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 spiritual workout

Bobby Lewis

Sometimes it appears that doing something too repetitively can lead to injury or exhaustion.
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Strength and movement restored

Garwin Smith

“This experience of restoration to normal and harmonious action has marked another step along the path of my growing recognition of our God-given freedom from all claims of materiality and mortality.”

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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Discovering my friend’s eternal life

Betty Lawrence

“Our thinking can be elevated to the understanding that Life is God, Spirit, never contained in matter and always eternal.”

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Full recovery after a fall

Celia Heathcote

“It was like a dam had burst, releasing me from a mental state of wallowing in worry about my condition.”
Testimony of Healing

Finding peace frees from pain

John Hoyle

“My healing came when I more fully understood that spiritual forces governed my actions, movements, and thoughts.”
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No more cutting remarks

Madora Kibbe

“It’s nice to be funny, but it’s better to be kind—even to those we don’t agree with.”

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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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Shared reflections

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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Have you had a healing? Sharing it may bring hope to or even heal others. Visit Writer’s Corner to get started.

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Testimony of Healing

Healing of venereal disease

Name Withheld

“This healing was the main reason for my continuing in Christian Science.”
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Quick recovery from toe injury

Julie Rein

“Within a few hours there was no pain at all, and I was walking freely.”
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Heart trouble healed

Todd Wittenberg

“I had often heard my grandmother say, ‘Life is not dependent on heart; heart is dependent upon Life.’”
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Injured ankle healed

Helen Louise de Leon

“When it was time to start making dinner, without a second thought, I stood up and started to walk around, unassisted by the crutches. It felt like the most normal thing in the world!”
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The first healing I remember

Joudrie Jones

“This early experience gave me confidence in the power of prayer as taught in Christian Science, and I have never wandered away from trusting our Father-Mother God with my health.”
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Injury from car door quickly healed

Mimi Sitterly

“All of us in the car felt a change in the atmosphere—there was a palpable sense of spiritual uplift.”