Prayer is a collective energy. When I was thinking about the riot behavior that influences a group of people, that is how I view prayer and its power. Prayer is energy. Focused energy of one or a group that has the intention that can change the course of history. Communal energy can change a group of people and their behavior.
Verbal affirmations or chanting or singing a song’s verses are all ways we can pray. Our thoughts are tools of creation. Thoughts create our current reality. They change the mood of an individual. A group’s communal energy can change a group’s mood. There is a compounded power when multiple people are in the same thought.
“Again I say to you, if two of you agree on Earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
This verse in the Bible speaks to that.
When we think negatively and are hopeless, we create those possibilities. We do not open the door to the Now when hopeless, but we use our past experience and viewpoints we have taken from past outcomes to flavor the possibilities of what can be. Hope is not the past. It is belief in the possibilities of what can be in the future.
When we Know and have Belief or Faith, then our choices that come from the behavior and thought patterns we have can catapult us in ways we cannot even envision at the time. Possibility is as powerful as Knowing. It is a result and one with Knowing. I am continually in awe of how much I do not know. I just don’t know about things and knowledge, but I include knowing about myself. I am often surprised by the turn of events that blow my mind. There are so many things that I didn’t know were possible. How boring if we knew exactly how things would play out or come our way. Uncertainty is a gift that we fear frequently. We act and believe that we want predictability. We constantly try to control the future and predict others behavior to do so. Maybe that is why we think negatively or with a narrow mind with using our history to predict future possibilities. It makes us feel comfortable and safe to predict the future with our history of past outcomes. We will know exactly what we will have because it is what we always have had … bad luck, not getting what we want, having a lack of love or whatever. It’s safe to live as we always have because we will get what we always have gotten. Then we have something to complain about as well.
When we know that we are worthy of greatness, then our possibilities are unlimited. When we know we can work hard, then we know we can achieve. When we know that we will eventually receive what we are desiring when we work hard, we have hope and energy for that result. When we know that we are worthy children of God and that God wants us to live abundant lives rich in Love and Pleasure and Joy and Happiness and the like, then we have abounding possibilities of those outcomes.
There are possibilities that we cannot even envision. Those are the possibilities that amazing movies depict. We can be the star of our story that we tell to others or are told about us when we are dead to groups of people giving an account of an unbelievable turn of events because of our belief or thoughts of possibilities or prayer. Prayer can be a desire for an end result. This can be an end result that we cannot imagine. We can just know that there are possibilities for our achievement and success that we can’t envision. We can have a general idea for that outcome without specifics. Thing is, we can also have specific ideas for what we want as well. We have to be clear about our desire, ask if it aligns with Love, know that we are Worthy and Know that it will happen as if it has already happened or even better, is happening this moment. Happening this moment is like gears moving in a connected machine or ecosystem where you see the end result later because it took x to move y to move z to get the end result. Think about how connected all things are that a rock in the water causes a ripple that affects all things around it and how the extinction of a plant or insect can have a ripple effect on everything that depends on it in the ecosystem.
Our thoughts are that ripple in the water that affect the surrounding ecosystem and ourselves. Prayer is concentrated thought and that is concentrated energy like a laser beam … like a magnifying glass concentrating the sun into a beam of light that can burn a leaf and start a wildfire. When we have positive thoughts of Love for ourselves and others we start a wildfire of Love. When we can surrender control of our outcomes to the possibilities of our Knowing, we can be astounded by the outcomes of a wildfire of Love for ourselves and the ecosystem around us.
It isn’t easy to always have a thought process of Hope and Love and Belief and Knowing. We tend to fall into past viewpoints or past history of outcomes we perceive. We have to remind ourselves of the Now and how it is brand new and fresh with possibilities we cannot imagine. This is the daily practice I like to speak of .. this is the work we do .. the work we do on ourselves that impacts us and others.
I am ready to have my mind blown with the gifts we can receive that we cannot even imagine right now. I am ready to do the work. I am ready to be reminded of how stuck I can get with my thought process of past outcomes and history. Part of that is remembering that we are not our history. That history is valuable only to the extent that it put us where we are right now to choose a new future.
You have new opportunities to make choices you haven’t made before based on your new thoughts and knowing of what the future can be. We are told we can have anything and have Abundance. We can! We will! We have to believe and pray. If we as a united group of One have a communal thought of Abundant possibility of positive outcome, we can have anything we desire out of Love. We can have Love and not war. We can love and forgive our brother who is offending and love others for their different viewpoints.
I want to do this in my life. I want to practice daily and put in the work to have a desired outcome of what I cannot even envision because I have not ever experienced that thing. We can have positive outcomes and a positive future with our positive thoughts and hope. I want the Gift of uncertainty because I believe and pray and am worthy of Abundance.
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