Getting Results From Prayer E-Book

Joseph Murphy

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Seitenzahl: 50

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of Joseph Murphy with this unforgettable book.

Leseprobe

Getting Results From Prayer

Joseph Murphy

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

STEPS IN PRAYER

And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.

And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?

And they said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.

And ye shall say unto the good man of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guest-chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples ?

And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished; there make ready.

And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

And when the hour was come, he sat down and the twelve apostles with him.

And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:

For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.

And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave it unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. –Luke 22:8-21

In the 22nd chapter of Luke, we read about the Feast of the Passover, which means to feast on the bread of life. The bread referred to is spiritual food. “I am the bread of life.” When we raise our consciousness through a realization of God’s Omnipresence, Infinite Love, and Intelligence, we are not only fed enough, but there is a surplus.

Bread and wine are symbols of Divine Substance and Divine Life. The Bread is the God-like thought; the wine is the manifestation of our ideal. We are familiar with the saying that thoughts become things. “God thinks and worlds appear.” The whole world is a thought of God.

The creative form of our thought manifests itself in outward form; as any thought felt as true is always out-pictured on the screen of space: thus the word (man’s conviction) “became flesh” or was made manifest. Another way of stating it is that the bread is the desire; the wine is the acceptance and realization of your desire in consciousness.

By illustration, a girl who wants to be an actress, rejoices in the fact that she is a great actress now. With her eyes closed in meditation, she imagines herself playing the role on a stage before an audience. She lives it, and feels the thrill of this experience; sooner or later she actualizes or fixes the state in consciousness. This lovely mood is symbolized by the eating of the bread or substance of God.

By the universal Law of life whatever is subjectively affirmed or felt as true must be expressed; this is the wine of God or our good manifested. Wine represents animation or the pouring of life into an idea. Drinking of the wine symbolizes a “pressing out” of the oil of joy in you; or as Paul says, “Stir up the gift of God within you.” As you let goodness, truth, and beauty flow through you, you become partakers of the Divine Nature. This is Holy Communion or communing with love, peace, happiness, wholeness, and perf­ection.

Life has two aspects: namely, spiritual and physical. The spiritual is inspirational; the physical is nutritional; these qualities are represented in the Bible as bread and wine. The life in man is God; his body and affairs are the world.

Some of the ancient legends tell us that the man, Jesus, sang with his disciples; likewise, when we pray, we must go into His presence singing and into His courts with praise.

When we are beset by a problem, or faced with what the world calls an acute emergency, we should never approach it saying, “This is a very difficult problem; a lot of mental work will have to be done.” The way of prayer is effortless; the attitude should, therefore, be one of effortless effort.

The end of all prayer should be: ”It is done ” or ”It is finished. ” These words mean that prayer is a joyful feast in which man contemplates the joy of the answered prayer. It is a spiritual communion; he should feel rested, poised, and calm after prayer. A sense of peace should steal over him, plus an inner satisfaction that God is flowing through his problem, and that there is no problem.

The spiritual man or truth student never takes the problem to God, because God has no problems. On the other hand, the student takes the answer to God, as God knows only the answer.

The first step you take in prayer is to still the mind, and dwell on the attributes of God which are within you. For example, dwelling on Infinite Peace, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Love, and Intelligence, with the realization that your own consciousness is God, insures the right mental attitude: namely, God has the solution.

The second step in prayer is to climb the hill of Good or God. This ascent may take minutes or hours, depending upon the individual and his development. Under no circumstances should one begin to solve his difficulties from a level of fear and doubt, because this will only aggravate conditions. Consciousness always magnifies! If we give our attention to the problem, it grows and expands. You must detach yourself completely from the problem and contem­plate your good; as you meditate on your good, you are climbing the hill of God.