Prayer can improve your personal life if you believe in it. If you don’t believe in the power of prayer, you will not benefit from it.

True prayer is not begging or beseeching, it is right knowing. It is not a matter of trying to make something happen, but of becoming aware of that which already is.

It is not a time to say “Please”, but to say “Thank You”.  It is a matter of attaining a state of mind that permits divine action to express itself in us and through us. It is a form of recognition of God’s perfecting action and our surrender to it. It is true that prayer changes things but only because prayer changes us.

Divine order does not need to be altered. We must make the adjustment if things are going to be different. Effective prayer changes our way of thinking and feeling. It opens us to new ideas and new points of view which lead to self improvement.

 Have you ever met the type of people that always seem to say the same things over and over, such as ”I was born this or that way”, “There’s nothing I can do about it, that’s just the way I am”. Subconciously, they set themselves up for failure. They seem ignorant of the fact they can improve themselves and they can overcome their weaknesses.

Prayer raises us to another level, it teaches us that we are not meant to yield to our weaknesses, but to overcome them. Self improvement is life’s main purpose. The law of life tells us that we cannot stand still. We must grow. We must keep improving ourselves. That is life’s main issue. All of life’s experiences are for the purpose of improving ourselves.