Sunday, September 18, 2016

​How to Pray for Others

SYNOPSIS: This Sunday we will focus on the idea "How to Pray for Others". I like the feeling I have when I pray with someone. It is an honor and a privilege. After all, we are one — the same God that is in them is in me. I know in my being that the highest and best is always taking place for them. I can know with them that love is present, no matter what even if they don’t know it or feel it.

FEATURED MUSICIAN: Pamela Van Kirk

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My lesson title for Sunday is How to Pray for Others. Over the years as a Unity minister and through the continual evolving of my spiritual understanding, I have come to pray with others, rather than for others. I like the feeling I have when I pray with someone. It is an honor and a privilege. After all, we are one — the same God that is in them is in me. I know in my being that the highest and best is always taking place for them. I can know with them that love is present, no matter what even if they don’t know it or feel it.
 
When I know this, I have a calm mind and trusting heart, giving thanks that God’s got it covered. If I don’t have this faith and trust, I am adding to the problem with my concern, anxiety or worry. Here is where the power of affirmative prayer comes in — it changes both the prayer and the person being prayed with. I must change my frame of mind, my consciousness, my attitude first, as I pray with another, rather than praying from worry and concern. In this way I become a peaceful, beneficial presence in the face of adversity and challenge. Easier said than done sometimes and it takes practice. But this I believe is our work as we evolve in consciousness and live from our true identity.
 
Eric Butterworth, author of The Universe Is Calling encourages us to pray from God, rather than to God. This Presence is not outside of ourselves. It is within and among us. I encourage us to wrap our minds around this idea — to believe it and to pray from and as the spiritual beings we are.
 
I look forward to being with you this Sunday. Our musicians include Pamela Van Kirk, Nate Parker, Gwen Gathercoal, along with song leader Mark Soss.
 
Meanwhile, I continue to pray with you, giving thanks for the goodness of Spirit, mighty in your midst.
 
In loving prayer,
 
Deidre