God Does Not Answer Your Prayers: YOU Do! (Wake Up: Part III)

GOD is THE Wind Beneath Your Wings! 

Photo Credit: Rosa Alquimica

We go about our lives for the larger part of our lives...mostly in a fog. 


We know we walk, but 
we don't fully know the mechanics that 

 


got us from being babies, held in our parents arms, to crawling...to walking upright....to being full adults.

But we keep on walking...without stopping to pause and discover how we do what we do. [Many wake up only when somethng drastic happens in their lives.]

It's time to wake up, KIDS!

If you have no spiritual leanings, and especially if you're not religious, you may not want to hear this, but it's TRUTH: 

The mystery that is GOD is the wind beneath our wings, if not, our very wings.

We can "fly" because of God.

We can "speak" because of God.

We do what we do because of God.

God is the beginning and the end of all that we do.

God is the energy that vibrates and operates throughout our Being!

Do we think we walk... because our parents showed us how to do so?

Do we think we speak... because we mimicked what we heard?

Stop and think.


The mechanics of all that we do lie within us: It is the spirit of God! 

God's spirit is so active throughout our being... and as us... that we do not realize its Presence. So intertwined is the Spirit (Energy) of God within us that we cannot differentiate our human actions from this very spirit that does all on our behalf. So, like we do with all things we obtain without asking, we take the Spirit of God within us for granted. But... it is there and it is the essential part of ourselves. God's spirit is the energy...the Essence... that is us.

"God is the name we give to that unchangeable, inexorable principle at the source of all existence." - H. Emilie Cady

God's energy permeates the entire Universe, making things happen.

We must accept this!

Once we accept this, then we're able to see that when we PRAY, we're essentially praying to that greater part within ourselves.

But...here's the key: in order for our prayer to be answered, we must first find the activation button in our center!

That button is called: FAITH!

This button is the trigger that moves all mountains out of our way.

The first step in any deliverance of our prayers is to:

Have Faith!

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...." - Hebrews 11:1

The second step in having prayers answered is:

Change our consciousness about our power and abilities!

"Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live." -Neville Goddard, "Your Faith is Your Fortune." 

The third step in realizing our prayers is to ACT!

"We talk to God---that is prayer; God talks to us---that is inspiration."- H. Emilie Cady, "Lessons in Truth"

"In the Flow of Life," Eric Butterworth writes about the impact of some religions teaching about God outside ourselves.

"Subtly, but certainly, we are trained to think of life as a 'getting' experience. Like Buddhist monks, we are given the psychological counterpart of the little begging bowl by which to go into the world to seek the 'gifts of God' from our parents, our schools, our religion, our work.

"No matter what hunger or desire, we invariably go begging 'out there' for fulfillment. Paul seemed to know better. In 2 Timothy 1: 6, he writes, 'I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you.'"

If we're discerning, we should eventually get to a place within ourselves that we realize this:

Life happens only as we bring it forth. In essence, we learn that God is Life, and he is in the activity of our very life.

This requires us to go forth to do and be and act "our natural selves," so we can experience the presence of God in our lives. It is critical that we have confidence in ourselves.

"We come into the world as living souls of infinite potentiality to be discovered and released, for life is lived from within-out." Eric Butterworth.

Relying on prayers to activate the presence of God within us is a sure way to get back into the flow. When we pray believing in consciousness that all prayers will be answered, we rest. This brings forth the power (spirit) of God within us.

"We have no power to demonstrate health or supply for anyone, but we can demonstrate the presence of God. We can get very still within and, with patience, come to a state of consciousness where we feel the very living presence of God, where we feel the stir and the activity of God within, where we feel such a complete release from human fears that we know God is on the field."  Wrote Joel S. Goldsmith in "Living The Infinite Way."

There's no source or force from outside of us that comes to our aid; the power (and the answer) comes through us.

Imagine then, when our spirit gets so low and we stop believing in ourselves...stop activating the power (spirit of God) within us.

That's when our lives become dormant and stagnant.

Faith in a God outside of ourselves leads us to complacency and failure. We have all heard the saying, "God can only do for us, what he can do through us." It is critically important for us to understand this and to know that confidence in our God-imbibed selves is what makes our lives work!

The only presence and power in our lives is God. If we stop believing in ourselves, thus stop connecting to the source and force within us, death surrounds us in every way in all ways.

We must remain active in life to have all of life become active through us as us.

Resting comfortably in God only becomes a reward when we have the consciousness to assume the habitat for which we've prayed: We must pray from the consciousness of having already received the desired thing. Without dwelling in the habitat of that which we seek, prayers and faith are for naught.

"The assumption of the wish fulfilled is the ship that carries you over the unknown seas to the fulfillment of your dream. The assumption is everything; realization is subconscious and effortless." Neville Goddard writes in "The Power of Awareness."

He urges, "Assume a virtue if you have it not…

"Act on the assumption that you already possess that which you sought."

Like the other forces in nature, relying solely on what's within them to grow and thrive: there honestly is no power outside of us that will rally to our aid to help us through life's crises. This is truly when "failure" occurs: waiting with faith in God outside of ourselves to deliver us.

Jacques Lusseyran, born in Paris in 1924, was blinded at age seven, yet at age 16 led an underground resistance of 600 youths during the German Occupation.  In his book, "And There Was Light," Lusseyran wrote about being blind and seeing "the light." This passage, about when he and others were finally caught by the Germans, is especially poignant:

  

"All of us were naked, if not literally, to all effects. We had no rank, no dignity, no fortune left…and no face to save. Every man was cut down to himself to what he really was. And, believe me, that created a real proletariat…"The camp was the witches' well. They had thrown them all in there together, the Benedictine monk, the Kirghiz shepherd who prayed to Allah three times a day with his face to the ground, the professor from the Sorbonne, the mayor of Warsaw…the good and the evil. The only thing was…and you had to get used to it…all these categories were dead and gone, for we had passed over into a different world…."The religious searched everywhere for their faith. They did not find it again, or else they found it so reduced in force they could not make use of it. It is a terrifying thing to have called yourself a Christian for 40 years and then to discover that you're not a real one, that your God no longer served them."The people who had generally been respected ran after their lost respect, but there wasn't anything left of it. The intellectuals, the cultivated men, the great brains, had great sorrows.  They didn't know what to do with their great learning for it didn't protect them against misfortune. They were submerged in that great broth of humanity."How many doctors and sociologists, archaeologists and barristers needed comforting. And it wasn't easy to console them. They could not understand anything more readily than the fact that their intelligence was out of season."Our rich at Buchenwald were the devil and all to find in the crowd, for they had no label. They were neither religious men nor atheists, neither liberals nor communists, neither well nor badly brought up. There were just there, that was all, mixed up with the rest. My one idea was to find them."Their wealth was not made of courage, for courage is always suspect or a consequence of something else. The rich were the ones who did not think of themselves, or only rarely, for a minute or two in an emergency. They were the ones who had given up the ridiculous notion that the concentration camp was the end of everything, a piece of hell, an unjust punishment, a wrong done them which they had not deserved.They were the ones who were hungry and cold and frightened like the rest, who didn't hesitate to say so on occasion---why conceal the real state of things?--but who in the end didn't care. The rich were the ones who were not really there."Sometimes they had removed themselves entirely by going crazy."

We don't have to go crazy to get to a state of bliss.
Neither do we have to escape through the use of alcohol or drugs.

We can get to a place of rest and peace and joy and happiness.

We do so by living moment by moment and through the conscious realization of connection to the ONE presence and power in our lives that resides within us.

This affirmation from Silent Unity is a powerful one for all situations:

  "God is my Strength.

                                       
                                                God is my Supply.

God is my Source.

God is my Substance."

In this season of the Christ, I invite you to WAKE UP to peace and wholeness by discovering the truth about YOU!

"He who is in me is greater than he who is in the world."
"It is not I, but the father within me who doeth the work."
"Peace, Be Still."

Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays. May this Season of celebration be with you, knowing that within you lies the answer to all that you seek to do, be and achieve.

Namaste',

Che'