Do you have a loved one that you want so desperately for God to change? Have you spent countless hours pleading and begging God to change this person and yet still, nothing? If you have been pounding on God's door repeatedly without any results, then it is time to take a look at the way you have been praying.
James 4:3 “And even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.”
It is important to align yourself with wisdom before you begin to pray. You might be asking for God to change a situation, when what God really wants is for you to change. You may be asking God to break down the wall between you and the other person, when God wants you to work on the wall in your own heart between you and Him. Or you might be praying for God to change that person and make them become like you want them to be, which is not even a prayer at all, but manipulation. You are asking God to force them against their will. Did you know that any attempt to force someone against their will is a form of black magic?
James 4:3 “And even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.”
It is important to align yourself with wisdom before you begin to pray. You might be asking for God to change a situation, when what God really wants is for you to change. You may be asking God to break down the wall between you and the other person, when God wants you to work on the wall in your own heart between you and Him. Or you might be praying for God to change that person and make them become like you want them to be, which is not even a prayer at all, but manipulation. You are asking God to force them against their will. Did you know that any attempt to force someone against their will is a form of black magic?
There really should be a code of ethics when it comes to praying for others. We should avoid any prayer that manipulates, controls or trespasses on a person’s free will. So instead of praying for someone to join your religion, pray for them to grow and awaken in spiritual knowledge. Instead of praying for someone to marry you, pray for the fulfillment in his/her love life and your own. Instead of praying for someone’s individual traits to change, pray for the expression of his/her true nature in their own unique way. Always pray for the other person’s highest good through the pathway of their own individual choice.
Also often what bothers us about others is usually something that we are unwilling to see in ourselves. For example: If your boss is really hard on you, take the time to see how you are really hard on yourself. If someone at home won’t clean up after their self, examine your heart to see if you aren’t cleaning up after your mental dirty laundry. If someone won’t give you love and attention, consider how you are not giving yourself love and attention. Rather than focusing on changing the other person, pray for the courage to change you.
Matt 7:3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
As you begin to search your own soul and learn to love and forgive yourself, you will begin to see the people and the world around you begin to change miraculously.
Take the time to pray consciously for the solutions to the problems, for healing of negative beliefs, for overcoming the root of difficulties. Always pray for wisdom, guidance and the divine purpose for your prayers for others.
It is never wrong to pray for what God has promised
Peace, joy, abundance, fulfillment, health, love and wisdom.
Seeing perfect good and truth about another can never do harm.
When you pray take special consideration for how you word your prayers. When speaking of the other person do not state the problem. Instead state the solution of how it would be if they were whole and complete now. There should be no statements of negation, self-effacement or limiting emotions. Eliminate the words “not”, “cannot”, and “can’t” from your prayers. Only state absolute positive truth, see and speak of the person you are praying for as perfect, complete and whole rather than diseased, stressed and broken down. It is extremely important to visualize the person as whole and complete now.
Mark 11:24 “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
See your prayer as already answered now. Feel your prayer as already answered now. Take a few moments to feel the emotions of what it would feel like to witness the prayer answered now and just spend time thanking the Father for it. Know that your prayer is answered now. And then let it go. Leave it up to God to do the details.
As you begin to practice some of these changes in your prayer life you will begin to see God move in miraculous ways.
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