Ản engineer has a technique and a process for building abidge
or an engine. Like the engincer, your mind also has a technique
for governing, controlling, and directing your life. You must
realize that methods and techniques are primary.
In building the Golden Gate Bridge, the chief engincer
understood mathematical principles, stresses and strains.
Secondly, he had a picture of the ideal bridge across the
bay. The third step was his application of tried and proven
methods by which the principles were implemented unil the
bridge took form and we drive on it. There also are techniques
and methods by which your prayers are answered. If your
prayer is answered, there is a way in which it is answered, and
this is a scientific way. Nothing happens by chance. This is a
world of law and order. In this chapter you will find practical
techniques for the unfolding and nurture of your spiritual lifc.
Xour prayers must not remain up in the air like a balloon. They
must go somewhere and accomplish something in yor life.
When we come to analyze prayer we discover there are
many different approaches and methods. We will not consider
in this book the formal, ritual prayers used in religious services.
These have an important place in group worship. We are immediately concerned with the methods of personal prayer
as it is applied in your daily life and as it is used to help others,
Prayer is the formulation of an idea concerning something
we wish to accomplish. Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire. Your
desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it
reveals the things you want in life. Blessed are they that hunger and
thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. That is really prayer,
life’s hunger and thirst for peace, harmony, health, joy, and all
the other blessings of life.