Are you ever tempted to believe that it is hard to pray? If so, I share some ideas that turn that false notion upside down and explain how prayer is easy when you understand what it’s all about.
This video was filmed on the banks of the Columbia River near Richland, where I live in Washington State.
Thanks Evan – very helpful. Will listen to that several times today.
Thank you Evan, that is a really confident and joyful statement of Truth, which is so helpfully
given by you. Sometimes we get bogged down in praying, and I know it should be easy –
letting God tell us instead of struggling with something. Getting really quiet and still is
essential, and that can sometimes be the hardest part when error is screaming at you.
It reminds me of a part of Cedars Camp Met. this week which really stood out for
me which states:-
“When something comes up that needs healing, rather than fearing the condition, or trying to fix the physical condition, we must realize that the only need is to adjust human thought to align with what Mind knows (cit. S22, 396:22-26,30). Part of that is letting go of the idea that changing human thought is hard or thinking we have to search for and find a specific something that needs correcting. The key goes back to the need to repent … to think differently — to stop thinking in terms of human mind or human body. Instead, as we focus so completely on “the enduring, the good, and the true” that Mind is continually revealing and communicating to us, that which Mind does not know disappears and we say healing has taken place (cit. S23, 261:4).”
Maggie I agree that getting quiet is key when, as you said, “error is screaming at you.” Error loves to be dramatic and distract us from Truth with lots of flash and sizzle, smoke and mirrors like a magician’s trick. It wants to keeps us hypnotized so it has to work hard all day to keep up that charade.
As Evan said, the thought that prayer is hard is a “devious tactic of mortal mind” to discourage us. It’s animal magnetism trying to speak as if it was our own thought. It doesn’t want us to remember that we can turn back to God, at any moment, and see the Truth of our natural, uninterrupted state of harmony and good in God (that we can actually never turn away). What could be more natural than knowing what’s always true.
This idea of letting go, letting God take care of it really works. When I was 27 yrs old, I saw my grandmother’s black, shriveled, cancerous uterus after it fell out into the toilet. For her, it was an answer to our prayers, but for me, it was the beginning of a terrible fear that I would someday get uterine cancer. Each time I had that thought, I would let it go, give it to God – hundreds of times!! At age 70 when my hernia surgeon asked me to get a hysterectomy to remove any possibility of infection, I did and my GYN surgeon took photos of my uterus with the DiVinci Robotic Machine – it was “not gray and shriveled like most 70 yr old uterus. It was pink and plump like a 20 yr old uterus. You could have had another baby at age 70!!!” he told me. WOW. Surrender whatever scares you to Spirit and Spirit will amaze you!!!
That is so powerful, thank you for sharing that wonderful affirmation of what God can do when we let go and let God,
Prayer is affirmation.
Affirming God/good.
Thanks Evan.
Happy happy God day
everyone.
Thanks Evan sir for inspiring to follow and know spiritual Truth ,to be at one with Mind and bringing thoughts to Divine alone and purifying heart and experience healing.
“Here let me give what I understand to be the spiritual sense of the Lord’s Prayer:
Our Father which art in heaven,
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Adorable One.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, —
God is omnipotent, supreme.
Give us this day our daily bread;
Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And Love is reflected in love;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth
us from sin, disease, and death.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love,
over all, and All.”
S&H, pgs. 16–17
I have been thinking about how important it is to pray and rule out any sense of sickness, sin or disease. To establish only the divine in thought and destroy all sense of mortal mind. And to understand the reason why this is so – God’s omnipotence. Thy kingdom has come, thy will be done right here, right now. God delivers us from sin, disease and death.
Thank you, Evan. To pray is to listen to God, which sometimes I find difficult to do. That is the evil tactic in me, the belief that I cant’ listen to Him. But from now on I will no longer think that there is such a difficulty, I will work on that. Thank you, again!
Sometimes something specific leads us into seeking God in prayer. And maybe it seems to be “hard “ when we are looking for a resolution to a problem that keeps trying to keep our attention. I call this ‘plodding in the toffee of mortal mind’… However, sometimes I just like to look around me and say thank you to God for all the positives that are easy to take for granted Just plain gratitude for the beauty of Life I guess. And… it does have many blessings. In the last couple of days one of my sons has offered to cut the grass for us regularly whilst another has offered a a day of housework a fortnight! Neither was a request from us , but at this point in time is a big relief and bonus. .All good coming from God who knows and provides even before we pray/ask for it❣️ Blessings to all .
I jus remembered this poem – from Sentinel May 1989 by Klaus-Kendrik Herr:-
Worn out,
Yearning for spiritual food,
And trying to pray so hard,
I came to point where, like a flash in dark obscurity,
A wonderful idea made room for itself:
God gives prayer!
It’s divine Love that creates a humble heart in me,
That develops, purifies, inspires,
For God is the only conscious power
And man His ever-reflecting reflection.
Deeply impressed by Love’s care,
I thanked God for all His heavenly gifts,
Realized the continuous communication
From God to man, His loved creation,
And suddenly knew: I prayed!
Klaus-Hendrik Herr
Thanks Maggie for sharing this wonderful poem. And thank you Evan for your wonderful blogs/vlogs. (=
Thank you Evan for addressing the little foxes that try to detour our spiritual footsteps off course.
Maggie, I love this poem by Klaus-Hendrik Herr.
Thank you all for the uplifting, supportive comments today!
The last line of the poem is the best! “And suddenly I knew, I prayed!”
Also B, #12 in this weeks Bible Lesson on Mind, mortal mind, “the unclean spirit” Screams at Jesus, what are you doing? Trying to destroy me? Of course Christ destroys it instantly!
Pondering this Spiritual Fact:
As Mind’s activity/expression/image/reflection
we can and do “know the truth.”
We CAN only KNOW TRUTH!
Truth is All. Period!
(ok, the limited/senses don’t agree…
but, what is their ‘truth?’ : Illusions!)
So, there, material-mind!!
Thank you, Evan. Dave Hohle once said that a practitioner told him to speak to God in prayer as if he was a 7-year-old boy. I have always liked that. We are the children of God, after all.
What sweet and profound advice. Thank you.
Hello All,
I just came across one of Evan’s blog from 5/3/16 “The most important daily activity” “NEVER STOP PRAYING”
This is what was meaningful to me:
*Never cease to be grateful
*Never hold back from expressing Love
*Be conscious of Love’s presence-ALL the time!
Evan, you are so amazing with all your inspiration that keeps coming! We are truly blessed!!!!!
Thank you Syl for sharing this and I’ll keep it in thought all the time…
be grateful… express Love…. be conscious of Love’s presence
ALL the time!
And many thanks to Evan!
Thank you Evan, for keeping us all to the right track and the blessings they bring.
Adding Daily Lift since it is so relevant;
Prayer is like that
https://www.christianscience.com/christian-healing-today/daily-lift/prayer-is-like-that