#Unless You Follow Through on it, #YourPrayerisWrong (Start to Get it Right, with @iLoveMyJobJP & @MarWilliamson)
Former Presidential-candidate Marianne Williamson shared this call-to-prayer with her Facebook-'list':
'I' (or 'The Holy Spirit through me') responded:
No; people need to FOLLOW THE PATH their prayer reveals (rather than
think of 'prayer' as "a program that makes everything better (which they can
set-&-forget like an alarm-clock)")
I guess I see now ... I see why I've been 'preaching against prayer'—because people have been 'flogging it' like it's a trusty steed that'll get them where they want to go, when 'prayer is only the whip.'
But 'the trusty steed' that'll get you to your destination (e.g. the surgeon's skilled hands, the bankers wise investment, the ambassador's wise negotiations ... but usually your own rested, healthy body) is "the mountain that will move when you speak unto it"—true, it moves because of 'powers greater than Your Prayer' (and it was probably going to move that way without your prayer); but you might not have known it was going to move unless you spoke to it!
But 'the trusty steed' that'll get you to your destination (e.g. the surgeon's skilled hands, the bankers wise investment, the ambassador's wise negotiations ... but usually your own rested, healthy body) is "the mountain that will move when you speak unto it"—true, it moves because of 'powers greater than Your Prayer' (and it was probably going to move that way without your prayer); but you might not have known it was going to move unless you spoke to it!
'That word' (below-hyperlinked to 'a call to prayer' (mostly so that we'll all be 'in prayer' together at-the-same-time globally, not necessarily "so that we'll all agree what our prayers should be") is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which your mind-palace stands ...
The word “Unless” is short for an ancient phrase that means "Not on a Less Compelling |Condition than" (If).
I look at "my words above 'this loci'" and see that people probably think I said "it wouldn't have moved unless you spoke to it." And sure, that works for most 'mountains you speak-to'; but it's not what I said—I said 'you might not have known it was going to move ...'
The prayer (especially accompanied by |Silence & |Meditation) made you aware of the Mountain & its planned movement into the sea—silence-&-meditation that lets you become aware of what your next action should be.
Being aware of your next action, you should end your prayer (instead of announcing "Amen!"—akin to the Wiccans' "So Mote it Be!") with ...
Do you know? Put your 'more practical prayer-ending in the comments'!
I think of one of "The Six I's" that Brother Kenneth Copeland tells us are contained within EVERY prayer.
I Will
Sure, maybe the 'I Will' you say at the beginning of the prayer (meaning something-like "I'm announcing this as the Word of The Holy Spirit through me") is different than the one you say at the end (something more like "I accept the task that is now set before me" ... much like Jesus did when He ended His prayer in the garden of Gethsemane—"thy will be done").
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