Faith is the ability to visualize a future possibility and live into it as if it had already occurred. It requires implicit trust, a dynamic, devotional relationship with Higher Power. An open heart and an open mind is all that is required for your powerful prayers to come true.
One teacher put it that faith is the ability to see what God intends to do, and then cooperate with Him in accomplishing it. Jesus of Nazareth challenged his students that if they had the faith of a mustard seed, they could ask this mountain to move, and it would move.
A mustard seed is one of the very tiniest of seeds, and yet it gives birth to a solid, substantial tree. Jesus was saying that any faith will do. Just start with whatever faith you have.
Prayer is usually thought of as a petition or request of God. The conventional attitude is to make a prayer, and then wait or see. Rarely in our current culture is it thought of as a two-way process, that you simply talk to God, and then God talks back to you.
Even today, some people experience an audible voice talking back to them, as did Neale Donald Walsch in his “Conversations with God” series. However, this is not necessary. In fact, Neale’s books were primarily composed through a process of handwriting. The “still, small voice” is always the most powerful voice. When you experience the sacred presence, then you can pray powerfully.
How to Experience God Through Prayer
How do you then experience God if you haven’t had much success to date?
Simply ask.
It is fascinating to hear stories of people who came spiritually alive by praying something like this: “God, I don’t know if you are real or not, but if you are real, please reveal yourself to me.”
God speaks in sacred text, including the Bible, but God also speaks through circumstances and other people. If you really tune in, you may start to hear God’s voice speaking to you.
You will find that it is not what you expect. You won’t hear the voice of some stern taskmaster ready to throw the book at you. Rather, you will hear the voice of love. You will find the voice coming from deep within, bringing profound peace and assurance, a sense of certainty that you can’t quite put your fingers on.
As you grow comfortable both speaking to and listening to God, you will begin to ask Him questions, and begin to hear answers, both as impressions and as subvocalized words. You then take the attitude of a 24x7 relationship with your spiritual phone always on. God can come in and speak to you, even intervene on your behalf, in split seconds.
You may find this process most vivid and powerful early in the morning, long before you rise out of bed. You will begin to find that you go beyond words, you start to actually commune with God. You may start to cry, as you will be tremendously moved.
When you open up to the possibility that God is absolute Love, everything will begin to change. God is the Source of the Universe, Who dwells in the innermost part of our being. God is our only True and Ultimate Self. When the light within you is switched on, you will find yourself entering a different reality.
This Love is infinite, omnipotent, omnipresent. There is nowhere that It is not present. God loves you in a very personal way, as if you were the only one in this vast universe. God loves you as His “lover.” You will find that this Voice, this Sacred Presence, would do anything for you.
You are in a process of cultivating your relationship with Him. You are awakening to the divine love story behind history, behind the apparent chaos and confusion of our daily lives.
You then begin to realize that all things are possible with God, that God is not limited in any way.
God wants the very best for you… always. It is your job simply to begin to align with His will. As Jesus put it in the Garden of Gethsemane during the Passion, “Not my will, but thine be done.”
When you open up to the Higher Will, you will begin to see what is best for you, what you were meant to do on this Planet during this lifetime.
As we like to point out, “You can have anything you TRULY want, so long as you choose it EXACLTLY the way it is.” When you surrender to the present moment, then you can open up to infinite possibility and start living within it. This is the key and the secret to your powerful prayer!
Powerful Prayer and The Greatest Miracle
Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of John powerfully illustrates this approach to prayer when one of His closest friends, Lazarus, gets sick and passes away when He is away. Jesus comes back to the village days after only to find that His friend has already been buried.
Jesus challenges Lazarus’s bereaving sister, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Jesus then walks with his disciples to the tomb, and asks the family to roll away Lazarus’s stone. They object, saying that he has already been dead four days, that there would be a terrible stench. Jesus responds, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?”
After they rolled away the stone, Jesus lifted up His eyes to heaven, praying, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Jesus then cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” The text then tells us, “And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them “Loose him, and let him go.”
Certainly, this is one of the greatest miracles ever recorded. What is most amazing is the revelation that Jesus delivers in bringing a friend long dead back to life. Jesus calls Himself by the ultimate Hebrew name for God, “I AM.” He further asserts that I AM IS the Resurrection and the Life.
Jesus so identifies Himself with God that there is no longer a distinction, and He is able to accomplish the apparently impossible. Later, of course, Jesus goes on after his crucifixion to raise Himself from the dead, according to the Christian tradition.
While you may be totally skeptical about all this, it is difficult to argue with 2,000 years of recorded history that witnessed the emergence of the world’s largest faith. Something earthshaking must have happened back then. The early apostles were accused of turning the world upside down.
“I AM” Your True Nature and Prayer For Healing
Your prayer always needs to come from within. If, at times, you’ll feel as though you simply can’t connect with your deeper self… play this video; it might put you in the right space of mind and open you up…
What is vital to realize is that, in addition to establishing a devotional relationship with this Messiah, this King, you can discover that this “I AM” is your own ultimate nature. You can wake up to your own divine nature. You can commune with your Higher Self in simple language.
No need to impress Him or Her. God knows your needs even before you ask Him. When you are plugged in and tuned in, powerful prayer can be supremely simple: “Heal me.” “Bless us.” “Thank you for healing me. I AM all that I AM, I AM.”
In the story, it is most important to realize that Jesus actually thanks His Father for hearing Him.
In hearing Him, Jesus has the confidence to give forth what would, by all common sense, be totally insane. Jesus did the “impossible,” because all things are possible.
We also can thank our Source in advance of that which we ask. This requires an implicit trust. When you really tune in, you will receive an inner affirmation that your prayer will be answered, well ahead of it happening. You will develop a type of inner knowing that no one and nothing can ever take away from you.
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We would suggest that you read the Gospel of John within the New Testament. If you read nothing else in the Bible, you will find that this masterpiece is sufficient to open you up.
It is a profoundly mystical text that takes you behind the curtains into the inner workings of the Universe. You don’t need to be a Christian, go to church, or do anything religious, unless you want to.
Just treat yourself to a set of possibilities that will open your heart and mind far beyond anything you have ever imagined. Speak in your own words and from your heart. Then you will find God, and you will find that God always hears you.
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