Christian Healing

Why is Christian healing so rarely thought of as a possibility? People usually turn to God when there is nowhere else to turn to. Why don’t we turn to God first?

It seems as though healing was an essential part of Jesus’ mission and preaching and teaching “salvation”. Salvation was not only the saving from sinful thoughts and activities, which cause us to feel separate from God, but also from physical illness and disease.

It seems as though half of Jesus’ mission has been lost. Christianity isn’t following exactly what Jesus taught or what the early disciples established as the Church.

The Church was full of activity and life, self-forgetfulness and love, and the healing of physical ailments as well as the putting off of the “old man” and putting on the “new man”.

So entrenched are we in materiality that we are unwilling to rely on Spirit, which is our creator, for life, health and happiness.

The biggest difference in what seems to be going on is the belief that God created matter. God never created matter and could never create it because it is limited, imperfect, subject to failure and destruction. How could the infinite, all perfect God ever create matter? It is impossible; it is the opposite of God’s very being, existence, and nature. Spirit created all in it’s own likeness (see the first chapter of Genesis). Therefore all has been created spiritually, including mankind. We are already whole and complete and inseparable from God. And in Christian or spiritual healing we are simply realizing that fact. And realizing that God, divine Mind, absolutely governs and controls every function of the body because all life, activity and being is actually in Spirit and is spiritual. Therefore there isn’t a faculty of life that doesn’t have its substance in Spirit and can therefore never be disrupted, obstructed, or destroyed.

We must awake from the belief that we live in a material world. As we do this, as we realize that we “live, move, and have our being” in God/Spirit, limitations will just fall away; peace and happiness will be calmly felt; and health will be stable and secure.

Christian/spiritual healing must be realized and recognized in health-care. Insurance companies and government must allow the fulfillment of Christ’s mission and activities. We must realize there is something bigger and greater at work than ourselves. God is the creator, not man. The fulfillment is not another savior, but man in the image and likeness of God/Spirit; and reflecting God’s divine and spiritual nature; reflecting God as the spiritual creator.

Christian Science Practitioners

Did you know that there is someone available to talk with you and pray for you anytime of day all over the world?

These people are Christian Science Practitioners. CSP’s are people who are certified in Christian metaphysical healing. Most of their work is done over the phone but are also able to do home visits and have in person appointments. There are directories of Christian Science practitioners in your area at csdirectory.com and in the Christian Science Journal online or in print, which can be purchased at your local Christian Science Reading Room.

You are always lovingly greeted by a CSP, and he or she is happy to hear whatever challenge you are facing and offer spiritual insights about your relationship with your tender, loving Father-Mother God who is always with you, taking care of you. A CSP is always happy to hear from you and share spiritual truths about your true spiritual identity.

CSP’s also provide Christian Science treatment which is done mentally. The practitioners have taken a course and have dedicated their lives to studying divine metaphysics and learning how to apply God’s divine laws to our human situations for the outcome of good. Christian Science treatment is illustrated in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which can be purchased or read and listened to online. Many people have found healing from physical challenges to life challenges through reading this book since the late 1800’s.

To read more about the author of this book you can go to christianscience.com or the Mary Baker Eddy Library. Christian Science Practitioner’s charge for treatment, house calls, and consultations at this is the only work they able to do according to the Christian Science Manual. They are not permitted to take on any other vocation which could take away from the focus to their practice. Please ask your practitioner what their rates are.

I am so grateful for the work of every Christian Science practitioner. I do not know how I would go through life without calling one of these dear people who are always there, ready to answer the phone and pray for you. And bring about healing and a spiritualization of your thought and life. It is such a blessing to know you can pick a person from this list at random and they will love to hear from you and will regard you compassionately and share with you God’s love for you. There is always a calming effect and a casting out of fear. I am grateful for CSP’s, the work they do, and the time and lives they dedicate to this healing work. CSP’s are available 24/7 though they do have “normal lives” including families, kids, etc.

I am hope each of you gets the joy of working with a Christian Science Practitioner or atleast the comfort of knowing there is someone you can call at anytime who will tell you of God’s dear love for you.

Lots of love to you all!

Can We Really Heal?

Can we really heal? One would ponder Jesus’ command,

“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons”

to find out what that means for us. He follows by saying

“He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works shall he do because I go unto my Father”.

I think many have pondered this and, of course, want and desire to do these same healing works. His disciples and other followers continued doing these things for several years after he ascended. And he said to them in essence to love one another and that people would know they were his disciples by the way they loved. And it seemed that healing is the natural effect of this love. John states that

"God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." (1 John 4:16)

And Jesus said something similar:

“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself."

So it seems that he that dwelleth in Love is dwelling in divine Love and divine Love is dwelling in that person which is perhaps why this has healing results. Mary Baker Eddy who followed and studied Jesus’ teaching closely says in her textbook on Christian healing

“If the Scientist reaches his patient through divine Love, the healing work will be accomplished at one visit, and the disease will vanish into its native nothingness like dew before the morning sunshine.” (S&H 365:15)

Why don’t we do the healing works that Jesus did? Well perhaps we don’t think that we know how, or that we can. Another statement Jesus said was

“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”

Therefore it seems that if we believe that we can and understand that the power comes from God and not ourselves than we should be able to. There is a story in the Bible which illustrates this point. It is when Jesus cured a boy of epilepsy which the boy had had most of his life. The father brought the son to Jesus and said his disciples were unable to heal him. Jesus did heal him and when his disciples came to ask him why he couldn’t he replied,

“Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” (Mat 17:20)

But Mrs. Eddy makes the clear distinction between blind faith and scientific spiritual understanding. She termed it scientific because it has repeatable results just as Jesus’ work always had the same outcome which was health and healing. Jesus was a teacher and disciple is another name for student. So there must have been rules and laws that he was teaching them as well as the nature of God and our relationship with Him. It seems as though he wanted this work to continue and he demonstrated that we could do it and taught it to others so that it could be continued on.

Isn’t this completing and following Jesus mission? The salvation from sickness as well as sin? Jesus didn’t rely on doctors or material medicine. His works were entirely spiritual. If he didn’t consult or use these methods than why do we? Is it really Christianity to not have healing by God?

People have learned how to heal in this way and continue to study, practice and demonstrate this. But so often we must have faith that it can be done. And through our study of Jesus words and works, we can also solve this problem of being. Mary Baker Eddy was healed by reading an account of Jesus’ healings from the Bible in the late 1800’s. She then devoted her life to discovering how this was done and seeing if it was repeatable. A book was recently published with over 300 accounts of documented healings that she did (and these were just the documented ones). She opened up the Massachusetts Metaphysical College and taught others how to this and started the Christian Science Movement which was to be modern-day disciples following Jesus’ work. But so often doubt still plagues are work. Why is this? Why do we doubt that God is present here and now and knows of every one of our needs? Why do we doubt that God never created sin, disease, sickness, or matter and therefore we aren’t subject to any of the errors of these? The truth is right in front of us here and now, and it always has been. Will we let doubt and disbelief continue to overshadow our work and allow Jesus’ work to be lost for another 2,000 years? Jesus said,

“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing by any means shall hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven”.

So now is the time to rejoice! That we are the children of God – the beloved, pure image & likeness of God. “Now is the day of salvation!” And we can rejoice and rise up together, supporting one another in our endeavors and supporting all humanity in the victory of spirit of matter.

God is Love.