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Today I am sharing something with you that I shared back in
2006 on the subject of prayer. I look forward to your insight and feedback on
this topic.
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From Within My Spirit
Key Word: Infinite ~ Prayer
1. a spoken or unspoken communication with God
2. spoken or unspoken communication with God
3. an earnest request for something
4. something that is wanted or hoped for very
much
5. a
request contained in a petition
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Good
Morning Divine
Oneness, Creator of all things. All honor and all praise
be unto You because You and You alone are worthy of such adoration from all of creation. Thank You for another day of Abundant Light and
Love, You are absolutely the Greatest!
My
beloved sisters and brothers, yesterday I was listening to the audio version of
the book The Secret of Shambhala that I read a while ago. At the time in my life when I first
read it, I was still trying to find out more about my name. When I received my
name through the Ascension Meditation Process in 1995 I had never heard Shambhala
before, so knew absolutely nothing about its meaning. So when I heard about the
book The Secret of
Shambhala I had to get
it because it might help me understand in a deeper way about the meaning and
energy of my name. James Redfield is the writer of The Secret of Shambhala, he is also the author of the Celestine Prophesy; the Celestine Prophesy is still speaking to me to this very day.
Today I
will share something with you from chapter one on prayer. If we grasp this
Divine concept of prayer, and plant it deep within our spirit and use it on a
regular basis, we will not only change ourselves, we will also change our
surrounding worlds. It is a very good idea that you pass this on to as many
people as we can. It is okay to do so as long if you share it in its entirety.
What I am sharing with you today from the book can be found on the following
web site.
One last
thing before I share this with you; I highly recommend that you buy The Secret of Shambhala if you
do not already have it in your collection. If you already have it, I recommend
that you read it again; or better yet you should get the audio book version of
it and listen to it, it is a real experience.
One Love, One SPIRIT; ONENESS!
Baba-Kundi Ma'at-Shambhala
(SpiritWalker)
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Prayer
I looked out on the scene with interest. Something was
changing.
"My God," the dark-haired man stammered,
looking in my direction. "Have you seen this?"
I looked around. Everybody else seemed to have returned
to their reading, and he was pointing to something in the paper and moving his
chair around to get closer to me.
"They've released another prayer study," he
added. "It's fascinating."
"What did they find?" I asked.
"They were studying the effect of praying for people
who have medical problems, and found that patients who received regular prayers
from others had fewer complications and got well faster, even when they weren't
aware that prayers were being said. It's undeniable proof that the force of
prayer is real. But they also found something else. They found that the most effective prayer of all
was structured not as a request, but as an affirmation."
"I'm not sure what you mean," I said.
He was staring at me with crystal-blue eyes. "They
set up the study to test two types of prayer. The first was just asking God, or
the divine, to intervene, to help a sick person. The other was to simply
affirm, with faith, that God will help the person. Do you see the
difference?"
"I'm still not sure."
"A prayer that asks God to intervene assumes that
God can intervene but only if he decides to honor our request. It assumes that
we have no role except to ask. The other form of prayer assumes that God is
ready and willing but has set up the laws of human existence so that whether
the request is fulfilled depends in some part on the certainty of our belief
that it will be done. So our prayer must be an affirmation
that voices this faith.
In the study, this kind of prayer proved to be most effective."
I nodded. I was beginning to get it.
The man looked away as though thinking to himself and
then continued. "All
the great prayers in the Bible are not requests, they are affirmations. Think of the Lord's Prayer. It goes, 'Thy will be done on Earth as it is in
Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses.' It doesn't say please can we have
some food, and it doesn't say please can we be forgiven. It merely affirms that
these things are ready to happen already, and by faithfully assuming that they
will, we make it so."
He paused again, as through expecting a question, still
smiling.
I had to chuckle. His good mood was so contagious.
"Some scientists are theorizing," he went on,
"that these findings also imply something else, something that has a
profound significance for every person alive. They maintain that if our expectations, our faithful
assumptions, are what makes prayer work, then each of us is beaming a force of
prayer-energy out into the world all the time, whether we realize it or not. Do you see how this is true?"
He continued without waiting for me to answer. "If prayer is an affirmation based on
our expectations, our faith, then all our expectations have a prayer effect. We
are, in fact, praying all the time for some kind of future for ourselves and
others, we just aren't fully aware of it."
He looked at me as thought he had just dropped a
bombshell.
"Can you imagine?" he continued. "Science
is not confirming the assertions of the most esoteric mystics of every
religion. They all say we
have a mental and spiritual influence on what happens to us in life. Remember
the scriptures about how faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains. What if this ability is the secret of true success in
life, of creating true community”? His eyes twinkled as though he knew more
than he was saying. "We
all have to figure out how this works. It's time."
Excerpted from chapter one of The Secret of Shambala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight by James Redfield.
Copyright © 1999, by James Redfield, published
by Warner Books.
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The Answers To All of Our Questions
Have Already Been Given To Us. All We Have To Do Is Be Still, Go Within, and
Find them.
Baba-Kundi Ma'at-Shambhala
(SpiritWalker)
Copyright © Oct. 2006
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Affirmation
All of my prayers and everything
else that I do in my life, affirms the divinity of my ongoing abundant reality
in the here and now. All things are one with the awesome sacredness of Divine
Oneness, the Creator of the entire physical realm.
Baba-Kundi Ma'at-Shambhala
(SpiritWalker)
Copyright © Oct. 2006
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