It is often said there are no atheist in
foxholes. Could their cry for help be caused by fear? Is it an expression of
Nature for humans and even many animals to cry for help when we feel the pangs
of fear or pain? Who among us, when suddenly confronted with terror or danger
will not cry out “Oh My God.” It is normal for humans to ask for help from our
God when we are lost or afraid with a challenge we do not understand. Isn’t this
a form of PRAYER?
How many times in your life have you asked
or pleaded with your God to intercede with a solution to a challenge because it
is something you feel you want or need? Have you asked for money or riches,
physical cures, a change in your environment, a new job, etc? Like a child
asking a benevolent parent for a new toy which you want but don’t need. When we
don’t get what we want we lose faith in the power of Prayer because it seems so
many of our Prayers are not answered. Then maybe a helpful parent has told us
not to blame God that we need to understand NO is an answer. All we need to
learn is how to pray affectively.
If praying for our wants were not true why
is “treasure mapping” and “visualization” so successful? Because these two
techniques are a form of positive Prayer which when invoked always end with the
affirmation; “if it be for my highest good, let it be done.” In addition you are
accessing the Physician Within and acknowledging that you want to be guided by
whatever is for your highest good and allows you to remain on the path of your
Divine Life Plan. The techniques of “treasure mapping” and “visualization” are
very powerful positive techniques as long as we realize the objective is for our
highest good.
Once we accept that God is NOT a “fix it”
Lord, but a benevolent parent who wishes only positive circumstances for his
child in which his needs have already been supplied. One of the greatest
blessings he has also provided us with is that of all the animals we are the
only one who has a FREE WILL, to travel their path of life along a road we have
chosen which will best accomplish the purpose for which we were given the
blessings of life.
The essence of accessing the Physician
Within should be GUIDED by what your Divine path is, and to give THANKS for the
blessings, which, you have already received. So all Prayer (the communication
with the God of your understanding) must first be an acknowledgement to open the
channel of communication, then a statement of thanks for the fact we have
already received whatever it is we need. We just need the guidance to accept the
blessings of our highest good – not what we feel we want or need. For the God of
our understanding already knows and has provided what we need to accomplish the
mission for which we have been given life.
So lets take a look at the mechanics of
Prayer beginning with the biblical references. The Lord’s Prayer; Matt;6:9.
However, before paragraph 9, St. Matthew has some important information on how
to pray beginning with Matt; 6:5, as follows in the Lamsa translation, from the
original Aramaic ancient text:
5. And when you pray, do not be like the
hypocrites, who like to pray, standing in the synagogues and at the street
corners, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you that they have
already received their reward.
6. But as for you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber and lock your
door, and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in
secret shall himself reward you openly.
7. And when you pray, do not repeat your words like the pagans, for they think
that because of much talking they will be heard.
8. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need, before you ask
him;
9. Therefore, pray in this manner: Our Father which art in heaven……..
So when you pray, don’t ask or partition
the God of your understanding for wants, but ask only for guidance to solve the
challenges you are being tested with. Then give thanks, for what you seek is
already provided. While you are with the Physician Within be sure to be quiet so
you can hear that still small voice within you. There is no power if you do not
listen.
Og Mandino, author and motivational
speaker, has a prayer he calls the Salesman’s Prayer which fits all the
essentials of a successful prayer to the God of your understanding. If you are
not a salesman substitute your profession for salesman – it will work in any
situation. I have the prayer, read by Og Mandino on CD and play it every morning
after I go within to raise the protective shield that goes with me each day.
Following is that prayer:
Oh creator of all things, help me. For this
day I go out into the world naked and alone, and without your hand to guide me
I will wander far from the path which leads to success and happiness.
I ask not for gold or garments or even
opportunities equal to my ability; instead, guide me so that I may acquire
ability equal to my opportunities.
You have taught the lion and the eagle how
to hunt and prosper with teeth and claw. Teach me how to hunt with words and
prosper with love so that I may be a lion among men and an eagle in the market
place.
Help me to remain humble through obstacles
and failures; yet hide not from mine eyes the prize that will come with
victory.
Assign me tasks to which others have failed;
yet guide me to pluck the seeds of success from their failures. Confront me
with fears that will temper my spirit; yet endow me with courage to laugh at
my misgivings.
Spare me sufficient days to reach my goals;
yet help me to live this day as though it be my last.
Guide me in my words that they may bear
fruit; yet silence me from gossip that none be maligned.
Discipline me in the habit of trying and
trying again; yet show me the way to make use of the law of averages. Favor me
with alertness to recognize opportunity; yet endow me with patience which will
concentrate my strength.
Bathe me in good habits that the bad ones
may drown; yet grant me compassion for weaknesses in others. Suffer me to know
that all things shall pass; yet help me to count my blessings of today.
Expose me to hate so it not be a stranger;
yet fill my cup with love to turn strangers into friends.
But all these things be only if thy will. I
am a small and a lonely grape clutching the vine yet thou hast made me
different from all others. Verily, there must be a special place for me. Guide
me. Help me. Show me the way.
Let me become all you planned for me when my
seed was planted and selected by you to sprout in the vineyard of the world.
Help this humble salesman.
Guide me, God.
“When two or more are gathered in my name, there I will be also.”
While prayer is a private relationship between you and your God, many feel
that recruiting more advocates to your cause will help to convince God of the
value of your partition. There are so many cases of which I’m personally aware
that the use of “distance prayer” for the benefit of someone else has proved
very beneficial. This is why I continue to pray for others. The success of
distance prayer is a perfect manifestation of the “bell theorem” which I’ve
written about in my e-institute musings. If you would like Nature’s e-Chapel
to pray with you with the appropriate positive guidance for your highest good,
then click on the “prayer request” link below and start the process today.
God bless you as you maintain your health and
happiness during your earthly odyssey.
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