Power of Prayer - Joshua Eric Bryele

To whom do you pray? This question is more important than most think. The answer will color all your experiences. Those who answer that they do not pray are mistaken, for they do not realize what prayer is and the extent and power of it in their lives.

Classically, prayer is, in essence, an act of communication. One communicates one’s desires to presumably, some source-deity who has power over his life or power to help him. Prayer is also an act of communion with the Source, for expression of gratitude and reverence, deemed necessary or recommended by the Source, and for the reception of guidance or other sorts of upliftment and inspiration.

Continuing to define prayer by associated meanings, the word ‘communicate’ means to connect, to join, in effect to become one. In prayer, there is always a desire to be aligned with the Source to which we pray. To align with one’s deity is deemed ultimately desirable and eventually if not immediately beneficial. In this age of spiritual renewal, we are constantly working to align and attune ourselves with an ideal or an energy or some sort of Great Spirit that will bless our lives, and which many consider to be our true self. Yet without realizing the real nature and extent of the act of prayer many are sabotaging just that goal.

© "Times of India" (dated October 2, 2005). Reprinted with permission.

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