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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE

Individualizing infinite power

Instead of praying for God to intervene and heal through a supernatural act, pray for a clearer perception of His law, always good, always governing.

From the March 1999 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Someone Said To Me Recently, "I believe Jesus performed miracles of healing sickness and even raised the dead, but he was given special power from God to accomplish these miracles. So why do Christian Scientists try to imitate him? Isn't this blasphemy?"

Hearing this, I was reminded of the account in the Bible of Jesus healing a man of palsy. See Matt. 9:2-7 When the man was brought to Jesus, the Master said, "Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." Some scribes who were watching him felt this was blasphemy. The Bible goes on, "Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house."

As our thought
is receptive
to spiritual truth,
we are conscious
that health is
undisturbable.

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