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Prayer
If
you would engage in effective praying, you should bear in mind
the laws of prevailing petitions outlined in The Urantia Book:
1. You must qualify as a potent prayer
by sincerely and courageously facing the problems of universe
reality. You must possess cosmic stamina.
2. You must have honestly exhausted the
human capacity for human adjustment. You must have been industrious.
3. You must surrender every wish of mind
and every craving of soul to the transforming embrace of spiritual
growth. You must have experienced an enhancement of meanings and
an elevation of values.
4. You must make a wholehearted choice
of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.
5. You not only recognize the Father's
will and choose to do it, but you have effected an unqualified
consecration, and a dynamic dedication, to the actual doing of
the Father's will.
6. Your prayer will be directed exclusively
for divine wisdom to solve the specific human problems encountered
in the Paradise ascension--the attainment of divine perfection.
7. And you must have faith--living faith.
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