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From a letter dated 1903. Unless we have  better healers , and more of this work than any other is done, our Cause will not stand and having done all stand.

My hybrid vehicle stopped running, and the mechanics couldn’t find the problem. The next day, my smartphone failed to reboot, and I was without needed data and connection.

“Will you teach the youngest Sunday School class of three-year-olds?” asked the Sunday School superintendent over the phone. I’d had minimal contact with children and no idea how to teach that age group.

I was enjoying the company of a woman seated next to me on a long flight. She was going to visit her mother and sisters in Germany, where she had grown up.

The flight attendant ran down the aisle while the pilot sternly advised all passengers to return to our seats and buckle our seatbelts. As I sat there on this flight, seatbelt buckled, with the plane jerking back and forth, up and down, I turned my thought to God.

There is absolutely nothing more joy-producing or important than the opportunities we have to pray for ourselves, others, and our world, and gain some deeper insight into the universe, including ourselves and everyone around us, as God sees it. Recently, I had such an opportunity.

In the book of Genesis, through the account given of Abraham and Sarah’s life, we gain an important insight about the one God from the most unlikely person—Hagar. Hagar was the handmaid of Sarah and from a polytheistic culture, yet her experience teaches us about the ever-present nature of God and His impartial love.

As I parted from a friend recently, he said to me, “Be safe. ” I know he was wishing the very best for me.

We often read today about spiritual healing, but there are so many different approaches to it, and even those that appear to work at first sometimes prove to be inconsistent or unreliable in their results. On the other hand, those who have studied the four Gospels in the Bible containing the teachings and healing works of Christ Jesus undoubtedly have discovered that Jesus consistently healed the types of ailments people face today—including those that are acute and chronic, congenital, hereditary, and contagious—and he healed them on the spot, instantaneously, and without medicine.