The Power of God and Prayer

God is Spirit. Spirit is the very essence of your being. It is your life energy. It permeates every atom of your body and mind.  The spirit within you provides to you a deep inner wisdom,  emotional strength,  unlimited love,  the power to imagine what it is you want in your life,  the creative ability to manifest it and a higher level of spiritual consciousness.  When we pray, we calm ourselves, open up to this higher level of consciousness and communicate directly with God.  In this quiet place we are given  the answers to our problems and the way to move beyond our challenges.

The most effective form of prayer is affirmative prayer.  With petitionary prayer we “ask” God for something.  With affirmative prayer we thank God for already providing us with what we need such as, “Thank you God for the wisdom you have given me. I now wait patiently for the answer I seek.”  or  “Thank you God for the inner strength you have given me. I affirm that strength and know I will make it through this difficult time.”  When we pray in this manner there is indeed a psychological benefit--tension and stress can be relieved--but more important than that, we free ourselves from thinking we are separate from God and helpless over our state of affairs.