Yesterday I led the Prayer Service at my church for the first time: a perfectly Believe-able experience.
Jim was the only other person there. That made it 2x as joyful as had I been all alone. Yet all alone would have been wonderful also.
As much and as often as I pray, this 20-minute experience added strong reinforcement to the power of praying aloud.
I realize that praying to God is praying for myself. Lately I more clearly know that while I speak to God and I certainly want God to hear (and know that God does hear), I also speak for me to hear.
The more I listen to what I pray, the more I make the prayer's purpose clear and vibrant to the Universe. The reason for praying can be of any type: for myself, for others' health and well-being, for peace, for prosperity, for love and comfort, for a sunny day.
I really felt yesterday, saying a beautiful series of prayers out loud, that's the best way for me to hear my prayers, really hear them. To say them aloud. Whether whispered or yelled, spoken or sung, hearing them adds power. Hearing a prayer with my ears as well as with my mind and in my heart adds power to the prayer, power to my praying, power to my Self.
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