The secret of prayer is to find the process that will most effectively open your mind humbly to God. Any method through which you can stimulate the power of God to flow into your mind is legitimate.<\/p>\n
An illustration of a scientific use of prayer is the experience of a man who opened a small business\u2014as he characterized it, \u201ca little hole in the wall\u201d in New York City\u2014years ago. He had one employee. In a few years they moved into a larger room and then into extensive quarters. It became a very successful operation. This man\u2019s method of business as he described it was \u201cto fill the little hole in the wall with optimistic prayers and thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n
He declared that hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people and the proper kind of praying always get results. This man worked out his own simple formula for solving his problems through prayer power. The formula is: Prayerize, Picturize, Actualize. By \u201cprayerize\u201d my friend meant a daily system of creative prayer.<\/p>\n
When a problem arose, he talked it over with God simply and directly in prayer. Moreover, he conceived of God as being with him in his office, in his home, on the street, in his automobile, always nearby as a partner. He took seriously the Biblical injunction to \u201cpray without ceasing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He interpreted it as meaning that he should go about every day discussing with God in a natural, normal manner the questions that had to be dealt with. He did not often kneel to offer his prayers but would, for example, say to God, \u201cWhat will I do about this, Lord?\u201d or \u201cGive me a fresh insight on this, Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second point in his formula of creative prayer is to \u201cpicturize.\u201d The basic factor in physics is force. The basic factor in psychology is the realizable wish. When either failure or success is picturized it strongly tends to actualize in terms equivalent to the mental image pictured. Continue to surrender the picture to God\u2019s will\u2014 that is to say, put the matter in God\u2019s hands\u2014and follow God\u2019s guidance. Work hard and intelligently, thus doing your part to achieve success.<\/p>\n
Practice believing and continue to hold the picture in your thoughts. Do this and you will be astonished at the strange ways in which the picture comes to pass. In this manner the picture \u201cactualizes.\u201d That which you have \u201cprayerized\u201d and \u201cpicturized\u201d \u201cactualizes\u201d according to the pattern of your basic realizable wish when conditioned by invoking God\u2019s power upon it, and if, moreover, you give fully of yourself to its realization.<\/p>\n
I have practiced this prayer method and find great power in it. I have known many other people who have successfully applied this technique. When sincerely and intelligently brought into situations, this has produced such excellent results that it must be regarded as an extraordinarily efficient method of prayer. People who take this method seriously and actually use it get astonishing results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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