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144:2.2 " [[Prayer]] is entirely a [[personal]] and [[spontaneous]] [[expression]] of the [[attitude]] of the [[soul]] toward the [[spirit]]; [[prayer]] should be the [[communion]] of sonship and the [[expression]] of fellowship. [[Prayer]], when indited by the [[spirit]], [[leads]] to [[co-operative]] [[spiritual]] [[progress]]. The [[ideal]] [[prayer]] is a form of spiritual [[communion]] which leads to [[intelligent]] [[worship]]. True praying is the [[sincere]] [[attitude]] of reaching heavenward for the [[attainment]] of your [[ideals]].

144:2.2 " [[Prayer]] is entirely a [[personal]] and [[spontaneous]] [[expression]] of the [[attitude]] of the [[soul]] toward the [[spirit]]; [[prayer]] should be the [[communion]] of sonship and the [[expression]] of fellowship. [[Prayer]], when indited by the [[spirit]], [[leads]] to [[co-operative]] [[spiritual]] [[progress]]. The [[ideal]] [[prayer]] is a form of spiritual [[communion]] which leads to [[intelligent]] [[worship]]. True praying is the [[sincere]] [[attitude]] of reaching heavenward for the [[attainment]] of your [[ideals]].

144:2.3 " [[Prayer]] is the [[breath]] of the [[soul]] and should [[lead]] you to be [[persistent]] in your attempt to ascertain [[the Father]]'s will. If any one of you has a [[neighbor]], and you go to him at midnight and say: `[[Friend]], lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine on a [[journey]] has come to see me, and I have nothing to set before him'; and if your [[neighbor]] answers, `Trouble me not, for the door is now shut and the [[children]] and I are in bed; therefore I cannot rise and give you bread,'[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_11] you will [[persist]], [[explaining]] that your friend [[hungers]], and that you have no [[food]] to offer him. I say to you, though your [[neighbor]] will not rise and give you bread because he is your [[friend]], yet because of your [[importunity]] he will get up and give you as many loaves as you need. If, then, [[persistence]] will win [[favors]] even from [[mortal]] man, how much more will your [[persistence]] in the [[spirit]] win the bread of life for you from the willing hands of [[the Father]] in [[heaven]]. Again I say to you: Ask and it shall be given you; [[seek]] and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks [[receives]]; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door of [[salvation]] will be opened.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_7]

144:2.3 " [[Prayer]] is the [[breath]] of the [[soul]] and should [[lead]] you to be [[persistent]] in your attempt to ascertain [[the Father]]'s will. If any one of you has a [[neighbor]], and you go to him at midnight and say: `[[Friend]], lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine on a [[journey]] has come to see me, and I have nothing to set before him'; and if your [[neighbor]] answers, `Trouble me not, for the door is now shut and the [[children]] and I are in bed; therefore I cannot rise and give you bread,'[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_11] you will [[persist]], [[explaining]] that your friend [[hungers]], and that you have no [[food]] to offer him. I say to you, though your [[neighbor]] will not rise and give you bread because he is your [[friend]], yet because of your [[importunity]] he will get up and give you as many loaves as you need. If, then, [[persistence]] will win [[favors]] even from [[mortal]] man, how much more will your [[persistence]] in the [[spirit]] win the bread of life for you from the willing hands of [[the Father]] in [[heaven]]. Again I say to you: Ask and it shall be given you; [[seek]] and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks [[receives]]; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door of [[salvation]] will be opened.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_7]

144:2.4 " Which of you who is a [[father]], if his son asks unwisely, would [[hesitate]] to give in [[accordance]] with [[parental]] [[wisdom]] rather than in the terms of the son's faulty [[petition]]? If the [[child]] needs a loaf, will you give him a stone just because he unwisely asks for it? If your son needs a fish, will you give him a watersnake just because it may [[chance]] to come up in the net with the fish and the child foolishly asks for the serpent? If you, then, being [[mortal]] and [[finite]], know how to answer [[prayer]] and give good and appropriate [[gifts]] to your [[children]], how much more shall your [[Universal Father|heavenly Father]] give the [[spirit]] and many additional [[blessings]] to those who ask him? Men ought always to [[pray]] and not become discouraged.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_11]

144:2.4 " Which of you who is a [[father]], if his son asks unwisely, would [[hesitate]] to give in [[accordance]] with [[parental]] [[wisdom]] rather than in the terms of the son's faulty [[petition]]? If the [[child]] needs a loaf, will you give him a stone just because he unwisely asks for it? If your son needs a fish, will you give him a watersnake just because it may [[chance]] to come up in the net with the fish and the child foolishly asks for the serpent? If you, then, being [[mortal]] and [[finite]], know how to answer [[prayer]] and give good and appropriate [[gifts]] to your [[children]], how much more shall your [[Universal Father|heavenly Father]] give the [[spirit]] and many additional [[blessings]] to those who ask him? Men ought always to [[pray]] and not become discouraged.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_11]

144:2.5 " Let me tell you the story of a certain [[judge]] who lived in a [[wicked]] [[city]]. This judge [[fear]]ed not [[God]] nor had [[respect]] for man. Now there was a needy [[widow]] in that [[city]] who came repeatedly to this unjust [[judge]], saying, `Protect me from my [[adversary]].' For some time he would not give ear to her, but presently he said to himself: `Though I fear not [[God]] nor have regard for man, yet because this [[widow]] ceases not to trouble me, I will [[vindicate]] her lest she wear me out by her continual coming.'[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_18] These [[stories]] I tell you to [[encourage]] you to [[persist]] in [[praying]] and not to intimate that your [[petitions]] will change the [[just]] and [[righteous]] Father above. Your [[persistence]], however, is not to win [[favor]] with [[God]] but to [[change]] your [[earth]] [[attitude]] and to enlarge your [[soul]]'s [[capacity]] for [[spirit]] [[receptivity]].

144:2.5 " Let me tell you the story of a certain [[judge]] who lived in a [[wicked]] [[city]]. This judge [[fear]]ed not [[God]] nor had [[respect]] for man. Now there was a needy [[widow]] in that [[city]] who came repeatedly to this unjust [[judge]], saying, `Protect me from my [[adversary]].' For some time he would not give ear to her, but presently he said to himself: `Though I fear not [[God]] nor have regard for man, yet because this [[widow]] ceases not to trouble me, I will [[vindicate]] her lest she wear me out by her continual coming.'[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_18] These [[stories]] I tell you to [[encourage]] you to [[persist]] in [[praying]] and not to intimate that your [[petitions]] will change the [[just]] and [[righteous]] Father above. Your [[persistence]], however, is not to win [[favor]] with [[God]] but to [[change]] your [[earth]] [[attitude]] and to enlarge your [[soul]]'s [[capacity]] for [[spirit]] [[receptivity]].

144:2.6 " But when you [[pray]], you [[exercise]] so little [[faith]]. [[Genuine]] faith will remove [[mountain]]s of [[material]] [[difficulty]] which may [[chance]] to lie in the [[path]] of [[soul]] expansion and [[spiritual]] [[progress]]. "

144:2.6 " But when you [[pray]], you [[exercise]] so little [[faith]]. [[Genuine]] faith will remove [[mountain]]s of [[material]] [[difficulty]] which may [[chance]] to lie in the [[path]] of [[soul]] expansion and [[spiritual]] [[progress]]. "

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[[Category:Paper 144 - At Gilboa and in the Decapolis]]

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