Friday, March 10, 2006

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.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I just read your post and am having a similar experience to yours. I have been with Christian Science for nearly 10 years but this time something extremely challenging happened to me. I had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. After 2 weeks they released me and put me on medications and also advised that I have surgery. I refused the surgery and am on the medications. I am trying to handle this through Christian Science treatment and yet I am at the same time afraid that if I don't do what the doctors tell me to do, I might be in trouble. The only thing I can think to do is work with a practitioner soon and throw myself into prayer completely. How wise is that? Part of me is telling me that it is the best thing I can do for myself and yet there is still a lot of fear about it. Your experience has given me a lot of courage and hope. What do you advise?

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