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While we may feel the need to fix problems in our life, we can relinquish personal control and understand and experience God’s ever-present harmony.

Can we actually hear God’s voice? We read in the Bible how God communicated directly to Moses, Abraham, David, and the prophets. Christian healer Mary Baker Eddy said we can hear God, too.

One evening I was driving home from work and got pulled over for speeding. While I was waiting for the police officer to give me a ticket, I prayed.

The Bible ASSURES us that “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” ( James 5:16 ). Effectual prayer is summed up by Christ Jesus when he said that knowing the truth would make us free (see John 8:32 ).

When we’re overwhelmed by many demands, it might feel as though there isn’t enough of God, or good, to go around. Or it might seem as if some people receive more of God’s love than others.

I’ve been asked before why a student of Christian Science would choose prayer to resolve an issue when a simple medical procedure or treatment is available. Of course, the answer to that will always be individual, but for many folks part of it may have to do with the ultimate goal, what they’re really after.

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; .  .

Christ Jesus instructed his followers: “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly” ( Matthew 6:6 ). Jesus then gave what is well-known to Christians as the Lord’s Prayer.

The author shows how when we fill our thought with spiritual truths, sin and sickness lose their reality in our consciousness and disappear.

You, who have stepped into the wilderness— “loneliness; doubt; darkness”  1 — before your foot moved to start the journey, angels came. Like the angel touched Elijah’s shoulder, as he tried to sleep away his trouble alone under a desert tree, and commanded him, “Rise up and eat,” so you are told, “Rise up, eat.