If you’re ever tempted to think, “It’s hard to pray!” it may be time for a better understanding of what prayer is all about.
Prayer is about discovering spiritual reality. It’s about seeing and acknowledging what God created.
God is all of reality. God is good. Good is all, and that leaves no room for evil.
Any sense of evil is ignorance of God.
The cure for ignorance is knowledge and understanding.
The cure for suffering is understanding the truth about God that replaces a suffering sense with the eternal realities of everlasting harmony and peace with God.
This is where prayer comes in.
Prayer is about discovering what is true with God.
A knowledge of God is readily available to any sincere seeker of truth. The Bible teaches it. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, is filled with healing truths about God.
To seek Truth successfully, pride, ego, self-righteousness, stubbornness, and their kin, need to be set aside. But that’s doable! No benefit comes from clinging to states of mortal mind that produce suffering.
The route to healing is rapid and quick acceptance of truth—the truth about God! God is the ultimate Truth.
Prayer is not hard at all. It’s simple and straightforward. Seek Truth and embrace it. Healing will come!
“Know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (Jesus Christ, John 8:32).
Thanks for this reminder Evan! Sometimes it can feel hard to ‘think the right things’ when praying … I often have to remind myself to stop trying to ‘think’ and just listen, very very quietly. It’s a work in progress!
‘worries resolved, pain dissolved’:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1rkj767t7lq?s=e
As always, you address with the spiritual perspective that is needed. Thank you our!
Thanks for your comment on getting ego out of the way..In true prayer we are thinking like God thinks . And, God being the only Mind there is no mortal ego or self-centered thought.
Human opinion yields to the divine knowing and we are defining ourselves and others in spiritual terms..
Thank you John.
The visual you share is perfect Evan.
I have been shutting off all technology mid-day to pray for one hour. And while my gratitude thoughts come easy, you have helped me going forward with my nonstop praying.
Thank you❣️
I love your idea Susan to set aside time mid-day to pray. I’m going to try to do that too. Thanks! (=
Thank you Evan, it has become my habit on sitting down or becoming quiet to silently say the Daily Prayer and to go through it carefully line by line. I am engaged.
Prayer is listening to God’s thoughts. Be still and know God. Love these Spiritview msgs to to start the day.
The Daily Prayer Christian Scientists pray (for those who aren’t familiar with it).
“Thy kingdom come,” let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them.” (Church Manual, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy).
Thank you for mentioning this Sally West of Australia!
Thank you Evan. That is absolute Truth!! In the past few months, whenever I have encountered something that mortal mind presents, I ask myself “What does Truth know about me, this individual, this situation, etc.?” each time. Every time I do this, harmony is restored.
Much love to our Spirit View family!
I love that!!! “What does Truth know about this?” Yes, harmony is restored. So true! Grateful.
On the idea of prayer being hard, this is from an article suggested here on SV. The article was mentioned again yesterday.
“It need not surprise us that personal sense and carnal-mindedness will resist it [prayer]. They will raise all kinds of excuses why other things are more important: we haven’t the time; no good will come of it; we have nothing to show for our efforts; our situation is so hopeless that nothing can improve it; we are not good enough; God will not hear us; everything is going so smoothly—why should we be bothered? We have heard these excuses before. Sometimes we have heeded them. But…..these age-old arguments [are] nothing but mortal beliefs without a cause, tradition without a purpose, superstition without authority.”
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/2eaxmtm7m4u?s=copylink
Love the picture, thanks for this topic and blessings to all!
Sometimes prayer can seem hard. There are times when prayer can start out with what seems like a mighty wrestling with mortal mind claims, and the tendency can be to give up on our prayer or treatment. But it is here that we need to stay the course and hold firmly to our declarations of God’s all power and goodness, and the consequent nothingness of suffering sense. “Hold steadfastly to the enduring, the good , and the true..”. Eventually our prayer will bring it’s sweet release from the thrall of error, -thought will be transformed, and healing will follow.
Evan, – love the photo representing the emergence from darkness into light.
Thanks for the photo Evan and thanks for everyone’s comments.