“DON’T GIVE UP ON GOD BECAUSE GOD WILL NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU!”
How to use desperate and insistent prayer and faith to make sense of and get through times when life is rough, scary and overwhelming
THE DAWNING LIGHT, Volume 8, # 795 Monday, February 26, 2024
SPIRITUAL SOUP KITCHEN Section # 128 Stories by Chinmayan on the challenges and blessings of using daily life as your spiritual path
All images in this story by the kind courtesy of Pixabay
DON’T GIVE UP ON GOD BECAUSE GOD WILL NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU!
I wrote this first as a response to a comment from one of our readers who is facing overwhelming difficulties and asked “Dearest God! Is it too late for me?”
Dear Friend…
With God, it is never too late!
God loves each one of us personally and unconditionally and will never ever abandon you.
I am very aware that when life is really scary and overwhelming that feeling God’s loving presence is very hard to do, but this is also the time where we need to pray and keep on praying in what I call “praying through.”
We often don’t feel God’s response or presence because our own hearts are tightly closed against the pain…
so we pray through so we can gradually open our heart and tune our mind and spirit to the divine vibration…
then God’s presence and power flows to us because God came running from the moment we started praying and crying out for help…but we just couldn’t feel it….
That is the secret of effective prayer…to cry out for help and refuge with all of your heart mind and spirit in a desperate, determined and relentless way.
GOD WILL NEVER IGNORE SINCERE PRAYERS FROM THE HEART
God will never ignore sincere prayers from your heart, especially when you call out repeatedly and sincerely, knowing for sure that the Divine can and will give you the help you need.
Many people give up on praying far too soon when they don’t feel an immediate response or when their own mind keeps telling them its hopeless, prayer doesn’t work or that God doesn’t exist or even if there is a God, God has little interest in your problems.
HARD TIMES ARE THE PERFECT TIME TO DEVELOP YOUR PRAYER LIFE
The fact is that the hard times or seemingly insurmountable difficulties we are facing are the perfect time to develop your own prayer life and deepen your faith because the very suffering yiyu are giving through is the highest motivation to keep on praying through.
Fortunately with God there is no “impossible situation.”
I can attest that wonderful truth being demonstrated many hundreds of times in my own life when I faced the worst times, life threatening situations, heartbreak and severe depression, people making war against me and many other impossible things where God intervened and saved me because I did pray through, because I did turn to God in times of trouble and ask and kept on asking for help.
I would already be long buried and gone from this world without consciously choosing to pray through relentlessly when life got rough and tough.
PRAY EVERY DAY FOR EVERYTHING
Now, I pray everyday. I pray for everything I need, from the smallest thing such as a parking place to the biggest things such as relief from overwhelming physical, mental and emotional pain.
Praying like this is constantly developing and deepening my relationship with the Divine.
It delights God when we pray humbly and sincerely.
God loves it when we ask for help, like the little children that we actually are.
God loves it when we work on developing an ever closer relationship built on faith and trust and consciously seeking the Divine’s guidance and presence.
The masters say that God has everything in the universe except for the one thing that is within our individual power to give or withhold…and that is our love and attention.
God is absolutely delighted when any one of us awaken to our soul’s need for divine relationship and actively start working to come closer and closer.
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
As Amma says…”For every step you take toward God, God will take a hundred steps toward you!”
One thing is absolutely clear to me…”If God brings me to it, God will see me through it…as long as I turn to the Divine in prayer and seek to hear and follow the inner guidance within.”
Don’t give up on God for God will never give up on you!
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
HERE IS A PERFECT HEART MELTING SONG That goes perfectly with this song…
A song all about overcoming our own doubts about God’s love for us…with words and music that will uplift and inspire you!
“The only thing that matters now is what You think of me…”
With complete lyrics for easy sing along!
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When you change the way you think about things, and the things you think about change”
—Wayne Dyer
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.” —Ram Das
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into it’s rightful place.”
—Chinmayan
Trying and hoping for more positive thoughts. Thank you for sharing
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