Giving Thanks!

Tefilah is the ancient Hebrew word, that was translated from an Aramaic word Tefillin, which is translated as prayer and means to praise. It doesn't mean come beg, and plead for something. It means to praise and that means giving thanks.  Once you have mastered prayer you will live in the state of thanksgiving, and all through the day you will say over and over again to yourself: "Thank you, Father."

Before I knew the Law I had spent months working on an outdoor fundraiser for my sons youth baseball league. The day arrived and it was raining. No it was pouring and my husband said it's going to be cancelled. I told him no it's not. It is dry at the field.

I started to pray. I didn't think about it. I went to the window and said thank you, thank you for moving the energy around and keeping the field dry. Thank you and as I prayed I imagined standing at the field and a hole in the clouds was over the field and sunshine was pouring down on me. I did that for about 15 minutes and then started packing up the car. My husband wanted to call someone and I told him no. No one has called we are going to the field. We went to the field and it rained the entire time on the way until we reached the 4 way stop about a city block away from the field. There was a hole in the clouds, the sun was shining and as we pulled into the parking lot I broke into tears of joy and said thank you. The day went well. We raised thousands for the league and all played baseball and all had their pictures taken. It was glorious.

Give thanks. Pray and never lose heart. Persist in mastering the art of prayer.

The Greek and Latin word "prayer" means "motion towards, accession to, at or in the vicinity of". I close my eyes and I see the open clouds over the field. I have made a motion, an accession to. As I act in the vicinity of, I see my friends at the field and I feel my husband hugging me.  Having done this, I have full confidence in my imagination, knowing my imagination, my Father, is the being who made it all.

William Blake's words are true: "Man is all Imagination, and God is Man and exists in us and we in Him. Man's Immortal Body is the Imagination, and that is God Himself."

In the 33rd chapter of the Book of Genesis, Jerusalem is called "Shechem." It is said that, "Jacob came safely into the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan. There he erected an altar and called it El Elohey Israel, which means "the God of Israel". Orienting himself toward Shechem (the true direction) Jacob remained in El Elohey Israel, which means "safe in mind, body, or estate".

We are told that Daniel oriented himself at an open window, where he looked toward Jerusalem. And those in the Mohammedan world pray looking towards what they call Mecca.

It all takes place within, inside you.  Scripture is speaking of the Jerusalem within, and not on the outside at all. To pray is to give thanks and you do not prostrate yourself on the ground and look towards some eastern point in space, or run to some building and beg for forgiveness and plead your case.

There is only One God and I AM Him and He is me. It's all inside.

You quiet your mind and immerse yourself mentally into your fulfilled desire. You are sick and wish to be healthy. You mentally see yourself healthy and hear others telling you that you never looked better as you feel the hug they give you. Although this technique is simple, it takes practice to become its master.

Your true direction is to the knowledge of what you want. Knowing your desire, point yourself directly in front of it by thinking from its fulfillment. Imagine the end. Silence all thought and allow the doors of your mind to open. Then enter your desire. Stay with your imagination as your companion. Start by thinking of your imagination as something other than yourself, and eventually you will know you are what you formerly called your imagination. Father makes it happen. Thank you Father is thanking your imagination.

It is possible to lose a hand, leg, or various parts of the body but imagination cannot be lost, for it is your eternal Self!

You can not only move in space but also in time and fulfill your every desire. Prayer does not have to be confined to what a person calls self. You can pray for another by feeling they now have what they formerly wanted, for feeling is a movement. The first creative act recorded in scripture is motion: "God moved upon the face of the water."

Prayer is motion. It is learning how to move toward a change in your bank balance, your marital status, or social world. Learn to master the art of motion; for after you move, change begins to rise up out of the deep. The technique of prayer is mastering your inner motion. If you are seeing things you would like to change, move in your imagination to the position you would occupy after the change you desire took place.

Everything and everyone in your world is yourself pushed out. People are just messengers.  Any request from another,  heard by you, should not be ignored; for it is coming from yourself! You came down from a world of light to confine yourself to this body of darkness. Now a spark from an infinite world of light, one day you will remember that world and awaken, but in the meantime you must learn to exercise the power of your mind.

Prayer is psychological movement. It is the art of moving from a problem to its solution. When a friend calls, telling of a problem, we hang up, and I move from the problem state to its solution by hearing the same person telling me the problem is now solved.

Desire is thinking of! Living is thinking from! Don't go through life desiring. Live your desire. Think it is already fulfilled. Believe it is true; for an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.

When you are learning the art of prayer, persistence is necessary, as told us in the story of the man who - coming at night - said: "Friend, lend me three loaves of bread." Although his friend replied: "It is late, the door is closed, my children are in bed, and I cannot come down and serve you," because of the man's persistence, his friend gave him what he wanted.  The man repeated and repeated his request, unwilling to take no for an answer. The same is true in the story of the widow. These are all parables told to illustrate prayer.

The Lord's Prayer teaches the oneness of us all. It begins: "Our Father." If God is our Father, are we not one? Regardless of our race or color of skin, if we have a common Father, we must have a common brotherhood.

Eventually we are all going to know we are the Father; but in the meanwhile, persistence is the key to a change in life - more income, greater recognition, or whatever the desire may be. If your desire is not fulfilled today, tomorrow, next week or next month then persist, for persistence will pay off. All of your prayers will be answered if you will not give up.

Being all imagination, you must be wherever you are in imagination. Moving in your imagination, you are preparing a place for your desires to be fulfilled. Then you return, to walk through a series of events which will lead you up to where you have placed yourself. In imagination, I can put myself where I desire to be. I move and view the world from there. Then I return here, confident that in a way unknown to me this being who can do all things and knows all things, will lead me physically down a road to where I have placed myself. You can move in imagination to any place and any time.

Live there as though it were true, and you will have learned the secret of prayer.

Learn how to pray. Master it and make your world conform to the ideal you want to experience. Stop thinking of, and start thinking from. To think from the wish fulfilled is to realize that which you will never experience while you are thinking of it. When you put yourself into the state of the wish fulfilled and think from it, you are praying, and in a way your reasoning mind does not know, your wish will become a fact in your world.

You can be the man or woman you want to be, when you know how to pray. All things are possible to him who believes and has faith. Faith is knowing the unseen will be seen. Therefore learn the art of believing and persuade yourself it is true.

The Bible is not just beautiful poetry; it is the inspired word of God. Written by poets, they have given enlarged meaning to normal words. When you put your body on the bed and assume you are elsewhere, are you not all imagination? In the act of imagining, you depart the dark caverns of this body and appear where you imagine yourself to be, because you are God - all imagination - and cannot die. You cannot go to eternal death in that which cannot die, and your immortal being is imagination! You are the central being of scripture - the one called Jesus Christ, who is the Lord God Jehovah - who descended here for a purpose.

If you are still desiring, stop it right now! Ask yourself what it would be like, were your desire a reality. How would you feel if you were already the one you would like to be? The moment you catch that mood, you are thinking from it. And the great secret of prayer is thinking from, rather than thinking of. Anchored here, you know where you live, your bank balance, job, creditors, friends, and loved ones - as you are thinking from this state. But you can move to another state and give it the same sense of reality, when you find and practice the great secret of prayer.

Practice the art of prayer daily, and then one day you will find the most effective prayer is: "Thank you Father." You will feel this being within you as your very self. You can speak of it as "thou" yet know it is "I." You will then have a thou/I relationship, and say to yourself: "Thank you, Father". If I want something, I know the desire comes from the Father, because all thought springs from Him. Having given me the urge, I thank Him for fulfilling it. Then I walk by faith, in confidence that he who gave it to me through the medium of desire will clothe it in bodily form for me to encounter in the flesh.

Don't get in the habit of judging and criticizing, seeing only unlovely things. You have a life so live it nobly. It is so much easier to be noble, generous, loving, and kind, than to be judgmental. If others want to do so, let them.

They are an aspect of yourself that you haven't overcome yet, but don't fall into that habit. Simply thank your heavenly Father over and over and over again, because in the end, when the curtain comes down on this wonderful drama, the supreme actor will rise from it all and you will know that you are He.

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