☆ ANSWERED PRAYER ☆
[Prayer is a great issue to have clear. What’s really fascinating is that very reliable spiritual thinkers like acim and jsg verbalize it differently but if you read enough of them you see there’s no final conflict. What neither of them agree with is any religious approach whatsoever.]
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Rightly speaking, there is not God and you, but God is ever manifest as you, and this is the oneness which assures you of infinite good. God is the life, mind, body, and substance of individual being; therefore, nothing can be added to any individual, and true prayer is the constant recognition of this truth. Conscious awareness of our true being – of the infinite nature and character of our only being – this, too, is prayer. In this consciousness, instead of seeking, asking, waiting, in prayer, we turn our thought inward and listen for the “still small voice” which assures us that even before we asked, our Father knew and fulfilled the need. Here is the great secret of prayer, that God is all-in-all and God is forever manifested. There is no unmanifested good or God. That which we seem to be seeking is ever-present within us, and already manifested, and we need to know this truth. All good already is, and is forever manifested. The recognition of this truth is answered prayer. Our health, wealth, employment, home, and harmony are then not dependent on some far-off God, are never dependent on a channel or person or place, but are eternally at hand, omnipresent, within our very consciousness; and the recognition of this fact is answered prayer. “I and my Father are one,” and this accounts for the completeness of individual being. Properly speaking, there is not God and you. It is impossible to pray aright unless this truth is understood; and unless we know our real relationship to Deity, prayer becomes but blind faith or belief rather than understanding. It is our conscious awareness of the oneness of Being – the oneness of Life, Truth, Love – that results in answered prayer.
Joel Solomon Goldsmith
The Infinite Way