Good Morning Garden

Expect more from you prayers. The power of your prayer depends upon the amount of faith that you yourself have in it. To pray in the spirit that “even if this prayer does not do any good at least it cannot do any harm,” is not, really, to pray at all.

Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short heartfelt prayer is just as good as a long one. Too long a session of prayer usually means the in your heart you really doubt the love of God, and think that a great deal of effort and toil will be necessary to move Him. Pray quietly and sincerely for a reasonable time, and then leave the matter, expecting success.

O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou has done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth (Isaiah 25:1).

Prayer without feeling and conviction is of no more value than shouting at a rock. Simply adding more words, increasing the frequency or the volume of our prayers is vanity, not faith. God knows what we need before we know to ask for it. The key to successful prayer is to ask calmly and fervently for the help we need if it is God’s will, and then accept that the answer will come and that it will be for our best good. Then, go about living in the garden with hope and confidence that God loves us and is control.

Accepting the answer,
Stan

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Read Matthew 6:16-23.

If your consciousness is right, that is, if you have a good understanding of God as the loving Source of your boundless supply, you will always be able to demonstrate whatever money or goods you may require. You cannot want for anything when once you truly realize that in divine Mind demand and supply are one. And, on the contrary, until you do realize this, you never will be really safe from want. In the long run, no one can retain what does not belong to him by right of consciousness, nor be deprived of that which is truly his by the same supreme title.

If you are looking to outer, passing, mutable things for either happiness or security, you are not putting God first. If you are putting God first in your life, you will not find yourself laboring under undue anxiety about anything, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matthew 6:21).

Take a minute to think about where we spend our money and what we spend it on. Are we spending our resources to support a lifestyle of big homes, fancy cars and other material things? Or, are we expending our resources on things which lift us up spiritually and help those around us. And for those of us who are investing in material things, how is it working out for us. Are we under undue anxiety each day in work we don’t enjoy, in an environment that is bad for us, in order to support a lifestyle that is not good for us or our families? For those of us who are investing our resources in things that help others, provide reasonable comfort for us and draws us closer to God, what are the fruits of those decisions. Are we having our needs, and those of others met in a life that is free of undue stress and fear?

Taking inventory,
Z gardener

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