"Let Us Pray With You!"

Prayer is unconstitutional, true or false?

Actually, if scientists could look deeply into the subatomic levels of our being they would find that prayer is our very constitution. There is nothing but prayer when you look deep enough.

So it is a moot question to pray or not to pray, because we are prayer. The question is how can we assure that our prayers will be answered rapidly and easily?

Certainly asking for help from a prayer ministry greatly enhances our prayers, but it might be good to know how prayer ministries are evolving and what kind of help is available in this day and age.

Religious Christianity

The prayer methods and wording of prayers used by historically established religions are usually determined by the founders of the religion and by custom over time. Most religions pray for the well-being of their adherents and for world conditions in general.

Prayer ministries in these traditions have no hesitation about mentioning the unwanted conditions which the prayers are designed to overturn. For example they will pray "Please help Mr. Smith's terrible condition disappear!" and the prayer will be answered, the condition changing for the better if not disappearing.

In fact, traditional Christian prayer ministries pray with unbelievably strong faith for the needs and desires of petitioners, as well as for outcomes which the ministry leaders have deemed desirable for their culture or for the world in general, and they do see remarkable, often even miraculous results. Prayer for particular results works wonderfully.

New Age and Metaphysical Christianity

The prayer methods and wording of prayers used by metaphysicians and New Agers are also determined pretty much by founders and customary usage, but in this 20th century view of Christianity there is a great hesitation to even mention unwanted conditions and many feel an uncomfortable internal conflict about praying for results.

Many of the metaphysical or New Age persuasion might say, "Don't pray for particular results because in doing so you'd be telling your mind you don't already have it." For example they would say, "Don't pray for healing because your mind will think you're not already healed."

Do you see the contradiction in this? You must have already convinced your mind you don't already have a result or you would have it, everyone would see it, and you wouldn't even be considering the possibility of prayer.

Its okay for the Metaphysical or New Age Christian to say that the purpose of prayer is to convince your mind of the opposite of what it already believes, but honesty requires admitting that underlying all the positive affirmations, positive visualizations, and prayers of gratitude is the desire for a particular result. That desire is in itself a prayer.

Jesus teaches us in A Course in Miracles, which is studied at least intellectually by some New Age and Metaphysical Christians, that our minds are full of contradictory desires, which splits our focus into many watered down prayers working against each other. Throughout A Course in Miracles, Jesus teaches us to look inside and find our truest desires because when the contradictions are swept aside and something is desired wholly it immediately comes into existence.

One of the leaders here in our Utah church and enlightenment center once spent an entire year praying for people in the most successful prayer ministry of Metaphysical Christianity, known as Silent Unity. Every day he watched Silent Unity handle mountains of mail, positive feedback from many, many happy people attesting to their prayer requests being answered, sometimes in very miraculous ways. Prayer most certainly brings results!

Enlightenment Christianity

The new 21st century understanding of Christianity, Enlightenment Christianity, which is 100% influenced by the original teachings of Jesus as explained in A Course in Miracles, relies for prayer instruction not on founders or tradition or customary usage, but on here and now listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

For example, with each prayer request received by the prayer ministry of the Holy Instant Christian Church and Center For Total Enlightenment, we ask the Holy Spirit for unique instruction.

We may hear from the Holy Spirit to pray for a particular request over a long period of time, during a shorter period of time, or very briefly as if we were being guided to help only with "finishing touches," in this last case the Holy Spirit saying in essence something like, "Angels have already made progress with this request! It's just about a done deal!"

The Holy Spirit may tell us to pray for a particular request using our entire group during our enlightenment sessions, or using a smaller gathering of two or three in a special prayer session, or using a single highly tuned-in prayer worker.

We may be told by the Holy Spirit to prepare for prayer by chanting, or by deep meditation, or by merging into oneness with the petitioner, or by some complex esoteric exercise, or by some combination of these.

The Holy Spirit may guide us put our entire heart and soul into a prayer, or to use specific visualizations, or to use exact wording, or to address the prayer to some particular spiritual light, or to put together some sequence of these or other methods and contents.

The Holy Spirit does not hesitate to guide us to pray for specific earthly results, because the Holy Spirit knows that it's not what you are asking for that's important, but that you are in touch with a desire that is important to you. Prayers which some might call "little" prayers the Holy Spirit sees as equally valuable steps which eventually lead you to awareness of what you really, really, really, really want, the experience of who you really are.

With the Holy Spirit specifically guiding prayers, each prayer is very unique. We cannot even remember a time when the Holy Spirit gave us the same approach, the same method, the same content, or the same wording for two different prayer requests.

The Holy Spirit knows that even though people's situations can be similar, your situation has it's own unique character. The Holy Spirit is the expert in cutting through all contradictions in human desires and instructing us to pray for what you really need and with the wording and method that really works for your true best interests and in fact everyone's highest good, which are one and the same.

Praying only as the Holy Spirit directs has clear and wonderful advantages, true or false?

As you might imagine, the Holy Spirit has helped us to see that our prayer work here at the Holy Instant Christian Church has been instrumental in producing what people see as the most amazing miracles. We have come to feel with all our being that the only reason we are here on earth any longer is to serve the light, which means serving you fully in prayer.

If you have a prayer need, something that you really, really want which you would like us to pray for, do not hesitate to let us know your prayer request. We will follow the Holy Spirit's specific instructions regarding your request and you will see results more wonderful than you could have imagined.

Unlike many Christian prayer ministries which have a powerful vested interest in asking for and receiving financial donations to pay for salaries, expenses, and other investments, we continue to offer all our work freely, as Jesus offers everything freely. We hope you will forward this message to those on your email list who might benefit from knowing about our prayer ministry. No one will ever be asked for money. If your love and gratitude is prompting you to voluntarily donate, you may click on Smiley below.

Our prayer workers are very well aware that the ultimate prayer deep inside you toward which every prayer request you make would lead you over time is what might be called a "turn me inside out" kind of prayer for total enlightenment, for the total experience of constant unspeakable joy, love, peace, and spiritual knowingness.

The brothers here who pray for you are already living in this heavenly realm so you are lifted up to new states of being as they join with you, no matter what your prayer request. You might even say it's beyond comprehension how beneficial it really is to ask us for help in praying.

And of course there is one thing we can guarantee. We urge you to rejoice to the high heavens saying this statement as loud as you wish and as often as you wish and with as much conviction as you wish ... and we guarantee it to be true:

"My every prayer is answered
more wonderfully
than I could ever imagine!"

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