Response to an email
The old saying that says “prayer changes things” is both true and false coming from the premise that things can be true one level but untrue on another.
Actually whether anything is true or false in the reality that I’ve created, depends on the perception I use when I give my attention to it.
Getting back to responding to your message on the dynamics of prayer and why it sometimes works for some and not others… I feel it works for everyone {who engages in it} on some level.
If nothing else, it tends to make me ask that which created me why it isn’t working for me, which is one prayer that will certainly be answered sooner or later if I’m paying attention.
When I was a fairly new convert I discovered that we often when new on the path, pray from the surface of our being {ego} and this level of prayer doesn’t go very far.
Many have prayed from this level all their lives until one day they experienced something that was catastrophic in their life and in desperation called out to their creator and for the first time made connection with their greater identity.
Many times this changed their life and placed them on the journey that all are on who are spiritually based.
It often takes a real shock wave in life that results in us praying from the level that brings results.
The girl who went home frustrated and locked herself in her bedroom and in anger challenged the creator got results.
She got them because in her anger she took back her power, released it in prayer and the results were forth coming.
She in the heat of the moment and in anger spoke from a level of awareness she did not normally speak from.
I have gotten instant results when I was angry, because in those moments I was “real” and the result was the connected was made with Source.
By no means do I say that this will work as a formula, because then ego would be in the mix, and I see this as the usual insulator in the matter of prayer.
I’m pretty sure you would agree that all prayer that carries value must originate in the heart.
If my prayer is from my heart, then I can rest... assured that the answer will come in its own time and way.
I could share many stories that I’ve experienced personally that tell me that prayer from the heart gets results.
How’s that for a redundant statement?
You say here that the scriptures teach there are no righteous.
Actually it teaches both, which is the main reason I never personally use the scriptures to validate anything I say.
Someone has said “The scriptures are like a violin; you can play any tune you want to on it”.
I use them often depending on who I happen to be talking to, but never in support of what I say in a way of validation, but only as you could say, “common ground”.
