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Wed Nov 04 2009, 1:25pm
that I stoled on page of Catherine Ponder
and her book Pray and grow rich
Prayer releases the highest form of energy in the universe, as it links you with a God energy, which is your source. When this happens, prayer "turns you on!"
How?
When you pray, you stir into action an atomic force. You release a potent spiritual vibration that can be released in no other way. Through prayer you unleash and loose a God energy within and around you that gets busy working for you and through you, producing right attitudes, reactions and results. It is your prayers that recognize and release that God power.
You may not feel the force of prayer because it operates at a higher vibration than that ordinarily felt by man. In fact, prayer releases an energy that is usually too fine to be recorded physically.
Nevertheless, as you pray you expand mentally and spiritually so as to become big enough in consciousness to receive a larger flow of the divine energy generated through prayer. Prayer is not only asking and communing. Prayer is also receiving.
A skeptic once insisted that he did not believe in the power of prayer. When asked if he had ever prayed, he replied that he had once. His explanation was that on that occasion he was lost in a deep forest and could not find his way out. He had been there several days and was beginning to feel the pangs of starvation. He said that in his "weakness" he prayed.
"Then God did answer your prayer, or you would not be here," exclaimed his acquaintance.
"No," replied the skeptic, "God did not answer my prayer. A couple of hunters came along soon afterward and showed me the way out."
This man did not understand that his prayer had been answered, and that the hunters were the human agency through which God's work had been done. Nevertheless, through the act of prayer, he had for a moment recognized the God power within and around him, and had thereby contacted and released it to produce results for him. He had not only asked; he had also received.
ONE PRAYS WITH THE MIND
In recent times we've heard much about "the power of thought" as well as about "the power of prayer." These two terms are linked. They are twin powers. The mind is the connecting link between God and man. Prayer is a method of thought that links God and man. One prays with the mind.
Some authorities claim that what it usually takes a person six hours to do could easily be accomplished in only one hour by a person who knew how to pray and meditate first!
A man who practices daily meditation recently proved it, as he often has. He had been given three writing assignments which he was expected to complete in a single day. At first, he was tempted to panic just thinking about the task before him—one that would take the average journalist several days at best to complete.
Then he quieted his mind, prayed and meditated for an entire hour. During this meditation time, ideas for all three writing assignments quietly flowed into his conscious mind. He then proceeded with the tasks and completed them in a few hours without the usual "blood, sweat and tears.
An engineer with grave responsibilities on a large project had only one method for solving his engineering problems. When they arose, he always retired to his private office and sat quietly behind his desk, meditating and praying for guidance. Always the answer came as the right ideas or the perfect solution cropped up.
One day one of his employees, a young "jet set" engineer right out of college, asked the secret of this engineer's phenomenal success. When informed, this young man replied incredulously, "You mean you just pray and meditate and the answer comes?"
The root meaning of the word "man" is "one who looks up." Some psychologists claim that man uses only about 1/10th of 1 percent of his energies and powers, because he does not live up to the root meaning of his name: He does not look up, nor does he look within, often enough. It is sad to realize that perhaps all but 1/10th of 1 percent of man's forces are wasted because they are expressed outwardly instead of inwardly. But something can be done about it!
WHY PRAYER HAS MIRACLE POWER
Scientists tell us there are no miracles—only the working of higher laws not commonly understood. Actually there seems to be one set of natural laws for the physical world and another set for the invisible world of mind and spirit. The laws of mind and spirit are so much stronger that they can be used to accentuate, neutralize, or even reverse the laws of the physical world. Prayer is the one power in the world that seems to set off the working of those higher laws.
Prayer can get the job done—when nothing else has.
Why is prayer so powerful? Why can prayer accentuate, neutralize or even reverse the laws of the physical world?
Because through prayer, you tap the operation of higher laws of supreme mind and spirit. Through prayer you release a spiritual force which shatters fixed states of mind that have caused so much havoc in your world. Your imprisoned thoughts and pent-up negative emotions go free and dissolve, as a higher energy floods your being and your world.
Indeed, the energy and power released in prayer help you to "crash through" the negative thought strata that had previously bound you to all kinds of problems. Thereafter, the impossible becomes possible. Your ships come in. So-called miracles occur. It is then that you realize that prayer did overcome the usual "laws of nature" and did what they said couldn't be done!
If prayer were commonly understood and practiced by mankind universally, the dreaded things of this world—crime, disease, poverty and war—could become ancient history. You can begin helping to eradicate these universal ills, as well as a score of personal ones, as you begin deliberately developing your prayer powers described in this book.
PRAYER MAKES YOU IRRESISTIBLE FOR RECEIVING RICHES
Perhaps you are thinking that prayer has not yet made your dreams come true or your "ships of gold" come in. That is because the art and science of prayer are not accomplished in one giant step nor in one dramatic act. Prayer is a continuous practice which should be applied to the little as well as to the big things in your life.
Does this sound dull? Well, it isn't! If you have thought so, you do not know what you've missed.
Prayer can be supremely exciting. Once, when I was trying to get guidance about my teenage son's future, as I prayed Air Force planes flew overhead so low that they interrupted my prayer time. When this happened on two separate occasions in a row, I realized that apparently was the answer. Within a matter of weeks, my son had decided to delay attending college and had enlisted in the United States Air Force.
Prayer also has a sense of humor at times. Once when I was trying to get guidance about whether to accept a lecture invitation in the State of Indiana, a college band near my apartment suddenly started playing, "Back Home Again In Indiana" so loudly that it roused me from my prayer period, and I took that as intuitive guidance to go to Indiana to lecture. It proved to be one of the most thrilling lecture experiences I have ever had.
Dr. Billy Graham once said, "The man who has never discovered the power of prayer in a spiritual sense has never really lived." I believe it! You will too!
Once you get the workings of it, there is a certain indescribable fascination about prayer; an unforgettable, irresistible quality, an exuberating and exulting feeling that draws you back to it again and again. As you turn within to its power more and more, you discover you are carrying within your own being a portable para-disc which you can contact anytime anywhere, regardless of what is happening around you.
There is a quaint saying among the Pennsylvania Dutch, "The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get!" Prayer slows you down to GET IT attraction. Prayer gets you in the mood to receive your good. Prayer gives you a taste of heaven, and it tastes good! (The word "heaven" means "expansion" and the practice of prayer expands both you and your good.) St. Francis of Assisi, who loved to pray in a cave, described prayer as "a heavenly sweetness."
Your soul gets twisted out of shape when you battle life, people, circumstances. Prayer takes away your spirit of fuss, gives you a gentleness of pace. One of the most obvious signs of the person who prays is the quiet way he is able to maintain his equilibrium in the grip of circumstances, until those circumstances finally lose their grip on him!
One cynic has said there is nothing so unattractive as a prayer-less woman. I am even more cynical: There is nothing so unattractive as a prayer-less person, because his prayer-less-ness has demagnet-ized him to the blessings of life.
When you pray you quiet your mind, body, emotions, vibrations. Prayer gives you a sense of peace and tranquility that are attracting powers. In one way or another, prayer first makes you more attractive, and then gets busy attracting your good to you. Prayer makes you irresistible to your good! And, most certainly, to all the riches of confident living, including adequate financial supply.
NOTHING DULL ABOUT RIGHT PRAYER
A lot of dull things have been written about prayer, but you will not find any of them in this book!
If prayer has seemed a dull practice to you in the past—a practice that you regarded as fine for sweet ol' ladies and innocent children but one that just did not work for you—it was probably because you simply did not know how to pray. There's more to prayer than mumbling a few self-conscious words that you know never reach the ceiling!
In his book, Prayer Can Change Your Life, Dr. William R. Parker points out that among the people who participated in his prayer experiments at Redlands University, those who prayed at home on their own without benefit of psychological insight or spiritual instruction got no results. Their prayers brought absolutely no improvements, because they knew not what effective prayer demanded of them.
When you pray with your conscious mind only, just a fraction of your total mind prays, and you get only a fraction of the results due you through prayer.
The purpose of this book is to acquaint you with all the fascinating ways you can pray: through relaxation, denials, affirmations, concentration, meditation, the silence, realization, thanksgiving. Regardless of your life situation, you will find there is always a way you can pray—to suit your mood and circumstances—a method that gets the job done. There is no better way to secure all the riches of life you so earnestly desire.
After studying the favorable effects prayer had on his patients, world famous doctor and scientist Alexis Carrel, M.D., promised; "If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered." But you must be sincere in prayer. You should pray the way you make love—with everything you've got! One plain spoken theologian has described this method as "passionate praying." Truly, as you study the laws of prayer hereinafter described, you will find yourself getting into the act—the act of prayer—more and more and getting richer—more and more—without tensions or fears.
Prayer will then turn on the action of God's goodness within and around you. As you persist in developing your various prayer powers, it will dawn on you that prayer is where the action is; that prayer has "turned you on" and you will undoubtedly have the results to prove it! But whether or not the sure-fire answers to prayer have come through yet, you will be convinced of its necessity in your life from the peace of mind and deep soul satisfaction you are experiencing—which, in turn, lead to every outer blessing, and I do mean richer blessings and more of them.
When this happens, you will no longer complain, "Why all the shouting about the richness and power of prayer?" You will be one of the enriched "shouters"!
Book Contents
and her book Pray and grow rich
Prayer releases the highest form of energy in the universe, as it links you with a God energy, which is your source. When this happens, prayer "turns you on!"
How?
When you pray, you stir into action an atomic force. You release a potent spiritual vibration that can be released in no other way. Through prayer you unleash and loose a God energy within and around you that gets busy working for you and through you, producing right attitudes, reactions and results. It is your prayers that recognize and release that God power.
You may not feel the force of prayer because it operates at a higher vibration than that ordinarily felt by man. In fact, prayer releases an energy that is usually too fine to be recorded physically.
Nevertheless, as you pray you expand mentally and spiritually so as to become big enough in consciousness to receive a larger flow of the divine energy generated through prayer. Prayer is not only asking and communing. Prayer is also receiving.
A skeptic once insisted that he did not believe in the power of prayer. When asked if he had ever prayed, he replied that he had once. His explanation was that on that occasion he was lost in a deep forest and could not find his way out. He had been there several days and was beginning to feel the pangs of starvation. He said that in his "weakness" he prayed.
"Then God did answer your prayer, or you would not be here," exclaimed his acquaintance.
"No," replied the skeptic, "God did not answer my prayer. A couple of hunters came along soon afterward and showed me the way out."
This man did not understand that his prayer had been answered, and that the hunters were the human agency through which God's work had been done. Nevertheless, through the act of prayer, he had for a moment recognized the God power within and around him, and had thereby contacted and released it to produce results for him. He had not only asked; he had also received.
ONE PRAYS WITH THE MIND
In recent times we've heard much about "the power of thought" as well as about "the power of prayer." These two terms are linked. They are twin powers. The mind is the connecting link between God and man. Prayer is a method of thought that links God and man. One prays with the mind.
Some authorities claim that what it usually takes a person six hours to do could easily be accomplished in only one hour by a person who knew how to pray and meditate first!
A man who practices daily meditation recently proved it, as he often has. He had been given three writing assignments which he was expected to complete in a single day. At first, he was tempted to panic just thinking about the task before him—one that would take the average journalist several days at best to complete.
Then he quieted his mind, prayed and meditated for an entire hour. During this meditation time, ideas for all three writing assignments quietly flowed into his conscious mind. He then proceeded with the tasks and completed them in a few hours without the usual "blood, sweat and tears.
An engineer with grave responsibilities on a large project had only one method for solving his engineering problems. When they arose, he always retired to his private office and sat quietly behind his desk, meditating and praying for guidance. Always the answer came as the right ideas or the perfect solution cropped up.
One day one of his employees, a young "jet set" engineer right out of college, asked the secret of this engineer's phenomenal success. When informed, this young man replied incredulously, "You mean you just pray and meditate and the answer comes?"
The root meaning of the word "man" is "one who looks up." Some psychologists claim that man uses only about 1/10th of 1 percent of his energies and powers, because he does not live up to the root meaning of his name: He does not look up, nor does he look within, often enough. It is sad to realize that perhaps all but 1/10th of 1 percent of man's forces are wasted because they are expressed outwardly instead of inwardly. But something can be done about it!
WHY PRAYER HAS MIRACLE POWER
Scientists tell us there are no miracles—only the working of higher laws not commonly understood. Actually there seems to be one set of natural laws for the physical world and another set for the invisible world of mind and spirit. The laws of mind and spirit are so much stronger that they can be used to accentuate, neutralize, or even reverse the laws of the physical world. Prayer is the one power in the world that seems to set off the working of those higher laws.
Prayer can get the job done—when nothing else has.
Why is prayer so powerful? Why can prayer accentuate, neutralize or even reverse the laws of the physical world?
Because through prayer, you tap the operation of higher laws of supreme mind and spirit. Through prayer you release a spiritual force which shatters fixed states of mind that have caused so much havoc in your world. Your imprisoned thoughts and pent-up negative emotions go free and dissolve, as a higher energy floods your being and your world.
Indeed, the energy and power released in prayer help you to "crash through" the negative thought strata that had previously bound you to all kinds of problems. Thereafter, the impossible becomes possible. Your ships come in. So-called miracles occur. It is then that you realize that prayer did overcome the usual "laws of nature" and did what they said couldn't be done!
If prayer were commonly understood and practiced by mankind universally, the dreaded things of this world—crime, disease, poverty and war—could become ancient history. You can begin helping to eradicate these universal ills, as well as a score of personal ones, as you begin deliberately developing your prayer powers described in this book.
PRAYER MAKES YOU IRRESISTIBLE FOR RECEIVING RICHES
Perhaps you are thinking that prayer has not yet made your dreams come true or your "ships of gold" come in. That is because the art and science of prayer are not accomplished in one giant step nor in one dramatic act. Prayer is a continuous practice which should be applied to the little as well as to the big things in your life.
Does this sound dull? Well, it isn't! If you have thought so, you do not know what you've missed.
Prayer can be supremely exciting. Once, when I was trying to get guidance about my teenage son's future, as I prayed Air Force planes flew overhead so low that they interrupted my prayer time. When this happened on two separate occasions in a row, I realized that apparently was the answer. Within a matter of weeks, my son had decided to delay attending college and had enlisted in the United States Air Force.
Prayer also has a sense of humor at times. Once when I was trying to get guidance about whether to accept a lecture invitation in the State of Indiana, a college band near my apartment suddenly started playing, "Back Home Again In Indiana" so loudly that it roused me from my prayer period, and I took that as intuitive guidance to go to Indiana to lecture. It proved to be one of the most thrilling lecture experiences I have ever had.
Dr. Billy Graham once said, "The man who has never discovered the power of prayer in a spiritual sense has never really lived." I believe it! You will too!
Once you get the workings of it, there is a certain indescribable fascination about prayer; an unforgettable, irresistible quality, an exuberating and exulting feeling that draws you back to it again and again. As you turn within to its power more and more, you discover you are carrying within your own being a portable para-disc which you can contact anytime anywhere, regardless of what is happening around you.
There is a quaint saying among the Pennsylvania Dutch, "The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get!" Prayer slows you down to GET IT attraction. Prayer gets you in the mood to receive your good. Prayer gives you a taste of heaven, and it tastes good! (The word "heaven" means "expansion" and the practice of prayer expands both you and your good.) St. Francis of Assisi, who loved to pray in a cave, described prayer as "a heavenly sweetness."
Your soul gets twisted out of shape when you battle life, people, circumstances. Prayer takes away your spirit of fuss, gives you a gentleness of pace. One of the most obvious signs of the person who prays is the quiet way he is able to maintain his equilibrium in the grip of circumstances, until those circumstances finally lose their grip on him!
One cynic has said there is nothing so unattractive as a prayer-less woman. I am even more cynical: There is nothing so unattractive as a prayer-less person, because his prayer-less-ness has demagnet-ized him to the blessings of life.
When you pray you quiet your mind, body, emotions, vibrations. Prayer gives you a sense of peace and tranquility that are attracting powers. In one way or another, prayer first makes you more attractive, and then gets busy attracting your good to you. Prayer makes you irresistible to your good! And, most certainly, to all the riches of confident living, including adequate financial supply.
NOTHING DULL ABOUT RIGHT PRAYER
A lot of dull things have been written about prayer, but you will not find any of them in this book!
If prayer has seemed a dull practice to you in the past—a practice that you regarded as fine for sweet ol' ladies and innocent children but one that just did not work for you—it was probably because you simply did not know how to pray. There's more to prayer than mumbling a few self-conscious words that you know never reach the ceiling!
In his book, Prayer Can Change Your Life, Dr. William R. Parker points out that among the people who participated in his prayer experiments at Redlands University, those who prayed at home on their own without benefit of psychological insight or spiritual instruction got no results. Their prayers brought absolutely no improvements, because they knew not what effective prayer demanded of them.
When you pray with your conscious mind only, just a fraction of your total mind prays, and you get only a fraction of the results due you through prayer.
The purpose of this book is to acquaint you with all the fascinating ways you can pray: through relaxation, denials, affirmations, concentration, meditation, the silence, realization, thanksgiving. Regardless of your life situation, you will find there is always a way you can pray—to suit your mood and circumstances—a method that gets the job done. There is no better way to secure all the riches of life you so earnestly desire.
After studying the favorable effects prayer had on his patients, world famous doctor and scientist Alexis Carrel, M.D., promised; "If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered." But you must be sincere in prayer. You should pray the way you make love—with everything you've got! One plain spoken theologian has described this method as "passionate praying." Truly, as you study the laws of prayer hereinafter described, you will find yourself getting into the act—the act of prayer—more and more and getting richer—more and more—without tensions or fears.
Prayer will then turn on the action of God's goodness within and around you. As you persist in developing your various prayer powers, it will dawn on you that prayer is where the action is; that prayer has "turned you on" and you will undoubtedly have the results to prove it! But whether or not the sure-fire answers to prayer have come through yet, you will be convinced of its necessity in your life from the peace of mind and deep soul satisfaction you are experiencing—which, in turn, lead to every outer blessing, and I do mean richer blessings and more of them.
When this happens, you will no longer complain, "Why all the shouting about the richness and power of prayer?" You will be one of the enriched "shouters"!
Book Contents