During a rigorous tennis match, I felt all the muscles in the upper part of my body start to seize up, restricting my movement, and making it painful to continue playing.
Rather than making an excuse to the others and ending the match prematurely, I prayed for a quick spiritual turnaround.
As I was honest with my state of thought, I noticed a large amount of fear taking over that was not normal for me to feel. I realized that the seizing up of the muscles in my body was merely a symptom of my thought seizing up with fear. I couldn’t think of any reason to be afraid, but nonetheless, I was, and I needed to honestly face it to dissolve it.
I started out my prayer by vehemently declaring that I had nothing to fear. That God was in control of my well-being, and allowed only good things to happen to me.
I identified the fear as an outside imposter trying to squeeze into my thinking without my consent. There was no reason for it—literally! Yes, I faced stiff competition, but that was no reason to fear. It was an occasion to celebrate an opportunity to rise higher in my game than before and play better tennis! I was grateful for that opportunity, not in terror of it, I reassured myself.
My thought started to relax as I remembered God’s infinite love and care for me. I knew, with absolute confidence, that the seizing in my body was going to disappear as I let Truth and Love take over my thought. And that proved to be the case. Soon, my thought felt elevated, joyful, grateful, and peaceful, and the tightening restrictions, along with all pain, left my body. I felt my 100% healthy self once again.
Thank you for this healing message. I loved hearing about the process you used to achieve a quick and complete healing healing. It is so comforting to know that no matter what error wants to throw at us God’s presence is instantly available for us. I love SpiritView and all the followers whose comments are so supportive. Evan, you are such a gift to the world. Thank you.
Thank you Evan, just what I need today after feeing sore from a heavy workout yesterday.
Thanks Evan. Many and even most mornings this prayerful approach seems custom made for me.
Waking this morning, turning first to the lesson for this week “Adam and Fallen Man, then after my thought is “spiritualized”, I see what Evan has to offer.
There are many references in our golden textbook, Science and Health, addressing muscles. About twenty-five. Having familiarity with these angels in thought helps us rise above the evidence of material sense.
It’s a good subject for Wednesday’s testimonial meeting…
Thank you Evan. It’s so helpful to read about your thought process to gain such a quick healing. Or perhaps I should say the quick banishing of no-thing to nothing. A grand example for us all.
This has actually brought something to the surface for me to deal with. A close friend ( not CS ) never seems to have many physical ailments to deal with… indeed far less than myself , as I try diligently to keep thoughts aligned with God. A bit of resentment ..( why me? ) creeping in which , needs annihilating with Love. My mistake is personalising the error, therefore making it something . Everyday I learn a little more …so very grateful❣️
Sometime ago I had been hit by a speeding car that was going so fast it made my SUV make a 190° turn and slide sideways half a block and then melted the front half of my car, which I never even thought was possible. I got out from the airbags to Try to save the life of the speeder whose car was smoking since I was afraid if I didn’t rescue her she would suffer a horrible burning to death, since I tempered the excruciating agony of third degree burns I suffered as a child and refused to wish on my worst enemy. So I had to immediately jump into my role as Christian Science healer knowing the truth that was loving her.
Later I felt some resentment and asked that question, “Why me?!” I was so self righteous and contemptuous and thinking that I was superior and deserve to have a safe driving experience and easy life, after all I would start every day with three or so hours of prayer and study etc. I was particularly bitter about the corrupt and dishonest insurance companies. But God answered my question, “Why me?” “Who else would it be better for her to crash into? Who else would instantly pray and save her life?” My job is not to be comfortable and have other people do what I want. My job is to obey the divine Comforter and you do God’s will with God’s grace. My job is to not want anything else but to align myself with God‘s law of love. And when I got that healing rebuke from God I could move to gratitude and awe at how my whole lifetime had been preparing me to very quickly think calmly and efficiently for problem-solving in an extreme life-threatening emergency, to more quickly and effectively pray and to forgive and to courageously quickly act in emergencies and to be generous to those who do evil to me and a lifetime of facing down death or returning from death or praying and seeing others come back from death. Who else on that road or in my life experience has all that was needed to help her and me? So while I think speeding and corruption and dishonesty are wrong and I choose to act differently, it was other peoples choices that gave me the opportunity to keep improving my choices. And I can always do a better job of proactive preventative protective prayer whenever I think about cars or driving. And I can always be a better citizen more effectively working to make my city and world safer and more just for all. And I can always do a better job of speaking truth to power and cleaning up corrupt corporations and capitalism. I could always do a better job of loving. And every driver I see seems to think they’re a better driver than I think they are so I can always improve my prayerful driving.
And from that I got a priceless opportunity to add to a lifetime of testimonies. Maybe no one else will believe them but God gave them to me to improve how I believe God. The beatitudes include rejoice and be exceedingly glad that I am being persecuted for righteousness sake for so persecuted they the prophets and our Messiah before us. It wasn’t fair that Jesus and Paul and Mary Baker Eddy were attacked for being truth-tellers and Love-live-ers, so who am I to complain when I get harder assignments and tests and training that grow me and my knowledge and skill and character when that’s what I want in order to be of more help and benefit in the world and better fulfill God‘s purpose for my life. It’s not the circumstances that matter but my response and better living my values, if I am using those circumstances to glorify and obey God and turn others’ thought to God‘s love.
So now when I drive by that crash site so close to my home and I see how the city has marked it for more improve safety I am grateful for the spiritual lesson God gave me and continues to teach me. And when I leave my parking space by my apartment and drive by the house where the speeder lives around the block, I could be grateful for the proof of prayer’s effectiveness that she continues to live and she’s able to walk etc., and that God is supplying my need, not insurance companies, and others valuing me so I can have money. That God is my life and safety and health, not a brand of a car advertised for being safe and not airbags and not my human courage and not ambulances and emergency departments.
So now when I hear or read anybody say, “Why me?!”, I remember God’s answer and I become more grateful and trusting and humble and curious. And I remember so many healings and testimonies. One church reader board said, “You cannot have a testimony without the test”. So as a teacher and lifelong learner I am learning to welcome the tests. They are opportunities to love. They are gifts from God to get closer with God add to let go of my fault sense of self and situation.
Thank you for the reminder.
Wow Edith….thank you for sharing your demonstration and insight into changing the ‘why me?’ ‘ from a negative to a positive. I have experienced an increased understanding of Christian Science over the last 3 -4 years , during which time I have had some remarkable healings. It just shows how alert we must be to be grateful, humble and ‘stand Porter ‘ at all times to prevent erroneous musings and misleading fears.
thank you. A good reminder of the gratitude to be led to more understanding.
Evan I liked the statement in your message, that fear was not normal but was an outside imposter trying to squeeze into your thought without your consent. You wisely denied your consent and threw it out of your thought and turned to the higher truths about your identity in God.
You saw that there was not a so-called physical problem to be fixed but a lie trying to invade your pure consciousness. It never stood a chance.
Thanks for sharing how you prayed and the confidence you expressed that this would be quickly seen to be “no-thing,” as Barbara wisely states above. Blessings to all here as we start a fresh, new week together.
Wow! I cannot put into words how I feel when I read this. Evan, thanks for sharing. So encouraging. Absolutely helpful.
Thank you for the anatomy of a healing that we need to be reminded of. I treasure these comments.
Hymn 181
Fear shall have no more dominion,
God is All, and heaven is hear.
Like Linda, I am grateful that anatomy is mental self knowledge..
We can be aware of our thoughts being immortal or imposter thoughts of a false so called mortal source.
I too enjoy being active with tennis, mountain climbing, and dancing.. and I know these activities add to my joyful spiritual freedom..
In God’s wonderful government of love I am self governed and free from the imposition of stress, fear, or worry..
I am ready to enjoy life as God intends it to be..
Beautiful
Thank you, Evan. Wonderful demonstration of how to employ Christian Science in the moment of need.
Thank you Evan for this example. The great red dragon (nothingness) is working overtime to paralyze us all with fear. It’s something I have been experiencing from time to time lately and I too have realized on several occasions, “this is an outside attack.”
“Fear is the fountain of sickness, and you master fear and sin by divine Mind; hence it is through divine Mind that you overcome disease.” S&H 391:32-2
I have been defending myself daily against fear in my morning prayers and it is helping me to detect claims of fear more quickly to annihilate it. We are Christian Scientists. Let’s annihilate all fear.
We’re so very Grateful.
Thank you Evan for walking us through metaphysical prayerful treatments, today & in your published article:
Prayer can wipe out pain:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/m720o2vfzm?s=e
Thanks Evan, Angie and all. The thought that I gleaned from this is that whatever honest activity we’re doing there’s always a good response with prayer.
Thank you so much everyone and Evan.
Thank you Evan and thank you Angie for providing a link to Evan’s article. Just what I needed to see thru the belief that I can suffer in pain after exerting myself in a lot of physical exercise or work.
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Dear Evan, thank you for sharing your inspired thought process that resulted in this mastery of fear and a quick healing of pain.
In your article “Prayer can wipe out pain” (thank you Angie) you state that while pain…..”appears to be hardcore truth to the mind believing it, it is exactly the opposite of what is true for man as the child of God. In divine Truth, where harmony and peace reign, each of us has painless being. The more our thought is focused on agreeing with spiritual reality, the less it is occupied with the body and the material treatment of it, the quicker illuminated spiritual consciousness is reached, and the faster spiritual healing happens.”
Thank you for this perfect example of quick and natural healing. Like my teacher once said to the class, “Let it be as natural as breathing to you.”
Thank you all for the marvelous comments! So love sharing this morning meal with you!
Linda I love that statement regarding quick healing: “Let it be as natural as breathing to you.” Yes!
I love this. Thank you. It is all thought
You’ve hit an ace Evan as an insight to lift my thinking when experiencing leg cramps.
Very helpful Evan, and All, thank you so much for sharing Edith, reading a testimonyl ike yours really helps.
Body follows thought like a tail follows a dog you messaged us once before. I try to calm my thought and my typing in order to take care of business day to day. Thank you for the reminder to let Truth and Love move our actions.
Dear Evan, thank you very much indeed for your wonderful and uplifting testimony. It is so helpful because you are so clearly explain the way how you prayed christian scientifically correct.
However equally helpful and for me very needed and such a wonderfully detailed explanation and treatment is Evan’s great article to which dearest Angie gives us the link up here. This article is so inspiring; it is a great testimony, as well and a lesson in itself and utmost worth to read!
I love all your articles and testimonies as they are all written with such a scientific clarity, to understand it very well. And it is so interesting to read, thank you very very much dearest Evan!♡
One sentence in this article stood out for me what Mrs. Eddy says in SH that we are all capable of doing more than we think we can do. So in that sense. Am grateful for MBE and the healing Christ which is Christian Science!♡
Thank you … I’m going to share this article with someone right now who is dealing with severe muscle pain .. it’s just what is needed ! Thank you
The night before this Spirit View, I had been having some occasional pain in my back when moving and reaching. We were scheduled to help a relative split and stack wood the next day, so I had been working to know my back could not dictate what I could or could not do. And then the next morning I woke to this Spirit View, which further strengthened my prayers. We spent the morning splitting and stacking wood in the brisk air (temperatures less than 10 degrees above freezing), and I had complete freedom. It was a joyful and grateful day! Thank you for this message that came when it was needed.