How Are Miracles Activated through Prayer?
Opening Session – “Pray, Listen & Follow” – Online Weekend Retreat—How Are Miracles Activated through Prayer?
David Hoffmeister invites us to know prayer as the desire of our heart and to allow the Holy Spirit to use the dream symbols to lead us to the light, the Kingdom within. True prayer is not about symptom removal. It is by our faith that we are healed! Enjoy David’s insights on the topic of pray, listen, and follow.
Gold Nugget:
“Jesus dictated the pamphlet, The Song of Prayer, very, very helpful. But from The Song of Prayer, you get this context, almost like, spirit is reality, God is reality, Heaven is reality, and this is a world of time-space, of imagination. It’s fiction! It’s make-believe! But while you believe you’re in the fiction, while you believe you’re inside of the time-space, inside as a body, while you believe you’re on the screen of projection, you’re not in touch with the mind. You’re just in touch with how the projection seems to be with the body and around the body. Then prayer has to be practical. Prayer has to reach you in a way that you can relate to it.
You know, just hear the prayer, ‘All is Love. All is God.’ You know, if you believe in fear, if you believe in guilt and doubt, then ‘All is Love. All is God,’ you might say, ‘Oh yeah, sentimentally, yeah, I like the sound of that, all is God, all is Love.’ But how practical is that if you believe and you circumscribe yourself with so many illusions, the body and all the time-space illusions, that you are out of touch with Heaven, you’ve forgotten Heaven? There’s an amnesia going on. So The Song of Prayer was like saying this, almost like a ladder dropped in, down into time and space. And Jesus is basically saying, ‘Just grab on any rung. Any rung will do. I’m going to help you and instruct you.’ And the Holy Spirit will instruct you to help you seemingly climb the ladder of consciousness into higher and higher states of mind until you reach a leaping-off point of correction and divine forgiveness, and then, boom! You remember what you forgot, God, Heaven! So, The Song of Prayer is basically saying, while you believe in specifics, the Holy Spirit has to reach you through those specific symbols!”
Recorded at The Heart of Christ Online Retreat Pray, Listen and Follow on March 3, 2023
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