When someone is ill, he or she usually seeks treatment for the purpose of bringing relief or cure. Among the diverse types of therapeutic treatment in our world, spiritual healing, or prayer, presents a radically different view. It bases its claim to effectiveness on understanding the spiritual relationship of God and man and on God's all-power.
The thought that communion with God can have direct bearing on human experience and bring healing in our lives is certainly not new. The Bible, Old Testament as well as New, gives many examples of God's healing power.
In Christian Science, prayer is considered to be the most effective treatment available in redressing human ills. It has been proved to be sufficient in power and scope to overcome disorder in the human system. This "treatment," or prayer, is not casual or random but is direct in its approach to healing a particular ill or solving a specific problem. While such prayer has no hard-and-fast pattern or formulation, it is intended to deal intelligently with the difficulty at hand by displacing all appearances of inharmony and disorder with the facts of God's allness and almighty goodness.
