When what seems an especially difficult problem or a great emergency presents itself, many students of the Truth start by thinking, “This is very serious,” and then proceed to brace themselves mentally for a supreme effort; and plan to pray exceedingly “hard” in order to meet the difficulty.
All this is quite wrong. It simply builds up the problem into something far bigger that it was originally. The right attitude, the one that brings Victory, is to think “God can and will solve this problem.”
Instead of speaking the Word from the low altitude of fear and limitation, and trusting to effort to magnify the Lord, stop thinking of the problem altogether, and rise in consciousness. Having now attained a higher level – speak the Word gently from that level, and your problem will be solved.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful … (Hebrews 4:12).
When faced with a dire threat, do we really believe “God can and will solve this problem”? The answer to this question lies in the way we pray about the problem. Those who truly believe, pray in a quiet and confident way, accepting God’s power to eliminate the threat and sure that any outcome will be for our best good. This does not mean that our prayers should be devoid of emotion and fervor. It does mean that the praying harder or more often is a human-based activity that implies a belief by the supplicant that God has some weakness or inability to act without our continuous and strenuous cries for help.
God knows of our needs that even we do not know. So when we pray, let our faith in God and confidence in God’s promises exude peace and certainty in God’s help. Then, we should roll up our sleeves and get to work on what we must do in the physical realm to address that which concerns us. Just as we pray today that God will keep a mighty hand on this oil spill and continue to push it away from our shores, we must also work to protect and prevent it from fouling our shores if it does come ashore. If we pray and work, then we can live in our gardens in assurance that God is protecting it and empowering us.
In confident prayer,
Z gardener
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