Speak with Authority to Your “Mountains”

Mary Baker Eddy’s chapter on Prayer in Science and Health is truly a masterpiece. She says that Jesus’ prayers were humble protests of Truth. That word “protest” means to make a solemn declaration. So, prayer is actually affirmation, as Mrs. Eddy has said — you are declaring the Truth in the face of an error or a problem.

In Mark chapter 11, Jesus is quoted as saying, “Have faith in God. For verily I say into you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatever he saith.”

Speak to your mountains! As many of you know from my testimonies, I had many challenges which seemed to me like huge, insurmountable mountains. Here, Christ Jesus is saying, you speak to those mountains. Don’t let those mountains speak to you; you tell them a thing or two! When you do that, and keep at it, even though you may not get immediate results, if you keep at it, it works!

You often hear us say to study pages 390 to 393 in Science and Health. This is how you speak to those mountains. We call these pages Mrs. Eddy’s command statements. “Dispute the testimony of the material senses with divine Science.” “Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon the thought.” “Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind.” “Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind.”

Those are just a few of the quotes from pages 390 to 393. This is how you speak to your mountain, whether it seems like a physical mountain, a mountain of despair, or financial problems. Whatever it is, you speak to that mountain and don’t listen to what it has to say. In doing so, you will chip away at it, and, to quote Mrs. Eddy, it will “diminish until it finally disappears.”

This is the power of prayer as taught by Mary Baker Eddy in our textbook. I am so grateful for this understanding of the prayer of affirmation. It can bring all to pass because, truly, nothing is impossible to God!