My parrots can teach your parrots to pray and worship, and your parrots are sure to stop saying that phrase in no time." Bring your two parrots over to my house, and we'll put them in the cage with Frank and Jacob. I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible. "You know," he said, "I may have a solution to your problem. They say, "Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun." I have two female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing." It's a really, really bad joke about answered prayer, so are you ready for it? Are you sure? OK, don't say I didn't warn you!Ī lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, "Father, I have a problem. Our topic today, based on the Second Secret of the Lost Mode of Prayer, can be a little heavy - although we will do something amazingly powerful with it - so I want to start with something light. And last week, we had a chance to do just that. Likewise, to be able to say that you know that God hears you always only the mind that is in the spirit can make such a statement and pray in this manner, but that alone is real prayer." bĪnd while we may know this intellectually, the important thing is to actually feel it in our hearts and in our bodies.
To thank God after you have received what you asked for is simple any heart can, at such a time, be full of sublime gratitude, but to thank God before you have received what you intend to ask for, and feel the fullness of that gratitude thrill every fibre in your entire being - that is spirituality indeed. John 11:41 This beautiful statement was given before the answer to the prayer was received and is therefore an illustration of the very highest form of supreme faith. Remember New Thought author Christian Larson in The Pathway of Roses, wrote: "And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me. We also talked about how that really isn't a secret in Unity.
Why? Because as we pray FOR something, we empower the "what isn't"! But as we feel it already done in our prayers, we empower our dreams and desires. We pray love, rather than praying FOR love. We pray health, rather than pray FOR health. We pray abundance, we don't pray FOR abundance. I shared the example of praying rain, not praying FOR rain. This is a very powerful month here at Unity of Castro Valley as we are looking at how to do life in a more conscious and connected way by addressing real life - human life - issues using our Unity principles and adding-in wisdom from Gregg Braden's book Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer.Īs a brief reminder, last week we looked at the First Secret of the Lost Mode of Prayer and it is what? Who remembers? "Feeling is the prayer." a And in the context of last week, we looked at that secret in terms of moving into a place of feeling, truly feeling, that whatever it is we are praying about is already done.