The Language of Change is Prayer

Prayer is full-bodied energetically creative process that engages the mind, body and spirit. Prayer commands, directs, affirms, accepts and releases the creative energy of the universe (that we often call God) in order to shift the energy we use to attract our experiences and create our desired state. Prayer is not a “wish-list” that we give to a Santa-like being for fulfillment, nor is prayer a complaint session about what is going “wrong” in your life. The reason that prayer is NOT these things is because “what you pray is what you get”. When you “wish” you continually place yourself in a state of lack, and you perpetuate your lack. When you complain, you continually place yourself in the energy of victimhood that creates the complaint and you perpetuate that situation.

Everything you do releases creative energy. You know from science class that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For every prayer there is a corresponding change in the universe. Just as when a butterfly flaps its wings in Madagascar and the air current that is made builds into what becomes a hurricane. When you pray long enough, hard enough and efficiently enough you see the winds of change in your life.

If Prayer is the language of Change, and you want to change for the better, then pray the Upside because what you pray is what you get.

Pray the Upside!!!

Instead of praying your weakness claim your strength. In the church of my youth there was a custom of praying weakness that was based on the idea that we were all born sinners and were inherently unworthy of God’s grace. Therefore, we had to beg for it and plead for it and grovel for it due to our inherent guilt. There is a new truth now, and that new truth is that we are, and always have been beloved children of God in whom God is so well pleased. Therefore we are worthy of every gift and blessing of God’s grace. When we claim our worthiness and our deservingness, we create the energy that draws our good to us.

Instead of praying your brokenness pray your healing. If you pray your “brokenness” you will stay broken.

Instead of praying your story claim your truth. Your story is who you were then based on the limited consciousness of that moment. Your story has emotions and energies attached to it. Your truth is in who you are NOW, based on the new truth that you are learning. NOW is the moment of grace that changes everything, so you can create something new for yourself in this moment of Grace. When you pray your story, you deny this moment of grace because you are praying the past instead of praying the now. Your story is in your past, and praying your story is like driving forward with your eyes glued to the rear-view mirror. Is hard to drive forward when your eyes are fixated on the rear view. Are you praying your story, or are you praying your truth?

Pray for an Income

Instead of praying for an outcome, pray for an income. Usually praying for an outcome involves factors that are beyond your control, and interfere in the Universe’s grand plan. So instead of pray for an income. I’m not talking about an income of money necessarily. I’m talking about an income of peace, where peace comes into your heart where confusion and drama have lived. For example, instead of praying that your child take a specific course of action, you pray “God I can’t control the actions of this child or what she creates, but I ask for peace in my heart because I have done the best that I could do. I know I can’t learn her lessons for her, but I ask for peace for myself and wisdom for my child so that she learns her lessons as comfortably as possible.

You can pray for an income of understanding so that you are able to see a situation differently. For example, God help me to see this job not as a reflection of my worth, but as a tool to help my soul express, and as my soul expresses more fully, I will create the job that fits my soul, so I am willing to see the situation differently.

You can pray for an income of compassion for yourself that becomes out-pictured in the form of compassion that you give to and receive from others. For example, you might pray the following “love prayer” - God I can’t make this person love me the way that I want to be loved, but I am willing to love myself more, so that I can experience more love in my world.

You can pray for an income of the Holy Spirit that can give you the divine amnesia to take away fear, guilt, anger, doubt, regret and anything else that robs you of the peace that is your natural state.

To take it further, you must not only speak the language of change, but you must also speak the dialogue of change. If the language of change is prayer, the dialect of prayer for change is Transformative prayer. Transformative prayer takes prayer one step further because it breaks the spell that your past has over you. It doesn’t ignore or deny your past, but instead it releases the energy of your past that you are using to create your current situation. You then are free to create a new situation with from a blank slate without the tainted echoes of your past. Acknowledge the energy that your story holds and then release it. When you release this energy, the void that results creates the space for the new energy, the new truth to come in. This is healing, for all healing is the substitution of truth where there has been an illusion. Where there has been the illusion of your weakness, you find that the situations that you have experienced have shown you areas of strength that you didn’t even know existed. When you transform the energy of your past, your past experiences won’t come back again because the energy of the universe has transformed that energy. You then have the “divine amnesia” where you forget about your victimhood. Instead of being paralyzed by the fear of failure, failure will never cross your mind because you have left no room in your mind for doubt. That space in your mind had been flooded by the light of God and the hope that God’s light brings. So if prayer is the language of change, pray for an affirmative positive change that acknowledges and invokes the transformative power of God. Pray your good, pray your strength, pray your deservingness as the beloved child of God in whom God is well pleased, and remember that God has your back