Special Methods of General Prayer

A good way to start with General Prayer is to take the Lord’s Prayer and consider each line of it silently and verbally. This has been persistent throughout the ages and has been believed to have magical powers especially when repeated over and over.

You can pray by invoking the name of Jesus Christ – mentally image Jesus taking care of anything, any situation or person that bothers you.  Catherine Ponder reports of a woman who hated her husband but years later was still married to him. She began to daily think of Jesus Christ going to work on her husband. “I saw Christ working in and through him, working with him, even having lunch with him. I visualized my husband and the Christ with him, coming home to his wife and family to well-cooked meals, happy and contented” This woman reported that her husband was now a different man, one who is kind, thoughtful, happy and loving.

At times one form of prayer will help you and at other times you’ll need another form. Even though we hear a lot about affirmative prayer and silent prayer, it is important to remember the good old-fashioned type of prayer.

Terrie

 Prayer really is natural to man. Even though people don’t talk about it much in public, it’s always with them.

The person who prays daily is certain to succeed because he is attuning himself to the richest and most successful force in the universe.

Remember Jesus promised “All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” (Matthew 21:22)

This Bible promise makes it clear that there is nothing wrong with praying for things. many people think (wrongly) that it is wrong to pray for things. Jesus knew that if you first pray for things, you’ll learn the power of prayer and you’ll want to go further and deeper in developing your prayer power.

Even Emmet Fox once described the power of praying for things:

“Prayer does change things. Prayer does make things happen quite otherwise than they would have happened had the prayer not been made. It makes no difference at all what sort of difficulty you may be in. It does not matter what the causes may have been that led up to it. Enough prayer will get you out of your difficulty, if only you will be persistent enough in your appeal to God.”  (From “The Sermon on the Mount”)

There are four basic ways of praying so that everything will be all right:

1) There is General Prayer. This is praying to God as a loving, understanding Father in your own private way. It can be on your knees or in any comfortable position. It can be expressed in spoken words or silent communion. It can be with a prayer book before you, or it can be by browsing thorough your Bible, dwelling on your favorite passages, or paraphrasing them to meet your need.

More about General Prayer tomorrow….

Terrie

Here’s the rest of your steps to prosperous thinking and financial independence:

 6. Don’t become anxious, excited or emotionally upset if affairs do not immediately begin producing the results you desire. Do not try to force or hurry your mental image into fulfillment. Anxious, excited, emotional, hurried, forced states of mind produce violent results that are seldom satisfactory, and they can be most discouraging and destructive.

 7. Instead of caring what people say or think, quietly continue to persevere in making your mental image of financial independence come forth, in whatever ways are revealed to you. Remind yourself often that you are working with the rich substance of the universe through prosperous thinking, and that you cannot fail, because the laws of the universe are immutable and cannot fail.  Thus, nothing can prevent your success from manifesting, as you keep thinking and working toward it.

 8. Realize that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them. thus, your great good is as much yours before it becomes visible as it is afterwards, but it is up to you to bring it into visibility. You can do so by declaring “Divine substance, give me this now in thine own perfect way.” or, “Divine substance now meet this demand in thine own perfect way, it is mine now and quickly manifests in satisfying ways.” NEVER say “It can never happen”.

 9. Remind yourself often that if others have attained financial independence, so can you. What one has done, many can do. What can be done in small degree can, with persistence, frequency and earnestness, be done in an unlimited degree. It’s up to you.

 10. Remind yourself often also that every good thing already exists in the realm of substance. Through your high expectancy, mental images and prosperous thought and action, you become master of the realm of substance, and can bring forth whatever you wish from it. The history of the world shows that every mental demand of man has been met. Make yours now. Stick to it and you will succeed.

It can happen overnight but if it doesn’t, don’t think twice. It will happen if you dare to persist in expecting, envisioning and mentally accepting the idea of financial independence for yourself and all folks. At first it may take some effort on your part to begin believing success is possible  for you, but the fruits of that effort will make it worth every prosperous thought held, every vision entertained, every rich mental picture you have built.

Declare this often: “Every day in every way I am becoming financially independent, with the help of God.”

Terrie

Here’s your ten steps to prosperous thinking and financial independence:

 1. Get quiet, meditate, and ask your God if there is any reason why you should not become financially independent (this act will remove all uncertainty from your mind since it is uncertainty that delays your success).

 2. Having decided to achieve financial independence and having gotten a sense of peace about the rightness of of it for you, make a mental picture of the highest degree of it that you wish to experience. Mentally image the amount of income you wish and how you will live when you are independent. Build as detailed a mental picture of financial independence as possible. The more you think about it, the more detailed your mental picture will become. Think of the kind of home you want, the type of clothes you want to wear, the activities you want to experience and the places you want to visit.

 3. Build the mental picture of what you REALLY want, not what someone else wants you to have, or what you think it is your duty to have- it’s what you REALLY want. Many people lead miserable lives of failure because they try to please others. Your life is a divine gift for you to live, not for someone else to live for you. Only what you sincerely want can make you happy. Build mental pictures upon that and nothing else.

 4. Say little to anyone about your inner plans, because others can always tell you how they think  you should live your life, but they can’t live it for you successfully. Keep your success plans to yourself. do not dissipate them, or subject them to cross-current, by giving others a chance to tear them apart.

 5. Proceed to take the first steps toward your mental pictures of financial independence. Do whatever little or big things you can to gain the feeling that you are already on the way toward it. Set a time limit and plan to achieve certain things within six months, others within a year, and others within two years. Set a date when you plan to achieve complete financial independence.

Stay tuned for the other five steps……

Terrie