When you set out to solve a problem by means of prayer you should take all the ordinary normal steps in addition. Do not simply pray and then sit down and wait for something dramatic to happen. For instance, if you are praying for a position, you should pray for it as well as you know how each day, and then go out and visit agencies or prospective employers, write applications, or insert advertisements in suitable periodicals.
If you want a healing, treat about it in whatever way you usually find to be best and, in addition, take whatever material steps seem to be appropriate.
If your business is not prospering, have a checkup to discover if you are managing it efficiently. If you find weak points, as you almost certainly will, you must correct them forthwith.
We certainly cannot expect to go on breaking the laws of the plane on which we live, and expect prayer to compensate for this foolishness.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might… (Ecclesiastes 9:10).
Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. This is also true in the spiritual plane. When we pray for God to deliver us from some circumstance, we must be willing to change our actions that created the circumstance. If someone else or something else is responsible for our situation (which is usually not the case), then we must be prepared to do that which is necessary to contribute to and/or support the change for which we pray.
God can and will do everything necessary for our best good. Yet it is our job to act or respond in ways that accept, support and yield to the help and guidance of God. Many miracles have been rejected by the intended recipient because they were unwilling to do what was necessary to receive it.
When we sublimate our will to God’s will, then all things are possible. Then we can walk each day in the Eden God created for us; not in perfection, but in peace, hope and true joy.
Doing the work,
Z gardener
Author’s Note: Today we are blessed to have three new visitors in the Good Morning Garden. Each are successful businessmen, loving husbands and fathers who live their faith by example and bring light to all they touch. Welcome to the Garden brothers.
Z
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