Many people in my circle are seeking healing for their bodies, minds, or spirits. Honestly, with all the unhealthy things we eat, breathe, and believe, it is a miracle to find someone who really feels whole in body, mind, and spirit!
I grew up in the era of miracle faith healings. I was familiar with Oral Roberts’ ministry, where he healed hundreds of people at his
tent meetings. These healings have always fascinated me, and still do to a certain extent.
One of the ministers I knew in my 20s shared his experience of healing his wife, who was in a wheelchair, from the effects of polio. I knew both of them and saw her walk just like anyone else. Despite having no answers as to how this happened, I still rejoiced in the miracle.
Then I found the story of Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of Unity Church, who also experienced a miraculous healing. I would like to quote her ‘healing prayer’ from the Unity Booklet: The Power of Faith to Heal.
How I Found Health by Myrtle Fillmore
I told the life in my liver that it was not torpid or inert, but full of vigor and energy. I told the life in my stomach that it was not weak or inefficient, but energetic, strong, and intelligent. I told the life in my abdomen that it was no longer infested with ignorant ideas of disease, put there by myself and by doctors, but that it was all alive with the sweet, pure, wholesome energy of God. I told my limbs that they were active and strong. I told my eyes that they did not see of themselves, but that they expressed the sight of Spirit and that they were drawing on an unlimited source. I told them that they were young eyes—clear, bright eyes, because the light of God shone through them. I told my heart that the pure love of Jesus Christ flowed in and through its beatings and that all the world felt its joyous pulsation.
I went to all the life centers in my body and spoke words of Truth to them—words of strength and power. I asked their forgiveness for the foolish, ignorant course that I had pursued in the past, when I had condemned them and called them weak, inefficient, and diseased. I did not become discouraged at their being slow to wake up, but kept right on, both silently and aloud, declaring words of Truth until the organs responded …
Then I asked the Father to forgive me for taking His life into my body and using it so wastefully. I promised Him that I would never, never again retard the free flow of that life through my mind and my body by any false word or thought; that I would always bless it and encourage it with true thoughts and words in its wise work of building up my body temple; that I would use all diligence and wisdom in telling it just what I wanted it to do …
What a beautiful way to pray when seeking healing.