Knowing the immense, Divine connection that my Aunt Jean has co-created with the entire family throughout her life, I can only imagine the UNWAVERING and vigilant FAITH now being felt in her hospital room as she begins the process of healing her body from yesterday's arduous surgery. With the KNOWINGNESS that despite her current suffering and outward appearance and affectations from the surgeons scalpels, that 'SHE too, shall rise again', and knowing Aunt Jean, stronger than before! Every step of her Journey has been an AMAZING experience for us all lucky enough to bear witness. No thing short of a daily 'Soulabration' of life affirmed and lived through the TRUE understanding of Jesus the Christ's words, "This, and greater works than these, ONE day, you too, shall do!"
It also has recalled one of my favorite explanations of the USAGE of Faith in prayer from Book 3 of Neale Donald Walsh's 'Conversations with God' series..........
NDW: Does that mean I cannot ask for anything I want? Are You saying that praying for something actually pushes it away from us?
This is a question which has been asked through the Ages-and has been answered whenever it has been asked. Yet you have not heard the answer, or will not believe it.
The question is answered again, in today's terms, and today's language, thusly:
You will not have that for which you ask, nor can you have anything you want. This is because your very request is a statement of lack, and your saying you want a thing only works to produce that precise experience wanting in your reality.
The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude.
When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you, in effect, acknowledge that it is there ... in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered.
Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate.
NDW: But what if I am grateful to God in advance for something and it never shows up? That could lead to disillusionment bitterness.
Gratitude cannot be used as a tool with which to manipulate God; a device with which to fool the universe. You cannot lie to yourself. Your mind know the truth of your thoughts. If you are saying "Thank you God, for such and such," all the while being very clear that it isn't there in your present reality, you can' expect God to be less clear than you, and so produce it for you.
God knows what you know, and what you know is what appears as your reality.
NDW: But how then can I be truly grateful for something I know is not there?
Faith. if you have but the faith of a mustard seed, you shall move mountains. You come to know it is there because I said it is there; because I said that, even before you ask, I shall have answered; because I said, and have said to you in every conceivable way, through every teacher you can name, that whatsoever you shall choose, choosing it in My Name, so shall it be.
I would like to send out a heartfelt 'Thank You' for everyone who is sending our mother, aunt, wife, friend, sister, and INSPIRATION, Aunt Jean, the Grace and Love of God now and in the coming weeks of her recovery!
Nerdmaste,
Jeffrey Louis Martinez
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