The Power of Prayer

The Power of Prayer
Do you know how to pray? We pray in an emergency, at times of trouble or danger or when death lurks. Prayer is an ever present help in time of trouble but we do not have to wait for trouble to make prayer an integral and constructive part of our life. Prayer is an intimate and personal communication. A person who is in trouble can have difficulty in thinking and acting reasonably. They need an easy formula to follow.
Prayer can bring success into our life, can sustain health and it can enable us to become more helpful to others. “The forces that make prayer effective are universal. Its not the method or the process that makes the Infinite Intelligence to respond; rather it is according to our faith or our complete mental acceptance that it is done unto us” as Dr Joseph Murphy has aptly remarked.
Emerson defined prayer as “the contemplation of the truths of life from the highest point of view”. All of us want peace, happiness, love, health, security, true expression etc. If we believe in something it means that we accept it as true. Whatever mans conscious mind engenders a corresponding reaction from his subconscious mind that is one with the Infinite Intelligence and the Infinite Power of God. When the individual’s subconscious mind responds to the mental picture or the thought in the mind, then a prayer is answered. Prayer has a wonderful, magical, healing and transforming power that will bind up mental and physical wounds, proclaim liberty to the fear-ridden mind and liberate us completely from the limitations of poverty, misery, confusion and failure. All we have to do is to unite mentally and emotionally with this Creative Power, and let wonders happen when we pray.
(Inspired by the writings of Dr. Joseph Murphy.)
With love,
Ashima