Excerpt from Lessons on Prayer--Teacher Welmek
From Lesson One:
Prayer is an effective tool for you to craft for yourself a larger composite framework of your reality perception. It is also used to help others, for them to craft this larger framework for themselves, and to move aggregate patterns of human thinking and institutions into those realms where they become infused and enlivened with the facts and the meanings and the values of God’s plan for this planet.
This is a fundamental departure from the way that most humans think. It is an active, cooperative team effort that you are bringing your conscious participatory thoughts in the making – in the actual creation – of Heaven on Earth. There is no other human thought form more important than prayer.
For this is how you actually blend yourself into the universal fabric that you are a part of. I do not expect you to appreciate the full meaning of these words yet, for this is a much deeper use of the idea of prayer than has been previously presented. But these ideas will sink in, and they will take root, and they will combine with your thoughts, and they will yield new awareness and desires to participate in prayer more consciously and consistently throughout the day.
From Lesson Two:
Prayers are an attempt to bring in something greater of spiritual reality into the lives of these people, who are perhaps still sleeping in spirit and not yet fully aware of the potential of love and truth and peace and joy that can be activated within them.
Your answers all carried within it the awareness that you were bringing something into their inner being that is good and that is helpful and nurturing – that they may not have even thought about in their own mind or their own lives.
In prayer, you are carefully planting a new spiritual ideal within the mindal environment of those individuals for whom you pray. Think of how a seed, when it has been placed in fertile soil, is conserved so that it can grow by having its roots firmly established in the soil in its home environment.
Prayer is your conserving of this spiritual ideal that you are now introducing into the mindal environment of your brothers and sisters. This might be the only time in their lives that they have something planted within them that goes right into their young, and perhaps yet uncultivated, foundation of truth.
You were all planting these seedling ideas, and you all experienced certain responses of hope, of empathy, of love, of joy that something new is happening within them. So, as you have planted this idea within them through your prayer – as it has been instituted in them through the prayer circuitry – let your continued prayer attempts for them be to foster this environment. Through your prayers, add the rain and the sun that they need for this seedling thought to take root in the soil of their mind – and to grow – to become a sprout and a bud and a flower.
Opening your heart, feeling the Father’s love for this individual, will water this seed. Asking for Michael’s truth will be the sun that illuminates this idea within their foundation. Ask Mother Spirit to continue to work within their minds, to open and to make that environment with them soft, receptive. This is how you can serve and grow this seedling within them.
So, as you pray for these individuals, keep these ideas of seedling nurturing in your mind. This is one of the most beautiful services you can perform for your brothers and sisters, for you are helping them in the very way that is gentle, that is compassionate, that is subtle. The ways of spirit do not try to coerce people to grow. No, my friends, spirit moves in the lives of these individuals by embellishing those ideas of truth, so that they become so enlarged within the mind and hearts of the individual – that will lead them to say "yes”, and to receive and to become that which is growing within them.
When you pray for these individuals in the future, recall the experience that you had in prayer tonight, and let this guide you. Use this as a measurement within your own mind of the service that you have performed – for you have all gained a greater realization of the value of what you were doing. And so, continue to use this as your impetus to pray for these individuals.
Prayer is an effective tool for you to craft for yourself a larger composite framework of your reality perception. It is also used to help others, for them to craft this larger framework for themselves, and to move aggregate patterns of human thinking and institutions into those realms where they become infused and enlivened with the facts and the meanings and the values of God’s plan for this planet.
This is a fundamental departure from the way that most humans think. It is an active, cooperative team effort that you are bringing your conscious participatory thoughts in the making – in the actual creation – of Heaven on Earth. There is no other human thought form more important than prayer.
For this is how you actually blend yourself into the universal fabric that you are a part of. I do not expect you to appreciate the full meaning of these words yet, for this is a much deeper use of the idea of prayer than has been previously presented. But these ideas will sink in, and they will take root, and they will combine with your thoughts, and they will yield new awareness and desires to participate in prayer more consciously and consistently throughout the day.
From Lesson Two:
Prayers are an attempt to bring in something greater of spiritual reality into the lives of these people, who are perhaps still sleeping in spirit and not yet fully aware of the potential of love and truth and peace and joy that can be activated within them.
Your answers all carried within it the awareness that you were bringing something into their inner being that is good and that is helpful and nurturing – that they may not have even thought about in their own mind or their own lives.
In prayer, you are carefully planting a new spiritual ideal within the mindal environment of those individuals for whom you pray. Think of how a seed, when it has been placed in fertile soil, is conserved so that it can grow by having its roots firmly established in the soil in its home environment.
Prayer is your conserving of this spiritual ideal that you are now introducing into the mindal environment of your brothers and sisters. This might be the only time in their lives that they have something planted within them that goes right into their young, and perhaps yet uncultivated, foundation of truth.
You were all planting these seedling ideas, and you all experienced certain responses of hope, of empathy, of love, of joy that something new is happening within them. So, as you have planted this idea within them through your prayer – as it has been instituted in them through the prayer circuitry – let your continued prayer attempts for them be to foster this environment. Through your prayers, add the rain and the sun that they need for this seedling thought to take root in the soil of their mind – and to grow – to become a sprout and a bud and a flower.
Opening your heart, feeling the Father’s love for this individual, will water this seed. Asking for Michael’s truth will be the sun that illuminates this idea within their foundation. Ask Mother Spirit to continue to work within their minds, to open and to make that environment with them soft, receptive. This is how you can serve and grow this seedling within them.
So, as you pray for these individuals, keep these ideas of seedling nurturing in your mind. This is one of the most beautiful services you can perform for your brothers and sisters, for you are helping them in the very way that is gentle, that is compassionate, that is subtle. The ways of spirit do not try to coerce people to grow. No, my friends, spirit moves in the lives of these individuals by embellishing those ideas of truth, so that they become so enlarged within the mind and hearts of the individual – that will lead them to say "yes”, and to receive and to become that which is growing within them.
When you pray for these individuals in the future, recall the experience that you had in prayer tonight, and let this guide you. Use this as a measurement within your own mind of the service that you have performed – for you have all gained a greater realization of the value of what you were doing. And so, continue to use this as your impetus to pray for these individuals.