Although everyone seemed to know I was very uniquely gifted, I remained an expert at failing in everything for many years. But not until I took a decision to "pray about everything" (Phil 4:6-7).
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There was a time l took it for granted that praying is too serious a thing to be wasted on certain things I considered 'mundane trifles' such as my career life, or a file I am sorting or a sudden breakdown of my PC or a lady I was wooing(!). Or, was it actually that I did not consider prayer important enough to be a part and parcel of every area of my life? I think this latter should be more of it.
I CAME TO KNOW: It is certainly true that prayers get answered, but perhaps not as dramatically as some religious teachings claim. For instance, one very practical effect of truly praying about anything is that it immediately takes the psycho burdens off your spiritual shoulders. As you get light and lighter in your spirit, fiam!, an idea you never knew existed, suddenly surfaces from nowhere, yet from somewhere, the Higher Realms.
And how do you pray? Well, everyone seems to already pray and yet, hardly are there people who truly pray in today's world. As Jesus is quoted to have said, "until now, you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be complete.
As for me, after years of finding prayer almost always useless and ineffective, I found a most practical prayer idea in the same BIBLE I once looked on with terrible suspicion after years of getting disappointed that my prayers weren't answered as I was promised from so many pulpits. The prayer idea I am talking about, is domiciled in Psalm 94:9 which says, "fools, when will you understand? Can He who made the ear not hear? Can He who arranged the eye not see? " I got in this Bible verse, all the eureka I needed to genuinely pray. I realize beyond all doubt, that who/whatever has made these ears of mine cannot but be able to hear me and that only a moment of pure foolishness can ever prevent me from realizing this (surprisingly, even to myself, I still have such moments of foolishness - a. k. a faithlessness - from time to time).
But, I dare to break through my obviously foolish faithlessness, by visualizing the invisible Ear of the Maker of my ears, next to my mouth, and I whisper directly into that 👂 of 👂 👂 👂 - Ear of ears - that can only exist if my own ears have to exist. Oh, He hears!
I am also helped by another scripture directly attributed to Jesus Christ: "And when you pray, go into your inner room, and when you have bolted the door, pray to your Father who is IN THAT SECRET PLACE and your Father who SEES all that is done in secret, will reward you openly". A-ha! Not only that He hears and sees, He is also HERE, wherever is called 'here', everywhere.
He Who Made the Ear can hear
As He Who Made Gravity and air
Should be everywhere
Even here,
Yes... HERE!
He is certainly also there at your work place. So, what do you do? This: from time to time while you are at work, whisper to Him, the Boss of your boss, instead of trying to seek favour from any human. Discuss every bit of every task and issue you are handling at any moment with Him UNDER YOUR BREATH OR BY SIMPLE GENUINE WHISPERS. If you do this, and you do it consistently, you virtually be the Boss even to your own boss.
What you have read is inspired from Above to help YOU enjoy your work the more, whether you are a work-at-home mom, a factory worker, a white collar executive, a business owner, a government rep or whoever. It is one of such inspired thoughts I am given from time to time and called 'Wisdom From Heaven'. You can click on 'Home' below to read more and/or look below for the relevant SHARE buttons.
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