The advent of Christian Science has largely revolutionized the general concept of prayer. Instead of prayer's being regarded merely as a form of petition to a God whose beneficence is variable and uncertain, Christian Science gives us an assured sense that prayer is the grateful acknowledgment that an infinitely good God is always pouring blessings upon His idea, man. Prayer is the lifting of thought above the concept of a fearful God and a fearing man to the joyous recognition of God, divine Love, and of man, the loved of Love.
What is called answered prayer in Christian Science is really the manifestation in human experience of the true, harmonious state of man's being, when understood. Through uplifted and enlightened consciousness, the inharmonious conditions resulting from a mistaken sense of God and man are dissolved.
This true spiritual activity of prayer, with its scientifically unerring effects, was taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus. The Gospels contain examples of Jesus' prayers and their results, which in many cases were startlingly evident in the immediate restoration of individuals regarded as diseased, disabled, or even dead. Jesus' life and works were proofs of constant prayer, lived as well as spoken.
