Prayer is an essential part of our spiritual growth. It can help improve other aspects of your life, including your relationships with others. It is easy to forget the essential role that prayer plays in our lives each day, but we need to add it in more if we wish to improve. Learn 5 simple ways that praying can lead to a spiritual breakthrough for you.
5 Ways to Have a Spiritual Breakthrough
1. Pray for Others
While there is nothing wrong with praying for yourself when you have doubts or worries or a big problem you need help with, your heart opens more when you pray for others. In addition, praying for others strengthens your spiritual maturity.
You can put aside some of your concerns and recognize when someone else may need help and guidance. For example, if someone asks you to pray for them, go ahead and pray with and for them. The more you focus on what others need, the more you will recognize when they need prayer. Actively look for those who need some spiritual help and add them into your prayers.
2. Write Down the Prayers
Let’s be honest. The modern world has many things that distract us and make it hard to concentrate on tasks we need to complete. Unfortunately, we can also get distracted when we try to pray. We set out with all the best intentions but find it hard to concentrate or feel behind the prayers that we have. An excellent solution to this is to write the prayers down.
Instead of just trying to say the prayers in your head or waiting for a place where you can speak them aloud, consider writing prayers for yourself or others. Writing a prayer helps you stay focused on what you are doing, giving you more of a meditative state when you pray. It slows you down to think through the prayer, too, helping to add more meaning behind your prayers.
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3. Set Intentions
A prayer is a form of intention. As we set intentions, we ask for healing and grace concerning the intention. Unfortunately, not many people recognize prayer as an intention.
Start each day and each prayer with an intention for peace and healing, or any other intentions. Doing this will help move the prayer into action faster.
4. Spend Time in Prayer Every Day
Set up a routine that includes prayer every day. Take some time in the morning or before you go to bed at night to pray. If you can stick with the same time every day, you will keep to your routine easier.
Even if you have a busy day, try to set aside ten minutes to spend in prayer. If you start with a few minutes of prayer, you may want to extend the time later.
I’ve noticed when I start a prayer list that it gets long quickly and takes up a lot of time to pray for everyone. If you experience this, then try holding your hand over the prayer list and say a prayer for everyone at one time.
5. Be Thankful
Spend some time thanking the Universe, God, or whatever you believe in for all of the good things provided in your life. It is easy to get stuck in all the grievances that you have each day. How much would you like to be in a conversation with someone else, and all they did was complain the whole time. Be thankful sometimes. Having gratitude can add another dimension to prayer and allows us to be open to receive more good things.
Now that you learned 5 simple ways to have a spiritual breakthrough by praying, let’s learn about 4 reasons to pray.
Why Pray? 4 Reasons to Pray
Praying can be so vital to your daily life. Yet, too often, we let other things take over our lives and forget to take a quiet moment or two out of our day to pray.
Some of the reasons why you should consider praying include:
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Brings Us Closer to God/Universe/Spirit
When we pray, we become closer to the Universe and our oneness in it. We meet the mind of the Universe in prayer. Prayer is a simple conversation between you and the Universe. If you want to stay close to the other person with any other relationship in your life, you need to talk to them as often as possible. You may consider yourself closest to those you speak to each day. The same is true of your relationship with the Universe. If you want to be closer to the Universe, you need to spend time in prayer and meditation.
2. Helps Us Gain Perspective
Often prayer helps us to have a better understanding of a situation. It happens because we are willing to acknowledge there is a higher power out there other than ourselves. We have to understand that, as humans, we will not have all the answers.
Understanding we do not know everything causes us to seek the truth. Prayer will also help us confront the areas of our lives we need the most help, forcing us to be honest, even with the tough stuff. Then, when we give it all up to a higher power, whether we are thankful for what is going on or struggling, we will gain a new perspective.
3. Helps Us Worry Less
Humans worry. Mothers worry about their children, kids worry about school, parents about their jobs, and so much more. When we are willing to pray and offer up that worry to a higher power, it somehow becomes easier to worry less.
Prayer helps us to let go of some of that worry. We recognize that it is in The Universe’s hands and that we can let it go. Someone we know and trust and has a higher power over how things work in the Universe, has taken over.
4. Prayer Works
We should pray because it works. The Universe can hear us when we pray and have that conversation with him. Of course, we may not see the results right away, which can be frustrating to humans who cannot see the long-term plan the way The Universe can. But the Universe is always faithful and will always answer our prayers, strengthen us, and protect us.
It is important to trust in The Universe and bring all our prayers to The Universe. Sometimes we may not get the answer we want. This does not mean The Universe is ignoring us. It often means The Universe has a bigger plan for us than we could imagine.
Here’s a link to one of my previous blog posts about having a spiritual awakening: HolisticWellnessRN-5-signs-that-you-are-having-a-spiritual-awakening
Prayer is so important in our daily lives. It can transform us, give us a closer relationship to The Universe, and help us get our wishes met if it is in the divine plan. So, carve out some time each day, even if it is only a few minutes, and spend it in prayer to see how it can change your life. See how praying can lead you to a spiritual breakthrough.