A few months ago I heard a talk on the Lord's Prayer and the...

Stuart Johnson

A few months ago I heard a talk on the Lord's Prayer and the healing power it conveys. It reminded me that I had had a wonderful healing several years ago, proving Mrs. Eddy's observation in Science and Health that this prayer "covers all human needs" (p. 16).

Late one night I woke to find my whole body shaking. Fear almost overwhelmed me, particularly as I could not, in that situation, telephone a Christian Science practitioner. I knew that fear had to be destroyed as a first step in effecting a healing, and I literally shouted, three times, "Peace, be still" (see Mark 4:39). Immediately the fear disappeared, and I was able to commence Christian Science treatment for this condition; my utterance had established mental peace.

My thought went straight to the Lord's Prayer, and to its spiritual interpretation as found in Science and Health. This was no idle, parrotlike repetition, but an in-depth study of the prayer. I took each statement in these words from Jesus, and sought to understand what he was conveying to us. At the same time I studied each relevant statement from the spiritual interpretation given by Mrs. Eddy. And each statement helped to strengthen my understanding of God's power as supreme over all material conditions. I received enlightenment and spiritual understanding, and eventually fell asleep. When I woke again a few hours later, I was well, and jumped out of bed completely healed.

At a church testimony meeting I gave this testimony. Afterward, one of the members of the congregation, who had formerly been a medical nurse, came to tell me why she thought this healing was especially significant. She said that I had been able to heal a condition that, according to medical reasoning, was very serious; medical theory said that after the situation I had experienced, there could be a more severe condition to follow. But the demonstration of the power of God silenced all material theories, and there never was any further trouble.

One statement from Science and Health, I feel, sums up this healing: "Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit" (pp. 390–391).

Since I was a small boy I have known of Christian Science, and over many years prayer has been my only means of healing.

Stuart Johnson
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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