PRAYER

 

Prayer is a way of communicating with God. It is as mysterious as it may seem to speak directly to the Almighty. Prayer is a two-way conversation between God and you. Prayer is turning your attention to God in a two-way spiritual relationship, talking to God as well as listening to Him. Prayer is like a child talking to his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for things he needs, or to ask for advice or guidance. Prayer brings you into contact with the power of the Holy Spirit. When you pray, you offer every situation to God, and God uses your prayers to bring love and justice into the world.

The very presence of God can be experienced through prayer. Prayer does not bring God down to you, but brings you up to Him. God made sure that mankind had the opportunity to tell Him about all the concerns, worries, requests and praises. But prayer is more than just talking to God. It's time to listen to the voice of God. Almighty God seeks to have an intimate relationship with His children. You can pray directly to Him. You do not need a mediator in your fellowship with God. This is the heart of prayer to experience God's presence in your life. Also, when you get to know God through prayer, you become in tune with His will.

Prayer is not a ritual that depends on closing the eyes and accepting holy faces. You don't have to kneel or sit. You can pray while walking, driving or working. God responds to a two-word cry for help in the middle of a busy day, just as He responds to a focused prayer time after a morning reading of Scripture. Prayer doesn't have to be complicated. God loves any simple words you offer Him. Prayer is an invocation or action aimed at establishing rapport with the object of worship through deliberate communication. In a narrow sense, the term refers to an act of supplication or intercession directed towards a deity or deified ancestor.

Prayer can be done in private and individually, or it can be done together in the presence of fellow believers. Prayer can be included in a daily thought life, in which a person is in constant communion with God. Some people pray for everything that happens during the day and seek guidance throughout the day. There can be many different answers to a prayer, as well as many ways to interpret the answer to a question, if the answer actually comes. Some may experience auditory, physical, or mental insights. If the answer does come, then the time and place where it comes are considered random.

If you don't believe in any religion, still you can pray to God because religion doesn't matter when you communicate with God. If you don't trust in God, there is no reason to pray. However if you pray, you trust in God secretly but dishonestly.

Spirituality is inborn like other natural passions like lust, anger, greed, affection, arrogance and fear. You don't need to learn spirituality. You just need to explore it. Once you explore it successfully, you will be able to contact God.  You will be able to talk to God by way of telepathy. Remember you don't have to learn telepathy. You just explore it.

The world of spirituality is full of tranquillity. All pains, expectations, disturbances and problems exist in physical world only. Your prayer is seldom to fulfil spiritual needs. The target of your prayers is always to meet needs of your physical world.

There are no mathematics and language in the spiritual world. You don't need any calculation and grammar while contacting God. Mathematics and language are inventions of mankind. You learn them only in social environment. Problems arise when you use them to learn spirituality. No man made techniques work.  You explore spirituality as soon as you give up logic, calculations and words. You become able to make one to one contact with God. Your prayer is answered as you expect. Your intellectual ability and social status is immaterial when you ask God for something.

Must you pray to God only? The answer is no.  You pray to whom you trust. If you trust in God, you pray to God. If you trust in a Devil, you may pray to him. If you trust in someone else, you may pray to him. It's trust and devotion that matter.

You can pray anywhere and anytime. You need not go to any specific religious place for this purpose. God is omnipresent. God is not confined in the four walls of any religious place.

You are a tiny part of the universe. You have significance. There is coordination between the universe and you. The pains and problems occur when this coordination is disturbed. In such a case, you keep on going away from the omnipotent and omnipresent supernatural power. You lose the favour of God. Consequently the pains and problems happen in life. You lose self-confidence and try to seek external help whatsoever is available at the time. Always remember that you have a soul. Our soul is a part of super-soul, that's God. Instead of looking for any external help, you must close your eyes and seek inside. When you do so you try to reinstate the lost coordination. And in this way, you enable yourself to make a true prayer.

Prayer should not be formal. Ready-made prayer doesn't work. It should be from the core of the heart. Prayer must be freestyle. It ought to come from the core of one's heart. God has nothing to do with rituals as performed by religious beliefs. Any such formal activity keeps you far from God.

Prayer is never selfless. You pray either out of fear or out of greed. If there is no fear or greed, you will never feel need of prayer. You pray when you are in a problem or you are undergoing a pain. You pray when someone you love is in a problem or pain. You also pray when someone you love or you yourself need something. You always pray when circumstances are odd. If you pray under favourable circumstances, your prayer will be genuine and true. Therefore, always pray again and again to thank God for whatever favourable you have. As a result, you will find sooner or later all odds will convert into favourable outcomes.