Editorial September 1, 1934 Issue

The Prayer of Fulfillment

Violet Ker Seymer

True prayer is consonant with the fulfilling of God's law of health, righteousness, and life everlasting. Keeping God's purpose clearly before him, Jesus saw it triumph over sin, disease, and death. His life on earth was spent in giving to humanity evidences of God's beneficent purpose for man.

Christian Science leads one through the prayer of petition and of aspiration to the prayer of fulfillment. In the fulfilling of God's purpose there is no possible fear of failure, for inspired spiritual prayer is linked with the authority of divine Principle. Therefore Jesus said, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." Material desires are neither true desires nor the expression of true prayer. Desire, then, should be entertained only "when ye pray," that is to say, when we resolve to put off the old sense of man for our genuine, spiritual identity.

A condition of fulfilled prayer is that we believe that we receive that for which we pray, be it a clearer realization of purity, health, intelligence, integrity, or joy. These evidences of true consciousness are being lavishly poured forth by infinite Love and as lavishly reflected by man, Love's image. True prayer, then, is the discernment of spiritual being—its harmony, peace, and supremacy. Its fulfillment calls for no interval of time or process, for divine Love inspires the prayer of fulfillment, and Love is divine Principle, ever operative, triumphant.

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