Article January 22, 1955 Issue

THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER

CARRIE BELLE MURCH

Prayer is communion with God. Prayerfully did Christ Jesus ask to be glorified that he in turn might glorify the Father. His followers, likewise, desire to express God and His goodness. A God-implanted urge to evidence one's inherent right to freedom from inharmony, sickness, and lack moves one to talk with God and to listen when He speaks. Christ Jesus declared the way of liberation from bondage in these words (John 8: 32): "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Abiding in the truth of being is unceasing prayer.

Jesus is our Way-shower. He is our Exemplar. He knew the importance of prayer. Both in trials and in success he prayed. He withdrew from his followers that he might commune with God alone in the wilderness and on the mountaintop. He prayed throughout the night. Continually he sought through prayer to maintain the consciousness of his oneness, or unity, with his Father-Mother God. He claimed his sonship with God; he knew his inseparability from Him. Man he understood to be spiritual and to be perfect, as is the Father.

Jesus maintained a correct view of God and man. His was a life of prayer. His prayer was one of realization of God's allness, perfection, and supremacy—an expression of praise and gratitude for His goodness. Jesus taught his followers to pray. He left us the Christian prayer which, throughout the ages, in his honor has been known as the Lord's Prayer. Jesus proved the immediate availability of the prayer that heals. He showed that it replaces inharmony with harmony, sickness with health, lack with abundance.

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