At one time we opened meals with prayer instead of a can opener.

With the way some women cook, you had better pray over your meal before eating it!

It takes more character to handle prosperity, than it does adversity!

Pray for that which you are sure your character can handle!

So, what is prayer? Prayer is communion with the Great Infinite One, and that is giving time to this Great Being we call God, in sharing your thoughts and feelings, in just listening, in realizing that indeed, He cares to have you in His presence. Prayer is also wishing to the advantage of, both yourself and others. Prayer is really love, once one understands what love is.

"My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible" he wrote regarding his inventive prowess. "The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power." ...Nikola Tesla.

"A prayer's resonant energy comes most forcefully from heart felt loving intention to secure some miraculous manifestation of the petitioner. If you give your faith over to God, then you may call upon the King of the Universe at any time using prayer, or heart felt loving intention, to remedy any troubling situation." ...Dr. Len Horowitz, Ph.D.

Why pray? Why not? Prayers are always answered.

Prayer allows us to see things through God's eyes, and brings His presence into the situation:.Philippians 2:5 "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." 1John 3:2 (following is as translated; original is different.-.click 1John 3:2 for original)."Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. But we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we'll see him as he is." Philippians 1:27 "Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel." 2Corinthians 8:5 "And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God." 1Corinthians 13:12 "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I'll know even as also I am known."

How to pray. Luke 11:1-13.

"One day a man was walking down the street on his way to work. As he walked down the street, there were dogs on just about every front porch and they all would bark as the man walked passed them. However, there was one dog that he remembered, because this dog was just sitting there and he was whimpering and whining and moaning, you know the little whimpering sounds dogs make when they are wounded or in some sort of pain. Well, this particular dog was just sitting there on the front porch making those sounds. The man was curious as to why this dog wasn't barking like the other dogs and why he was whimpering. He couldn't figure it out, so he just kept walking to work. The next day he was in the same situation where he was walking down the street and saw the dogs once again and this same dog that was moaning and groaning the other day was doing the same thing today and he just couldn't figure it out. Well, he walked passed for an entire week and everyday the dog would be there moaning and groaning. So, finally, the guy got fed up, he said, "let me find out what's going on." So he went and knocked on the door and a guy came out and said, "Yes, how may I help you?" He said, "Sir, is this your dog?" "Yes, that's my dog." "Well, what's wrong with him?" The owner of the dog said "What do you mean?" "Well, he's been sitting here moaning and groaning, whimpering and whining for an entire week. The rest of the dogs are barking, your dog should be barking too, why is he moaning and groaning?" The owner said, "Well, he's actually sitting on a nail." And the guy said, "What! Your dog is sitting on a nail. Why doesn't he get off?" "Well, it just doesn't hurt him enough."

"Wow! You know most people are like that dog sitting on a nail. I mean, sure, they would like to get off the nail, but what if they got off the nail and they died or something? They never seem to stop to consider that maybe they would be healed, maybe they would be free, maybe they would be able to move about and discover some new and exciting options for their lives. But, noooooo. Instead, they just sit there on that nail because they're not sure what's going to happen if they get off. I mean, there are no guarantees of safety so to speak. Even though, it's not the best feeling in the world, sitting on a nail, I mean, it's not comfortable sitting on a nail, it kind of hurts, but at least they know what to expect. They know that they have $2000 per week coming in so they can pay their bills and put food on the table and they can put some clothes on their back and a roof over their heads. They may even get upset with you if you question their so called security, I mean, if you hand them a book or tell them about something out of their current comfort zone that can give them some effective strategies for getting off nails, they may resent you for it. Well, hopefully you're different. You are willing to learn some effective nail removing strategies that could set you free because you and I both know that there is no such thing as security. Well, maybe I should take that back. I do know of a place where security exists on this planet. It's called the graveyard. And you know what, most people tip toe through life so that they can arrive at the graveyard safely. Of course this will not be you… Right? That's right… Simply because, instead of Moaning & Groaning, Whimpering & Whining about not getting the results you desire, you are developing quality character. You want to get off the nail, and do what's needed for your benefit and others." ...Unknown

Prayer is saturation of the subconscious mind by what is predominant in the conscious mind.

Every person's subconscious is connected with the Infinite Powerful Intelligent Energy of the universe that we call God. Unfortunately it's not awakened in most of humanity to its connection to the Divine Intelligence of the universe.

When one is responding to his environment who lacks the spiritual component of the invisible reality, then what he or she sees is what he or she expects. In order to awaken one's subconscious, the Infinite One has to 'call' a human being, that is, awaken his mind to spirituality, for this is not something he will see come to him from the mass mind of humanity, the sum total of all thoughts, the bank of thoughts which has and has had input from all of normally selfishly inclined humanity since man's beginning on earth.

What the subconscious has in it from a person's predominant thoughts and heartfelt feelings goes automatically (it is always working) into the invisible energy, from where it soon thereafter comes into the physical world. That is why it is important to guard your mind.(*). You do not want negative things walloping your life.

Prayer is having God's attention by talking about what you want to talk to Him about (one example) and by listening for answers that well up in the mind, immediately or after; maybe within a few days or weeks, as in Daniel's case (so it is important to take regular times in the dark and the quiet), before the angel could get to him with a response from God to his asking:.Daniel 10:12-14 "Then said he unto me, fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you did set thine heart to understand and to chasten.(humble so as to correct the self).yourself before thy God, your words were heard and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia.(was not a person).withstood me one and twenty days, but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days, for yet the vision is for many days."

Prayer means in the original 'to wish to the advantage of', 'to bind'.(that is, we set the mind on it as a completed reality:.Hebrews 11:1,6), 'a request', 'to want something', 'to be seeking', 'to ask', 'to say', 'to search', 'to fall in with', 'childlike confidence toward', 'to obtain with', 'meet with', 'come together', 'to visit', 'converse', 'intercede':.Job 42:10.

When we pray for ourselves and/or another, we must realize that God, or the Intelligent Infinite, the All Knowing, the Ever Present, the Conscious Intelligence, the Creator and the Sustainer of all the Energy of the universe from which all we see and know has come out of, has given us some  'secrets' (Deuteronomy 29:29); secrets to do with laws of the universe He has designed and set in motion; laws we can use to effectively pray; laws like the law of attention and the law of intention.

The law of intention is that in whatever you do, whatever your attention is on, your intention is placed within it, and effective to the degree of your heart felt feeling for doing so:.Ecclesiastes 9:10. For example if you painted a painting as Aimée Rousseau Perrine (www.healingpainting.com) has done, it would have tremendous healing properties. When she was painting one as a gift for a friend who was in hospital, she had such feeling for the person in mind, she said over and over to herself as she was painting it, "I love you", and no doubt, other special words. 

Paintings and music bypass the conscious mind and get right into the subconscious. It's important to always select high quality in both paintings and music, so they have the greatest and furthest reaching beneficial affect upon your subconscious in that they increase your belief in what is that you want.

It is claimed that as you view her paintings that because of what she 'put into them', they will heal you. The same is true of rocks. In some countries, what they call 'gratitude rocks' are used; just ordinary rocks, but given with feeling to the individual who is in need of a healing. They do work!

It was the same in Paul the apostle's time way back when:.Acts 19:11,12 "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul; So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them."

The power in these things was in the belief of the person who did the painting, sent the rocks or the handkerchiefs. This is because we are all within the same sea of mind. What affects you, does affect others.

When we realize that we too are Gods (God is a family), we approach prayer differently:.Phillipians 2:5,6: Psalms 82:6; 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 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. If prosperity you want, you have to see a mental picture of just how your life would be with it. It sounds like a hokey trick, but it isn't. It works. In this,.you.are actually calling things into being that are not presently in physical existence. In this we, thanks to God, are also creators. He has designated that we have control over certain of the laws that He set in motion:.Romans 4:17 "...God, who quickens the dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were."
Isaiah 46:10 "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."
2Peter 1:3,4 "According as.his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

Note that it is His power that gives us all things. Think also, that these things 'just do not come automatically', otherwise we all would have them now, and we all do not have them now in the physical, otherwise there would be no need to ask for them:.Matthew 21:22 "And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing.(accepting as true; and if you were sure that what you have accepted as true is a reality {Matthew 9:29 "... According to your faith be it unto you."}, then you would live in the reality of the finished image of it that you have in your mind), you shall receive." John 8:32 "And you shall know the truth, and the truth makes you free."

We pray from what we think – what we are:.Ephesians 6:18 "Praying always with all prayer.(make prayer your priority).and supplication in the Spirit.(praying with feeling).and watching thereunto with all perseverance.(keep your attention on how those in need are doing).and supplication for all saints.(praying earnestly for other's needs)."

Be moved enough to pray for others. It works! And all of us need the prayers of others.

The tragedy of our day is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer, but there is an answer to unanswered prayer. Part of that answer is, and the rest of it is..., but here you must understand what righteousness is, and it's probably not at all what most people think that it is.

Many pray for things, not realizing that in Christ they already have all things:.2Peter 1:3; 1Corinthians 2:12. Well, where are they – right? The only thing that precludes these things from us is our heart; what it is we really believe:.Matthew 6:33.

Great things in life are ours for the asking, as the Great Infinite One is able to do exceedingly great things for us once His nature of love is in us:.Ephesians 3:20 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us."

So the key is, the power that works in us, and ensuring that it is kept effective in our hearts, and knowing how to work it. 

One believing and not backing up with actions, things of compassion and concern, things that help others, things that cause the Holy Nature of love to flow in us, things that cause us to grow into the likeness of His nature of love (speaking of character, not personality), as each of our expressions of love in this world is not the same as another's; the Infinite One doesn't want clones) is missing much power in his or her life; power to overcome selfishness, power to eradicate bad habits and addictions and power to have a renewed life.
    Prayer builds one up:.Jude 1:20.

It is through prayer that we have access to God the Father, thanks to what Jesus has done:.Ephesians 2:18,19 "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God."

God.will.give you good things; so, get to know what it means to be in Him.(Matthew 7:11; example of Jabez and God's hand upon him:.1Chronicles 4:9,10; and Hezekiah), here and now:.Hebrews 13:8; Malachi 3:6; so, be sure to ask.

Once one gets on the right side of this existence of earth, he sees and is able to master things that cause major problems in life for others.....continue?