Hello and welcome to the Christian Science Daily Lift.

We're so glad you're joining us for today's inspiration with Christian Science practitioner Jenny Sawyer.

Jenny's from Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

I was thinking about the war in Iran when I asked my Christian science Sunday school students,

do you see yourself as capable of healing the way Jesus did?

One made a face that said, uh, hardly, and we all laughed.

But we agreed it's a question that's worth thinking about,

especially since Jesus told us we could heal the way he did and do even greater works.

Christ Jesus wasn't overwhelmed by the big problems he faced and was even able to heal them

for two reasons. First, he knew what God is. And second,

he knew who he was as the son of God. With this understanding, nothing could stop him. Similarly,

the issue for us is whether we're starting our prayers from this standpoint,

fully aware of what God is, and fully embracing who we are as God's children,

completely spiritual, made in God's likeness, as the Bible says.

Our class felt pretty confident about knowing what God is.

Two books, The Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Bakeretti,

tell us everything we need to know about God's nature.

God is infinite love, the all-knowing mind.

God is omnipotence, omnipresence.

And God is both good and all, meaning there's not actually place or space for anything harmful, oppressive, or bad.

Those books also tell us what it means to be God's child.

And as I was praying about this later, God showed me how really little children learn

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