A Different Way of Praying

Asking God for Divine Outcome is the best prayer I know. When I’ve prayed for that, what's happened has been better than anything I could have thought of.

My prayers are personal. “Hi God. Please help John. He hates his job; it’s causing him to become ill. But the economy’s tough. I don't know what to pray for. Do I ask You to help him find another job? Or to change the circumstances about his job so things are better at work? Does he need to learn to deal with things differently; would that change how he feels about his job?”

Asking God for help can be difficult when you don’t know what to pray for.

One day, I was praying to God to help someone. I poured out the problem. But when I reached the point of asking God for the solution, I paused. What should I ask for? What was the best thing that should happen?  I couldn’t tell. So I stopped praying. I stopped mentally struggling with “figuring it out.” I  asked God what I should pray for. The answer came back, “Pray for Divine Outcome.”

I didn't understand what that meant or what could happen if I did, but I prayed for Divine Outcome. It released my struggle. I took the responsibility of figuring out what was best for someone else, away from me, and put it in God’s hands.

Finding out what happens when I've asked for Divine Outcome has deepened my understanding of what it can bring.  For instance,

…A former neighbor of mine was a disabled veteran on limited income. He kept trying to win custody of his little girl and losing. He could not prove what he knew about his ex-wife—she was a drug addict; her boy friend, a drug dealer.  When I saw him, he was discouraged.  He was going to court the next day to try for custody.  It would be the last time; he was running out of money.  He didn’t expect to win, but he said he had to try.

That night when I was praying, I thought about how small his chances were of winning. He couldn’t prove his ex-wife was into drugs. He had limited income. Alot of things that on the surface would make  a judge think that his wife should remain the custodial parent. I couldn't see how things could possibly work out, but I asked God for Divine Outcome.

A few days later I saw him and asked what happened. He told me the trial was going the same way as all the others. It looked like the judge would rule that his ex-wife would keep custody of their daughter. But at the last minute, a person stood up and said they wanted to testify about his ex‑wife. This wasn’t anyone he knew. That testimony was enough to cause the judge to rule for him to have custody of his daughter.

…A man told me his 14 year old daughter was to be tried as a juvenile delinquent but had run away to Portland and was living on the streets. He was going there to search for her. If he found her, he would have to turn her in. He said she would hate him for that. But he couldn't stand by and let her be on the streets.

I prayed for him that night. I didn’t know what to pray for. It seemed whatever happened, he’d lose his daughter. So I asked for Divine Outcome.

When I saw him later, he told me that he'd gone to Portland and looked everywhere but couldn't find her. So he finally gave up and went home. But a funny thing happened. She spotted him and hid so he wouldn’t see her. But then, she phoned her Mom and came home.

Divine Outcome is like that—always answering a prayer in a way I would not have thought of. And it's perfect!  Finding out that Divine Outcome is such a perfect prayer fills me with a confidence that I will always be asking for the best possible solution to happen.  Even when I don't see how things can work out, God does.

Batyah

Lessons from God

It's strange to feel heaven and yet not be able to help others see it unless they're ready. I pass up talking with people who like to dance with words about what "it's all about."  They are full of opinions and beliefs, having fun stretching their mental muscles.  That's okay for them, but that dance holds no meaning for me.  I have walked through doorways to something so much more, that makes me hungry for even more.

If I tell you that the most profound joy and goodness imaginable is but a taste of God's nature, will it have meaning for you?  Can you let go of ideas like God is punishing you when something painful happens in your life, so you can draw from God what you most need, so you can go through the experience with Divine support? Will what I share with you help you stop focusing on "sin", "sinners".... and help you know that the most profound holiness and goodness is part of you--is your Divine nature.   The inner core that is Divine and pure in us can be ignored by us, but it doesn't change that it is there.  And if we focus on it instead, express it, we will be touching what is Sacred in us.  We can't touch that without touching God and experiencing the Divine qualities of God.

When Jesus appeared to me, I asked what he meant by "sin."  Jesus told me that sin was an act of "unlove" toward yourself or another.  I could not imagine that the answer would be like that.  But there it was.  How God thinks of sin.  That answer makes it easier to look at our actions and see them for what they are--are they loving or not?  It puts the focus on what we need to look at--what are truly loving actions and what are not. Recognizing that can lead to growth and much more.  It gives us a focus, a measuring stick on whether we're really being spiritual as God means "spiritual."  It makes it easier to identify where we are stuck; where we go off track; where we need help.

There was no condemnation in Jesus about the word "sin."  It was just a fact.  To sin means to commit an act of "unlove."  So if we are all sinners, then it means we need to know more about what spiritual love is so we can clearly understand it and live it.  And that is the spiritual journey.

Love is the fabric that all of Creation--people, animals, everything, are tied to spiritually.  For our Divine natures to truly blossom, then our foundation must be strong in understanding and knowing what spiritual love is, and living it.  And when we go off track, to recognize it and discover why we went off track so we can change that behavior or way of thinking, and move forward again.

Our minds cannot "create" what Spiritual love is.  It exists, whether we live it or not, because it did not come from us.  It is the tie we share with all things.  If you can let go of your opinions, beliefs, ideas and go to God and ask to be guided and shown what God means by spiritual love, you will free your mind to receive an Answer bigger and better than anything you have been taught or believe.  God wants you to know.  Ask.

Happy New Year.  May this posting give you food for thought.    ...Batyah

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