Have you ever felt that you were prayed out? Perhaps even diligent prayer has had little healing result. Most Christians have experienced this.
Through study and practice of Christian Science, prayer becomes more consistently effective. Enlightened prayer enables us to move beyond imploring God to save us and instead accept God, good, as the source of our true selfhood—to affirm that man is His likeness. Man's nature is divine Love's reflection and not a product of the Adamic race. Inspired thinking exposes the illusion of life in matter as unreal. Divine Mind is supreme, and its idea—ones true selfhood—eternal.
When we identify ourselves and others as Mind's ideas, we gradually become conscious that all God's qualities are meant to be employed. Qualities such as love and integrity destroy ignorant and fearful material thinking. As mortal mind's negative thinking is abandoned for the consciousness that expresses divine Mind, we learn that God's law governs. Whether we are confronted with danger, sickness, or sin, Mind can always be relied on for healing. The book of Isaiah says of God, "For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall."lsa. 25:4;
