Dear Kate,
I’d also like to welcome you to HP!
I am also a devout Christian and have relied completely on prayer all my life for every aspect of my life, including physical healing and have found the power of God’s Love to be always present. There are some of my healings on the thread ‘Healing through the Christ-consciousness’ https://www.healthypages.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1592
Don’t despair – God’s love and power are as immediate and effective today as they were when Jesus walked the earth. I love this first verse of a poem by the Quaker poet
John Greenleaf Whittier :
He stood of old, the holy Christ,
Amid the suffering throng,
With whom his lightest touch sufficed
To make the weakest strong.
That healing gift God gives to them
Who use it in His name;
The power that filled the garment's hem
Is evermore the same.
In 1866, a devout Christian lady called Mary Baker Eddy slipped on the ice and severely injured her spine as well as experiencing internal injuries from which she was not expected to live. She asked for her Bible, opened it to one of Jesus’ healings and had a glimpse that life is entirely spiritual, not dependant on flesh, blood, bones, etc. Mary understood this in a very deep way and she rose up healed. She spent the next 3 years studying the Bible to try to find out HOW she had been healed and in Jesus’ healing work and from the description of man in Genesis 1:28 (spiritual men and women made in the image and likeness of God) she saw how we can challenge suffering, just like Jesus did. It is not made by God, sent by God, therefore it is illegitimate!
She wrote a book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and for the past 130 years, thousands of people have been healed through understanding the laws of God, Love, it describes. Here is part of a letter written by an early reader (plus the link to the whole letter):
From early girlhood I was considered an invalid, having been injured by a hard fall while playing. The pain was intense for some time and for several hours I was unable to walk or stand alone. Later, a growing weakness of the back accompanied with sharp pains alarmed my parents, who called a physician, and he pronounced it spinal trouble. Then followed nearly twenty years of increased suffering, at times very severe. As years went by and I became a wife and mother, my suffering increased. Everything that medical skill could do was done, but finding no lasting benefit from anything, I lost hope of recovery.
[url] AFTER TWENTY YEARS' SUFFERING [/url]
Here are a couple of other healings of back pain which I hope will encourage you to trust God, lean on Him and claim your freedom from suffering!
[url]‘The pain completely disappeared’[/url]
[url]Back injury healed through relying on God's power[/url]
Love and peace,
Judy
Hi Kate...
Sending love, healing and strength to you....Stay strong and the Divine healing light will shine upon you.......you are in my prayers