Forgiveness

Why do you ask and do not receive although you have been praying honestly and devotedly? When we know that So I tell you, whatever you pray for and ask, believe you have got it and you shall have it. That is because you asked wrongly, look at this words Whenever you stand up to pray, if you have anything against anybody, forgive him so that your Father in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

It is very clear from above statements that God does not punish anyone, God holds no grudge against us, God isnt jealous nor does God mete out punishment to anyone. In fact we are told to extend forgiveness before we asked !.

Prayer is contacting, communicating with and working with infinite, intelligent, creative Divine Power for the benefit of yourself or Others or both.

There are several steps in effective prayer :

  1. identify your problems by describing one by one in detail and try to have clarity in the nature cause of the problems , once you have sort out all your existing problems, forget the problems and determined your wishes, be specific of your requests in prayer.
  2. Forgiveness, which means clearing your mind by releasing all past hurts and failures, all sense of guilt and loss. Nature always forgive, Nature is the great giver and the great forgiver. Forgiveness is a Principle of Nature.
  3. Believe that life already has provided what you need and that it is yours now. Let go of all inner resistance in you which say I do not deserve to have this gift because I am a sinner. by replacing it with believing that you have the right to have anything you desire.

We punish ourselves through carrying in our souls the feeling of past mistakes, guilt, shocks, losses as feeling of having Sins. We punish ourselves by breaking a Universal Law, The Law of Cause and Effect.

God never ordered punishment on man. Man created his own guilt and the punishment that would alleviate it. release this need in you that says you are guilty and unworthy, for you have come into this lifetime to complete this erroneous belief. Decide to forgive your belief in unworthiness and release it from you now.

So long as we have a sense of sin or a belief that we have made mistakes and not made full amends immediately afterward, we have a feeling of separation, a sense of guilt. A person with this guilt feeling can not feel that he has the right to have good come to him, therefore he holds his good away from him however much he may pray, beg or supplicate. This sense of guilt is sometimes called conscience distress.

The past is of no consequence, it has no power over you except as you hold fast to it in your thoughts, believing you have to suffer. A sense of guilt is the most common cause of mental and nervous disorders. It manifests in the malfunctioning of different organs in the body.

Lord Jesus says: Whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe that you have received it and you will have it. Means that Life reacts to you according to your faith according to the picture that you have in your imagination. It is done unto you according to your conviction of what you actually believe.

Forgive yourself. Believe you are worthy of God's Light and Love. You live in it! this will restore your worthiness. Let the old days be gone. You need not to punish yourself anymore. All you really need to do is love and release these thoughts of punishment and then you are free. The hurts you feel are but reminders of the lifetime you sought to punish yourself in the name of God.

What we need is only to release the old memory of guilt feeling and start at once thinking and doing right thing as well as believing that we have the right to have, to be well, to be richer, to be happy, to be forgiven and have healthier living.

Why is it difficult to forgive although we sincerely said I forgive myself/you?

You will never really forgive something or someone entirely until you completely understand the reason why they acted as they did, when you understand, you will forgive and your experiences will change from darkness to light, from hatred to love. Love will flow through; thus you are free from self-resentments, feeling of rejection or inferiority that have clogged up your mental.

When we know the truth, when we understand the background of an action that resulted as a mistake, of why he did as he did it, we usually can sympathize and automatically will forgive. As a matter of fact understanding is forgiveness; so with understanding the cause, it is easy to forgive. When you completely understand, there is nothing to forgive!

Therefore it is true that When you forgive yourself, you are forgiven. It is important to understand that forgiveness takes place within your own consciousness, forgiveness is a mental act. The tense situation is within your own mind; and letting go, releasing, is within your own power! Forgive yourself, see the good in yourself, express the good quality of yourself and expect good to return to you!

Understanding and transcending problems gives us greater power and wisdom, greater ability to cope with other and larger events in the future. A problem will not result in our being weaker and less able to meet life if we see it as a challenge or an opportunity. It is a fact, there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Develop a habit of daily meditation. Begin to imagine your life as you want it to be. If you are unhappy, imagine yourself to be happy. Create what real happiness looks like in your imagination. Feel how it would feel. We cannot wave a magic wand over you to change your life entirely around to where you want it to be, but you can.

Think of being somewhere and suddenly you're there! This is how powerful your imagination is. Imagination is the chosen vehicle on the Earth plane that can be used to explore the subtle worlds not normally known to us while we are still in the flesh. Did you know that you can travel anywhere on any dimension and see anything you wish to see just by rendering it in your imagination?

Start a daily routine of creative visualization in your meditation such as I am guided and directed in such ways that I am always safe for I know in my heart I am where I am for good reason, I am on my right path and I am an important part of the Divine Plan and I am deeply loved. So be it to take you to places your mind needs you to go. Repeat the imagination in your meditation until your heart accepts your new message that you are, indeed, Truth, Love and Beauty and nothing else.

Our joy, happiness and success depend upon how we react to experiences, for happiness is simply a reaction to what someone else has done to affect us and make us happy and how we grow or develop ourselves to meet the challenge/opportunity. Man has developed reason and intelligence to overcome the challenges of nature. You have the privilege to choose and to decide to overcome any event.

Man is a piece of the universe which has become conscious itself and made alive.