Prayer
Regardless of your faith, if you have one you will want to pray. If you don’t have faith, start to pray and get one. If you are a Christian you are going to want to pray to Jesus. Prayer is simple, it’s like talking to your self accept you are talking to something far grater. You can pray for anything you want,
“Oh Lord won’t you buy me a colour TV.” Janis Joplin
You can pray for such things and often they will arrive, but not as soon as you hope and don’t count on it. Can you imagine all the requests God receives for material possessions and he only hands so many of them around. But there is something God provides an infinite supply of and that’s wisdom.
“If any of you lack wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.” James 1:5
The wisdom that comes from prayer leads to a saner more manageable life. Look at the sanity in the church, the almost saint like qualities of those that were born to it and never left. The stories of the lost who found salvation in Christ. Consider the alcoholic, who drinks and behaves badly and fails to see he has a problem. Eventually someone convinces him to go to AA, he wakes up to him self and starts to pray for wisdom. The alcoholic finds sanity in prayer to a higher power.
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for the knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.” Sep 11 AA
For some psychological conditions, it is a short term thing, a break down to recover from. Other cases it’s a life long condition which can only be managed more wisely. Either way through prayer the wisdom can be attained to live as God intends for you to do.
“I pray I find it helps.”
“When you pray do you get answers?”
“Some times.”
“How do the answers come in?”
“It’s hard to explain, take up prayer and you might see what I mean.”
“Do the answers come in as voices?”
“Look I’m sure it’s not crazy to pray and get answers!”
You can pray for stuff, health, wisdom, someone else and there are prayers of gratitude “all good things come from God.” Gratitude is the key to happiness. Practice gratitude and you will soon find you have more to be grateful for. It takes practice, it’s not like you think of something to be grateful for and then you’re happy, although sometimes it happens that way. God is more like;ey to give to those who appreciate what He offers. Given time gratitude will yield a bounty of small everyday gifts and miracles.
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