Consciousness and Prayer Part 3
July 1, 2025
Consciousness and Prayer Part 3
Prayer changes things. Why? Because inviting the Higher Power into the situation changes our consciousness. The act of praying is an elevation of mind and spirit. In prayer we ask for a higher order. We affirm that there are higher ways than our ways. In sincere prayer, we create a landing pad for the Holy Spirit. Inherent in making such a sacred space is surrendering our ideas of how things should go. We are free to receive something different when we let go of a required outcome.
We are free because our mind has changed its rigid outlook and discarded its need for set answers. Prayer that is receptive to the Holy Spirit, interrupts conditioned neurological patterns, making us more malleable to other thoughts. But if we are locked into the cognitive patterns of our fixations, it is more difficult to receive divine ideas.
In prayer, we surrender our will to the will of the higher power. Our fixation cannot coexist with our receptivity to higher ways of responding. To help ourselves pray the prayer most fitting to the situation, we first call upon our Holy Idea because this essential mindset affirms our connection to the Divine. When aligned with the Divine, we are less attached to our ego’s will and more open to divine intervention.
Telling God what to do is an extension of the ego’s will. Instead, in the spiritual life, we may have a hope-for outcome, however, our prayers include the words, “But not my will be done, but yours.”
Spiritual practice: Whatever your current dilemma, pray to place it in the will of the Higher Power. Can you feel the lessening of discomfort? Prayer is changing things.
Self-inquiry: Why would you not want yourself and your perspective to change?
Dear God,
Your love is the most potent force in the universe. Your plans are for our good and our growth. I offer my prayer so that things will change by your love. Amen
