It doesn’t matter where a prayer comes from, what faith or temple. If it’s an honest prayer, it comes from the human heart and reaches the heart of God. If you believe it, your prayer is already answered.
It may not be the reply you desire, but every prayer that originates in the heart is answered, and the prayer itself fulfilled in the very act of asking. Each request contains its own reply. Every question has within it the seed of its own answer.
The words of a prayer don’t matter. There’s no specific order that the words must take, no form they must assume. Your word has power in this world insofar as you declare an intention. To think that certain words must be used in prayer, or that they must occur in a certain order, or repeated a certain number of times, is to believe in incantations. The age of magic has passed. You, the one who prays, have evolved beyond a belief in magic.
Intention is all. You may utter certain words in prayer, yet if your intention opposes your words, your intention is honored, not your words. The universe responds to your intention. Words are weak expressions, reflections of the heart, possibly. But possibly, the heart opposes the surface manifestations of the mind, which are expressed in words. The language of the heart is prayer, which is intention. The language of the mind is thoughts and words. Your thoughts are prayers, yet they are weaker than intention.
An intention can be aligned with words and with actions. When all three are so aligned, your prayer becomes very powerful. The prayer is definite and the cosmos will fulfill its call. This does not mean that the prayer is loving, or that the results will be beneficial.
Be careful, therefore, to guard your word, your act and your intention. For all these together are your prayer. And as your prayer is, so too shall be your life.
© 2022 by Michael C. Just
Mike’s novel, The Dirt: The Journey of a Mystic Cowboy, is available in softcover or eBook formats through Amazon.
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Mike’s other titles, including The Crippy, The Mind Altar, and Canyon Calls, are available through this website or through Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B002
Four of his short stories have recently been published online:
Lies, Ltd. has been published by The Mystery Tribune @ Lies, Ltd.: Literary Short Fiction by Michael C. Just (mysterytribune.com)
The Obligate Carnivore has been published by the Scarlet Leaf Review @ Category: MICHAEL JUST – SCARLET LEAF REVIEW
I See You, Too has been published by the 96th of October @ I See You, Too – 96th of October
Offload, a short story about a man who can heal any disease, is now live and can be read at The Worlds Within at Offload – The Worlds Within