“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. “
- Mahatma Gandhi
We exercise to build physical strength and stamina. Repetitive prayer and meditation build spiritual strength and spiritual stamina.
Prayer Practice Guide
1. Establish a daily prayer routine. Repetition builds energetic power for you and the impact of your prayers.
2. Create a sacred place within your home for your prayer activity. Go there when you feel there is a need to be in prayer. This could be your favorite chair, a home office space, your bathroom, or even a prayer closet. For you DIY’ers – your prayer place could be the garage or workshop. For artists, their studio may be the most sacred space in their life. Use the space that brings you peace.
3. Pray for yourself, so you bring the best for yourself physically and spiritually.
4. Pray with veracity and love. Take a moment to fill your heart with love. If you need assistance, call on Archangel Chamuel to fill your heart with his loving energy. Call any Divine being that you know their energy is based in love. Prayers of gratitude also raise the vibration to a loving state.
5. Pray with intention. Clearly state the result you desire. Being specific and focused during prayer. This increases the power of the prayer and will allow you to more easily recognize the answer or outcome of the prayer.
6. Speak out loud to add power. There is power in the voice that is spoken from the depths of the soul. Even when it is just a whisper, your voice has real spiritual laden power.
7. After accomplishing the above for yourself, then pray for others.
8. Keep a power prayer journal - document how God has responded to your prayers.
Many of you have your favorite prayer to recite or type of prayer that brings results in your life. Here is one of my favorite prayers: The Peace Prayer.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
The Peace Prayer has within it a list of emotions that many of us have experienced. This prayer gave me instruction or guide to follow when I am in a less than favorable situation. The second through the sixth line reflects circumstances you could find yourself: hatred, injury, terror, despair, darkness, and sadness. For example, “Where there is hatred, let me sow love;” Initially, I imagined that someone else was spewing hatred, and I was to bring love into that situation. Later, after saying this prayer many times, wisdom stepped in and made me ask myself, “When I am the one spewing hatred, can I make a shift to sow love?” I found that I could shift. Changing my point of view was a sign that I was expanding my spiritual awareness. Repeated awareness to shift my negative emotions/reactions under various situations to something more loving was a sign of Spiritual Stamina – stick-to-itiveness of this wisdom. It has been my experience that it is easier for me to see the struggle in someone else than to admit my struggle. We must always go within to know the truth about ourselves and in every situation.
Prayer time is a perfect time to be honest and open with yourself and the God of your understanding. Eight simple steps that can take less than 10 minutes a day is all you need to build spiritual strength and spiritual stamina.
Blessings from my Soul to your Soul Always,
Medium Kimberly Thomas
Kimberly’s Intuitive Spiritual Sessions, LLC
