Raising the dead . . . for real
Why is it so shocking to imagine raising the dead? Jesus said, “The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even greater things….” John 14:12 (The Message). So open your thought to new possibilities — as Christian Science healer Lona Ingwerson did when a friend’s husband “died” of a heart attack.
The Bible story that Lona refers to, with the Shunammite woman, can be found at 2 Kings 4:18-37.
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Posted on Saturday, June 16th, 2012 at 6:41 pm | Follow responses with the RSS feedTopics: Healing | Tags: life after death, life after life
Thank you so much!
thanks for this radical healing testimony, thanks for the comments, thanks for helping us realize not to give up or give in.
Lona, thank you so much for sharing. This is exactly what I needed to get the day started. I’ve often thought that our expectations of the good we can accomplish need to be raised and all limits erased. Stories like this do a lot to adjust our perspective on what is possible!
I deeply appreciate this radical act–Lona’s telling of the “incident” is so confident, so matter-of-fact. Actually, that’s an odd phrase for me to use, because matter was NOT the fact! I profess to be a Jesus-follower . . . so I need to follow him in EVERYthing he did. This whole Radical Acts adventure this summer has really wakened my thinking. Roused me. Thank you.
Thanks for reminding us to never give up on Truth!
Great healing! Wonderfully shared! Strong conviction! Beautiful! Congratulations!!! :-)
Thank you Lona! I too love your words at the end about “raising the dead hopes”
Thank you!! This helped heal me.
I love this. Thank you. It’s only ‘shocking’ or impressive to mortal sense which believes in beginging and ending – in death.
Your conviction is unmistakable. What a demonstration! Thank you for sharing this with us all.
What blesses one blesses all – so many thanks
I love this. Not for the dramatic story (nice though!), but for the very end about raising dead hopes, a dead career, etc. I also love the part about how we don’t put up with disease, we heal it. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing, Lona. Your approach to healing any problem is always so easy and simple, and this truly is so helpful.
This is a profound healing. Amazing. I shouldn’t be amazed, as good is normal. But, really wonderful.
(I love all the music on this site, but for some reason, the music throughout this account didn’t sit well with me. It gave it kind of a soap opera feeling.)
Thank you so much for this invigorating account of the power of Truth!