following my graduation from college, it was a difficult time.
Testimony of Healing

Injured foot healed

Constance Watkins

One morning as I was rushing about the house, I whacked the top of my foot against a heavy foot rail at our kitchen breakfast bar.
Testimony of Healing

A life transformed and a healing of dental problems

Nan Stewart

My father was an alcoholic and very domineering.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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Testimony of Healing

Overcoming resistance brings healing

Pamela Cook

I had traveled to Boston from New York to attend the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church and the related activities of the preceding weekend.
Testimony of Healing

Paralysis healed

Prudence Carr

A little over a year ago, my balance and movement became seriously obstructed.
Testimony of Healing

Healing of suicidal depression

Name Withheld

I had struggled for years with mental illness in the form of what I felt was suicidal depression.
Testimony of Healing

Love heals relationship and health problems

Sushma Sharma

Before I found Christian Science some years ago, I didn’t have a good job and was struggling with financial, health, and relationship issues.
Testimony of Healing

Illness yields to child’s prayer

Liz Bremner-Smith

I am humbly grateful for a recent healing that taught me a lot about diligently sticking with it when it comes to relying on Christian Science for healing.
Testimony of Healing

Pain in leg and hip healed

Jutta Hudson

One morning several years ago, I was suddenly seized with pain in my left leg and hip.