ORDINARY PRAYER AND AFFIRMATIVE PRAYER

Normal or ordinary prayer as most of us know it is one of supplication. Usually this is done by someone who is focused on what is not and wants to ask God who is perceived as a power outside of him/herself to bring forth what is missing or needed or desired. This is not wrong and the desired results can be forth coming but faith and the person’s belief system is what brings about a particular outcome not whether God flipped a coin or weighed the “evidence” and made a decision to give or withhold.

Affirmative prayer takes the position that there is a Universal Law that operates through us. Whatever we focus on the most and what we believe will shape the results of our thoughts and our thoughts draw results to us. It is God’s creative energy that does the work but we put in our order. In a restaurant we tell the server what we would like to see on our plate. We have thought about it and can almost taste it. We look forward with great anticipation enjoying that food and we are excited and thankful to be there enjoying it all. We see and feel it all happening. The server takes the request to the kitchen and the cooks put it together and the results will arrive. So we cooperate with the Creative Energy.

Sometimes in a restaurant the server comes back and says, “I’m sorry but we ran out of _____.” You may have had some doubts about that order but it could be that there was something else at work for the greater good. At that point rather than getting disappointed, you just think of something else to order and you may end up enjoying that even more than what the original order was – that is if you know that all is well and everything is exactly as it should be. If you sit in a restaurant and the server asks what you want and you hesitate between two or three items wavering constantly, it would be difficult to take your order and give you what you want. If you want fried chicken but you think that probably you shouldn’t have it, you probably won’t get it. Let’s say you ordered fried chicken but worried that there wouldn’t be any left or that you really should have chosen the salmon, either (a) the chicken won’t make it to your plate or something will be wrong with it; or (b) you will get it and you won’t get the best value out of it.

Jesus hesitated (but only for a moment) about putting in the request for wine rather than water at the wedding but his mother said it was okay so he did it with just the shifting of his thoughts. Later he told us that we could do even greater works through the same principle and the same God/Creative Force – the “Father” of all things.

The thought with the strongest intention and belief – the one that is most constant usually gets the order filled.

A person who is using sculpting material gets the idea of what they want to see as the end result and God that is in the mind then furnishes the wherewithal with which to make it take shape .