Have you ever attempted to duplicate someone's demonstration after listening to a testimony at a Wednesday evening meeting? And were the results disappointing? This can happen if we dwell on persons and results rather than on divine Principle, God. We learn from this failure that we cannot copy another's treatment. We may be encouraged and inspired by it, but each Christian Science healing is unique in the specific mental steps involved. We can be grateful that the truths the testifier employed are universal truths and then get ourselves actively utilizing these truths in original ways.
The Christian Science healer turns to God, to the Bible, and to Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy for fresh ideas applicable to solving problems. Focusing thought on a specific human result and how someone obtained it for himself may produce doubt and fear. But an individual inspired by God through prayer is able to relinquish material theories or laws and find the reality of being—man wholly spiritual, in the image and likeness of God, Mind.
Our Father-Mother God answers our prayers in ways that we can recognize and understand, as Christ Jesus promised us in the Sermon on the Mount. He said, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." And: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Matt. 6:6; 7:7.
