AN END OF PRAYING

"Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house."

What is the end of praying in your life? Does anything take place? And, if not, why not? Could Solomon make the fire descend from heaven which was to consume away the sacrifices and offerings?

The end of praying is always the same, whether it be for a king or a beggar. The true prayer (pure recognition of the Presence) is always accompanied by the consuming fire, which destroys both the belief in, and the manifestation of evil. The end of praying is glorious. It takes place automatically and naturally; it is the unseen Power which works in such a mysterious way, and at such a time, and in such a place, as is least expected, and always where help or assistance is said to be impossible. It is Wonderful!

Solomon, as a historical king, is not of great interest. His reign was neither brilliant nor grand, but Solomon, as a symbol standing for wisdom and Soul, is most wonderful. That infinite capacity to choose realities instead of shadows is shown forth in the prayers that he made. He (the soul) did not ask for manifestation, but for the Power back of the manifestation, knowing well that the manifestation, or the demonstration, could be easily destroyed, or dissipated. He called for the Power back of the symbol, and thereby worshiped the "Blesser and not the blessing, the Demonstrator and not the demonstration, the Giver and not the gift."

The great tendency of man is to worship the demonstration; so he worships gold, instead of that which is back of gold. His love of gold is the very root of all evil. He sets up the golden calf, money, and falls down and prays to it. He calls it power, and endows this God with a thousand and one other powers. He says a man is only successful when he has much gold, and yet he daily sees signs and proofs that this is not true. His mind is hypnotized by the long years of looking at appearances for his basic principle of life.

Prayers made to this God of Mammon are received with derision and laughter. A man praying for prosperity constantly, is usually in the depths of poverty. In his heart he knows how impossible it is to get gold, and his lip service is void of returns. This is the prodigal praying in his pigsty. He must arise and go unto his father; he must turn from the appearances, and then the end of praying will be a sudden descent of the fire, invisible yet visible, which will burn up the chaff of human thinking, and reveal the glorious blessings of the Presence. It is Wonderful! It is Wonderful! It is Wonderful! We must pray in this fashion, and then be willing to let the fire descend in its own way, and according to the manner in which it will be most beneficial. Many pray and then think to direct the fire, and are thereby burned or hurt by their own failure to "let" the Power of God through into expression in Its own way. "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss," is said to that one who trying to make God do his bidding, instead of letting God run His universe. When you are willing to "let" the rain of fire fall where it will, and upon what it will, you will also hear the words "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." It is Wonderful! No matter what you have begged for, or asked for before, it is all nothing as compared with the overflowing abundance of substance and joy which is to be released upon you when you pray as Solomon (the Soul) prayed. It is glorious.

"Now when Solomon had made an end of praying." Right at that moment, when the end had come to his meditation - it was NOW, the glorious Presence, the HERE of LIFE. At that instant, when he had made the complete Recognition and agreement with God, then "the fire came down from heaven." Where is heaven? What is this fire that comes down? Heaven is the consciousness which is en rapport with God here and now, and the fire which descends as the Recognition of the Power of God, which is a majority over any so-called power of the human mind. It is Wonderful! "Heaven and earth are full of Thee." Remember, "nothing is impossible to God," and it was this very Power which Jesus said dwelt within you, and was willing and ready to cooperate with you, yea, to fill you full of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Fire which would descend on any evil condition, and consume it. Not a vestige of the former belief, or manifestation, can stand before this blazing fire of Revelation. No matter who you are, "nor how little success you have had, nor what years of misunderstanding you have gone through, the moment you pray with the Recognition that there is a Presence, and stand on that point, you will see, when you have made an end of praying, that the fire will descend, and "the former things are passed away" - they "shall not be remembered or come into mind." It is Wonderful!

The fire of Spirit in which you can live, move, breathe a and have your being, is the identically same fire which was seen in the bush. The Hebrew children knew the Fire of SPIRIT, which was a million times more powerful than the fire which man's hatred had kindled, and so they walked in the midst of it unharmed, and came forth without the smell of fire on their garments. But the men who built the fire were consumed. It is Wonderful! "Be not afraid; it is I." "I will burn up with an unquenchable fire the husks of morality that may yet still cling, and I will set you on a Hallowed fire, and you will feel the sparks penetrating your very being, kindling anew the love I have poured out upon you."

"Be still, and know that I AM God" takes on a new and different meaning. We are through with the "trying to get things," and the making of a demonstration. We have gone forth to Recognize the PRESENCE, and to know that the "end of prayer" is the descent of the Holy Fire, or the instant manifestation; the great Fire of Spirit which, unseen, consumes the beams and rafters of the material structure called problem. It reveals the things which "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man." No man, believing in Money and Gold, can know the Glories that are prepared, for these glories have not entered into his heart. His heart is so filled with fear and limitation that there is no room for this unseen power. It is glorious when you relax and let go, and make your contact with this Presence, and let the answer of your prayer be the descent of the Holy Fire, which will, in a twinkling, destroy the ugly manifestation that has caused you so much anxiety.

When you come to Prayer quietly and naturally, and are through with all the so-called tricks of words and phrases, then you will have done with the idea that you need to "peep," and "look," and "wonder," if your prayer is going to bring about results. You will have the glorious assurance that "NOW when Solomon [Your Soul] had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house." Yes, you will go from that prayer refreshed and gloriously abandoned: having done all, you will stand, and see the salvation of the Lord.

There is something glorious about praying, something that is like the dawn. You know the moment it begins to appear it is going straight on into the full noonday of manifestation. Nothing can withhold it. No matter how dark, and useless, and painful, the night seemed; the prayer released is exactly like the dawn. Nothing that man can do can stop it. He can not shut it away from the world at large. He can only shut himself away from it, by hiding in a dungeon of his own creation. But all the while the dawn will be there, going steadily and uninterruptedly on to its full noonday glory. So it is with Prayer. When you have made an end to your prayer, the Fire descends, and nothing can stop it, and it will consume away the dross, and leave the pure gold of Life - the gold which will buy in any market a thousandfold more than the gold of Croesus. It is Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Do you begin to see what is the manner of prayer of Solomon?

When Solomon had made an end of prayer, he was not curios to see if the fire would descend. Curiosity is rewarded by blindness; it is the destroying element in the human mind. Curiosity to know if God can answer your little request, and just how He will do it, causes a veil to come before the eye; and, even though you walked all along the way with Him, you would not recognize Him. That is why, when Jesus went into the house of Jairus, He put the people forth in order that the Holy of Holies, that place of meeting between the Soul and God, should not be profaned by those who only looked for a sign, and who wanted to tear away the very covering to see how the heart beat underneath.

"Be not afraid it is I." When you stop looking for signs and make your prayer one of Recognition, then you are certain to have the same results as Solomon had; the silent, unseen Fire consuming every vestige of the belief which caused you so much suffering and annoyance before.

The feeble prayer, "I believe; help Thou mine unbelief," is the wail of one who is looking on the outside for a sign, and who is failing to recognize the fact that;

"Even if you do not know all things (as man), there is something within you that does know all things, and if you will allow this Something to function in its rightful capacity, it will suddenly be as though you do know all things." "God's ways are past finding out. My ways are not your ways."

Do you begin to understand that the human reasoning and science can never fathom the depths of Inspiration? You do not need to worry about the ways and means of Spirit; "I have a way that ye know not of" - a way that is not made by hands, a way that is not thought out by the human intellect. "I AM the WAY," and that WAY is the only way out of the human beliefs of evil. Can you trust this? Can you "lean on ME" instead of on what some person says, or thinks? Then you shall hear, "I shall sustain

you." How does that sound? Aren't you glad that you are beginning to see the Presence as HERE and NOW, and as ever operative? Aren't you glad to know, when you have "made an end of praying," that the fire of manifestation is descending, and is destroying the old beliefs that have bound you so tightly? Aren't you glad that the answer to your prayer is like the coming of dawn. moving swiftly on in all its glory to the full noonday of manifestation, and that not ten million men or nations can stop the effulgence of its on-going? "BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW." Not old things patched up. "Behold I make all things new" by the fire which consumes the old worn-out beliefs, and reveals the "Temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

"I AM with you always," and in ALL ways. You do not have to fear, or worry, so long as you recognize this fact. "Those that are for you are more than those that are against you." The Recognition of God as HERE and NOW is more than the millions of beliefs that there are two powers, and that evil is stronger than good.

Aren't you glad?

"Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house."

The Fire descended and consumed the evil beliefs, and the GLORY of the LORD filled the house. The Glorious light of Health filled the body, and went searching the joints and marrow, seeking out and consuming the beliefs in age and disease. The Glory of the Lord filled the house (the consciousness), and brought out radiant success and happiness, and dried up the tears of struggle and weariness. The Glory of the Lord filled the house, and pushed out the boarders of the tent, and gave to expression a new and lovely individuality, which crowned it with eternal success and joy.

No wonder Solomon sang his song to his Beloved. The Soul that perceives the glorious Life, which is complete, and lost in God, finds no words to describe the Beloved. "and the glory of the Lord filled the house." Can you be still a moment, and feel this fire of the Spirit searching the temple - body - and quickening it with the Power beyond the limitations of the body? "For in HIM we live, move, and breathe, and have our being" also stands for: "IN us He lives and moves and breathes and has His being." Within and without and round about us, is the glory which fills everything, and which goes before us, as a Light that lighteth every man unto salvation. It is Wonderful!

Do you see how it is possible, then, for your prayers to reach and help another, in a way heretofore undreamed of? Your prayers will be divorced from person, or system, or words; they will be pure recognition of the Presence, and when you have made an end of that prayer, the fire will descend upon that one and consume the fear and limitations under which he has been placed, if he will be but open to receive it. It is Wonderful! The old personal idea fades out; "for I Am here, I Am there, I Am everywhere."

"We do not need to worry about being, or going to any place in person, particularly when it is to be done from a spiritual standpoint. You do not have to lay your hands upon any to heal them, neither do they need to touch you, for God is not absent from anyplace. 'I' can reach your condition, wheresoever you are, and not only your condition, but 'I' can reach you, wheresoever you are. Then with or without a body 'I' am just as operative. Just the moment you are in tune with the principle, that moment the principle is pouring out its manifestation on you."

It is Wonderful!

The whole house is filled with the Glory of God. Every nook and every cranny is filled with the Light of the Fire which is released by the Holy Ghost. You are made anew.

"Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house."

It is Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! - that you are beginning to see the meaning of true prayer, and are fully aware that the answer to all prayer is the descent of fire which consumes the beliefs in evil.

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