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Going Within 2010 Series: “Prayerful Decision” January 17, 2010
Rev. David Alexander
Prayer affirms the goodness of who we are. It is not bargaining with an outside power that might withhold something from us. It is not begging. It is acknowledging and affirming that which is! God moves through us and only shows up through our mind. Supplication. Bargaining and begging is a mental affirmation that we don’t have what we want and are separate from God. Because the Universe only responds by corresponding to us, we therefore stay separte from God! And then we beat ourselves up for not praying “right.” It is when we surrender and let go that our prayers are answered.
Are prayer and treatment identical? Yes, if affirming our good. No, if there is any supplication on the part of prayer.
God is forever pouring itself into it’s creation. We don[t create anything. The creative energy of the Universe creates. We simply affirm and let our good manifest in our lives. We have therefore used the energy of the Universe to reveal what was there all along.
We are the ones who create meaning for what we see happening in our world. When we respond with love and doing what is ours to do, then our activity is an affirmative prayer.
Prayer treatment starts with recognition of God as the One, moves the Unification, remembering that we are one with God. Then we realize our good, give thanks and release the prayer. (R.U.R.T.R.) when we shift into alignment with our good, there is joy. We want to shift from a state of separateness into a state of oneness.
Prayer treatment is the time, process and method that is necessary to change our thinking and move into creative correspondence to bring forth God qualities into our lives.
Questions to contemplate:
1. When was the last time that you used bargaining prayer? Have you noticed that it doesn’t work!
2. Do you really live from the understanding that the Infinite responds to you by corresponding?
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