Prayers for Prospering Times

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. – 1 John 4:8

Thank You God for all of the blessings of this month. Let us know Love in more of its aspects than we have experienced before. Open our hearts and minds to the energy and power of Love. If You are Love, then we are Children of Love and we accept our legacy of Love today, in this holy moment. We release all of our mistaken ideas that would keep us from Love’s experience in its purity and authenticity. Deliver us from the limitations and suffering caused by possessiveness mistaken for Love. Lift us above the cruelties and indifference masquerading as tough love. Let us be strong and firm in Love but never let us lose our compassion or our sense of connection to others or our desire for another’s well being. Dear Lord, let us consciously and even unconsciously be Your Instruments of Love always expressing Love in our intentions, our thoughts, our words and our actions.

So Let It Be! So It Is! Thank You God!

Amen!

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  – 1 Corinthians 13:4

“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.” – Exodus 12:2

Father, thank You for another New Year! I thank You for this month of beginnings; guide me into Your Vision of what is possible in my life this year. I release the baggage of 2011, turn my face to 2012 and direct my attention to this Holy Moment of prayer. I immerse myself in the eternity of this moment in which I join with You Lord to think the thoughts that shape my life. I focus my attention on Your Promises, such as, “With You all things are possible”, “You give wisdom and from your mouth comes understanding and knowledge”; “Blessed are the peacemakers” and “Blessed are the merciful”. May Your Word and Your Love fill my heart and inform my mind in the eternal moment all year long. Dear Lord, this year, let there be peace on earth and let it begin in my body, let it be in my mind ordering my thoughts, let it be in my heart shaping my words and let it be in me, making me an instrument of Your healing peace for everyone within my sphere of influence.

Thank You God! So It Is! Selah! Amen!

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. – Isaiah 65:17

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." – Revelation 1:8

“…and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed”. – Matthew 2:9-10

Our Father of the Heavenly Realms, in consciousness, we acknowledge Your presence within and around us throughout this month of Light and Love. Within the invisible regions of Soul and Substance, we sense a stirring and coming forth of a new Creature of Spirit taking on form
in innocence and empowered to shape Substance in obedience to Your Divine Will.

The Light of Love is shining forth, growing in radiance and intensity on this turn of the upward Spiral of Becoming. New Life, new Love and a new liberality of Being have been conceived and gestated in the rich, fertile darkness of Your Mystery Father and we now rejoice in the first
sign of their coming forth. We glimpse them as a new Light growing brighter in our consciousness as a new star guiding us to a place of rebirth and renewal.

This month, Father, we celebrate the coming of Your Kingdom, the acceptance of Your Will in our individual and communal lives and we accept our role in the building of Your Kingdom on earth, just as it is in Heaven.

Thank You God! So It Is! Amen!

Part of my Thanksgiving celebration today, includes internalizing gratitude, appreciation and thanks in new ways and to greater depths. The idea is that if I can plant seeds of gratitude in my heart and mind today, they will bear sweet fruit for the rest of my life. So today I will count my blessings, give thanks for all that I have and turn my attention to the most precious people and things in my life. I will spend time appreciating those things which I enjoy but usually take for granted. I will tell others how much I appreciate them and I will live into questions about gratitude that expand my capacity to be thankful. What has God granted us that we take for granted? Do we give thanks for our precious moments of wonder or awe? Are we grateful that we can love, dream or make a difference in the world?

Let Us Pray:

Dear Lord, thank You for loving us unconditionally and blessing us right where we are in this holy moment. Thank You for giving us all that we can accept right now. Lord we are grateful that You expand our capacity to accept Your Love and Your Gifts as we open ourselves to giving our love and our gifts. Father, I thank You for giving me avenues, organizations, opportunities and people who appreciate and accept my gifts; today Lord, I am learning that giving and receiving are the same energy and through my giving I receive. I am grateful that I always have something to give, starting with my thanks. Thank You dear Lord for elevating me from the lower frequencies of form-based gratitude, contingent on what I have, to the higher frequencies of gratitude that are anchored in energies of Being. Lord anchor my Gratitude in being free to choose, anchor it in my being able to experience awe and wonder, anchor it in my being capable of connecting with others, anchor it in my joy of making a positive difference and most of all anchor it in Your beneficent activity in my life.

Thank You God! So Let It Be! Amen!

I thank and praise you, O God of my fathers: You have given me wisdom and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you, you have made known to us the dream of the king." – Daniel 2:23

When I was a kid, I enjoyed going to the barber shop. Guys would come from all over and tell tall tales and make me look at the world outside in wonder and amazement. They would speak of faraway places like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and DETROIT. One day this gambler came in and started telling us of his most recent visit to Detroit. He was walking out of this club when he ran into these two gentlemen who proceeded to “beat the crap out of him.” When they finished they threw him face down on the ground, got in their car and drove away. He then rolled over onto his back when he realized he had two guns on him. He had all the tools he needed to avoid a beating, but being involved in the fight, he forgot his tools.

I’m like that gambler. I get so involved in life I forget that I have three guns on me, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. When I remember to pull out my “Guns” life ceases to be a fight and starts to be a pleasant human experience. A peace comes over me, and things tend to line up for me. I don’t win every round, but I tend not to get the crap beat out of me.

Father – Mother God,
As I go through this human experience we call life, let me always remember You. Let me always remember that You walk with me, and that my life is Your life. Let me call on You knowing that You always answer if I listen carefully enough. Let me always keep in mind that it is not I, but the Christ within that does the work. Father – Mother God, let me always think of you first, then the task at hand, trusting and knowing that You will always guide me to the right and perfect outcome.

In the name and nature of Jesus the Christ,
Amen and Amen

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
- Psalms 100:4

Dear Lord, throughout this month we turn our attention to gratitude and appreciation. We give thanks for all of Your blessings and activities within and around us. Thank You God for excellent health and a whole and resilient body, thank You for shelter, clothing and all of the necessities of life; we thank You for our beautiful home in Space, our planet earth with its life sustaining gifts of food, water, air and every physical thing we need and want. We praise You Father, for the perfection of Your creation. We are awed by the precise balance of planetary and celestial bodies. At every level of our observation and thoughtful consideration, we experience appreciation, wonder, curiosity and a yearning to know You more intimately. We appreciate Your guiding us to a new understanding of the infinitesimal and the infinite and the revelations of Your mysteries which expand our wonder and allow us to experience Life more abundantly. Dear Lord, allow our wonder and appreciation of Your mysteries of existence to translate into our ways of being and acting in our daily activities of living and relating to others. Thank You God for all that You have given us and for all that You continue to give us. Primarily Father, we are eternally grateful for Your growing us in the consciousness of our Oneness with You.

Thank You God!
So It Is!
Amen!

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. -Psalms 69:30

Today I start my day with Love. Through love I compassionately align myself with the power of Divine Law, the process by which God manifests. Charles Fillmore, the co-founder of Unity taught that the inner spirit of the law is the spiritual way of life that Jesus lived and taught. My intention for this day is to experience the spiritual essence of Jesus’ way of living. The inner stirring of Divine Law is the mental and emotional energy that gives voice to what we call conscience, our sense of right and wrong. I use the prompting of my conscience to help me align myself with the unstoppable and uplifting power of the law today. God’s wisdom, present within me, guides my use of love and forgiveness to assess myself and others. I now forgive all the sin or mistakes I find in my thoughts and feelings about myself and other people. God guides me in this forgiveness process allowing me to intuitively know that the law can not uplift me in the absence of love. Without love the law occurs as a stern, if not cruel teacher. However, through the power of Love drawn from God within me, I repent by acknowledging my errors and asking for forgiveness. And likewise I bestow the blessing of forgiveness upon those who would otherwise remain trespassers in my mind and in my heart.

Thank You God for this day, begun in love and sustained with prayer! Today I give up my harsh thoughts and judgments of myself and others. I am experiencing a miraculous day of healing, harmony and transformation. With a forgiving heart and mind, I am aware of God’s continuing presence and activity in my life and I experience myself as a blessing to everyone and in every circumstance within my field of influence today. Thank You God for lifting me up into Your spiritual realm of transcendent Love!

I am complete!
Selah!

“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. – Ephesians 1:2
… in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,” – Ephesians 1:7

“Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.   “Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. – Exodus 23:16

“Dear Lord, consecrate every word I speak this month and bless my every action. I thank You God for blessing me with creativity, discernment and expression.  Guide me in the use of these holy gifts, with which I affirm Life in all that I do this month. It is my desire to create the experience of Your Kingdom coming into physical form. I dedicate myself this month to imitate You and Your Nature as best I can.  I accept myself as I am and I accept others as they are, knowing that we are all evolving into greater expressions of Your Holy Nature. As I plant the seeds of Love and prosperity, I know that many will produce a harvest of harmony, well being and freedom. I Thank You God for teaching me Your law of cause and effect and its derivative the principle of fair compensation. By this law I receive as I give, I am trusted to the extent I trust and I am forgiven as completely as I forgive.  Thank You God for blessing me with pure thoughts, honorable actions and beautiful experiences of Your Love!
Thank You God! So Let It Be! Amen!

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. – Philippians 4:8

“The world needs people who through devotion to God are so filled with the Spirit that they can be instruments through which healing takes place”. – Joel S. Goldsmith

Today is a good day to practice holding a sacred space into which the Holy Spirit can pour Itself. A Spirit filled space is a space in which healing takes place. It is a space in which Love abounds and prospering ideas are born. On this day let’s create a space, starting within ourselves, that is sacred, by inviting the Holy Spirit to take up residence in our heart and to remove all of our fears, prejudices, illusions, misconceptions, misperceptions, limitations and other barriers that cause us to believe that we are separated from God.
Let Us Pray:
Dear Father-Mother God, Sweet Holy Spirit, I thank You for allowing me the awareness of Your perpetual listening and Your continuing response to my thoughts and prayers. In this holy moment I release and I let go of everything that impedes Spirit’s activity in my thinking and in my life. Lord, through release I am free. I am free of the bondage of worldly thinking and I am free to be the individual God created me to be. Let me be an instrument of Your Love and Your Peace. I listen with Love and I speak respectfully using words which promote peace. Let the Spiritual Space within me overflow into the physical space that surrounds me.

In a Spirit of Love, I Thank You God!
I Am Whole and Complete
I AM Yours In Spirit
So It Is!

Create a clean heart in me Oh God and renew a steadfast Spirit within me. – Psalms 51:10

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. – Psalms 40:8

Today let us relax into complete surrender to the power and presence of God within us. As we surrender to God we are free to be the individual we were created to be. There is power in surrender. We can do all things through Christ who gives us strength but we must allow Christ within us to craft our thoughts, speak our words and guide our steps. Affirm with me, “Father, I allow Your Will to be done in my life and affairs today”.

Let’s Pray:

Thank You God for this day; I am grateful for all that You are forever doing in my life. Today I am conducting a bold experiment. I surrender my will, my anxiety and my judgments to You. I surrender to Your power and to Your presence within me Lord. I surrender to Your intelligence and Your prosperity. When I experience the least bit of anxiety, confusion or frustration, I breathe slowly and deeply. I think or quietly say, not my will but Your Will be done Father. Dear Lord, I let Your Will be done today in my life and affairs. I Thank You for planting the seed of Truth in my consciousness. I accept it, I allow it to germinate, grow and blossom into a beautiful, fragrant and robust expression of Your Love, Compassion and Wisdom. Today I see myself as a radiant expression of Christ in action and I recognize everyone I encounter as a spiritual being complementing and enriching my soul’s expression. I thank You God for my capacity to express Your Spiritual Presence in physical form.

I Am Complete!

Thank You God!

Selah!

Amen!

Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. – Matthew 6:10