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The Bible Story of Ananias and Sapphira holds some unexpected spiritual lessons about our motives for giving. 

Never doubt that silent prayer is helping to meet the world’s needs. 

The Bible-based meaning of the word righteousness is a pure love for God’s law.

Through prayer, this author was able to avoid a computer scam. And she realized that she needed to pray more to see that God never made anyone a scammer.

The Editor of The Christian Science Monitor talks about its mission; how Mary Baker Eddy treated antagonistic journalists at one time; and how each of us—whether readers, journalists, or lawmakers—can follow Mrs. Eddy’s example and the example Jesus gives in the parable of the good Samaritan with regard to how we think and pray about the news, newsmakers, and journalists, and how we think and pray regarding people who may have very different views.  

When we silence anything that would distract us from God, then bringing our thoughts into unison with His thoughts can be as natural as singing along to a familiar tune.

How we can pray to see the powerlessness of the “Herod-thought”—the mental resistance to God’s law of peace and harmony.

In spiritual healing what we see as a problem is really a mortal thought that appears to be made manifest. It’s as if the mortal thought is the projector that overlays, or superimposes, an image of discord. The answer, then, is to remove the mortal thought, and then it cannot show up in our experience. 

The physical universe is really a false concept in human consciousness. Grasping this, and seeing the universe as God’s entirely spiritual creation, gives us dominion.

Willingness to move out of her comfort zone geographically and praying to know her purpose led this author to discover the spiritual and practical rewards of Christian Science nursing.