Depression, Anxiety, and Stroke Healed

A year ago I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Along with that, I was having trouble with every major part of my body – heart, lungs, circulation, head, etc. To say I was feeling sad every day would be an understatement. When I told the doctor I was a Christian Scientist, she smiled at me. After telling me what was wrong with me and that I’d need to see half a dozen specialists, she said “you need to fix your spirit, and I will fix the rest. And you know exactly what I’m talking about.”

As you may know, Christian Scientists don’t often go to doctors. It’s not “against our religion” not to go, but we just choose to turn to God first. However, at this time in my life, I was just scared. I was scared I wouldn’t be alive much longer and I had a 1 year old and a 3 year old at home to take care of.

Having the doctor tell me I needed to fix my spirit really got me thinking. I realized that I had been spending all my time focusing on what seemed wrong with my body instead of praying without ceasing – as the Bible commands us to do. I was giving more power to my body than I was giving to God.

A couple of months later, I awoke one morning and had an hour and a half to get ready to go photograph a wedding. However, before I could get out of bed, I experienced a minor stroke. Among other things, I lost most ability to use my right arm and leg and my speech was impaired.

The first thing I did was to call a Christian Science Practitioner to pray for me. I told her what was happening and that I had no choice but to go ahead and photograph the wedding. The practitioner began praying immediately and I was able to do my job.

Fortunately, my husband had already arranged to be my assistant that day and we had already hired a sitter for the kids. My husband ended up taking a lot of the pictures that day and I just refrained from speaking. No one knew what was going on. I didn’t want to worry anyone or take away from their special day. We kept in touch with the practitioner all throughout the day.
By the time I went to bed late that night, my speech was completely intelligible. To say the least, I was scared. The next morning I stayed home from church so I could pray. I phoned to relatives to tell them I was going to go to the hospital. They fully supported that decision.

However, after I made the decision I was going to the hospital, God gently spoke to me and said “But you’re not even giving me a chance!” I was shocked to hear that message, but I knew it was true. I had already made up my mind that if I didn’t get help from the doctors I could end up in serious trouble. The thought came again from God and this time it came with an action plan.

You see, I was trained in Christian Science 7 years ago, by going through what is called Christian Science Class Instruction. The plan that came from God was this “Julie, you study all your class notes and by the end if you are still scared then definitely go to the hospital. Just give me a chance first.”

Ok. I agreed with that. So I took out my “class notes” on Christian Science. To my sheer amazement, after studying the notes from the first day of class, I was completely healed! There were no more effects from the stroke. And… there wasn’t even a drop of fear left. I knew I was completely free!

Also, that same day, my daughter was completely healed of Epilepsy. She had been experiencing half a dozen silent seizures a day for most of her life. But we were both healed at the same time. By reading the notes, I understood more about prayer, more about God and more about my true identity as Gods reflection. These thoughts couldn’t help but heal! Also, as a bonus, the depression and anxiety were also immediately gone as well.

Now I am in the full time practice of healing others. If you want to learn more about being healed, visit my website http://www.goddoesheal.com/. God really does heal – but we have to get rid of our fear and truly put God first.

Losing Weight poem

A Spiritual Diet and Exercise Poem

This is a poem my Grandmother came across many, many years ago in the Christian Science Sentinel. The author is unknown. I share it with you today because I think it’s absolutely fantastic and it’s what I studied and lived by when I lost 40 lbs.

Losing Weight

This year I’m going on a diet!
In prayer and humility.
I’m going to reject those enticing
spoonfuls of
impatience,
indifference,
intolerance, criticism;
Refuse to take part in bouts of
depression,
ingratitude,
selfishness.
Instead
my diet includes
unlimited amounts of
quiet patience,
true compassion,
bubbling joy,
deep understanding,
unending forgiveness,
unconditional love.
These can be taken at any time of the day
in quantities that are as large as possible!
I’m going to exercise, too –
my God-given authority –
to see, feel, and act rightly.
not just a ten-minute exercise,
but continuously, hourly, every minute –
a moment-by-moment mental
s t r e t c h i n g –
each day more than I did the
day before.
In this way
the true outline,
the embodiment
of elegant balance,
perfect proportion,
the Soul-filled harmony
of God’s being
will be seen as
me.

Visit my website at www.GodDoesHeal.com to find out how you can be healed of anything. or call 1-866-507-1514. or e-mail prayforme@goddoesheal.com

The Art of Spiritual Listening

The Art of Spiritual Listening

Like any other art, the art of spiritual listening comes with practice. If you’re like me, you’ve always wished you could stop paying attention to all the negative thoughts that come and find a way to just think about the good things.

Well, it is possible to learn the art of listening for our spiritual guidance. Sometimes it really does seem like the cartoons where a character has a devil sitting on one shoulder and an angel sitting on the other and has to choose which one to listen to. We may laugh at that, but I think the reason we laugh is because we feel it’s all too true.

Since I was a young girl, I always desired to be able to hear God more – to be more spiritually minded. I knew that it wasn’t right to be thinking bad or negative thoughts – even if I didn’t say them out loud.

Something that helped change my view on how we should behave and think came from studying Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7. Jesus spells out for us exactly how to act and how not to act. We shouldn’t judge. We shouldn’t even hold grudges. Wow! How can we go through life without even holding grudges!

After studying over and over the Sermon on the Mount, I realized I HAD to choose where my thoughts were going to be. I could either let myself become angry, upset, hurt, etc., or I could force myself to stick to the truth. And by “truth” I mean it was my job to see everyone and everything as God created them.

Doesn’t the Bible tell us God made man in his image and likeness? That leaves no room for anything unlike God, good. Instead of holding on to the negative things about people or situations, it was my job to practice the forgiveness that Jesus taught. I had to see my neighbours (everyone) as God sees them.

So, how does God see His children? Good question. God could only see His children as the complete, perfect, spiritual image and likeness of Him. That means, in reality, each of us has no choice but to be complete, joyful, satisfied, harmonious, healthy, spiritual, and thousands of other good qualities

We have to make the choice – are we going to stick to the negative, un-Godlike thoughts, or are we going to make sure we are listening to the good, pure, true thoughts of divine Love, God?

Practicing this has made a huge difference in my life. I am now able to forgive so quickly. The past is in the past and things just don’t bother me like they used to because I know I need to live by what Jesus taught – forgiveness, love, compassion, etc.