Dr. Joseph Hooper Spiritual Director

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}When do you pray?}Redefining Prayer}Establishing a new relationship with prayer using new eyes and new methods. }Any expression directed toward or received by God.}NEW!  Everything expressed is prayer. Why? God is not an observer – God is activity and energy in motion.}You’re living it right now!

}Becoming intimately involved in the creation andout-picturing of our lives. Design not default.

}Power Praying

Affirmative Prayer - Spiritual Mind Treatment is:

}Requires us to reframe our concept of God.}Omnipresent – Omniscient – Omnipotent}Three O’s

But first...

}Always present - changing from “God is watching”to “God is there for you”}Omnipresent means that nothing in physicalform or otherwise exists outside the presence ofSpirit.}Nothing can exist “outside” because thereis no “outside”.

Omnipresent

}All knowing - not the score keeper - thatwould require intervention on our behalf to getinto “heaven”.}We believe that it means that which demonstratesall knowing, intelligence, thought, dream, idea, emotion, vision, all natural and spiritual law and every expression of consciousness that ever exist.

Omniscient

}Cosmic glue that holds this “thing” together.

}Spirit is all-powerful - not to direct, manipulate andintercede - to do so would eventually require that we embrace the idea of a punishing God. It is not a challenge or limitation - rather it is a unifying principle that demonstrates the magnificence of life.

Omnipotent

}Aligning these concepts, we can begin tounderstand the limitlessness of Spirit in our livesand throughout creation.

}Not two powers - 1 power - 2 would be chaotic.

}Peace and harmony are natural states of being -anything unlike Itself will eventually come to pass.

Before you even begin - clearly define - what is the purpose of your prayer?

B - I -N - G - O

Begin with God Include Yourself Name Your Good Give Thanks Over and Out

}Three O’s – what IS GOD TO YOU?

Step 1 Recognition “Begin With God”

}The stronger your statement of RECOGNITION, the more powerful with result will be.}God is!

}I KNOW is most powerful.

}However you choose to start – make sure the words evoke within you a sense of certainty that what you say is very real for you.

}Who are you? This question forms the foundation for the second step.}God is! - I am!

Step 2 Unification/Identification “Include Yourself ”

}Everything that Spirit does actualizes in only one of two ways; Spirit expresses and Spirit experiences.  That’s it!

}What brought you here today was Spirit expressing and experiencing.

}Seeing God in the tragedy and the triumphs.

}Predetermined}What is the purpose of your prayer?}Not talking about the condition - only affirmingit’s healed state.}Never pray anything out, only pray the right stuff in!

Step 3 - Realization/Declaration/ Affirmation “Name Your Good”

}It’s not about poverty, illness or chaos.

}It’s about abundance, health and order.

}Don’t talk about the problem - affirm whatyou want - not what you don’t want.

}Remember, every impress (both positive or negative) is eventually made known in your experience.

Step 3 – 4 Elements}Personal – (I, me) - This applies to my life.}Present – (now) - It’s right here and right now. (not hoping or wishing…knowing)}Positive – (what I want) - It’s creative, not destructive and not what we don’t want and not for something to go away. Pray in, not out.} Precise (quality of the condition) - It is done unto you as you believe. If you can’t believe it when you’re saying it…how can Spirit deliver?

}Now we need to call upon our emotional body to bring an additional dimension, a heart connection to this process.

First 3 steps are cognitive

}First question – do you use gratitude in your daily life?

}It’s not about a standard of civility—that becomes almost unconscious, mundane and has no real value.

}If there is an expectation of gratitude and it doesn’t come – well, you ungrateful )*&^$$%^*))(*&(_

Next we need to open our hearts to the beauty of what we know in Trust and create a resonance with that beauty.

}This step is about experiencing an authentic emotion that transcends language.  It is beyond the knowingness and into the peace and contentment of the demonstration itself.

Step 4 – Gratitude/Acceptance “Give Thanks”

}Don’t sabotage your treatment by moving into fear after step 3 – (some people begin questioning whether or not it will even materialize before they get out of step 3) -- move confidently into your gratitude.}You only give thanks for that which you already have and since you just affirmed that it is yours – you can give thanks that’s it’s already in your life!

Give thanks for that which you just affirmed.

}You don’t do this yourself.  You can’t. It’s done by means of you, but not by you.}The “How” is none of your business.}When we believe that things can only happen a certain way, we are saying that the only resources available to us in life are the ones we know about and know how to use. 

Step 5 – Release  “Over and Out”

}We take whatever action is appropriate to bring our prayer into form and the same time knowing that whatever needs to happen for Truth to be revealed has already occurred.

}We participate in the creative process without limiting the process to our own actions.

Release is NOT about sitting back and waiting for it to knock on our doors.

}For your prayer to be effective, your release statement must be more powerful and convincing than your desire to worry or any urge you may have to focus on the existing condition.

}If you believe that what you say is so, then let it go.  Allow the Universe to “release” and unfold for your highest good.}The result will be the full manifestation of your desire.

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