Express heartfelt thanks through prayer

Through a sincere prayer, you can express gratitude and ask good wishes for  any human being and for anything. The reason is that prayer is not a kind of doing; it is a state of being. If you pray with a complete devotion, you are bound to expect a positive outcome. But the whole issue is we only pray when we are aggrieved for various issues related to our life and agitated thereupon. Then also, we  pray not that seriously. The regular prayer with a controlled mind and thinking only for God will be definitely fruitful. Some people say that God is not kind enough to listen to our prayer. The real situation is that God does not acknowledge any prayer, which has no devotion to or which is besmeared with mundane and worldly thoughts.  To carry out a prayer, you need not to have a meticulous planning like in a business. You have to be just prayerful at all the time. There is no fixed time for prayer. You can pray as and when you are able to control your mind and put yourself in the state of being.  During prayer, you only speak the language of doing. For example, during breathing all the time, you are not doing anything; it is an automatic process and bodily system. If you are able to breathe exercising your  willpower, you could have done so for ever and become immortal. Even in sleep or when you are unconscious, your breathing continues and so you do not take any extra effort to perform your breathing. In the same way, the prayer is.  It must come automatically  from your mind as no one is responsible and can  force you to get involved in any religious activity.  During the course of the day, many times, people say that we are tired because we have done lots of work. But if you say that I have prayed a lot, it means you want to get rid of praying.  Working for long hours may make you tired because of your bodily system, but prayer cannot, because it involves your inner being.  Ego only brings in tiredness.  If you are a spiritual minded person and spontaneously involve in prayers, you are not doing, you are only focusing your attention to divinity and you won’t be tired. On the contrary, a long prayer will make you relaxed, calm and free from all types of anxieties. Some people have a habit to curse their luck saying, “I pray so much, but God does not accede to the same.”  This assertion is wrong because in that case, prayer must be full of materialistic thoughts, greediness, and desire to obtain favor from the authorities, to hunch for status or to get rid of all sorts of difficulties. This type of  prayer does not evolve from your mind with a smear of reverence; the same is shrouded with desires only. The motive behind this prayer is faulty. In this prayer, you are demanding, of course, with humility, but you are not praying and surrendering yourself to God. In prayer, you must give, surrender and show your oblation to the Almighty. Prayer always connects us to God, if the same evolves from the bottom of  your  heart.

To know whether God hears our heartfelt feelings, it needs introspection. From that introspection, you must enquire whether you have faith that God is! Do you suggest prayer?  Or you start prayers just because people tell or you read somewhere.  In that case, your brain is not giving any positive signal to the heart about the real meaning behind the prayer. If your faith is hollow, your tongue is simply mumbling and your heart is in doubt, the same prayer is not a sincere act to connect to God.

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Prayer has a mammoth benefit.  While praying regularly somehow if you are not properly connected to God means you are able to concentrate, don’t get disheartened, you lose nothing, but if you get energized, you win millions like God’s blessings, elder’s good wishes and your friend’s love and affection.  While praying, don’t think for materialistic benefits. Let it come on its own. If you gain by praying mentally and psychologically, continue the said activities for your betterment in life. If you pray sincerely, you will never utter that God has not shown any sympathy. You will never blame God.  All will be accepted by you as He wishes. Remember, when we pray, God hears more than we say, answers more than we ask and gives more than we imagine in His own time and His own way.

People often say that God is not so kind. A true devotee cannot have these sorts of assertions. A devotee will be full of gratitude and will be always thankful to God.  In his bad time, he feels that he is not worth enough to receive God’s grace; still God has given him enough. This attitude makes a devotee to become more faithful. He always emphasizes on God’s power for his success.  He sees the same and always become very submissive to God. Remember one thing that God is always full of compassion for everyone.  He forgives and He does not punish.  You get humiliated, tortured and suffer  because of your miscreant behaviors and wrongdoings.  God shows grace to everyone all the time.  You must possess an inner sense and the power of observation to understand His grace.  Mostly, people see bad times and troubles not as opportunities, they see the same as a curse, but not as compassion.  In fact, God shows you bad times for your improvement and usher in a good period.  If you are not able to get His grace, don’t be panic; be thankful to Him even in your adversities. This is the real faith and your devotion.  In distress, if you are steadfast in your spiritual thinking and your heart is soaked with devotion to pray; God will not let you suffer for a long time.  It could be a time being affair as God examines your devotion, conviction towards purity. So, continue to pray with heartfelt thanks to God and show your gratitude to all  human beings with whom you come in touch  in the tone of eulogizing  so that you  receive His blessings throughout your life.