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Broadcasting and Affirmative Prayer

Are you connecting with God when you pray?

Yoga and metaphysics, although separate paths, greatly enrich one another. Successful practitioners of both paths become transformed as they come to know Spirit. They discover the celestial awareness in which they can live conscious of Spirit at all times. The great metaphysician Ernest Holmes (The Ernest Holmes Papers) writes that through affirmative prayer we can attune with Spirit and help It to manifest. Praying affirmatively is asserting the presence, reality, love, light and power of God in all situations.

Essential Life Skills, Prayer

Ernest Holmes:  Tune in with your creative God and live creatively. Here are his five steps to abundant health and creative living:

  • Have a goal which you examine and refresh as needed
  • Visualize yourself as having the right character traits needed for the celestial place
  • Keep your goal and vision in mind through practice and repetition
  • Sacrifice your time and effort. Practice and study toward your goal
  • Have faith and trust. (You are employing consciousness in a conscious universe — expect results.)

God Moves and Expresses

Ernest Holmes taught that people with the greatest awareness of God pray most effectively. Affirmative prayer helps manifest and assert the presence, reality, love, light and power of God.

Affirmative prayer:  You pray trusting. You know God is there and your prayer is something you and God are expressing together. You know there is a benefit, that your prayer has an effect. It is important to live in the awareness that your prayer is coming into manifestation. God gives, moves and expresses through affirmative prayer.

What is japa?
1. An easy way to increase devotion
1. An easy way to increase devotion
True, but there is a better answer.
2. Reverently repeating God’s name
2. Reverently repeating God’s name
True, but there is a better answer.
3. Meditative repetition of a mantram
3. Meditative repetition of a mantram
True, but there is a better answer.
4. All of the above
4. All of the above
Correct
Hear more about how the practice of japa increases devotion and concentration.

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