I think more people get hurt by prayer than anything else. It seems biggest disillusionment and hurt in life is about the speed at which our wishes comes true.
The reason why you get hurt in prayer is because prayer has long been a business for you! You have been asking God or almighty (whoever it is!) so much that you have forgotten to thank for whatever you have. It is a paradox of life that Prayer instead becoming a healing force has become hurting act.
Prayer is nothing but deepest thanks for whatever you have and whatever you don’t have; it’s a celebration of now and this moment! In this moment when we accept everything and celebrate everything then you have created a possibility for manifestation! You create a fertile ground thru silence and that’s what prayers are meant for! to create a season for your potential to come true!
In deep prayer where you ask nothing all your dreams come true!
In a life where every single act is based upon “what’s in it for me? ”, Prayer is a fresh breeze where everything have no reason but just to celebrate, but just to love, but just to thank. Try it! For once just pray for no reason! you will find flowering inside you! You will find fresh fragrance opening up!
Make Prayer a love affair, make Prayer your inner core of being, Then suddenly you will see all your prayers are answered!
Love
Suresh
yes that’s true. I sometimes forget to ask something to God. But is it too much to ask to have a good health and long life for your family? we get hurt because we’re expecting things to happen though we are doing nothing. Am i right?
Diane,
you are perfectly right! what i meant to say is we are making prayer more of Laundry list! to pray for health, happiness is OK, it’s just the expectation which creates burden in you!
Diane,
I would take the position that even asking for good health and long life of your family is inappropriate. For you that is importnat, so you are asking God for that. Note, you are “asking” God for something rather than saying all you need is strength to follow his/her will. For another person,a fast car might be more important that health of his family (God knows what kind of person that is!), and so him/her asking for the fast car is no different from what you are asking.
Now, if you were truly generous, you would ask for the well being and happiness of all life, not just your family.
Here is the prayer I have said every single time I prayed:
God, this day and those that follow, gift me:
- the strength to help all, friend or foe
- the strength to love all, animate and inanimate
- the strength to smile, even in adversity
- the strength to speak the truth, always
- the strength to be free of cravings, including Life
- the strength to happily give away all that I think I have
- the strength to follow your will, come what may
- the strength to be you
I don’t know anybody here, so I don’t know what faith you all subscribe to. I am a Christian, and my God encourages and answers petitions of all kinds, whether it be for oneself, one’s family or friends, or for all of mankind. In my experience, God gives us a few different answers in many different ways. He answers yes or no, but there are also times when we are not ready for the consequences of a certain petition, so the answer is, “not yet”, or “you’re not ready”, or “there’s something else in your life that’s much more urgent”.
The answer comes down to motive, and I will use Gurdas’s example of the man praying for a fast car. Does he want it just to have it? In this instance, probably. It’s unlikely that having a fast car will do any true good for him or others. James 4:2-3 states,
“2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”
The last part of the second verse states that you must ask in order to have. The third verse adds a requirement, though: in order to receive you must ask with the right motives. If one does petition God for something with the right motives in mind he is not being selfish even if he is praying for himself or his family.
God wants us to pray for specifics in our lives, because he wants us to go to him as our provider. In Genesis, Abraham and Sarah prayed for a son, and they received a son. James 5:13-18 gives many examples of specific things to pray about in our lives. In Mark 10:46-52 Bartimaeus asked Jesus to heal him of his blindness, and because of his faith, he was healed of this specific ailment. Because God is our provider and wants us to ask him for things, I don’t think it is inappropriate at all for Diana or anybody else to ask God for health and long life for loved ones, as long as her motives are pure. This goes for all people: if you want to be healed but have not even asked God to heal you, then you won’t be healed. Your faith hasn’t even allowed you to ask. What testament, then, can you provide to others? That God doesn’t care about his faithful? No, you must ask for specific works to be done in your lives and those known to you, to get specific answers.
Suresh,
Truly exceptional and how true! Most prayers are when one is in trouble – and we believe in the Supreme Power to get us out of trouble. Sad though that we seem to forget the Supreme Power when things go our way!
As long as one keeps their prayer as a “healer” rather than an “offer in a contract”, life become that much more joyous and fulfilling!
Thanks for sharing these wonderful thoughts!
Prayer must get you peach or heal and it should not hurt what great soothing words. yes majority will pray for getting benefits do pujas at temple to reap the crops from the investment. that is purely like commercial deal. you may win or loose. but when u pray without any expectations and thanks god for what is given and which is much much more than what our parents got when we were young, see the amount of satisfaction you get you must feel it. seeking blessings for good is fine but always looking for positive results only and negavtive things are not taken the they should be then we are not right. life is not bed or roses. there is good bad ugly and all are part of life there is birth death suffering. all these things are not in your hands. whatever technonlogy is up we can make a person to have a child
Invigorating and refreshing post that makes my heart feel lighter just reading it. Reminds me of the other story of appointment with the sexy secretary…
Coincidentally or maybe not… came across this today…
~ iJourney: Prahlad “No Fears” Patel
Thanks Sanjay for that wondeful link on Ijourney!
GS, welcome on board, It’s great to see you here and I am sure you will add lot of pearls to collectors!
Diane, gurdas, Praneshachar, Thank you!
Beautiful way to let one simply turn within and thats what prayer is..
when desire in any form moves in, then it creates a division between the creator and the created and the beauty of oneness in prayer is lost.
liked the way you suggest that turn within to happen…ofcourse, as always your pics do them silently…grateful to you!
This is very up-to-date info. I think I’ll share it on Delicious.
I don’t know anybody here, so I don’t know what faith you all subscribe to. I am a Christian, and my God encourages and answers petitions of all kinds, whether it be for oneself, one’s family or friends, or for all of mankind. In my experience, God gives us a few different answers in many different ways. He answers yes or no, but there are also times when we are not ready for the consequences of a certain petition, so the answer is, “not yet”, or “you’re not ready”, or “there’s something else in your life that’s much more urgent”.
The answer comes down to motive, and I will use Gurdas’s example of the man praying for a fast car. Does he want it just to have it? In this instance, probably. It’s unlikely that having a fast car will do any true good for him or others. James 4:2-3 states,
“2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”
The last part of the second verse states that you must ask in order to have. The third verse adds a requirement, though: in order to receive you must ask with the right motives. If one does petition God for something with the right motives in mind he is not being selfish even if he is praying for himself or his family.
God wants us to pray for specifics in our lives, because he wants us to go to him as our provider. In Genesis, Abraham and Sarah prayed for a son, and they received a son. James 5:13-18 gives many examples of specific things to pray about in our lives. In Mark 10:46-52 Bartimaeus asked Jesus to heal him of his blindness, and because of his faith, he was healed of this specific ailment. Because God is our provider and wants us to ask him for things, I don’t think it is inappropriate at all for Diana or anybody else to ask God for health and long life for loved ones, as long as her motives are pure. If you want to be healed but have not even asked God to heal you, then you won’t be healed. Your faith hasn’t even allowed you to ask. What testament, then, can you provide to others? That God doesn’t care about his faithful? No, you must ask for specific works to be done in your lives and those known to you, to get specific answers.
Your post is great and very eye-opening. The prayer you refer to that we should do sounds very much like meditation. Where you sit with yourself, breathe in the moment, and be one with God. There’s actually a meditation technique called lovingkindness meditation that is exactly what you refer to in terms of being thankful for everything you have and don’t have and basically just feeling love for everything.
THE SEED
Our Choices
If you had a choice, right now, to choose to be with Christ Jesus in heaven would you choose to do so? Being human and having the power of choice, can we choose to ask God to grant us a wish? You see, there are three realms, earth, heaven, and hell. We live on the earth in the now, and we believe, as Christians, that at some point Christ will return to the earth and judge us in the final days. Between now and judgement day, death will end our stay on earth and God will judge our fate when that happens.
Christ said: “And all things whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” What if, we asked God to stop this game that is being played out on earth, and grant us the one wish of living with him in heaven right now. What if, we choose to not allow Satan any more control over our lives and our future and made the decision to ask God to end this game. What if we, as human beings, with the power of choice, made a conscious decision to choose Christ Jesus, right now, over the day to day challenges and temptations that Satan offers.
Say, if in 2015, we were able to gather 9 billion, or 8 billion or 5 billion people, Jews, Catholics, Baptists, Protestants, Jahovah Witnessers, Lutherians, Episcapalians, Muslims, Buddists, Hindu’s, and every other worshiper, together to pray to God, asking him to bring us home. If we ask Jesus Christ to come, would he be with us??? If we asked him to bring us home to his kingdom in heaven, would we receive??? Do you want to stop playing this earthly game??? Our home is in heaven and not here on earth. Is that a challenge?? Can you see the vision???
Christ has said: “And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened.” We can ask billions of people to take one moment in time to act as one, crying out to God, our heavenly Father, “Take us home.” OH GOD, take us from the land of the Pharaohs!!! Take us from the hands of evil, bring us home to your kingdom!!! Can we ask strong enough?? Can we ask hard enough?? Can we ask loud enough??? Do you believe???
Christ said: “And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Amen, amen, I say to you, if you ask the Father anything in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.” Do we want to be filled with eternal joy?? Why have we not asked???
Can you imagine how we can make this happen?? Can you understand the power that God has given us in order that we may choose our own destiny, right now. We don’t have to wait until tomorrow, while Satan tricks and traps millions more souls into the fires of hell!!! The decision is ours. Can we choose?? Can we make this happen?? Can we start a holy movement around the world and set the date of our going home??? Or are our hearts hardened so much by this earthly realm that we can not conceive of the idea that God will grant our request???
Christ said: ” I say to you further, that if two of you shall agree on earth about anything at all for which they ask, it shall be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together for my sake, there am I in the midst of them.” Christ come into the mist of millions, of billions and grant our wish!!!
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