Prayer is a form of communicating with God. The quality of our feelings, thoughts and emotions during this communication is the main determining factor in whether or not the prayer will be successful. In other words, trusting and believing is critical to receiving a positive outcome of your prayer. Those \u201cmiracle workers\u201d who ask God FOR you and help heal you or a loved one are simply creating that necessary level of trust and belief in you. It is actually YOU, not them who are doing it. That being said, there is a legitimate benefit in that they are able to get you to have the necessary faith to obtain the results of your prayer. If you were able to muster the same faith you would not need anyone to do it for you.<\/p>\n
Without getting into a huge discussion, I will just say that the reason for our inability to have enough faith is centered around our belief that we are not WORTHY of a miracle or an answered prayer. We find it easier to believe that someone else, someone more \u201cgood\u201d than us will be able to effect a more positive result than us. We often qualify our prayers with statements such as \u201cIf you [grant this prayer] I will [do some good deed]\u201d e.g. \u201cIf you let me win the lottery I will give half of it to charity\u201d or \u201cIf you keep me out of jail I will spend the rest of my life caring for the sick.\u201d We don\u2019t feel worthy in our present condition so we offer to change ourselves in order to become worthy.<\/p>\n
This is where our journey begins, because this is the whole point of existence as we know it. When we live our lives creating love and helping others do the same, we become \u201cworthy\u201d. Once we\u2019re worthy, we can have the necessary faith and trust in our God to make our own miracles. Now here\u2019s the secret: you don\u2019t have to become \u201cworthy\u201d because you already are. You just need to KNOW it. My upbringing was Christian. In our Bible Jesus tells us that we can cast a mountain into the sea if we have the faith of a mustard seed. He meant it. \u00a0But the key is FAITH.<\/p>\n
Take a look a mustard seed. It\u2019s tiny. It doesn\u2019t really look like much. But it is filled with the FAITH that it will someday become a plant, and so it does. How does this little seed know enough to grow? Nobody plugs it in. It doesn\u2019t get charged. It doesn\u2019t take batteries. In fact, everything it needs is already provided i.e. faith, water and soil. But unlike us, it doesn\u2019t live in a world which insists that it CAN\u2019T grow. It isn\u2019t filled with doubt or feelings of unworthiness. It just is. It just trusts. And so it DOES.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t pray in worry. Don\u2019t pray in doubtfulness. Don\u2019t pray in an spirit of unworthiness. When you pray, pray with love. Be grateful for all the things you have, all the things God has already provided for you. And by all means pray with faith and trust. Be the mustard seed – deserving, unquestioning and receptive to the miracle you seek. Your prayers will become much less of a chore, and much more productive. In addition, life will become one giant miracle and light and love will shine through your entire world. The sun will come out – literally – and you\u2019ll see everything from an entirely new perspective. That\u2019s powerful. That\u2019s prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prayer is a form of communicating with God. The quality of our feelings, thoughts and emotions during this communication is the main determining factor in whether or not the prayer will be successful. In other words, trusting and believing is critical to receiving a positive outcome of your prayer. Those \u201cmiracle workers\u201d who ask God …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchofgloballove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}