How can one pray effectively for others? Mary Baker Eddy, a Christian healer, wrote in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:
“... be thoroughly persuaded in your own mind concerning the truth which you think or speak, and you will be the victor.”
The thoughts that were coming to me at that moment to pray about were 1) that help was very far away and 2) that life was threatened. The truths I countered these fears with were 1) that God is a very present help in trouble and 2) that, as the Bible says, God is Life. God and God’s creation certainly couldn’t be threatened. I contemplated these ideas until I felt “thoroughly persuaded in my own mind” of their truth and was at peace about the situation.
In the meantime, while I was praying in this way, the plane was making an emergency landing. When we got to the terminal, I saw the physician and a woman get up from seats about 8 rows in front of me and leave the plane. Shortly thereafter, the physician returned to his original seat behind me and we took off.
After we were in the air again, the flight attendant returned and asked the physician, “What was the problem?” “I don’t know”, he replied. He then explained that when he got to her, the woman was unconscious, not breathing, and had no pulse or blood pressure. “But then”, he said, “it was like a switch was flipped – she regained consciousness and all her signs were normal! She will be fine!”
Do you want to add your prayerful support to situations? Learn and be thoroughly persuaded of spiritual truths from Eddy’s book, Science and Health with key to the Scriptures. You can read this book online or read, borrow, or purchase this book at any Christian Science Reading Room, including the one in Evergreen, Colorado.
