Empower Your Prayers
Prayer is quite possibly the most effective and powerful thing that we can do. It represents our direct communication with the infinite. It is truly amazing that we naturally have this capability!
Prayer is also something that no one can take away from us. It represents our sacred, most intimate connection with the divine. And with that being the case, it is curious that we sometimes have so little faith that our prayers are being heard.
The issue is not with prayer. The issue is the context within which we pray. The way to empower your prayers is to change to a more empowered context. There are basically two possible contexts from which to pray. Let’s examine each of them, starting with looking at some of our collective false assumptions.
Conflicting Assumptions about Reality
Let’s start with the fact that God is infinite love. Period. There is no darkness or evil added to this fact. The word infinite should be taken very seriously, because it means exactly what it says. It means all-encompassing and omnipresent. It means that is all there is.
Now when you add the word love to infinite, it means that all there is is infinite love. Nothing else.
Some have completely twisted this, in order to explain the existence of evil. They will tell you that God creates bad situations for us out of love. In other words, if God is love and God creates everything, then evil must be a product of that same love.
Well, guess what? This is wrong, wrong, wrong! Even though it sounds like it makes sense on the surface, it makes absolutely no sense when you truly open your eyes.
This is the kind of insanity you get when you rely only on the thinking mind to inform you of reality. This is what happens when you leave the super-intelligence of the heart out of the equation.
When you add the knowledge of the heart to the equation, you get an answer that is far more intelligent than this superficial, conflicted assumption.
We can’t have it both ways
You can’t say that God is omnipresent love, and then also say that God has created evil. This is what will really mess up your prayers. Why is that? Because then you will have a hard time really trusting God. How can you trust a God that you believe might also cause you pain?
It doesn’t matter how much you rationalize this conflict. Pain is pain, and we don’t like it. We cannot fully open our hearts to anything that we believe has the potential to condone or cause our pain. There is nothing spiritual about suffering.
It is impossible to trust a God that we think is perfectly okay with our individual suffering. Suffering is not “God’s will”.
It’s Important to Choose
So now we must consciously choose the reality that we accept. This is the context for our prayers. Here are the two choices:
A. – We accept what our hearts know, which is that God is infinite, omnipresent love. If something other than love exists, then that means that something has gone very wrong in our collective experience. It means that certain conditions are present that make suffering and pain a possible experience.
Holding fast to our understanding that God is omnipresent love, we also understand that the existence of pain and suffering cannot be real because they cannot be a part of love. We understand that the only explanation for such things is that something weird has occurred in our consciousness to make this a possible experience.
B. – We look around and observe good and evil. We assume that because God is our ultimate creator, that God must have created both. Therefore we also assume that God can will either good or evil in our lives.
This second choice makes praying kind of dicey. It turns us into beggars. In this scenario, we often pray from fear because we are never really certain of the outcome. We don’t know if God is looking upon us in a favorable way. After all, things could go either way for us. Look at what happened to Yeshua! And we believe ourselves to be nowhere near as awesome as he is. When you add guilt to that, there’s no telling where a person could end up!
What happens when you choose infinite love?
When you choose point “A”, you are being steadfastly true to your heart. Your heart knows that God is pure love. Your heart knows that pain and suffering should not exist. There is no conflict here. You and your heart are literally on the same page as God.
Now you can establish real trust. You are praying from a different place entirely. You know that God does not want you to suffer, so you are clear that you are praying to an infinite friend. There is no ambiguity here. Rather than praying from fear, you are praying from a shared love. You begin by acknowledging that you already share the unadulterated love of your creator. God wants the same thing for you that you want in your heart of hearts. Peace and love. Tranquility and inspiration. All good things!
Enlarge the Context
Let’s take this a step further, and clarify the only true context that matches the fact that God is infinite, omnipresent love.
Here are the important points to understand:
- God is infinite, omnipresent love.
- In the condition of omnipresent, infinite love, pain and suffering cannot exist.
- If we experience pain and suffering in any form whatsoever, something has gone wrong in our reality. This “something wrong” has nothing whatsoever to do with God.
- This is ultimately a collective problem, as evidenced by the fact that we all share in these negative potentialities. We should not blame ourselves individually for these experiences. This is a larger matter of evolutionary proportions.
How does this larger context empower our prayers?
The first way that this empowers our prayers is that it establishes trust and alignment with divine love. It establishes an acknowledgement that we and God are on the same exact page, which is that of love, peace, and all good things. We no longer perceive ourselves to be in conflict with God. We don’t have to fear the divine. We can recognize ourselves to be at one with that love in our hearts.
Can you imagine how empowering it is to know that you are on the same page as God? What a great antidote to fear!
Now you have the potential to look at pain and suffering in an entirely new way. You now understand that these experiences have nothing whatsoever to do with you, or with God. Thus you will automatically begin to pray from an evolutionary perspective. You will find yourself able to pray for assistance in finding a solution to rid yourself and everyone else of this non-existent reality.
How can a reality be non-existent?
Just because something is experienced doesn’t mean it is real in the ultimate sense of the word. Right now we experience living in a finite world where enormous pain and suffering are able to manifest in our physical, mental, and emotional experiences. So in the context of this finite world, all of this feels immeasurably real. It is actually being experienced!
Have you ever heard it said that life is a dream? Well, life itself is not a dream, but any possibility of pain and suffering arises from an impossible reality that could be interpreted as a dream. So we can authentically pray for permanent relief from this false, collective reality. This is what is known as true evolution. The final, collective emergence from a dream that is being falsely experienced as oh-so-real.
How does this affect my personal prayers for myself?
By changing your context, you change your positioning when you pray. You are praying from an entirely different platform. You are praying from a platform that is already at one with God.
You might be praying for help with a particular situation in your life, but you will no longer be afraid that God might be out to get you for so-called “spiritual reasons”. You will stop rationalizing that each time you experience pain, it is God’s will and for a “good reason”.
Instead, you will start from a place of loving alignment and the pure knowing that God wants only the most beautiful, loving experiences for you. You are completely aligned with God when you want only those beautiful experiences for yourself.
Now you and God are working together to clear your consciousness and help bring you out of whatever trouble you are experiencing. You are equal partners in love, with only your best interests at heart.
In your prayers for help, you are coming from love. You are asking for God’s love to manifest in your life, which also means that more of the truth is manifesting in our world. You are asking to exist as a pure and perfect conduit for God’s love. Now God can help you to clear out all of the barriers of disbelief, fear, guilt, etc. that stand in the way of your happiness.
What do you think about the idea of focusing on Infinite Love as the only true reality when you pray? Would it improve how you experience your relationship with the Divine? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
I believe this will make a difference in how I pray & that this will also help the love God & I share reach a new level, that’s stronger than ever before. Thank you Sarasota.
Namaste,
Rhonda
You’re welcome, Rhonda. I’m happy that this was helpful for you. 🙂
Saratoga, I’m not sure how to comment on this profound message you clearly define here. I don’t feel any duality when I pray; I don’t feel guilt or remorse, or feelings of unworthiness. I feel aligned with God from a place of love and connection, and I feel grateful for this experience. I do feel I still need to align in a new way–but my prayers do not emanate from a place of duality, or that God’s will is to inflict pain and suffering for any good reason on anyone. I don’t hold any of those negative beliefs. I’ve always wondered how so much division could have emanated from “one story”.
There’s no question that it’s difficult to understand the pain and suffering on this planet, but I know in my own heart and in my own experience, that I cannot resonate with that as being a “reality” in my life. I experienced the Fear Event in 1990, and it has helped me enormously, and continues to. I do not have a connection to the source of fear. But things are so messed up in this reality in a realm where I currently reside. And I am here. So I am somewhat at a loss as to how to transcend the conditioning associated with these thoughts, or perhaps how I resonate with the pain and suffering here in this realm. It does affect me because I am part of the collective. I don’t feel separate from other beings here, and yet I have chosen not to resonate with what is not true, but I think that I do on some level, because I often feel great sadness and helplessness to effect change.
I feel that I pray from a pure place but I am not free of pain or suffering. I wince when I see mothers who cannot feed their starving children in third world or developing countries; I cringe when women are treated in abusive ways; I don’t understand why there’s so much death everyday and how families are coping with their children or loved ones dying from bombs in the Middle East, or guns in the US, or any of that. It’s so devastating, and I try to remain detached. I want to shed my light into some of these situations, and I pray for light to come in to all of these dark places. I try to be objective, but sometimes I find it difficult to be so. I feel the pain of the collective, but I don’t “ingest” it or resonate with it. But I do feel it on some level, and I don’t understand it.
Sometimes I don’t know what my purpose is in being here. I am a loving person, I’m kind and I resonate with as much goodness as I can. I pray that we can transcend the lies that permeate this reality. I know I need to work on praying more, and more effectively. Your message here is highly beneficial in this regard.
Thank you, dear Saratoga, for being here and sharing truth! I just wish I could do more to bring peace, love and respect to this realm. I feel that I have much to learn still.
Leigh
Leigh, it sounds like your quandary is not about prayer, but about life purpose. Discovering and then acting upon one’s life purpose resolves a lot of this for an individual.
I think if you focus on discovering your purpose, a lot of what you are struggling with will be put to rest inside of you, because you will feel like you are taking direct action to make a difference in the evolutionary condition of this planet.
Actually, I think that discovering one’s life purpose is an evolution in and of itself. Hope this helps! 🙂
Saratoga, you always know where what’s going on for me. Thank you for pin pointing the issue, which IS aligning with my life purpose. I’m working on bringing my music back “in”, and writing, and bringing myself to the world, with my individual gifts. We each have something special to contribute. I’m just dealing with a lot of practical issues to support the things I need to do, so that I can relax. But I feel an opening. So thank you, always, from the bottom of my heart, for always understanding me and telling me what I need to hear and work on!
Yes, your response helps in a huge and deep way! I feel so blessed to have your love and tremendous support. And thank you so much for always listening, and hearing.
All my love back … Leigh
Thanks for that heart felt response to prayer, I feel the same way you do. With that said, I don’t think we can change the world but we can change the things we touch, feel and those around us. Change is a seed it gets planted in our thoughts, and grows in our heart. I resonate with your energy. Time is a good teacher when you seek the truth and the true seeks you. Infinite love and greetings to you Leigh
Saratoga, thank you for illuminating this! I feel I have naturally been shifting to this place in prayer, where I have that feeling of confidence and peace. But there was so much I was still unconscious to, so this really feels empowering as I reflect on these things, thank you! I feel ever so grateful to read these words, thank you, with Love and gratitude, Barb
That’s great, Barb. You know, I think we can always increase our ability to have faith in the divine because there is so much going on that can distract us from that.
One of the funny things about duality is that, compared to infinite love, it just produces chaos. We don’t think of it as chaos, because we are biologically built for it and are very used to it on that level. But if you could be 100% in pure, infinite love, you would easily recognize this as chaos. Weird, isn’t it?
I could go on and on, but I’ll stop here. 🙂
Let me say AMEN!!!
Hi Monica! Just want to say hello 🙂
Hi Saratoga: It was so reassuring and reaffirming to read that prayer is all about aligning with the Love of our Creator and our Highest Selves. Thank you for helping me remember that I and everyone else exist because of that Infinite Love. I have been experiencing some challenges recently, and after reading your article, I feel encouraged to pray and am reminded that It can only respond to my requests in a loving way. I needed to hear that the dream our collective unconscious has embraced regarding pain and suffering, is not real and is not part of the Divine Plan for our lives. Thank you for the gift of your clarity and love, Saratoga.
Sharon, I’m so happy this was helpful for you. And, yes, I think it’s so important that we remember that God, being all love, could only want good things for us. Otherwise, we can become reluctant to pray or open our hearts completely to divine love.
I do think that one of the most powerful realizations has to be that suffering is not part of the divine plan. God has no capacity to create suffering of any kind. Love can only beget love.
Hi Saratoga,
Thank you so much for this wonderful blog. I love the way you have presented this.
I was laughing when you wrote “God might be out to get you for so called “spiritual reasons”. But really, this is no laughing matter. I then began to reflect on my own positioning regarding God as pure love, vs fear of something that might actually cause pain in my life as punishment. And of a previous time in my life when prayer was more fear based than anything else.
I remembered that the real shift in my knowing that God is Infinite Pure Love, was after I experienced your event “The Final Elimination of the Source of Fear”. It was after that event that my being on all levels could really breathe with the knowing that God is Love… period.
For myself, I know that this shift was experiential, and not just an idea or conceptual.
As I was reading this today, I was reminded of the truth and the connection that we have with the Divine, and how powerful it is to pray with this knowing.
Thank you Saratoga.
Much Love
Kathleen
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It really is crazy when you think about it, isn’t it, Kathleen? Yet, how can we help being afraid of God if we falsely believe that God creates suffering.
It always amazes me that these blatant discrepancies exist. That we can actually believe that love produces suffering and pain. Weird, isn’t it? Sometimes we need to be asking a lot more questions about the things that run through our minds.
Thank you for this amazing insight into personal pray & what can be achieved by implementing this line of Personal belief of infinite love into my daily prayers. In a way you have answered my prayers. Bless you kind regards Michelle
Michelle, I’m so glad this was helpful for you. Sending you lots of love and blessings! 🙂
Oneness is all we need to know…living in that reality. Being true to our divine nature and accepting this truth, is what makes us all so beautiful and unique in our existence. The mirror will only reflect that… what we are ready to receive the more we expand our perception the clearer the image we perceive will become.
The connection I feel here is more than just in the words, it it is the soul the gut…it is a memory of a time that passed that now I have to remember. This tender connection lives in the energy of the words.
Namaste blessings be infinite and everlasting.
Kim-LifeCoach
I totally agree with you, Kim, about accepting the truth of our divine nature. This is exactly what makes each person so individually beautiful. Accepting that is the best thing we can do for ourselves. And then we can expand on that and truly evolve as beings.
Thank you…it is my good fortune that we have this time to connect and be one in the same time.