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Effects of poisonous bite quickly healed

From the May 2012 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Christ Jesus said, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:19). Those words came to me very early one morning earlier this year.

I had been piloting a plane all night around Southeast Asia, and when I got to my hotel, I went straight to bed. At some point I was awakened by the sensation of something crawling on my right foot, and then a bite. 

I yelled, leaped out of bed, and tore back the sheets to try to find what I suspected was a spider. But whatever it was, it had already escaped, and I was too tired to look for it. The area of the bite was already burning and red. I had been bitten by spiders and insects before, but I’d never felt anything as painful.

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