Illness healed during Wednesday evening meeting

Lynn Bingham

One Wednesday evening I was not feeling well. However, I knew that going to the Wednesday night testimony meeting was something I wanted to do, even though I felt uncomfortable. I love church and didn’t want to miss out on this healing meeting.

Although it was good that I wanted to go to the service, and that I thought of it as a healing service, I wasn’t initially making the connection that the healing aspect of the service could apply to my own situation. When I arrived, I made sure to sit at the end of the aisle so that I could get up and leave without causing much of a distraction if I started to get ill during the meeting. But, wouldn’t you know it, right before the readings began, a dear friend came and sat down beside me. In my head I was thinking, “Yikes—I’m trapped!”

Thankfully, the next thought I had was the assurance that I was in a Church of Christ, Scientist, where everyone was praying, and that I would not need to leave. I also took a moment and reached for the Bible sitting in the pew rack in front of me. I flipped it open, and the first words I read were from Luke 13:12: “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.”

Whoa! What an answer to prayer—just what I needed to hear. Immediately, the uncomfortable symptoms began to disappear, and I began to wake up to the spiritual fact that I was indeed loosed from my infirmity. “For the word of God is quick, and powerful …” (Hebrews 4:12).

I was able to enjoy the readings read from the desk, and just one last time, right before the testimonies began, the illness tried to rear its head again. But I turned immediately back to that beautiful passage from Luke, “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.” And then I was loosed, permanently. The illness did not return.

I am so grateful for this and many other healings that I have had that prove the power of the Word of God. As Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “There is no power apart from God” (p. 228).

Lynn Bingham
Brookline, Massachusetts, US

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