My Breast Lumps Disappeared — Through the Science of Prayer
Praying with the Power of God’s Name.
The awesome female presence of God became an absolute lifesaver for me — many years ago, after a medical exam. I hadn’t been to see a doctor since our daughter was born, 11 years earlier. As a Christian Scientist, I turn to God as a first resort.
Since I’d met every health challenge successfully with scientific prayer, there had been no need for physicians. But because my husband wanted me to have a checkup, out of my love for him, I went to see a doctor.
The doctor found a number of lumps in my breasts. For the first time in my life, I underwent a mammogram and breast ultrasound. Choosing a spiritual perspective, I did not give any authority to such tests.
The medical view focuses on the body as material, perpetually subject to disease and decline. In this matter-mindset, it follows that we can be easily gripped by fear, expecting to find something wrong, which we’ll then have to fix.
Instead of living in that scenario, I chose to start at the top — at wholeness, at my true identity as spiritual, not material — as the perfect image and likeness of God.
A new student of Hebrew at the time, I had just recently learned about The Divine Name of El Shaddai. I…
