Answered Prayers

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Who Will Persist Until God Answers?

 

God is not a mute unfeeling Being. He is love itself. If you know how to

meditate to make contact with Him, He will respond to your loving demands. You

do not have to plead; you can demand as His child. But which of you will spend

the necessary time? Which of you will persist until you become so concentrated

that you receive an answer from Him?

 

Suppose you have a mortgage on your home and you cannot meet it. Or ther is a

certain job you want. In the silence that comes after meditating deeply,

concentrate with unswerving will on the thought of your need. Do not keep

looking for the result. If you sow a seed in the ground and then take it out

every once in a while to see if it is growing, it will never sprout. Similarly,

if every time you pray you look for a sign that the Lord is granting your wish,

nothing will happen. Never try to test God. Just go on praying unceasingly. Your

duty is to bring your need to God's attention, and to do your part in helping

God to bring that desire to fruition. For example, the chronic diseases, do your

best to help promote healing, but know in your midn that ultimately God alone

can help. Take that thought with you into meditation every night, and with all

your determination pray; suddenly one day you will find the disease gone.

 

First, the mind receives the suggestion. Then the Divine impregnates the midn

with His power. Finally the brain releases the life energy to heal. You do not

realise the power of God that is in your mind. It controls all the bodily

functions. You can promote any condition in the body if you exercise that power

of your mind. It is necesary first to learn the right method of meditation; then

you canapply its divinely empowered concentration to heal the bodhy, or to help

you in any other difficulty.

 

Every day undertake something that is difficult for you, and you try to do it.

Though you fail five times, keeps on, and as soon as you have succeeded in that

direction, apply your concentrated will on something else. You will thus be able

to accomplish increasingly greater things. Will is the instrument of the image

of God within you. In will lies His limitless power, the power that controls all

the forces of nature. As you are made in His image, that power is yours to bring

about whatever you desire: You can create prosperity; you can change hatred into

love. Pray until body and mind are completely subjugated; then you will receive

God's response. I constantly find that my slightest wish is answered.