Is praying to God effective?
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Eric Rodriguez requested your answer to this question.
Q● Is praying to God effective?
A● Eric the simple answer to this question is an emphatic YES! Prayer is the breath of the human soul, the technique of exchanging our will for God’s will. Every prayer increases the human souls spiritual capacity to actually know God and never fails to expand the soul’s capacity for spiritual receptivity. Prayer increasingly makes us more like God in our personal and spiritual nature. Prayer is a psychologic process of exchanging the human will for the divine will.
Photo: The Effectiveness of Prayer: Unselfish — not alone for oneself. Believing — according to faith. Sincere — honest of heart. Intelligent — according to light. Trustful — in submission to the Father’s all-wise will.
BECAUSE Jesus, was the one man among all men who mastered the art of praying, I will answer this question according to his council on the subject of effective prayer. True prayer can be as simple as the giving of a sincere expression of love for ones fellows, when such feelings well up in the human heart.
We must recognise that “Prayer being the actual breath of the soul will lead us all to be persistent in our attempts to ascertain the Father’s will. Living faith is to religion what sails are to a ship; it is an addition of power, not an added burden of life.
The earnest and longing repetition of any petition, when such a prayer is the sincere expression of a child of God and is uttered in faith, no matter how ill-advised or impossible of direct answer, never fails to expand the soul’s capacity for spiritual receptivity.
In all praying, remember that sonship with God is a gift. No child has aught to do with earning the status of son or daughter. The earth child comes into being by the will of its parents. Even so, the child of God comes into grace and the new life of the spirit by the will of the Father in heaven. Therefore must the kingdom of heaven — divine sonship — be received as by a little child. You earn righteousness — progressive character development — but you receive sonship by grace and through a living faith.
It should be understood that prayer led Jesus up to the supercommunion of his soul with the Supreme Rulers of the universe of universes. Prayer will lead the men and woman of earth up to the communion of true worship. The soul’s spiritual capacity for receptivity determines the quantity of heavenly blessings which can be personally appropriated and consciously realized as an answer to prayer.
Prayer and its associated worship is a technique of detachment from the daily routine of life, from the monotonous grind of material existence. It is an avenue of approach to spiritualized self-realization and individuality of intellectual and religious attainment.
Prayer is an antidote for harmful introspection. At least, prayer as the Master taught it is such a beneficent ministry to the soul. Jesus consistently employed the beneficial influence of praying for one’s fellows. The Master usually prayed in the plural, not in the singular. Only in the great crises of his earth life did Jesus ever pray for himself.
Prayer is the breath of the spirit life in the midst of the material civilization of the races of mankind. Worship is salvation for the pleasure-seeking generations of mortals.
As prayer may be likened to recharging the spiritual batteries of the soul, so worship may be compared to the act of tuning in the soul to catch the universe broadcasts of the infinite spirit of the Universal Father.
Prayer is the sincere and longing look of the child to its spirit Father; it is a psychologic process of exchanging the human will for the divine will. Prayer is a part of the divine plan for making over that which is into that which ought to be.
Rarely did anyone hear Jesus pray, because he so rarely uttered his prayers as spoken words. Practically all of Jesus’ praying was done in the spirit and in the heart — silently.
Jesus from the age of 5 learned how to engage in effective prayer which eventually led up to unbroken communion with God in his adult years. As a child after he had spoken the traditional Jewish prayers before sleeping Jesus would then exclaim to his Father Joseph; and now I would have just a little chat with my Father in heaven.
Jesus taught that effective prayer must be:
1. Unselfish — not alone for oneself.
2. Believing — according to faith.
3. Sincere — honest of heart.
4. Intelligent — according to light.
5. Trustful — in submission to the Father’s all-wise will.
So in summary you should bear in mind the laws of prevailing petitions. The conditions of effective prayer.
Conditions of Effective Prayer
1. You must qualify as a potent prayer by sincerely and courageously facing the problems of universe reality. You must possess cosmic stamina.
2. You must have honestly exhausted the human capacity for human adjustment. You must have been industrious.
3. You must surrender every wish of mind and every craving of soul to the transforming embrace of spiritual growth. You must have experienced an enhancement of meanings and an elevation of values.
4. You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.
5. You not only recognize the Father’s will and choose to do it, but you have effected an unqualified consecration, and a dynamic dedication, to the actual doing of the Father’s will.
6. Your prayer will be directed exclusively for divine wisdom to solve the specific human problems encountered in the Paradise ascension — the attainment of divine perfection.
7. And you must have faith — living faith.
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