Click for audio: The Affirmative Prayer

J Douglas Bottorff

“Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil” (Matthew 5:37).

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of prayer: petitionary and affirmative. The petitionary prayer assumes we are separate from God and that it is necessary to petition God with our request for help. This is the levitra super force without prescription most common type of prayer. Affirmative prayer assumes our oneness with God. Its purpose is to realign our mental and emotional energies with the ever-expansive nature of God always at work in our lives.

Think of yourself as immersed in the ever-expanding presence of God. Think of that health, prosperity or relationship issue you are praying about as a kind of blockage, an interruption to this ever-expanding presence. Affirmative prayer assumes your desire for freedom is in alignment with the expansive will of God. You say ‘no’ to the appearance of blockage and ‘yes’ to the truth that greater good is unfolding through you now.

This process of saying ‘yes’ and ‘no’ is not directed to the actual condition, but to our thought and emotional energies concerning the appearance. You can think of this as a kind of attention switch. When you worry, your attention switch is turned on to an unfavorable outcome. You are saying ‘yes’ to something you do not want. Turn this switch to ‘no.’ Let go of all fear and doubt concerning the appearance. Turn on the switch that says ‘yes’ to the truth that God’s greater good is now unfolding in your life. Pour your thought and emotional energies into the type of positive outcome you desire – this or something better.

Saying ‘no’ to a negative appearance does not mean we ignore it. If our sink is plugged, we might need to grab a plunger. We’re saying ‘no’ to the negative thought and emotion that we’re giving the levitra tschechien kaufen appearance, and ‘yes’ to the constructive thought and emotion that will influence a desirable outcome.

We say ‘no’ (turn the switch off) to, Why is this happening to me? or, God, please give me this or that answer. We say ‘yes’ (turn the switch on) to something like, Greater good is now unfolding through this situation. Our thought and emotional energies are in affirmative alignment with the ever-expanding, greater good of God unfolding though our lives now.