Positive Daily Inspiration – May 27, 2022 – PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT AND THE MIND

“I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the mind also.”
1 Corinthians 14:15

MY HAND IN GOD’S

Each morning when I wake, I say,
“I place my hand in God’s today”.
I know God will walk close by my side
My every wandering step to guide.

God leads me with the tenderest care
When paths are dark, and I despair –
No need for me to understand
If I but hold fast to God’s hand.

My hand in God’s! No surer way
To walk in safety through each day.
By God’s great bounty I am fed.
Warmed by God’s love, and comforted.

When at day’s end I seek by rest
And realize how much I’m blessed,
My thanks pour out to God; and then
I place my hand in God’s again.
-Florence Kellogg

A town had been experiencing a bad drought. The people prayed and fasted for rain. The entire community got ready for a big prayer service schedule the following Sunday to pray for rain. Sunday came, and as the people came to church, the priest stood at the front gate, furious. He said, “Go home!” I’m not doing the prayer service for rain!”

The people in the congregation said, “But Father, we fasted and believed.”

“Believe?” said the priest, “Then where are your umbrellas?”

True faith changes your mind and heart. If you do not keep on thinking in accord with the prayers that you have made; you do not get good results.

All thought is formative, and all thought has effect on your life. When some of your thought energy is expended in negative beliefs and feelings, and you show that you are focused on the worst that can happen, you tend to receive old negative results. For where your focus goes, the results surely follow.

I believe the word “prayer” and “expectations” are almost interchangeable. What are you truly expecting when you pray? Are you expecting negative results or positive results?

You have a very decided part to play when you pray: you are to cease worrying; you are to cease being anxious; you are to cease thinking and speaking of the past; you are to concentrate your attention upon the Truth of God, and the truth of your own being. You are to focus your attention on the very things you would like to see taking place in your life.

Those who receive spiritual help are the ones who place their undivided faith in God and bring their thinking in line with God’s truth.

Jesus said, “When you pray, believe you have ALREADY RECEIVED!” This is total expectation. When you pray believe you have ALREADY received. Do not judge by appearances but judge by faith in God.

Miracles happen as a person lives in expectation instead of living in doubt.

A woman in North Carolina read about how Jesus spoke of the faith power that we have to remove mountains. There was one mountain between her cabin and the sea shore. She went on her front porch and decreed, “Through the power of Jesus Christ, I command the mountain to be cast into the sea.” She went to bed, and the next morning arose and went out on the front porch, and gazing at the mountain she shouted, “Just as I expected!”

True prayer is spoken in doubtless faith with total expectation. True prayer has total focus upon God instead of the problem. True prayer believes and accepts the good of God in the moment that it is spoken.

IRRADIANCE

Oh, fill me with Thy presence, Lord,
That love may shine through me
To quicken that same presence, Lord,
In all whose eyes can see.

Oh, fill me with Thy presence, Lord,
That wisdom may be mine
To share Thy light with all who need
To let their own light shine.

Oh, fill me with Thy presence, Lord,
To guide what power I wield,
That it may ever strengthen good,
And be from ill a shield.

“Oh, fill me with Thy presence, Lord –“
But need I longer wait?
Thy presence hath been given me,
To live and radiate!
-Ernest Wilson

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Say once, aloud, each waking hour:
Thank You God, I am grateful for everything I see.

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: God, who created me, is now restoring my life.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot

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