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**SOURCE:** tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 09, 2002. Teacher Minearisa
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Virginia: I have heard that as we pray for individuals that we can pray to their Thought Adjuster. That our Thought Adjusters talk to each other all the time, communicate or whatever it is that they do, and that, indeed, we can ask our Thought Adjusters to talk to the other Thought Adjuster of the individual that we would seek to influence for God's love that would then be the impetus for truth, beauty, and goodness.
Minearisa: When you pray to someone else's Indwelling Fragment you must pray in the same manner as you pray to your own indwelling Presence of God; which means you say, "Nevertheless, not my ideas, my proposals, my plans, my understanding, my smart this or that, but Your will be done". When you pray for another to their Thought Adjuster, be assured, that their Adjuster does not need suggestions.
Virginia: Perhaps the suggestions should come my direction, is that what you are saying? To my Thought Adjuster?
Minearisa: Let me see if I can give you a picture. Here is you and there is the person you are praying for. Surrounding you is your Thought Adjuster and surrounding them is theirs. You desire something for this other person of a spiritual nature: personal growth, improved communication, greater self esteem, forgiveness, whatever it may be. As you have that prayer you say in your soul, without words probably, "Nevertheless, not what I wish, but Your will be done". It goes through the Thought Adjuster surrounding you, over to the other person. If you are praying to that other Thought Adjuster then that prayer passes through your Thought Adjuster presence and your qualifying prayer applies over there as well. Then, that prayer impacts the soul of the person you are praying for, through their mind, perhaps, but ultimately to their soul. They may not or seldom will get that thought that you had, popping into their head. But something will be impressed into their soul. I use these very inadequate descriptions in order to let you know that your prayer for others is not wasted time.
Now the text emphasizes that the greatest value of prayer is what it does for the one who prays, and that is correct. As you offer your prayer for others contingent upon the will of God, your life becomes more contingent upon the will of God. But it is also true that your prayers for others make a difference. They impress the soul. There is research showing that prayers for others can affect their physical well being and result in enhanced healing.
Virginia: I certainly believe that prayer moves me as much as it does someone else. I think that God's love from the other person's Thought Adjuster is able to love that other person more than any mortal can do. So I think that is why I was thinking to know for sure that my prayers were heard.
Minearisa: Yes, indeed, your prayers are heard to the degree that they transcend selfishness. As you pray unselfishly for others, those prayers are very effective.
Prayer is an exploration of the unknown
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**SOURCE:** Lightline Teleconference 2024-11-21 Teacher: Amanson T/R: Mark |
Amanson on Prayer
'Prayer' is an expansion of consciousness. It keeps you aware of the possibilities of where that consciousness can take you and the many ways that consciousness — your consciousness — might be applied. Prayer puts your foot on 'The Open Road', that road that traverses mountains, streams, plains, valleys, galaxies. Prayer is your vehicle, for it lifts you as it lifts others.
Prayer is the gift of Spirit from the Spirit, and, in full circle, to the Spirit. This is the realm in which prayer "moves, breathes, and has its being." Prayer will often 'consolidate its gains' in the physical world but prayer's real function and home is in the dimension of Spirit.
Now, prayer, yes, is most often called upon to fix things, change things, in the material realm, and Spirit can and will indeed make such desires a reality — Spirit's function after all is creation — the pray-er's function after all is creation — but Creation is so active in so many ways in so many dimensions that the pray-er may not have any idea the strength, the length, or the real function of his or her prayer. We think we pray to keep our house in order but "In my Father's house there are many mansions", mansions where your prayer may be of particular use far beyond that which you believe you are praying for. And, as prayer is a gift from Spirit to Spirit, Spirit and all its vast understanding will know what your prayer is for, what it is *really* for, and who will most benefit when the time comes for the benefit. And the trust you place in both the process and the effectiveness of the process is what most steers the engine to arrive at all of its many destinations, even though you began the journey with only one in mind.
Prayer is the single most effective way to bridge the gap between man and divinity, for it not only addresses and acknowledges divinity but sets it in motion, with verifiable results; but, as I say, often not where you initially expected to find them.
Allow your Interior Partner to carry out God's part of the bargain. You have the goal in mind. Your all-seeing Partner has the strategy. Prayer is not an asking, prayer is an acceptance of change. Is it the change you were seeking? Ultimately, yes. However, you may not understand the change you are seeking. Prayer will teach you what that is.
Prayer is an exploration of the unknown. We think of it as a simple asking, when it is our ticket to eternity and all the stops along the way.