Prayer means 'to wish to the advantage of' (that is, it is a mental action where we set the mind on something as a completed reality, this having to do with causing what you want, to be brought into form from the invisible).

Whether we realize it or not, all are part of this overall oneness, just as a drop of sea water is a part of the sea.

The ancients told us to, pray without ceasing, that is, maintain contact with this Intelligent Creative Force, always aware that every thought you have, good and bad, goes into the universal energy where it produces according to its kind; that is, what you think comes into reality, comes into your life.

When we pray for ourselves and/or another, we must realize that God, or the Intelligent Infinite, the All, the Knowing, the Ever Present, the Universal Energy, has given us secrets, secrets to do with laws of the universe He has designed and set in motion.

When we realize that we too are Gods (God is a family), we approach prayer differently:."Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Emmanuel; Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." ...Philippians 2:5,6.
    "I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High."...Psalms 82:6.
    "Emmanuel answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods?"...John 10:34.

We now approach prayer from the point of view that we have power bestowed upon us, able to use it in a way that the Father of the family of God (divine ones) does.
    And what is this way? It is the way of making things become as you would have them be. If one is ill, to get the person well, you have to see the result in your mind as a mental picture, of how it would be to have the person up and about again, and excited about this.
    If prosperity you want, you have to see a mental picture of just how your life would be with it, and excited about it:."But let him ask in faith, not of doubtful mind.(if a person really knew something this great for him is true, he will be so excited about it; ecstatic). For he that wavers.(wishes for it, thinks it would be nice, but keeps being influenced by the present physical evidence to the contrary).is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.(the 'Lord' is the master of your life, and what masters your life are those things that you have accepted as true for you, and if they are negative thoughts that you have accepted as true for your experience, that is what you get in life)." ...James 1:7.

Now get a picture and be thankful for the things you put in the picture. In this, you are actually calling things into being that are not presently in physical existence in your life.

Your subconscious which reacts with the universal energy, knows no difference between what it 'sees' in your mind, whether it is a picture made up from what you imagine or whether it is a picture of what is in your mind as you walk down the street. It only accepts those pictures that you turn on the switch to with your emotions. This it interprets as the 'ok' to go into production on. So be careful. Watch your feelings. You do not want any more negativity coming into your life:."Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 4:23.
    "...God, who quickens.(makes alive).the dead and calls those things which be not as though they were." ...Romans 4:17.
    "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure." ...Isaiah 46:10.
    "According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life...Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you are partakers of the divine nature.(equal with God).having escaped the corruption that is in the world.(the mass mind of humanity).through lust.(following selfish purposes; a 'me first, me only' mindset which is the mindset of the mass mind of humanity)..." ...2Peter 1:3,4.
    Note that it is His power that gives us all things. So ask: "And all things, whatsoever you ask in prayer, believing.(accepting as true), you receive." ...Matthew 21:22.

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Relative Quote:

"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery." ...Janet Erskine Stuart