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It is not too late to stop this disease

3/27/2017

 
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Feeling cornered? Is the enemy advancing? Is doubt or fear niggling at you, wearing away your confidence in being healthy again?

Take a lesson from Isaiah's playbook. Called by Hezekiah when an enemy army was advancing with intent to decimate a city, Isaiah prayed a prayer so significant, so powerful, that it merited two accounts in separate books of the Bible - II Kings and Isaiah - and with results so effective that they received a third mention in II Chronicles, chapter 32. Prayer stopped the deadly enemy cold.

At the crescendo of Isaiah's prayer was this thundering finale:

"Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria,
 He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
 nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
 and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. 
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake,
and for my servant David's sake."
                                                    (II Kings 19:32-34, Isaiah 37:33-35)
Let me break this down.

In its spiritual signification we can look at the king of Assyria not as a particular person in history, but as any thought or condition that bullies or threatens to wipe us out. Point by point Isaiah explains divine Love's protective power against four specific tactics of the enemy:

It shall not:
  • Invade - "He shall not come in"
  • Pervade - "nor shoot an arrow there"
  • Resist - "nor come before it with shield"
  • Persist -  "nor cast a bank against it."

Long before the impending battle, Hezekiah battled the threats of the enemy. The enemy king sent a messenger to announce his plans to destroy the city. The intent was, of course, to undermine Hezekiah's confidence and increase his fear. Hezekiah was feeling defeated before the actual battle had begun. So when Isaiah came to his side and declared that God wouldn't allow it - that evil would not take the city - his message was like a good rain to thirsty soil.

The results of his prayer were immediately evident. And graphic.
"And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses."
Undeniably effective outcome.

I learned about Isaiah's prayer when I was suffering from a case of pneumonia that was taking me down fast. I felt invaded and pervaded by disease. The fact that I had been praying for healing for a considerable time and yet the symptoms worsened, was eating away at my spiritual resolve. I didn't understand this resistance to healing and the persistence of my suffering.

When I came across Isaiah's prayer, it almost seemed to arrive too late. The disease had already gotten in. The enemy was well entrenched. Or so I thought.

The following explanations from pages 426 and 427 of Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, were significant to my identifying the real enemy and understanding how to apply Isaiah's prayer to the case.
"When it is learned that disease cannot destroy life, and that mortals are not saved from sin or sickness by death, this understanding will quicken into newness of life. It will master either a desire to die or a dread of the grave, and thus destroy the great fear that besets mortal existence...

"The human concepts named matter, death, disease, sickness, and sin are all that can be destroyed...

"Death is but another phase of the dream that existence can be material. Nothing can interfere with the harmony of being nor end the existence of man in Science."

I realized that the disease symptoms were nothing more than the messages being sent ahead by the enemy to intimidate me and wear down my confidence in God and my spiritual resolve. Neither my body, nor pneumonia were the enemy. Even death wasn't the actual enemy because it would eventually be proved to me that man doesn't live or die in matter. No. The enemy bearing down on me was the fear of death. And that I could do something about.

It wasn't too late to work with Isaiah's prayer. Here is a look into some of my reasoning:
  • Fear of death cannot invade my being. I understand my Life to be God, Spirit, Soul, and that I reflect this life permanently.
  • Fear cannot pervade me. Fear cannot find effective angles of attack or find in me any weak or vulnerable spot. I am the reflection of perfect, invulnerable Soul, God. I accept that I am Soul-created and Soul-maintained. All the elements of Soul's harmony are mine by reflection. Soul protects me through Her law of indefatigable harmony. I am forever safe.
  • Fear of death cannot resist my prayers. Prayer is revealing what God, Life, is and does. Prayer is revealing that the fear isn't real. Death cannot touch - has never touched - Life. And divine Life is the law of my prayers, rendering my every thought of God effective in my life.
  • Fear cannot persist. It cannot keep presenting new lines of attack because I see myself out of the battle. I know for certain that there is no fear in God, Life, Love. The battle with fear is not mine. Love conquers fear. The battle is God's, and it is already won.

As Isaiah saw regarding Hezekiah's enemy, so it was for mine. "By the way that he came" (from the nowhere of fear) "by the same shall he return (to the nothingness of fear).

The pneumonia was stopped dead in its tracks. The black cloud of fear that had threatened me with aggressive symptoms dissipated completely. I was well.

Don't be fooled into fighting an unreal enemy. The symptoms are a red herring.  Your body doesn't hate you. The culprit is always fear. It's never too late - NEVER TOO LATE - to stop fear and disease cold.
This post is an updated version of a post that first appeared on 2/10/2012.
grace
3/27/2017 08:49:15 am

Dear Michelle, emphasis on dear:-) This is strong and confident. NEVER too late. I have recently experienced a beautiful healing of a sore on my face that would not heal. I had felt dread and tremendous fear that this issue was too deeply ingrained to be healed. The fearful messages just kept rolling in. It took deep prayer and strong affirmations of the truth of my being and denial of any material selfhood with the prayerful support of a dedicated practitioner to stand up to the fear that this was not going to end well. The turning point for me came when I read this:
"All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause and effect belong to God."(Science in Health by Mary Baker Eddy, p.275) I took the liberty of inserting the word (my) as in my substance belongs to God,
I woke up one morning with this thought: you are substanced perfectly!
Without a single flaw.
I accepted that as a message from God. And the healing followed quickly. The skin is smooth and clean with no evidence of any disease or ugliness. To say I am thankful is an understatement. Your blog is such an important point, Michelle. Never ever give up.

Sharon Strong
3/27/2017 09:21:16 am

A thousand thank yous for this penetratingly deep sharing! I'm sure it resonates with so many, especially in the light of terrorism, in all its forms in today's world. I for one appreciated its gentleness and its strength! Much love!

Margaret Powell
3/27/2017 03:03:13 pm

So well expressed, thank you, Michelle.
Some time ago, struggling with a physical challenge, I came to the conclusion that I had the capacity to resist or block negative, aggressive suggestions on the basis that they were coming to me from outside my consciousness for acceptance or rejection. But how to get rid of thoughts already embedded in my consciousness? Finally I saw that ALL evil thoughts were outside my consciousness, (claiming to be in) unable to penetrate the Mind of God which I reflected. This ended the invasion distinction, and I saw my thinking as pure, as unreachable, inaccessible by anything but God. Never give up!

Kim Hixson
3/27/2017 09:02:20 pm

Thank you, thank you Michelle. I find this post so powerful and timely for me. Thank you Margaret for your insights that ALL evil thoughts are outside of consciousness and only claiming to be in. These truths are so greatly appreciated today. Yes, never give up!

Ron Stevens
3/28/2017 12:39:53 pm

Wonderful--and thank you! Never give up indeed!

Anne Cooling
3/28/2017 01:58:06 pm

Very helpful article to read today. Thank you.

Robbin McCarter link
3/30/2017 04:23:14 pm

Beautiful healing! Powerful unfoldment. Thank you so much for sharing. Perfect Love always casts out fear and God is that perfect Love, and we in Him.

Bill Rowe
4/4/2017 04:47:45 pm

Wow... Thank you Michelle!!! I got so much out of this. Working on the fear of losing my mobility due to arthritis. Blessings to you for your thoughtfulness. Love...


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    I have practiced Christian Science professionally in
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