Say A Prayer

How often have you prayed? Really got down on those knees and prayed?

As a Medium now working on the circuit of spiritualist churches I see many people every week who really know the power of prayer. Not just as a telephone line to God, with our wish list for ourselves, but those who have found that not only do their prayers for love healing and unity do a great deal of good for all those in healing books around the world, but also have noticed that their prayers for others seem to make them feel better.

I really enjoy leading the congregation into prayer whenever I am called to serve a church, and enjoy participating when a member of the congregation. But for me the best prayers are those sent up when alone in the quiet of my own little healing space, prayers sent in a meditative state, because as I say them I get to feel them too.

There is nothing worse than listening to a group of peoples absent minded droning, rote like through prayers that they have said a thousand times, and that they ceased caring or thinking about. The energy that accompanies the prayer is flat and lifeless, just as their intentions and attention is also flat and lifeless. Even The Lords Prayer has in some instances been reduced to mindless rote, droning on without any passion or belief.

I remember someone saying if you can't say anything good then don't say anything at all and I think that this applies to prayer too, if you don't feel the prayer then what is the point in saying it? Its like saying I'm going to phone my mum and not bothering to dial the number!

How you pray and how often, how you like to address God, is all personal to you. My husband has probably never said a prayer outside church in his life, but will say that the Lords Prayer said with the Protestant ending of "For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever." isn't correct.

I like to start my prayers "Great White Spirit, Lord of Love and Light" because that is how I feel God. Some friends of mine would rather pray to The Goddess, Mother Earth, The Higher Source. Each is correct for the person who is saying the prayer because the prayer comes from the heart and is just as individual as its source.

Saying a prayer, whether the answer is evident or not; in itself focuses your energy on the issue at hand. Pushing the energy towards any illness or situation will affect it in the long run. But note how much better you feel inside once you have taken time to pray. Its like the release of tension for me. I know that I have focused my energy on the issue, asked God and his angels to focus their energy too on the solution, and that I have been thanked by them for my love and attention in that I have asked for another.

This of course leads me to my next point, don't feel that you should only pray for others, it is just and fair that you should be able to ask your father, your guides and your angels for help in your own life too. Know that a prayer said is always received, and that it is wrapped in love, guarded and guided by spirit to a solution.

So next time you are frightened for someone, lost, worried, you have heard that someone is ill, or think someone needs love, solace or comfort, say a prayer. Your way, to your god, with all of your heart, and know that it will be answered.

There can never be too much love in the world and we can never say too many prayers!

Love

Keara