PATTERNS FOR PRAYER

PETE'S JOURNAL, February 2003

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Lord,

Make me an instrument of thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

0 Divine Master,

Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal light.

Amen.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The following from: The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East

"Jesus went on to say: I shall talk to you just as I wish you to talk to yourself. If you will make these statements true or make them part of yourself, you will need no other. These statements [which are just samples of prayers] are in no wise to be used as formulas. [You should make up your own prayers... speak-out the inspiration of your Inner Self.] Students can use them to bring their thoughts in accord with Divine Principle or, as many say, to train their thoughts to one point. We use the word GOD as often as possible, repeating it many times."

"As I stand alone in Your great silence, God my Father, in the midst of me there blazes a pure light and it fills every atom of my whole being with its great radiance.

Life, Love, Strength, Purity, Beauty, Perfection, stand forth in all dominion within me.

As I gaze into the very heart of this light, I see another light,—liquid, soft, golden-white and radiantly luminous,—absorbing, mothering and giving forth the caressing fire of the Greater Light.

'"'Now I know that I am God and one with God's whole universe. I whisper to God my Father and I am undisturbed.

STILL IN THE SILENCE

"Yet in this complete silence there exists God's Greatest Activity.

Again, I am undisturbed and complete silence is all about me. 'Now the radiance of this light spreads to God's vast universe and every where I know there is God's conscious life.

Again, I say fearlessly, I am God; I am silent and unafraid.

"I lift the Christ high within me and sing God's praise. In the tones of my music inspiration hums. Louder and louder within me the Great Mother sings of new life. Louder and clearer with each new day, inspiration is lifting my conscious thought until it is attuned to God's rhythm.

Again, I lift the Christ high and give close ear that I may hear the glad music. My keynote is harmony and the theme of my song is God and God seals my song as Truth.

BEHOLD I AM BORN ANEW, A CHRIST IS HERE

I am free with the great light of Your Spirit, God my Father, Your seal is placed upon my forehead. I accept. I hold your light high, God my Father. Again, I accept.

Jesus continued:

It is a well known fact that the oftener you say or use the word GOD, knowing it to be the highest principle in-dwelling and flowing through you, the greater benefit you will derive from it. Allow me to repeat... our thought is, 'You cannot say GOD or use the name too much."

See God as Creative Principle flowing through you; concentrate and energize that principle, and send it out with more dynamic influence. Because of the fact that it always flows through you as well as around you, you are able to give it a greater impetus by sending it out with the whole force of your being, impelling it outward.

Man's body is the medium through which this force is transformed and added impetus is given it, in order to do a greater work and be sent forth in greater form. Thus, there is far greater force added to this principle through the fact that millions are magnifying its radiations and sending them out; yet one man standing forth in full dominion can conquer the world. Thus, you see what millions could accomplish.

The more you use this name, knowing that it is the in-dwelling God Principle that you are establishing within you, the higher the rate of vibration of your body. These vibrations become correlated and respond to the Divine vibrations which the word God means and gives forth.

Should you say GOD once, meaningfully, your body will never return to the same vibratory rate that it was giving off at the time you used the word GOD. With this thought in mind, make these statements your very own; put them in your own language if you so desire. They are from you and not from any outside source. Just try for a time and see what it will do for you.

Recall that every time you think GOD, you are God's Divine Plan. These are not my words, they are your words coming from the Christ of God, yourself. Bear in mind that Jesus, the man, became the Christ as He expressed light, which is pure life or God.

God, my Father, the Divine Principle flowing through me, is all; and all that God is, I AM. I am the Christ of God, God-man. All that God my Father is, is for God-man to use; thus I AM is entitled to use all substance. In fact, God my Father is pressing out all substance to God-man in unlimited measure.

God Principle is my Father; I AM the Christ of God; both in whole and complete union. All that God has, the Christ of God is.

Let us take the word GOD. Why is it that this word has so much power? It is because of the vibrations that are released when the word is spoken they are of the very highest, they are the Cosmos, the most effective vibration. They come in on the cosmic Ray and set up the highest field of radiation.

This field is all-inclusive, all-penetrating, all-exist-ing, and rules all mass. They are the ruling elements of all energy and this vibration is the vehicle that carries light and life.

The ruling intelligence back of this radiation is what we term GOD and, through its radiation, the intelligence pervades everything. From this radiation field both light and life emanate. When man accepts these, he unites them in his body; they are one.

This body responds immediately to the light vibration and he is God vibration; his body radiates light. Thus, one standing forth as God is often invisible to one functioning in a lower vibratory field. This is the reason that the word GOD is so powerful.

Because of this sustaining word GOD, your Bible has maintained such influence and longevity. Think of the number of times the word is written and thus, spoken, in that great book.

See the different lines of radiation of light and therefore, life and energy that go out from each word either written or spoken. Each word carries its vibrations to the very soul of all who speak, hear, or see the word GOD; and as the soul responds to that vibration, the book from which the radiations come forth is lifted and exalted correspondingly as the soul is exalted by the vibrations.

Thus, the book is given life, power, and immortality. It is in reality the word GOD that has accomplished this. Thus, you can say that the book is the word of God in the spiritual sense and not in the literal sense of the word.

Too many take the Bible literally, instead of giving attention to its true spiritual value. This lack of consciousness matters little, as the spiritual vibrations set aside those set up by this attitude of thought. When they think or say GOD once, those vibrations far outweigh their lack of understanding.

It is the survival of the Bible that has proved such a stumbling-block to the scoffer and critic. The atheist fails utterly to explain why the word GOD supersedes and has complete dominion over the word Evil.

Repeat God thoughtfully for a time, then try to set up a vibration in your body with the word Evil. If you have not already experienced this, it will be a revelation to you. Many scientists proclaim that the theistic hypothesis is impossible. Do not mind them, for the things which they pronounced impossible yesterday are being accomplished today.

Do you not know that it is high time to go within your house, put it in order, and find out what the Word GOD will do for you? Think attentively for a moment, try it and see if it will not cause you to drop all differences and bickerings.

Speak GOD with your whole soul and feel the exhilaration that causes you to treat your brother more kindly and deal with him more justly. Place God before you and the mist of the long-forgotten ages will be dispelled as a wisp of smoke. The intellect may frown upon this.

Don't mind the intellect; it has erred many times. Stand forth with the word GOD dominant within you and a whole world of strife and confusion cannot touch you.

When you know positively that GOD or supreme vibration does exist and that it is ALL POWER, you can use it to accomplish ALL THINGS. With it you can transport yourself from place to place.

If you are in one place and the need is for you to be elsewhere, recall it is the self that is holding you stationary, not GOD. You are using God power in limitation if you remain where you are. Let go of self, erase limitation, put forth the command that you are the Christ of God, one with the God vibration and power.

The instant you make it definite that you are God vibration, you will be at your destination. Just thinking a thing does not accomplish that thing. YOU MUST KNOW AND DO; then love and worship the source or principle enough to do it.

Faith shows the way through thought; but it takes the actual command of the Christ of God, that you are that vibration. The instant you allow that vibration to take full command, you GET UP AND DO IT.

The KNOWING through love and worship becomes the accomplishment. That you are unconscious of their radiations does not set aside the fact of their existence. Through faith in their existence, then knowing that they do exist, you become conscious of their existence; then you can use them.

When you express a vibration and are in tune with that vibratory field, you are invisible to things that express in a lower vibratory field. Thus, if your body vibrates with the speed of light, you are invisible to those that cannot see light.

Light is Life; thus, if you live wholly in the vibrations of light, your body is pure life. Light, and Life, is God. Thus all are GOD when they live in the God vibration.

The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God, thy glory." [Isa. 60:19.] The Lord Christ of God has no more need of light when his body vibrations are in unison with God vibrations.

His body is light, purer than that of the noonday sun. The Lord (or law of) God, expressing pure life (light) through Jesus or man, becomes the Christ upon earth. Each man becomes the Christ when the Lord (law) or law of God is understood and actually lived.

By constantly contemplating, praising, blessing and giving thanks to this power you increase its flow; and as you do this it becomes potent and more readily accessible to you. Thus, I say, pray without ceasing. Your daily life is true prayer. You worship, you praise, and with your ever-expanding love, you pour out to all mankind that they may see the Christ, the God-man standing forth triumphant.

Our hostess answered:

...if desire were put forth in true form it would be fulfilled. She then went on to say that desire is but a form of prayer, that it was the true form of prayer which Jesus used, as his prayers were answered; that prayer which is always answered must be true prayer, therefore must be scientific, and if scientific, While must be according to fixed law.

Continuing, she said, The law is: "As you know, your prayer is granted, and What things you desire, when you pray, know you receive them and you shall have them." If we know positively that whatever we have asked for is ours already, we may know that we are working in accordance with law. If the desire is filled, then we may know that the law is fulfilled.

If the desire is not filled, then we must know that we have asked amiss. We should know that the fault is with us and not with God.

Then the instructions are:

You shall love the Lord, your God...

With all your heart,

With all your soul,

With all your mind,

And with all your strength.

Now go deep, deep down within your own soul... not with forebodings, fear, and unbelief, but with a glad, free, thankful heart, knowing that which you stand in need of is already yours.

The secret lies in getting the at-one-ment; getting the consciousness of it and then holding firmly and never deviating, though all earth should oppose. "Of myself I can do nothing," said Jesus, "The Father that dwells in me, He does the work." Have faith in God. Have faith and doubt not. Have faith and fear not. Now remember there is no limitation to God's power. "All things are possible.'"

Use positive words in making your request. There is naught but the perfect condition desired. Then plant in your soul the perfect seed idea and that alone. Now ask to manifest health and not to be healed of disease; to express harmony and realize abundance... not to be delivered from inharmony, misery and limitations. Throw these off as you would discard an old garment.

They are old and only outgrown things; you can afford to discard them joyfully. Do not even turn to gaze upon them. They are forgiven, forgotten. They have returned to the dust from which they were created. They are no-thing... nothing.

Fill the seeming blank spaces about you with the thought of God, Infinite Good. Then remember the word God is a seed. It must grow.

Leave the how, when, and where to God. Your work is merely to say what you want, and to give forth blessings, knowing that the moment you have asked, you have received. All the details of this bringing forth is the work of the Father. Remember He does the work. Do faithfully your part; leave and trust God's part to Him. Ask. Affirm. Look to God for what you want; then receive God's fulfillment.

Keep the thought of God's abundance always in mind. If any other thought comes, replace it with that of God's abundance, and bless that abundance. Give thanks constantly, if need be, that the work is done. Do not go back again to the asking. Just bless and give thanks that the work is done, that God is working in you, that you are receiving that which you desire; for you desire only the good that you may give out the good to all. Let this be in silence and in secret. Pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees the secret of your soul will reward you openly.

When the demonstration is complete, you will look back upon the time faithfully given, as one of your greatest treasures. You will have proved the law, and you will realize the power of your word spoken in faith and blessing. Remember that God has perfected His plan.

He has poured out and is continuously pouring out, loving and lavishly upon us, all good, and every good thing that we can desire. Again He says, "Try Me and see if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing there will not be room to receive it."

With All My Heart

In the heart of my being, Father, I am one with You, and I recognize You as Being, the Father of all. You are Spirit, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omnisent. You are Wisdom, Love, and truth; the power and substance and intelligence of which and through which all things are created. You are the life of my spirit, the substance of my soul, the intelligence of my thought; I am expressing You in my body and in my affairs.

You are the beginning and the end, the very All of the good which I can express. The desire of my thought which is implanted in my soul is quickened by Your life in my spirit; and in the fullness of time, through the law of faith, it is brought into visibility in my experience. I know that the good I desire already exists in Spirit in invisible form and but awaits the fulfillment of the law to be made visible, and I know that already I have.

With All My Soul

The words which I now speak, outline to You, my Father, that which I desire. As a seed it is planted in the soil of my soul and moved upon by Your quickening life in my spirit. It must come forth. I allow only Your Spirit — Wisdom, Love, and truth — to move in my soul. I desire only that which is good for all, and I now ask You, Father, to bring it forth.

Father within me, I ask to express Love, Wisdom, Strength, and Eternal Youth. I ask to realize Harmony, Happiness, and Abundant Prosperity; that I may have the understanding direct from You, of the method of bringing forth from the Universal
Substance that which will satisfy every good desire. This is not for self, Father, but that I may have the understanding so that I may be of service to all Your children.

With All My Mind

That which I desire is already in visible form. I form in mind only that which I desire. As a seed begins its growth underground in the quiet and in the dark, so does my desire now take form in the silent, invisible realm of my soul. I enter my closet and shut the door. Quietly and confidently I now hold my desire in mind as already fulfilled. Father, I now await the perfect out-picturing of my desire.

Father, Father, within me, I thank You that now in the invisible, the fulfillment of my desire is always established, and I know that You have poured out lovingly and lavishly to all an abundance of Your treasure; that You have filled every good desire of my life; that I may partake of Your opulent supply; that I may realize my oneness with You; that all Your children may realize the same; and that whatever I have, I may pour out to help all Your children. All that I have I give to You, Father.

With All My Strength

No act or thought of mine shall deny that I have already received in Spirit the fulfillment of my desire, and it is now brought forth into perfect visibility. In spirit, in soul, in mind, in body, I am true to my desire. I have perceived my good in
Spirit. I have conceived it as a perfect idea in soul, and I have given true thought form to my desire. I now bring into visibility, or true manifestation, my perfect desire.

I thank You, Father, that I now have Love, Wisdom, and Understanding; Life, Health, Strength and Eternal Youth; Harmony, Happiness and Abundant Prosperity; and the method of bringing forth from the Universal Substance that which will satisfy every good desire.

"Said I not unto you, that if you would believe, you should see the glory of God?"

After our hostess had spoken, there was deep silence for a moment; then she continued: "Understand that if it is not finished, and your desire is not now visible, the fault is within yourselves and not with God. Do not go back again to the asking, but like Elijah, persist, hold out the cup until it is filled; pour out blessings and thanks that it is done now, though every mortal thought of error beset you.

Go on, go on, it is here now, and believe me your faith is rewarded; your faith becomes knowing.