Effective healing in Christian Science can be achieved when we take no thought of self, purify our concept of the body, and exchange material views for spiritual thoughts. We need to maintain deepest humility and consecration, acknowledging the ever-presence and all-power of our Father-Mother God.
This fact must be taken notice of: that in reality there is never a sick man, woman, or anything else, but such false claims are lies against God and man. It must also be borne in mind that the material body is a structure of human thought; nothing acts within it unless thought produces the action. Of itself the body is powerless, sensationless. Knowing this, and with understanding and spiritual conviction of Truth's power, a healer can speak God's Word with authority in any situation. Mrs. Eddy specifically admonishes in Science and Health: "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man."Science and Health, p. 393.
No matter how great our trials according to the evidence of the material senses, or how dark the way may seem, if we hold fast to our understanding of the omnipotence, omnipresence, and goodness of God, we will succeed in proving His goodness. No powers or material oppression can hold us down. "The enslavement of man is not legitimate," Mrs. Eddy writes. "It will cease when man enters into his heritage of freedom, his God-given dominion over the material senses."Ibid., p. 228.
