PRAYERS:

The Five Elements: Quest for the ultimate truth.

 Prayers:

Many people believe that worship places are where one can worship God, or be better heard by this All Knowing God. This is one of many reasons why people pray to God and will never hear from God, or will never receive anything from God, because they are in the wrong place, and are probably asking for the wrong things. Houses of worship should be seen as what they truly are, “Places of gathering in the name of God & gods,” and just that. It does not require a symbol or a structure in order to worship the true God, the Creator of all great things. It also does not require a ritual of any kind to worship this Magnificent Creator of the universe. This God is the only true God, and the house of worship to this God is not a human made structure, but a living organ that God Himself made. It is the human heart. The heart is the house that harbors the most precious gift that God has to give to any living being, which is the Soul. The soul is the most precious gift that God has given to anyone, because the soul is the element that keeps one alive. Therefore, the heart that houses the soul is the real house of God, metaphorically and spiritually. So if one wants to worship the true God, the heart is the place to go.

                As the scripture says, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” So in that case, God’s most precious treasure in life is the soul, & the soul is within one’s heart. Therefore, when one understands that the heart that houses the soul is the real place of worship, one will need to keep it neat. Just as the “Houses of Worship” are distinguishable by their neatness within any neighborhood in which they stand. But to clean the true house of God, the heart, for worship does not require money, or a ritual of any kind. It requires only the understanding that the true God values no evil; therefore one must be clean from all evil to worship God. There are many different forms of worshipping (prayers). But whether it is a religious, traditional, spiritual or personal prayer, they all serve the same purpose, which is requesting for a desire to be miraculously fulfilled.

                 People pray to whomever or whatever they believe possesses the power to fulfill their needs. You’ll see people praying to carved and molded gods, even with the obvious fact that they are human-made gods. But people will ignore this fact as long as they have the expectation of their needs being fulfilled by their gods. It is a basic level of understanding that the one who made a god is more capable than the god itself. This is another area where spirituality is helpful, because it enlightens one’s spirit to understand who to pray to, and what to pray for. The path of spirituality is where prayers can be heard and answered by the God that answers prayers. But the path of spirituality is distorted by the belief systems of worthless gods and individuals who use spiritualism for their own gain, such as “Fortunetellers” and many other satanic practitioners that people are drawn to.

         Human made gods cannot answer prayers and fortunetellers are fortune-takers, not spiritualists. “Psychics,” “Palm readers”, “Card Readers,” you name it; they are out there claiming to have the ability to see the future. You’ll see their signs or television ads in any country you go to, and when you open any newspaper in any country, you’ll see a Horoscope section that claims to predict the future by the zodiac signs. When you understand the true meaning of spirituality, just then you will be able to see the falsehoods within individuals and systems that use spiritualism for their own gain.

          Spirituality is not for sale, but it has become an industry just like any other industry in society where money is the priority. One with a spiritual understanding would never pray to a human-made god, or believe in fortunetellers, who are people who live off the sweat of others in the name of spiritualism. Prayer in a spiritual understanding is when one has the belief that the power that one is praying to Can fulfill any moral needs.  This is what praying truly is: and it does not require much analysis for one to realize that the God who created this universe can fulfill the needs of a human being. However, having the ability to fulfill prayers does not necessarily mean all prayers will be fulfilled, because the God that answers prayers is an all-knowing God, who knows which prayer is best to fulfill more than the one who is praying.

          This God I am talking about is the architect of the universe and the Creator of creation. This mighty Creator can grant anyone’s wishes, but there are wishes that this God would not grant to anyone, because some wishes are better not to be granted for the greater good. When one prays wishing harm to someone, one needs to understand that the God that answers prayers does not punish anyone based on someone else’s opinions. When one yearns to harm someone on a supernatural magnitude, the devil is to call, because the devil would gladly provide his satanic assistance. It does not matter whatever the situation might be, if one judges and then expects God to execute the punishment, one might end up judging God for His lack of response, because the God of heaven & earth does not do anyone’s dirty work.

          When one calls on God, praying for anyone to be harmed, it is the devil that answers the call, and if the job gets done, it is the work of the devil, believe it or not. Also many turn to God when they run out of options for a solution to their situation by saying, “I leave it in God’s hands”. They will call that a prayer. By the time many people turn to God for their situation, the situation they were trying to solve will be twisted with lies and trickery to a point where God would not want to have anything to do with it. Then they will blame God for their own mess.

            I can look back and realize how ridiculous I really was for blaming God when my trickery failed me. I used to sneak around and care less if God was watching, but when I got trapped in a corner where my skills of trickery could not get me out, I often expected God to get me out, or blame it on God when facing the retribution. It really was ridiculous, because if someone like the person I was judged God, or found God guilty of anything, I don’t think God would care much about that individual’s judgment. However, I also realized in getting out of some situations, that my skill of trickery was not what got me out. I used to think that maybe a higher power was trying to show me that I should trust in God, but when a moment of difficulty arrived, how to manipulate around it would be the first thing to cross my mind. Then I made a decision that having trust in God would not be a bad idea.

 First I tried to convince myself that a difficult situation is not a problem, but God’s will, but I struggled with that philosophy, because the devil kept whispering to my spirit, telling me how pathetic I really was for trying to trust in an unseen God. Then I came to the realization that only the devil would try to confuse someone to not trust in God. Then I was determined to no longer let the devil have any influence in my life, but I knew it wouldn’t be an easy task, and the more I tried to value honesty and integrity, the more the devil seemed to prove a point that God does not care whether one is honest or wicked. I tried my hardest not to let the devil get to my spirit, but I started to doubt if honesty was the best way to handle a troubling situation, because honesty was dragging me onto a path that I was not familiar with.

  I was struggling to discipline myself not to be obvious with my situation, but when you are trying to keep up with the basic necessities of life, such as making ends meet, this struggle is where everyone is vulnerable to be confused by the devil. Many are familiar with the struggle of trying to make ends meet. It can be very difficult to trust in God when putting food on the table is the struggle; because this is where the devil can give anyone a seemingly legitimate reason not to trust in God. The devil will say that, “If God is mighty, merciful and has plenty to give, why is he not providing you with these basic needs such as food?” This is a legitimate question that deserves a reasonable answer.

 The struggle for food should never be a reality for any soul in this world, because there is enough food for every living soul on this earth. As a matter of fact, there is a surplus of food on the earth. But because of the curse of greed that infected those who keep more than they need, many are left empty handed. And yet the devil that created this wickedness will turn the focus to God as the one to blame, and the blinded human spirit will follow the devil’s finger pointing toward God, as usual. In most parts of the world, especially in the western world, food is being dumped into the trash on a massive scale on a daily basis, while millions of souls are starving in many corners of the world. The food that is being dumped is the surplus that belongs to the millions of starving souls of humanity.

 God is not responsible for any starving soul in this world, nor should God be blamed for this inhumane act of humanity. It is the devil that orchestrated it and humans executed it. It is as simple as that. The devil has confused many to not have trust in the God that provides. It is God the magnificent Creator that provides all the elements that lives need in order to stay alive. If God stopped the oxygen that living things breathe for ten minutes, there would not be many lives left in this world. When one understands who God is, one will know how to pray to God and what to pray for, because many pray to this God who has so much to give, but they will be asking for the wrong things, which this God does not provide. “Ask and you shall receive.” This does not mean to ask for what you already have, or what you can get for yourself.

 Many pray to God asking for such things as money, cars, houses or other materialistic instruments that society cannot seem to get enough of. But the fact of the matter is that God does not provide these human made instruments that many people pray for. One does not need God in order to have materialistic instruments, because the knowledge for getting them is available. If you want money, God does not make money, people do. If you want a car, God does not make cars, people do. If you want a house, God does not build houses, people do, as well as any other materialistic instruments that one might have a desire for. There are many who have plenty of materialistic instruments without the help of God.

 So anyone who has desires of materialism, the people who make them can be more helpful than the God who does not make them or provide them. There are many people who are cursed by the desire of materialism that cannot fulfill the soul. There are many who consider themselves as religious, but money is the only god they believe in, and materialism is their only motivation to pray. These are the people you will see rushing to work, running to catch buses, trains, or driving recklessly on the road trying to make it to work on time. Then, when they get to work, they will give their best performance hoping for a promotion or to avoid getting fired. But when it comes to God’s business, they would complain about knee, ankle or back problems, or falling asleep during prayer, or prayer will be brief because they have no more energy left to spare.

 It is wiser for people to be more devoted to knowing their moral requirements in life than praying for or chasing after materialism. Humanity as a whole must understand that if the God of humankind is capable of creating what humans cannot, this God can fulfill more than what humans can ever need or pray for.  Praying to this unseen God requires nothing more than realizing what He is capable of, which is all around us. It is this God of humanity that feeds the belly of an elephant and that of an insect. Therefore if this God did not feed your belly, it is not because your belly is too big for this God to feed, or too small for this God to care about. When one gets deep into the path of spirituality, one will understand there are abundant stores for humanity. But due to the darkness of the world, the human spirit is unable to tap in to them, and the human eyes are blind to them. Within the darkness of the world, prayers disintegrate into thin air to nowhere.

 If humanity could see all there is for them, the devil would not be able to blind the human spirit and darken the human soul because even what the eyes see is enough for all humanity, provided it were shared. There are enough blessings for all humanity to prosper, but humankind must clear & clean itself from the darkness of the world in order to see them. When one has cleared one’s self from the darkness of the world, then one will have to clean the darkness that is within one’s inner self. Then, when one has cleared and cleansed oneself from the darkness of the world, one’s spirit will be opened to the path of clarity, where prayers cannot be intercepted by any evil means.

 To be clear and clean from the darkness of the world is when one feels no presence of any of these five demonic spirits; doubt, not doubting the existence of God; fear, not fearing the worst to come; low self-esteem, not feeling unworthy as a creation of God; anger, not feeling anger toward anyone, and hate, not feeling hatred toward anyone. When one is clean from these demonic spirits, one will be as clean as one can be. However, one must understand that looking clean from the outside does not mean one is clean from within. These demonic spirits influence all the darkness that makes one dirty from within. They cannot be covered with clothing, nor can they be washed away with “holy water” or water of any kind. All it takes for one to cleanse oneself from these evil elements is to realize that these spirits are not friends, but foes.

 Anyone who understands the role these evil elements play in life, they would not be praying to God while having these elements on their side. These five elements are enemies of moral righteousness; therefore they must not be present during one’s prayers. Just then one can choose however one would like to carry out his or her prayers, because custom does not matter to the God of heaven & earth that answers prayers. My special time of praying is between the hours of three and five in the morning. Before I even had any interest in spirituality, I used to wake up spontaneously everyday at the same time not knowing why. I think many people have the habit of waking up early in the morning, but what got my attention was waking up at the same time everyday, which later became useful in my spiritual quest.

 Morning prayers have helped me clean the darkness within my spirit, and when I was comfortable with the process, if my inside could be seen like my outside, I would not be ashamed to go anywhere or to be seen by anyone. When one needs enlightenment or moral guidance on any issue or situation, the Divine God of humanity is to call. That’s what Praying to God it is all about.

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