I THOUGHT I had sent in an article to be posted and I waited several days and was just getting ready to fire off a smart aleck email to him (oh yes I have my human moments all too many of them) when that small little voice quietly said are you sure You sent it. Of Course I said I know I did.

Then I promptly went to my sent emails so I could in all of my wounded dignity say to Spirit See I Told You So. Instead I FOUND ... NOTHING.

Spirit then said don't you think you owe him an apology so here it is Sorry, big guy.

O. K. that is out of the way so the thing is so many of us pray and receive no answer. What is it with that? Why don't we get answers?

The reason is most people do not pray correctly and actually have no idea what prayer is. Most people spend their time praying trying to do deals with God. Give me this and I will do that or they spend their life nagging and begging God for something.

Paul, told us, to pray without ceasing, I use to think how in the world do you pray with out ceasing, there are other things to do.

What I was missing and most other people also is that we didn't understand what prayer is. Prayer can be one of two things it can be a specific request for something we desire or in the most literal sense a Prayer is every thought, word and action we think, speak or do.

In the case of the Specific Prayer Request God the universal Spirit doesn't want a lot of nagging, pleading, begging. This is a prayer of supplication and more times than not will not to our understanding be answered although every prayer even these are answered.

It may be no, or no not right now or it may be yes.

However if we really want a prayer answered then we should construct it correctly. Remember God, the Universal Spirit Loves us just as a human parent would, except infinitely more.

Go to Spirit and just lay our request before it as you would your best friend or your favorite loving parent that you know would never deny you anything.

No, Begging, no pleading, no supplication just a gentle or sometimes not so gentle request.

Then leave it in Spirit's hands to be taken care of. As scripture says even before we ask it is done. Spirit works in mysterious ways, its wonders to perform.

Every prayer is answered instantly as we pray it. The car, the house, the funds, the relationship, everything is created instantly in the invisible. Then it is up to us to bring it into the visible by our belief, our faith and finally by our actions when the time is right.

We do this by holding the thought firmly in our minds, knowing that it is ours and then believing it is ours and finally doing what it takes to bring it about to make it ours on this plane of existence.

That is working on one thing at a time and then detaching ourselves from the outcome, knowing Spirit is taking care of it.

Truly letting go and letting God. Also by ending each and every prayer with this or something better for the highest good of all.

The praying without ceasing is that every thought, every word is a prayer.

In our lives if we live it with good happy, positive thoughts we shall live a good positive happy life.

The opposite is true also. Negative, bitter, sad thoughts. Negative, bitter, sad life.

The word also says to stand guard at the entrance of our minds so that the enemy may not enter.

The enemy is negativity which is the evil of this world.

As we stand positive, thinking, speaking loving positive thoughts we can not help but have good positive lives.

Even when something which appears negative happens it is usually a result of our errant thinking, hoever if we look for it we shall and will see the positive side of it. Which is another thought for another day.

My thought right here and right now is that I Love and Believe in YOU.

Blessings,
Rev. W. Isaac Norris 3rd
www.wisaac3rd.com
http://wisaac3rdsspirituallife.blogspot.com/