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Here are specific prayers and approaches to help us come into balance with All That Is/ God/ Universal Goodness. These prayers target blocked energy for clearing energy fields to allow our feelings, our body or our relationships to heal. All prayer should begin with opening a sacred healing space. There are many ways to do that. Here are two options.

I. Before prayer, open the Sacred Space.

This is done to amplify our prayers, to create a protected healing space for the prayers and to help us begin to create real partnerships with these Divine Energy Beings who are always available to support us.

Options

A. I call forth my highest I AM Self. ( This is the part of us that is always One with God. ) I call the Angelic Host, the Ascended Masters and the Highest Cosmic Light Beings of the Universe to hold this sacred space for healing and wisdom with me. And so it is.

B. I am opening a sacred space for this prayer. My deepest thanks for this support and healing grace.

II. Clear your own energy before commanding energy through prayer.

If you have any inkling that you feel your prayer is not going to work, clear your doubt and fear before praying. ALL OUR PRAYERS ARE HEARD!! Further, if you are carrying un-forgiveness about yourself, this needs to be released before prayer is powerful.

Options

A. Divine Knowing, clear the blocked energy I am carrying which is manifesting as doubt and fear concerning what I am about to pray for. My thanks.

B. Spirit of the Living God, I ask for forgiveness for the anxiety I am carrying about my job interview. Thank you.

III. I have a body part that is in pain.

I call forth the Sacred Flame ( God in flame form within us) to consume the blocked mental, thermal (protective) and spiritual (fear) energy originating from this lifetime or any other lifetime from the year, month and day of its inception into my field which is manifesting now as a painful _______ (knee, hip, hand), etc. Consume the blocked energy to allow for balance of my _______ (knee, hip, hand), etc. in present time. I am open to the healing energy in any form that is possible. Thanks be to God.

IV. I have a stuffy nose with cloudy discharge**. (fill in the condition/symptoms)**

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I call forth the Sacred Flame ( God in flame form within us) to consume the blocked mental, thermal (protective) and spiritual (fear) energy originating from this lifetime or any other lifetime from the year, month and day of its inception into my field which is manifesting now as a stuffy nose with cloudy discharge. Consume the blocked energy allowing for balance of my body with regard to the symptoms of this stuffy nose. Thanks be to All That Is.

V. Brad has recurring headaches. (fill in the condition/symptoms)

I call Brad’s highest I AM Self into this sacred healing and wisdom circle. I call forth the Sacred Flame from within Brad to consume the blocked emotional, mental, thermal(protective) and spiritual (fear) energy originating from this lifetime or any other lifetime from the year, month and day of its inception into Brad’s field which is manifesting now as recurring headaches. Consume the blocked energy allowing for balance of his body. Thanks be to All That Is.

VI. I had a bad argument with my spouse,child, co-worker, mother, friend.

I ask for deep forgiveness for my part in escalating the argument with _____ (name) last night. I call forth the Sacred Flame to consume the blocked emotional, mental, thermal and spiritual energy from my energy field from this lifetime or from any previous lifetime which is manifesting now as this argument with _____ (name). Clear all this old stagnant, blocked energy which can go today. I call Peace and Divine Energy into the midst of my relationship with _____ (name). Thank you, Divine Grace.

VII. I feel angry with my spouse for his lack of awareness of what needs to be done around the house.

Sacred Flame come forth and consume the blocked mental, thermal and spiritual energy originating from this lifetime or any other lifetime which is manifesting as my repeated anger and frustration with my spouse about his lack of awareness of what needs to be done in our house. I call forth the Blessings of the Light for our relationship. I am so grateful for this support and healing energy.

VIII. I feel depressed and lethargic.

I call forth the Sacred Flame of All That Is from within me. Sacred Flame, come forth and consume the emotional, mental, thermal and spiritual energy originating from my lifetime or from any other lifetime from the specific year, month and year of its inception which is currently manifesting as my feeling depressed and lethargic. Show me ways to move out of this place of darkness and separation. Help me to see small steps I can take. My profound thanks.

IX. I am afraid for __________(name) and what is happening to him/her.

Sacred flame consume the blocked mental, thermal (protective) and spiritual energy (fear) originating from this lifetime or any previous lifetimes which is manifesting as my being afraid for ___________ ( name). I call forth the Divine Presence within ________ (name) for his/her Highest Benevolent Good. I turn this fear over to All That Is for a perfect outcome. My thanks.

X. I am out of Right Relationship with my _________ self, work, husband, mother, aunt, boss, upcoming performance, spending/eating/exercise habits, responsibilities to my children, anger towards others, desire for a mate, seeming inability to make money, etc.

Right Relationship means in Right Relationship with All That Is, with God. We often know or suspect when we are out of Right Relationship with a person, situation or our self. This sacred term, Right Relationship means as defined by God. This takes the guess work out of defining what is “wrong” with the relationship.

Divine Presence, my heart is heavy. I call forth the Sacred Flame to consume the blocked emotional, mental, thermal (protective) and spiritual ( fear) energy from all core sources in this lifetime or any previous lifetime which is now manifesting as my being out of Right Relationship with my _____________ ( see above list). I release all this stuck energy willingly with deep and lasting thanks. And so it is, Amen.

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Devon was facing a killer week of projects, papers and exams. He had 1-2 pieces due every day for 6 days with a couple of exams thrown in for good measure. Additionally, he was managing an eleven day concert tour with fourteen guys up and down the East Coast, beginning immediately after his mid-terms. He also had an eight person road trip

with friends from all over the country heading to a rural farm house directly after the concert tour and a few family commitments, including at least one birthday. To put it mildly, he was crazy stressed.

His strategy was to ask Divine Presence everyday to order his day with grace and ease to allow him to work as effectively as possible. He enthusiastically reported that he was knew without a doubt that he had been supported by Spirit because he had produced a 5 page research proposal, 2 page dance paper, an online blog post for his employer and reviewed all the technical terms for his exam in one four hour block of time . He was elated and knew Spirit had been helping him. Of course, he had called that energy to his situation. He even finished early with time to edit footnotes. He was most enthusiastic about how this had all gone.

Chester, who was his brother’s legal guardian, was feeling compelled to confront his brother with the threat of committing him because of his recent erratic behavior, due it seemed, to a lapse in taking his drugs for a mental condition. Though Chester was relatively sure his actions would provoke serious anger and blame from his brother, he felt he had no choice. Chester went ahead with the confrontation and the implied threat of legal action. This resulted in months of estrangement, tension, anger and irritation between Chester and his brother.

In a similarly charged setting, Lisette felt she needed to move to file in the county to have her 88 year old mother’s driver’s license taken away.

Every time she thought of taking these formal actions, she felt woozie and lightheaded. She realized that this was not sitting well with her though at the same time, she felt she had to move ahead because her mother was not competent to drive. In talking with Lisette, she decided to try asking for a sacred solution for her situation before she filed the legal papers. She was optimistic when she left saying that she would surely try this before moving ahead with the legal steps with the county.

There are always options of a Divine Nature which can save us untold heartache and pain, anger and blame. Try a Divine Solution first with very charged situations.

Tori was deeply concerned about her husband. He was depressed, overweight, lethargic and prone to colds and illness. Her husband, Bim, was not open to prayer or to Tori’s comments, “designed to help”. She was very frustrated not being able to do anything helpful for him and yet she feared he would not get any help until he was really sick. She decided to try to work with his Angels and to offer prayers for her husband through them.

In enlisting their help, she said, “I speak to the Angels around my husband. I call forth Bims’ Highest Divine Energy to lead him in perfect ways from the darkness he is in. Consume the lethargy and the source of depression that is draining his energy. Guide him to his life’s purpose and to the joy that is within. Thank you. ” This is a paraphrase of the first prayer she said and others followed until there was visible change in his energy.

Martha was repeatedly angry with her mother. After visiting, she usually spent the hour retuning home fuming about the visit. This tension had been going on for a number of years but recently it was becoming deeply disturbing to Martha. She did not know why she was so very angry. She reported feeling horribly unloving and mean whenever anger erupted which was after all visits and most phone calls with her mother. She took her anger into sacred space with another person. She prayed for the core blocked energy manifesting as recurring anger be completely released from her field. She called in the Angel of Compassion to be with her in all dealings with her mother.

These are all examples of ways to call the Divine Presence into our lives. Divine Energy is totally surrounding us, all the time, in infinite amounts. We are free to use this energy everyday in all the ways we can imagine. We get notably more powerful responses though if we come to this Divine Energy Source, demonstrating some basic spiritual truths.

• Give over control of projects, outcomes, efforts, and the methods you think may be required to manifest the results you want. Allow Spirit to work through you for the Highest Good as you create.
• Hold the space for a Sacred Solution to a difficult situation. Call that Energy right into the midst of your life.
• Live knowing that all people are Spiritual Beings at their core, regardless of their behavior. Call to the Light in others, enlist their Highest I AM Presence, when entering into prayer.
• Work with the Angels (or Ascended Masters) when direct prayer with or for a person seems impossible or unwelcome.
• Call God to clear all the core blocked energy manifesting as negative feelings you may be carrying towards yourself or another.
• Activate your own relationship with God, even if you are unsure about the characteristics of that relationship. It is more wondrous than one can imagine.

When people say, “you need to be in Silence”, there is usually a vision of sitting, perhaps cross-legged with eyes closed and breathing deeply for 30 minutes or so, while being left alone by the world. The thought of this for many people is simply a non-starter and blocks our energy before one can even fully consider it. Sometimes in our lives, such time is non-existent no matter how much we would love to have that experience.

Still, the place to spend time with All That Is/Divine Presence/God is in Silence. When we show up for this time together, we are the ones who are greatly blessed because we are loved, supported and calmed energetically in ways that generally don’t happen in the world. Silence with God is spending time with God without your own agenda.

The main ingredient we need to be successful in making time with God’s Energy is intention. Here are some examples of how to do that. One can dedicate 10 minutes of a walk with the dog to being with Divine Presence.

Another option is to dedicate time while working in the garden or the yard to connecting with God. Open a sacred space by calling in Divine Beings or Divine Light and call God into your time regardless of what you may be doing. Another place I used to have time with God was in the bathroom. That was at a time that I could reasonably count on having a few minutes to myself there. I would seek that time and space at all times of the day and usually that was honored!

We can listen to uplifting music and intentionally invite Divine Presence into our space. This is not Silence per se but it may get us into Silence with grace and ease. The more we intentionally connect with Divine Energy, the more we notice a shift in the vibration of energy around us. This is the Holy Spirit showing up to be with us because we asked. One could read a spiritual book while asking God to enter into this space and time with you, as well. If you are reading poetry or prose, take a section, read the piece three time out loud and then sit in the Silence of that energy. You will be ministered to through Sacred Presence. Usually there is a great calm that comes over us even if we only have 15 minutes.

Any sacred time can be carved out and dedicated to God. You can be watching children playing a sport and while sitting apart for the crowd, take 15 minutes to dedicate special time with God. You can arrive early for an appointment and sit in the car listening to classical music or simply recline with eyes closed and ask God to connect with you. The ways are infinite.

The challenge is to regularly invite God into your life. Don’t talk about it and despair or simply close the door on it as being an impossibility. We are in great need of the Presence of God. That energy is incredibly calming, supportive and filled with Divine Love which is totally different from human support and love here. However, we need to knock on the door with GREAT determination, seek without giving up and keep asking for connection and communion with God by showing up every day in one way or another. We are the only ones who can gift ourselves with Divine Grace. It is all around us but we have to say YES and show up. So, do what works.

For those of you who are finding time in Silence, there is another step which can be taken to expand your conscious knowing of God. After you have intentionally connected with God, you may come out of that time and realize you have something you want to pray about, ask forgiveness for, call Divine Presence into or clear some blocked energy you have become aware of. This is not Silence. This is working with God to call forth this energy for a specific person, situation or purpose. This is unifying prayer. Each of these experiences is still being with God but the focus changes to your own thoughts, questions, needs, etc. This is a natural outgrowth of being in Silence with God.

Muriel was just coming out of a twenty minute session of Silence with God. She immediately saw the face of her sister in front of her. Her sister had passed away two years earlier.

She did not know what the image of her sister actually meant, but the experience felt uncomfortable within. She loved her sister deeply but there was an uneasiness when her face appeared to her. Muriel took two minutes more in Silence and realized she needed to ask forgiveness for the way in which she had behaved when she needed to help take care of her during her illness and when she needed to suddenly do all the extra things for their parents when her sister was sick. Right then and there she asked for forgiveness for those unkind feelings, hasty words and old anger. She felt a perceptible sense of Lightness in her chest and heart area. She knew she had actually been forgiven in that moment. She was amazed that it was so easy to release that old energy. In fact, she had not really remembered her feelings until her sister’s face appeared to her. This was the Holy Spirit working with Muriel to help her clear her soul energy from this stagnant, stuck feeling that was still with her two years after her sister had died.

This is an example of how seamlessly this Divine Energy can work with us. Muriel was in a deep communion with All That Is/God and she simply knew she needed to ask for forgiveness. Without showing up for time with God, she could have carried that draining energy for years and have it show up in all sorts of unhelpful ways.

If we begin our personal relationship with God in Silence, we will be blessed in ways we can never imagine. Show up, dedicate time to God, keep the appointment, be in the Silence, and listen. This is how we come to a place of balance and wholeness through Divine Grace. Even if you have no visual for God, no sense of what or who God is for you, even if you don’t even know if you believe in God Presence, do this anyway. There is a deep magic, that surpasses all understanding, whose doorway will open to us. When this happens all our fears become less powerful, we become more capable of gratitude, we can release that which is not serving us or others very well. If we have just even a few minutes, we will be ministered to. We are deeply loved beyond anything we as humans can comprehend. However, we have to chose to enter into the Silence before we can gather this blessing for ourselves and for others.

Over many years, I have learned to use a particular type of prayer for spiritual healing. My prayers for wholeness have evolved and changed, continually seeking to capture the inherent power of Divine Presence.

I call this specific type of prayer, unifying prayer. Unifying prayer differs from intercessory prayer, centering prayer or supplication prayer, in that unifying prayer specifically emerges from knowing that we are One with All That Is. Unifying prayer calls upon our own Divine Resources, within a sacred space, working with other Divine Energy Beings for the purpose of calling forth Divine Grace for a person, place or situation.

Unifying prayer comes from

• knowing that we and God, are One
• knowing that Right Relationship with All That Is is our natural state
• knowing that seeming imbalances can be transformed or shifted through Divine Grace

Healing comes from Divine Grace. Healing does not come from medicine, our prayers, surgery or therapy. All these things do have their place in healing but are really ways through which Divine Grace is made available through caring individuals in the course of one’s healing. This is a very important distinction. Healing comes from Divine Grace, the energy of Divine Presence being received by those needing healing. Many, many healing modalities can be employed to enable Divine Grace to be received.

If medicine healed in and of itself, all people with a cold would be able to take the exact same medicines and all would heal, every time. Because healing comes from Divine Grace, we have to receive this energy to heal. We may not even be consciously aware of receiving Divine Grace but that is what leads to healing. Generally imbalances manifesting as illness in the body come from blocked energy we humans have created, held onto, nurtured, etc., which disconnects us from Divine Grace. When medicine, prayers, therapy help us release blocked energy, we have the opportunity to reconnect with Divine Presence.

Divine Grace is Love in action. Every time I work with someone who is out of balance physically or mentally, I begin by opening Sacred Space so that I can join with other Divine Energy Beings to work together to call forth Divine Presence for a person, place or situation.

This is what I say:

I call forth my I Am Self ( the part of me that is wholly Divine) , the Ascended Masters, the Angelic Host, the Divine Cosmic Light Beings of the Universe, the Nature Intelligences, Divine Ancestors and Divine Physicians to help me hold this Sacred Healing and Wisdom Circle.

Because I am of Divine Essence like all beings, I have the authority, right and power to call such a circle into existence for the purpose of healing. I imagine that together we are very powerful. Together, all that I call forth is amplified by the Divine Beings working with me. Further, when I listen, the exact wording needed for a person or situation often emerges from the combined knowing of Divine Beings. Still though, in all situations and in all ways, Divine Grace does the re-balancing, the healing, the pacing of the energy shifts, creation and implementation of the plan. I simply call Divine Grace forth, knowing that balance, wholeness and peace is the natural state of bodies, places and situations.

Unifying Prayer begins with the knowing that God and I are One, inseparably, for all eternity. This is the aspect of unifying prayer which sets it apart from all other prayer. This type of prayer emerges out of this knowing of Oneness with all things. Therefore, in unifying prayer, the Lord’s Prayer for example becomes, you give us this day our daily bread, you forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. You lead us not into temptation and you deliver us from evil. In the use of this wording, we are affirming the power of the Great Oneness/God from our sense of knowing of the Oneness ourselves.

Divine Grace, we call forth the Sacred Flame from within Emil to consume the blocked spiritual and fear energy manifesting as depression and self-inflicted pain. This unifying prayer restates our connection with All That Is by affirming that the Sacred Flame is within Emil. The prayer names fear and blocked energy as the reasons behind the manifestation of the imbalances in his life. No power is given to the imbalances. The act of calling forth the Sacred Flame itself is an act of Oneness, recognizing that all people can call forth the sacred flame form of God.

God please help Emil because he is a good person and has lost his way. This prayer assumes that the person praying, God, and Emil are all separate from one another. These words give the impression that God needs to be informed that Emil is a good person. Also, inherent in this prayer is an assumption that help for Emil is not being given by God at the present time. Further, this prayer bases the request for help on a judgement that because Emil is a good person, he deserves help. This stance goes against the Divine order which again and again states that the Highest Good is always what is being desired for us.

I see the Light in Emil and call for the highest benevolent outcome of his current circumstances. This is a unifying prayer affirming that the Light, a form of God, is within Emil. Further, the specifics of the outcome are left to All That Is. However, our calling this energy into this dimension from the realm of unformed energy is very powerful and supports the presence of Divine Grace for Emil.

We lift Emil into the Light and pray for his complete recovery from depression. This is not a unifying prayer because it talks about lifting Emil into “the Light” meaning that Emil is now, out of the Light. We are always in Light even when we are manifesting energy which is out of balance. Further, depression is spoken about here as a condition with its own power rather than as a condition which is temporarily present due to blocked energy which can always be transformed by Divine Grace.

Our words are powerful healing tools. Use prayers which reflect the power we are working with. Make certain that your prayers affirm the Oneness, All Power, All Knowing, Omnipresent characteristics of God. When the words correctly and powerfully reflect the Truth that is God, they are charged with a power beyond human means. They then carry the charge of the power of the Great Grace to heal.

One day I received a phone call from Violet Patterson(pseudo name). She introduced herself and shared that a friend had given her my name. She had been recently diagnosed with a tumor in her kidney which was cancerous and she asked for support in responding to this situation. We talked for a while. She said that she was happily married, with children and that her family was very close. She shared that she had always been a positive, healthy person. This had come out of the blue and was so unexpected. She had no symptoms and she shared that this condition had been discovered while having other medical tests.

She was in the process of researching medical procedures open to her. We agreed that I would work with her long distance due to all of the medical appointments she was having at that time. I said that I would keep her informed of what took place. A few days later, I had a healing energy session with Violet’s energy, long distance. I opened a sacred healing space in my home for Violet, who was elsewhere and worked with the Divine Presence/Holy Spirit/Consciousness of Divine Beings to call in healing energy for her.

Here are our verbatim emails with her given permission to share these.

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robbinshopkins to vtpatter 12/15/09

Dear Violet,

There was vibrational healing energy shifts today regarding the cancerous tumor in your kidney. I understand that a virus you contracted went ” off course” and produced this cancerous tumor. The causes behind the attraction of this virus were cleared. The virus is now inactive. Further, all blocked fear and spiritual energy which is manifesting as the cancerous tumor at the skin level and blood level was also cleared. There was clearing for the originating blocked energy sources in all cases. There was an image of intense Light penetrating the entire affected kidney from all directions to begin the healing process. What this means is that the tumor can now shrink and I hope that will begin immediately.

In any case at the spiritual, unseen level, the body made a huge jump from 42 megahertz of vibration, indicating cancer to 62 megahertz which is within the normal range of human vibration. This does not mean that the tumor is gone in your body, because I work on the spiritual level, the unseen level. Healing is first indicated at the spiritual level though and works it way through the body until the healing can manifest in our tissues.

You may therefore have detox in the form of tiredness or even pain from the body sloughing off toxins at the physical level. That can look like bowel or elimination changes, tiredness or aches in one place or throughout the body or other symptoms as well such a rashes, thirst, etc. These are the most common but anything out of the ordinary can be detox. If something strange does show up and you are wondering if you are in detox, send me an email and I will check the energy and let you know.

It was also shared that taking cranberry pills, over the counter and drinking 100% cranberry juice 3-4 times daily will help the kidney in elimination of toxins. The cranberry juice can be gotten at MOM’s or Whole Foods for 100% juice. You will also need to combine it with another juice like apple so that you can drink it because it is very sour and yet it is better for the kidneys in this elimination to have low sugar.

If you mix with another juice, drink 100% juice without added sugar. You can also eat dried cranberries as well. You should consider taking the pills and the juice for at least 7-10 days. Begin as soon as you can to help your body detox. We can check and see when to stop when this gets closer to that time.

When the vibration of the body rises, the toxins that have been holding at one level of the vibration of the body, slough off because they can’t remain anymore in the new higher level of vibration.

This is all great news. Some of the cancers that I have worked with have begun with viruses. These are not detectable as yet with our medical procedures but that is how they have been indicated for me to work with, so I share this with those of you where it is pertinent. Give thanks to God in your own way as there is certainly a great deal of love and support for you in this situation.

All the best in your continued research. I would just keep looking into options while the body heals. When you come to a decision about how to proceed, I hope the tumor is much improved. It may not be your path, to have the tumor completely disappear without surgery. But it could happen. I never know about things into the future. But I always hold the space for Divine Intervention and when that is possible for a person, it occurs. Please keep me informed of how you are doing and what further information you get about your body if more comes through the medical tests, etc.

Peace and Healing Light, Robbins

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vtpatter to me 12/15/09

Thank you very much for your email. I feel very encouraged by your comments and appreciate your advice (especially the cranberry juice!). I have an appointment at NIH tomorrow, and will keep you informed.

Thank you again, Violet

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vtpatter to me 1/06/10

Hello Robbins. I wanted to let you know my plans regarding my kidney. I have decided to have a laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (removal of the tumor with a small margin) at NIH on Monday, January 11. I was wondering if you could include me in your morning prayers, particularly since I’m fighting off a sore throat and don’t want to postpone the surgery!

Thank you again for your encouraging email. I made a copy of it and carry it around with me. Whenever I feel a little discouraged, I read it, and immediately feel better. Violet

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robbinshopkins to vtpatter 1/06/10

DearViolet,

I have been in prayer with your energy 2 more times since I last wrote. I hope all will go wonderfully for you on the 11th. I will hold you in prayer between now and then. I am on vacation but prayer is a daily event! Many blessings. Please let me know how you do. I feel all will be just perfect for you and I hope you will be at peace as you have the surgery. Many blessings, Robbins

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vtpatter to me 1/28/10

Hi Robbins. I wanted to share with you my good news. The surgery went very well and I am recovering nicely. I just received news that the tumor is non-cancerous! Everyone, including my surgeon and family doctor, is very surprised as the tumor had all the appearances of being cancerous. I couldn’t ask for a better outcome! Thank you again for your thoughts, prayers and blessings. Violet

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robbinshopkins to vtpatter 1/28/10

Dear Violet,

How absolutely amazing. I am so thrilled for you. I think you most probably received a Divine healing because when you first contacted me, I did clearly get a positive indication for cancerous cells. So this is the very best news possible. I rejoice with you!! Thank you so much for telling me. Another person contacted me recently with the exact same situation as you. I am hoping for such a healing for him as well!! Peace and joy. Robbins

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Violet and I have never met. However as we know, Divine Energy is Everywhere Present, All Powerful and All Knowing. We simply have to call it into the our lives or the lives of others for that Presence to manifest in this dimension. Believe and Act! What do you have to lose? Do we ever really know what has or can happen in a specific situation? NO, not really. However, if we hold the space for Divine Intervention in all situations, both in our minds and our hearts, it will become a reality in our lives and for those we care about.

HOLD THE SPACE FOR DIVINE INTERVENTION ENTHUSIASTICALLY !

How does one go about getting a car and a house sold one day after praying about it? Read on!

The purpose of prayer is to connect with the Greater Whole/ All That Is / Highest Presence. When we think of prayer, however, we often begin by asking God for something which we think we are missing. This is highly ineffective though because it goes against all that we know to be true in the Universe.

God is constant. God never changes. These are absolutes in the Universe for all people. Our needy prayer will not get “God” to do anything differently from what has been going on for eons. Without a doubt, there is no DIVINE BEING who will give us what we want when we ask for it from a place of lack or neediness. It does not work this way.

For the highest prayer results, we have to pray from a place of claiming we are One with All That Is, from a position of shared power, from a place of a ” joint heir to the throne”. When we do this, we are envisioning the highest good, the highest benevolent outcome, the Light surrounding loved ones, Divine Presence in the space of fear, using the highest available power. We are calling forth the Presence of God in infinite form, from the unformed nature of the Universe just like God said, “Let there be Light” and there was.

Though I am in prayer numerous times a day, it is most often with Divine Beings and other pe0ple’s highest I AM Energy. I learned a powerful lesson recently about praying for things in my own life.

My mother’s house had been on the market for over two years with only one extremely low bid in all that time. Also, a friend’s car had been parked at our house for nearly three years, though only in the last 3 months had she been seriously ready to sell the car, this time around. She had tried for a short time last year to sell the car without success. On July 4 of this year, my husband and I sat together and spoke aloud, prayers for each of these situations. This is not a common experience we have! We called for the clearing of all blocked energy manifesting as these items remaining unsold. We called for persons to manifest who would love the car and love my mother’s house. We called for the sharing of the full abundance of these resources with those who would love them.

On July 5th, the car sold. On July 5th the eventual purchaser saw my mother’s house for the first time. After two more visits she made an offer and we settled on a contract. The one thing she told the realtor as we were negotiating is that she absolutely loved the house! No one in two years had said that about the house.

Why hadn’t this happened before this time? What was so powerful about the way we prayed that made a difference the very next day? I realized that if only one of these things had happened, I might not have gotten the lesson. Because both items were addressed the day after our prayer, it was absolutely clear that something was different about the prayers we prayed. Here is my best take on what was different about these prayers from others I had prayed over the months before this time.

I prayed with another person about these items.

• When I pray for others with Divine Presence, their own energy is always present so there are two of us present. I learned that when praying about items connected to me I can increase the power of the call by praying with another person. Praying together with my husband was a powerful expansion of the call for Divine Presence regarding these items for sale.

We prayed these prayers out loud with our individual contributions to the effort.

• When we pray out loud, we are literally giving form to the unformed Divine Universe around us. All that is needed is already given though it may not be manifesting in ways we would like to see it manifest. Emilie Cady says, ” We must take our thought off the visible world and center it on God. We begin, as God began in creation, by speaking out into this formless substance all about us with faith and power. ‘Let there be so and so (whatever we want). Let if come forth into manifestation here and now. It does come forth by the power of my word. It is done. It is manifest.’ ” ( Complete Works of H. Emilie Cady, H. Emilie Cady, Unity House, 1995, p 199. )

We prayed these prayers from a position of sharing abundance with others who would love the items we had to sell.

• We were both focused on the energy of abundance which is in Right Relationship with Divine Energy. Abundance energy manifests as expanding love, infinite source and creative possibility. We called forth, from the unformed Universe, people who would love the things we had to share. Love heals all things, corrects all situations, manifests all good, even a house that had not sold for 2 years and a car that had had an unclear fate for over a year.

We prayed these prayers within a sacred healing circle called for this purpose.

• Our prayers were said within the space of a sacred assemblage of Divine Energy in a range of forms, including Angelic Host, Cosmic Light Beings, Ascended Masters, Nature and Deva Spirits and both of our I AM Energies/ our Eternal Beings.

Take the risk of praying out loud with another. “When two or more are gathered together in My Name, there, I Am”. Take the risk of calling in Divine Presence for reasons of love (appreciation, delight, abundance, creativity, kindness, ) etc. Take the risk of specifically working with Divine Presence in other forms to support your call. These steps will produce good results for you.

Please also consider sharing these stories with us as you have results from your efforts.

How can we pray for others who are sick, afraid or in pain?

The first thing to remember is that All That Is, is already here. God is Constant, One Source, One Power. So asking for the healing of another is frequently not helpful to the other person, though it is not harmful either. All that is needed is already here. We are all made in the image of God and therefore we have all that is needed already. The fact that someone is manifesting illness means they are simply not demonstrating their full power at this time. Their Divine spark , if you will, is somehow diminished by the person giving his or her power to something other than Divine Knowing.

The most powerful prayers we can offer are those which call forth the Divine Oneness within others for their own healing and re-balancing. When we know of that power within a person, our calling it forth is one very powerful prayer for that person. Divine Power resides within every person but often it is not fully actualized because it is covered over with old emotions, thoughts, memories or a sense of separateness from God. When others recognize this in us and call it forth, it allows us to connected with our own sense of spiritual consciousness , power and knowing. The calling forth of Divine Presence in another is similar to Namaste. The God/Christ/Light in me recognizes The God/Christ/Light in you and the response is wholeness and healing vibration. See also: Praying with Power.

What would you recommend if I am repeatedly having unsuccessful relationships with guys I am dating? How can this type of issue be helped spiritually?

Begin by settling into Sacred Space and Stillness. The question you might ask yourself is, what patterns are your repeating in each relationship? What experiences are you having over and over again? Pick one, such as repeatedly going along with a guy, getting more and more serious and then realizing he is not into making a lasting commitment. Take this repeating pattern into Silence. Ask Divine Presence/ God/ The Oneness, what you need to learn from these relationships. Ask to be shown where you are separated from Divine Wholeness in these repeating patterns in your relationships. Then wait knowing you will learn what you need to know. Wait in the Silence and wait out of the Silence, knowing you will be shown in many ways, in the fullness of time, all that you have not seen until now. This will come in a time frame that is perfect for you, though it may not necessarily be within the time frame you have in your mind.

Your part is to bring the pattern into Sacred Silence and ask to be shown where you are separated from Divine Wholeness around this issue. The waiting upon the answer is also your part. Simply remain open and attentive to input and it will begin flowing towards you. The more you obsess over the issue, the harder it will be to receive guidance about it. Simply wait in attentive expectation. It is possible that the answers may be difficult to hear. You may be attracting these relationships because of some fear, mistrust, doubt or concerns you are carrying about being in a committed relationship yourself. In other words, the insights almost always lead us to the identification of our own fears and blocked energy. When you have a sense of what that looks like and feels like, simply command the release of this fear, mistrust, or doubt from your own energy field. Imagine this dark, heavy energy leaving your energy field and give thanks. http://robbinshopkins.com/2009/02/full-partners-with-the-divine-healing-service-excerpt/

Questions and Answers is a new feature of this blog. If you have a questions you would like answered, send them along in the comments section below. Some of the questions asked will appear in upcoming posts. I encourage you to take my answers to questions with you into meditative Silence and discern for yourself what your own answers are for the various questions presented here. Happy seeking.

Welcome to this healing service tonight. Whatever your reason for coming, you are likely to receive exactly what is needed for healing. This is because God, Divine Knowing, Universal Creator already knows what it is that you and I really need for healing. The Great I AM already knows why we are here and what is in our hearts. However, because we have consciously gathered in Sacred Space for this express purpose of healing, we have begun to take our place as full partners in the sacred process of healing.

Here is how it works. By issuing an open invitation for the Holy Spirit, Great Oneness, Highest Divine Energy to bring about needed healing, we initiate the very means through which such healing can take place in the human realm. God works through us to bring us back to our own True Selves, that is, to a full partnership with the Great I AM. This is especially evident in healing. Healing or Wholeness is the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical manifestation of a fully actualized relationship with All That Is, God, Perfected Love .

The reason I am here tonight is because five years ago (now fifteen years) a family member became inexplicably and seriously ill. I did everything imaginable to try to deal with that crisis for a solid year. I did everything, that is, but directly ask for God’s help. When I finally realized that we did not have the strength, the wisdom nor the vision to see what might be needed, I realized our family needed to directly ask for God’s loving, healing presence in our lives. We needed to turn over the pain, anguish and our sense of loss to this Higher Source because we as humans had exhausted our tiny reserves. We were depleted. The ensuing healing process was nothing short of miraculous. Though it was not spontaneous, it was nonetheless miraculous. So I am here to celebrate God’s Love and healing presence among us and to share some of what I have learned these last few years about healing.

God is Love. Not the kind of love we know the best in our human experience. Human love is all too often “I love you when” or “I love you if, or “I love you, but”…. God’s Love is wholly unconditional, from everlasting to everlasting, beyond all understanding. It is with us always. God’s Love is boundless, without limitation. God’s Love is not of this world though it is the fueling power behind all creation.

So then, how do we receive this boundless love?

In James 4:1-3 in the New Testament, we find a clue.

Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you. You want things, but you cannot have them, so you are ready to kill; you strongly desire things, but you cannot get them, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it. And when you do ask, you do not receive it, because you ask wrongly; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.

More clues are found in James 5:14.

Are there any among you sick? They should send for the “Spiritual Guides of Assembly” (The original translation meant those of a spiritual nature, later it was translated as church elders.) who will pray for them and rub olive oil on them in the name of the Lord. This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven. So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you will be healed.

We must ask for what we need in order to open ourselves to receive God’s blessing. Divine blessing is always there for us to receive. Life itself is a blessing. We just have to be tuned in, to consciously know we have gotten it. If we are on a different wave length, the blessing may not be received by us even though it is always available to us any time, day or night. We give form to the endless unformed potential energy when we call God. We have to call in Divine Energy to this dimension for it to manifest in our lives. In James, we read that if our motives are bad we will not receive God’s blessing. This refers to motives for self-aggrandizement, riches, or even just total focus on the life of this world.

• Sample – Forgive me for my impatience with myself this week. I open to Divine Knowing and call that Wholeness and Power into the emotional and physical challenges facing my sister. I release all my fears I am holding about her. I call Peace and Balance into this household.
• Sample – I ask that the anger I am carrying towards my body be taken and transformed. I call the Highest Divine Presence into my imbalanced body, feelings and thoughts. I call the perfect help in the Universe to me. I especially release this fear of chronic pain. Show me how to claim my wholeness.

God is constantly broadcasting love, healing, peace and serenity. Sometimes we tune in. Sometimes we don’t. Perhaps because we are trying so hard to solve the situation on our own; to bear the burden, to present a stiff upper lip to the outside world, to accept what has been given and a whole host of other things we think are good responses to trials and crises in our lives.

A woman praying

Some time ago, a woman came to see me and said that her son had been quite ill for several years. She reported that she had recently begun to get very depressed about what was happening for him and that her prayers were just not being answered. I asked her specifically what she had been praying for and she said “Well, I guess I have prayed for the strength to respond to ‘Brad’s’ illness and to bear the burden.” I replied that from all she had told me, I thought that her prayers had been expressly answered. She had just related for 45 minutes how she had expertly, relentlessly and stoically managed their lives through some very painful and debilitating experiences with her son for the past 4 years. She said that she had never thought of it that way. She also said that she did not know what to really ask for regarding her son from this point forward. She eventually decided to release her fears and sense of negativity about her son’s illness. Then she call in the Highest Good for “Brad”, for her family and for herself. We agreed that whatever that might look like, she could leave all her burdens in the hand of the Great I AM, the hand of God. She could release her burdens and trust in God.

We were created with free will in the image and likeness of the Great I AM. This free will, will never be violated by God. If we don’t want help, we don’t have to accept any. If we do want help, we have to ask, ourselves, for that help. We have to envision the life we want and how we want to create it. We are all continuously called to a full partnership with God. This process of seeking forgiveness and asking for the help we want is one aspect of this full partnership.

What does this practically look like? One possible take on this are the steps given below. Experiment and use whatever works for you.

1. Enter into stillness, The Silence
2. Name specifically where you are out of balance, separated from Divine Peace, need forgiveness
3. Ask for forgiveness and/or release from these imbalances (forgiveness actualized)
4. Call in Divine Presence, Wholeness and Balance to the specific areas needed (healing)
5. Give thanks for a growing connection with All That Is/Spirit/God

Prayer can be more than tepid thoughts, fear filled words or memorized prose. The purpose of prayer is to actualize the Divine Presence in all aspects of our lives. We may strongly feel the need for “help”, “healing” , “relief” for another or for ourselves but our strong sense of need does not charge a prayer, nor necessarily make it happen. This is because all that is needed already exists in the Universe. All That Is really means All That Is. So, what is praying with power?

When we charge our prayers with determination, envisioned wholeness and balance, we draw on Infinite Power. Powerful prayer brings form to the Universe of Divine Love that is all around us waiting to be actualized in daily life. When we see, sense, or envision, the Presence of Divine Grace for another, or for ourselves we are praying in power. When the envision wholeness we give form to prayer so that the energy of Divine Love which is all present, all knowing and all powerful can be “harnessed”, “directed” and “focused ” for another.

We are working in the midst of Love Energy all the time. That Love Energy can be activated or not, focused or not, directed or not. If we plead, beg or seek to inform our Higher Power we are essentially giving credence to a “God” separate from us and manifesting a world view of “in-completion, loss and need”. Even if we don’t fully get that we are One with All That Is and that we are made of the same substance as the Divine Energy itself, we can pray in the power of this energy and have our prayers be filled with direction, power and focus.

Prayer 1

Dear God, I hope you will hear me. I really, really, want you to help Nancy because she is in so much pain. She desperately needs your loving touch, care and attention. She is suffering terribly and needs healing. Help me with my deep sadness. I don’t want her to suffer and die. Please heal her and don’t let her die. She is a great mother and doesn’t deserve any of this. Her children really need her. I hope she does not die. Thank you so much for your help.

Prayer 2

Spirit of the Living God, I open a sacred healing space for Nancy. Nancy, beloved child of God, be healed. Receive the healing energy of the Great I AM in all areas of your being, thought, emotion, spirit and body. I call the Divine Healing Energy which is all knowing, all p0werful and everywhere present. Come Divine Healing Energy of All That Is. Fully actualize in Nancy’s being. I cast out all blocked energy in Nancy’s field which is now manifesting as pain and imbalance. I call in the Presence of emotional (mental, spiritual) and physical peace. I see Nancy as whole and balanced in all ways. My thanks for the Love of the Divine Wholeness/God/Universal Oneness. And so it is.

The first prayer has a pleading tone and sees Nancy as lacking something, suffering and in need of something to happen to make things “right”. The prayer is informing God of Nancy’s pain, her mothering skills and her need for healing, as if God does not know this intimately. The person praying gives form to his/her own fears and sadness, rather than to the vision of balance and wholeness for Nancy. This prayer sets God apart from the person praying. This person praying thinks that Nancy is being punished because she doesn’t “deserve” this treatment. On every front, this prayer is leaking power and energy.

The second prayer affirms the limitless power of All That Is in all directions. It is full of commands, be healed, receive, come and fully actualize. The commands affirm the energy of WE ARE ALL ONE, even God and I. This prayer is calling the formless energy of God/Eternal Oneness into actualized form in Nancy’s energy field. This person sees Nancy as “whole and balanced in all ways”. The pray-er is giving form to the Divine Energy at the human level by envisioning the wholeness which is already there. There is also recognition of the need to call out blocked energy Nancy is carrying which keeps keeping her from manifesting wholeness at the physical level.

The way the first prayer is conceived drains it of its power before it is even spoken. When we continue to see ourselves as unworthy, small, insignificant and separated before God, we are essentially turning away from our own true power, denying what has been give to us, that which is our birthright. Our relationship with God is nothing like our relationship with humans, though many of us continue to view it with just the same limitations we might have with our sister or a friend. There is no power in the first prayer because the person praying has not claimed that power which is there but for the asking. It is not charged with the Knowing Of All That Is. It is riddled with pleading, fear and the energy of being separate from God. The words are said in love and desire to help but the source of the prayer comes from a sense of lack.

To pray with power, we have to claim the power that is waiting for us. We have to try out a new vision of partnership with All That Is. We have to use all the goodness we have to see the Blessings of Wholeness and Balance for another. Understanding that we are giving form to the unformed energy of Divine Infinity, we need to claim the Highest Good for ourselves and others when we pray.

Use these steps to infuse your prayers with power.

1. Address the power you are recognizing

2. Open a sacred healing space

3. Command the state of wholeness for self or others

4. Call the Divine Energy to the person or situation

5. Cast out all blocked energy manifesting imbalances

6. Give thanks for the Love of Divine Presence

7. Command that all that has been said is so.