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Recurring symptoms of malaria gone for good
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| Sushil Likhi |
| Reprinted from the February 7, 2005 issue of the Christian
Science Sentinel |
While I was working as a civil engineer at the Technical Teachers’ Training
Institute in Chandigarh, India, I was selected in 1980 for a fellowship at
an institute in the Netherlands. I considered this opportunity to be a blessing
from God, as very few people from my country could study abroad in those days.
The 11-month course in hydraulics engineering involved a lot of study,
examination and field trips. In no time it came to an end, and I was ready
to return to India.
During the last fortnight of my stay in the Netherlands I decided to
visit a friend who lived on the outskirts of London. We had a happy time together.
However, two days before I was due to travel back to the Netherlands, I began
shivering, felt weak and had a high fever. I asked a Christian Science practitioner
to pray for healing.
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| God would never give me a bad thing like sickness. |
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When I spoke with the practitioner, she referred me to the question
“What is man?” that Mrs. Eddy posed on page 475 in Science and Health. The
answer that follows assured me of my perfection as a child of God, and I cherished
that it says we cannot have “a single quality underived” from Him. He would
never give me a bad thing like sickness.
The next day I felt well again, which I felt was the result of our prayers.
I thanked the practitioner and returned to the Netherlands in time to collect
my post-graduate degree and attend a farewell function in the evening.
By the next morning, I began experiencing the same symptoms again. I
called another practitioner in the Netherlands and requested Christian Science
treatment from her. I told her that I was worried. I was due to leave for
India in the next six to seven days, and my visa expired in ten days.
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She calmed my fears and asked me to read the words of Hymn 350 in the Christian
Science Hymnal. It says, “Through the love of God our Saviour / All
will be well.” This was a source of hope and trust for me—the idea that I
could rely on God’s powerful love.
My friends helped me pack all my belongings. By the time I was ready
to leave for India, I was feeling much better. I thanked the practitioner
for her help and enjoyed a very affectionate send-off from the members of
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in The Hague. I had no problem on the way
home and was able to rejoin duty in my office three days later.
Not long after that, however, I again developed the same symptoms of
fever and shivering. I could eat nothing, and could only drink liquids. This
time I prayed for myself while continuing my day-to-day activities.
Then in the first week of October, my wife and I went to my parents’
place in Ludhiana. On reaching there, I had a severe attack of shivering.
Just then my younger brother, who is a medical practitioner, came home from
his clinic. Everyone was very concerned about me, so I agreed to have my brother
get my blood tested.
After the results came back, he told my parents my blood had tested
positive for malaria and he recommended that I start taking medicine immediately;
otherwise, he said, they might lose me after about two weeks.
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My wife and I had firm faith in the healing power of God. We assured
my parents that they should wait and see the power of God at work. I wrote
a letter that day to a practitioner in Bombay, India, asking her to pray with
me, and my wife and I returned home to Chandigarh.
Over the next ten days, as I prayed for myself, I began to really understand
that the symptoms of illness were no part of my real spiritual identity. God
had made me in His image and likeness. He had made me well.
Disease was no part of my true being, and as a result of this prayer,
the symptoms diminished.
About one week later, another attack occurred. This time, I vehemently
affirmed the facts of my relationship to God—that through His loving control
of me, I was perfect and well.
Within the next two days, I was completely free from malaria and all
its symptoms.
That was the end of it. It has now been 23 years since that healing,
and I have never had the symptoms of malaria. Contrary to conventional medical
opinion, I was, and have remained, completely and permanently healed.
I am grateful to the practitioners who prayed with me during this experience.
It has increased my conviction that the healing of disease in Christian Science
is permanent, and that nothing is incurable.
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Science and Health:
475:5-22
King James Bible:
John 14:12
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