A Prayer from Last Night

As I prayed for my family last night I was inspired to write this: lay aside every weight that so easily distracts, hinders progress, hardens the heart, and never loose site of Jesus example, striving to do as he did, sacrifice as he did, love unconditionally as he did.  

The more you practice this the easier it will be for you to be at peace know matter what storm clouds may appear!

Sacrament

This weeks Christian Science Weekly Bible Lesson, (mybiblelesson.com), subject Sacrament, has some terrific ideas on healing.  This passage from James is really timely! 

"THE BIBLE Section 4

12 | James 5:14, 15 (to ;), 16 The 
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; 

16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

I have been diving into various bible commentaries regarding the Bible Lesson and I found this one from Dr. Barclay.
     “For many centuries the Church consistently used anointing as a means of healing the sick.  In fact it is important to note that the sacrament of unction, or anointing, was in the early centuries always designed as a means of cure, and not as a preparation for death, as it now is in the Roman Catholic Church.  I was not until A.D. 852 that the sacrament of unction did, in fact, become the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, administered to prepare for death.  

    The Church has always cared for her sick; and in the Church there has always resided the gift of healing.”      

                           The Letters of James and Peter, William Barclay

Healing through prayer in reliance upon God, one supreme infinite good, is achievable today as it was in the early Church.  Marker number 17 from the Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy states:

     "17]  136:1–5 Science, Theology, Medicine    

Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning."

Spiritual healing practiced today based on the teachings of Jesus are relevant and timely for all of life's challenges.  

Superiority of Spiritual Power

In this weeks Weekly Bible Lesson published by the Christian Science Publishing Society healing inspiration and guidance can be found.  So much of the media is focused on disasters and the contentious, loud and insulting commentary surrounding the very emotional discourse, I found myself reacting to the constant fear, anger and outrage.  

I realized that I must turn off the human divisiveness and turn up God's voice.  In section III:

“There is divine authority for believing in the superiority of spiritual power over material resistance.

A miracle fulfills God’s law, but does not violate that law. This fact at present seems more mysterious than the miracle itself. The Psalmist sang: “What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye little hills, like lambs? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.” The miracle introduces no disorder, but unfolds the primal order, establishing the Science of God’s unchangeable law.”  
Science & Health 134:28-8

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With the Gulf Oil Spill, economic swings and shifts and world wide violence, an affirmation of God's true power must be declared and defended.  God's law, the law of the Christ, is in operation and that law that parted the Red Sea is operating right now in the Gulf of Mexico, in my city, my county and my own home.  

The true authority for all human activity does not come from human reasoning, activity or logic but rather from God, divine Mind.  One God, one Mind, governing the entire universe, particularly mankind.  Whatever the material evidence may predict, deduce or conjure, God has a remedy to solve mankind's most challenging and pressing needs.

  

Lift off--and rise above turmoil

Lift off and rise above turmoil

God-based confidence

God-based confidence

God-based confidence

God-based confidence

Take Up Permanent Residence

“God is Love.”  I take up permanent residence in His life of love and permanent obedience to the law of Christ, all is well.  I know that there are no limits to God’s ever present care, prosperity, wealth, treatment, kindness, forgiveness.  

I am humbled in him; I am his servant of good.  

I am in His Love, because I serve God.  I am not separate from God as He is Mind and I am at-one-with this Mind.  The Christ is in me operating fully engaged in all that I am; protecting, supplying and guiding each and every member of my family.  

Life is Love and I am in this Life.