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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Prayer
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It is not enough to pray. Prayer is one step that you take,
but you need other steps. You need to think of God, the
all-powerful Healer, as being already within you, in every
part of your mind, heart, and body. To keep one's attention
and prayers in the spiritual realm of mind, without letting
them work out into the soul's expression and into the
actual physical doing of that which corresponds with what
the mind and heart has thought and spoken and prayed, is to
court trouble. To keep declaring love and power and life
and substance, and yet unconsciously, perhaps, assuming
limitations and living them, will cause explosions and
congestion that work out in the physical. We need to
harmonize our thinking and our prayers with actual living
experiences.
Sometimes we pray to a God outside of ourselves. It is the
God in the midst of us that frees and heals.
With our eye of faith we must see God in our flesh, see
that wholeness for which we are praying in every part of
the body temple. "Do you not know that your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit within you. . . . Glorify God in
your body" (1 Cor. 6:19, 20).
Prayers aren't sent out at all! Sometimes that is our
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trouble. Where would we send our prayers? We should direct
them to our minds and hearts and affairs. We commune with
God-Mind within our own consciousness. Prayer is an
exercise to change our thought habits and our living
habits, that we may set up a new and better activity, in
accord with the divine law rather than with the suggestions
we have received from various sources.
We sometimes think that we pray when we read and declare
statements of Truth. We have very little idea of the way in
which the answers to those prayers are coming. And we do
not prove that we expect them to be answered. Almost
immediately after praying we go on doing the things we have
been doing, which does not allow answers. And we think and
say that which is not in accord with the prayers we have
made. For example, we go into the silence and declare
statements of prosperity. Then in writing a letter we speak
of lack and failure and longing which proves that we have
those thoughts and feelings of lack in our hearts and that
we are dwelling on them more strongly than we are on the
Truth that we have prayed.
Prayer, then, is to change our minds and hearts so that
God's omnipresent good may fill our minds and hearts and
manifest in our lives. If we do not keep on thinking in
accord with the prayers we have made, we do not get good
results. For all thought is formative; all thought has its
effect in our lives. When some of
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our thought energy is expended in negative beliefs and
feelings, and we show that we have old mental habits in the
subconscious mind, we get those old negative results--even
when we are praying daily and when others are praying for
us.
We have a very decided part; we are to cease worrying, and
being anxious, and thinking and speaking of the past and of
the apparent lack and idleness. We are to concentrate all
our attention upon the Truth of God, and the truth of our
own being, upon the very things we would see taking place
in our lives. We cannot do this so long as we have negative
thoughts in our hearts.
As we pray, the word of life is going into us, breaking up
old fixed beliefs and reorganizing our lives. The word of
life--life as God has planned it--is taking hold of our
subconsciousness, and we know that we are free and will
begin to use our freedom. Working in the consciousness of
freedom, we will be happy and well and busy and prosperous.
But our attention will be upon what we are doing rather
than upon outer results. The results will take care of
themselves once we have started our foundation in Truth.
"With God all things are possible" (Mt. 19:26). Those who
receive spiritual help are the ones who place their
undivided faith in God and who bring their thinking in line
with His Truth. "You will know the truth, and the truth
will make you free" (Jn. 8:32).
Prayer, as Jesus Christ understood and used it, is
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communion with God; the communion of the child with his or
her Father; the splendid confidential talks of the son or
daughter with the Father. This communion is an attitude of
mind and heart. It lifts the individual into a wonderful
sense of oneness with God, who is Spirit, the source of
every good and perfect thing, and the substance that
supplies all the child's needs--whether they are spiritual,
social, mental, physical, or financial. Positive
declaration of the truth of one's unity with God sets up a
new current of thought power, which delivers one from old
beliefs and their depression. And when the soul is lifted
up and becomes positive, the body and the affairs are
readily healed.
Sometimes I have written a letter to God when I have wanted
to be sure that something would have divine consideration
and love and attention. I have written the letter, and laid
it away, in the assurance that the eyes of the loving and
all-wise Father were seeing my letter and knowing my heart
and working to find ways to bless me and help me to grow.
So I suggest that you write a letter to God, putting into
words that which your heart holds and hopes for. Have faith
that God is seeing your letter and your heart, and that
there is wisdom and power and freedom and love to
accomplish that which will meet your needs. After you have
placed your heart's desires with God, don't be anxious or
worried or negative. Don't look for signs that He has
responded. Busy yourself with
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the work God gives, and with study and prayer develop into
a real companion and a real radiator of happiness and
inspiration. As you do so you become the radiating center
toward which those are drawn who will add to your happiness
and cooperate with you in making your life a beautiful
success. Spirit intends you to be a radiating center that
will draw to you whatever you need to be well and strong,
successful and prosperous.
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