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Cosmic Love and the Seven Spirits of Change by Hugh Donald Perry

9. CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVE PRAYER

91:9.1 If you would engage in effective praying, you should bear in mind the laws of prevailing petitions:

91:9.2 1. You must qualify as a potent prayer by sincerely and courageously facing the problems of universe reality. You must possess cosmic stamina.

91:9.3 2. You must have honestly exhausted the human capacity for human adjustment. You must have been industrious.

91:9.4 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.

91:9.5 4. You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.

91:9.6 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.

91:9.7 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.

91:9.8 7. And you must have faith -- living faith.

91:9.9 Presented by the Chief of the Urantia Midwayers.

148:4.10 "Thomas, have you not read about this in the Scriptures, where it is written: `You are the children of the Lord your God.' `I will be his Father and he shall be my son.' `I have chosen him to be my son -- I will be his Father.' `Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth; even every one who is called by my name, for I have created them for my glory.' `You are the sons of the living God.' `They who have the spirit of God are indeed the sons of God.' While there is a material part of the human father in the natural child, there is a spiritual part of the heavenly Father in every faith son of the kingdom."

This article discuses how to attract searching souls to the *good news of Jesus' everlasting gospel* and introduce them to the *5th Epochal Revelation*

Abide Forever
"Every earth child who follows the leading of this spirit shall eventually know the will of God, and he who surrenders to the will of my Father shall abide forever." Jesus, 146:3.7 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_146.html#146:3.7

117:4.14 God's gifts -- his bestowal of reality -- are not divorcements from himself; he does not alienate creation from himself, but he has set up tensions in the creations circling Paradise. God first loves man and confers upon him the potential of immortality -- eternal reality. And as man loves God, so does man become eternal in actuality. And here is mystery: The more closely man approaches God through love, the greater the reality -- actuality -- of that man. The more man withdraws from God, the more nearly he approaches nonreality -- cessation of existence. When man consecrates his will to the doing of the Father's will, when man gives God all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is.
https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_117.html#

What You're Becoming
"Your actual achievement is not so important as the fact that the direction of your progress is Godward. What you are becoming day by day is of infinitely more importance than what you are today." Jesus, 147:5.7 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_147.html#147:5.7

How Does Jesus Affect You?
Devoted men and women loved Jesus with a well-nigh superhuman affection. And the better they knew him the more they loved him. And all this is still true; even today and in all future ages, the more man comes to know this God-man, the more he will love and follow after him. 149:2.14 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_149.html#149:2.14

Lighten Your Burdens
"Lighten your burdens of soul by speedily acquiring a long-distance view of your destiny, a universe expansion of your career." Jesus,156:5.8 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_156.html#156:5.8

Faith
"…faith will expand the mind, ennoble the soul, reinforce the personality, augment the happiness, deepen the spirit perception, and enhance the power to love and be loved." Jesus, 159:3.12 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_159.html#159:3.12