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As with any faith or religion, prayer is a significant cornerstone as to how we spiritually seek healing and support ourselves. Most of us as spiritual sojourners, at the very least, have had some interaction and application of prayer in our lives. Whether or not from our childhood faith and direct practice; or from a visceral media experience, at one time or another we have either witnessed or felt the unique power of prayer.<\/p>\n
Biblical history is filled with lamentations and invitations to pray to a higher deity for salvation; as well as testimonials to the power of prayerful intervention. Within New Thought, our approach to prayer is more affirmative than intercessory, more directive than supplication.<\/p>\n
This ministry team consists of specially trained and licensed practitioners and ministers who have a rich history in volunteering their time to provide personal and confidential affirmative prayers to people requesting help.<\/p>\n
Centers for Spiritual Living practices and offers a form of prayer known as \u201cSpiritual Mind Treatment\u201d which is a five-step affirmative prayer. Within this New Thought organization, is a department called World Ministry of Prayer that has been providing compassionate and prayerful support to individuals for more than 85 years. The roots of this prayer team began in Los Angeles, California when Dr. Ernest Holmes and his first two practitioner graduates, his mother, Anna and his friend and colleague, Reginald Armor decided to use one of the smaller offices to take phone calls and do healing prayer work. Anna Holmes took the Monday, Wednesday and Friday shifts and Armor was responsible for Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays \u2013leaving Sundays for Ernest to do his lectures and classes. This prayer trio became known as the \u201cHealing Department\u201d.<\/p>\n
In February 1927, the Healing Department shared offices with other licensed practitioners in the Institute\u2019s building on New Hampshire Street and Sixth Avenue in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
1981, William Colson\u2014who was then President of United Churches of Religious Science\u2014hired practitioner Marsha Mendizza to run this department. Later, it was Marsha who re-named this team as the World Ministry of Prayer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/div>Request a Prayer<\/h2><\/a><\/div><\/div>\nWe know that life can be challenging and the only thing that may help to get you back to center is Prayer. We believe very strongly in the power of Affirmative Prayer. This belief and knowing comes from seeing or hearing about the many demonstrations or testimonies in the lives of people around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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<\/div>Build a Prayer<\/h2><\/a><\/div><\/div>\nAffirmative Prayer is \u201ca recognition of Spirit\u2019s Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Omnipresence, and a realization of humanity\u2019s unity with Spirit\u2026\u201d (Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind textbook, pg. 149).
\nBy writing your own Affirmative Prayer you make it yours. The main thing is to feel into every one of the five steps. It is not the words that you use that make the prayer powerful, it is the feeling tone behind the words.<\/p>\n<\/div>
We know that life can be challenging and the only thing that may help to get you back to center is Prayer. We believe very strongly in the power of Affirmative Prayer. This belief and knowing comes from seeing or hearing about the many demonstrations or testimonies in the lives of people around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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<\/div>Build a Prayer<\/h2><\/a><\/div><\/div>\nAffirmative Prayer is \u201ca recognition of Spirit\u2019s Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Omnipresence, and a realization of humanity\u2019s unity with Spirit\u2026\u201d (Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind textbook, pg. 149).
\nBy writing your own Affirmative Prayer you make it yours. The main thing is to feel into every one of the five steps. It is not the words that you use that make the prayer powerful, it is the feeling tone behind the words.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Affirmative Prayer is \u201ca recognition of Spirit\u2019s Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Omnipresence, and a realization of humanity\u2019s unity with Spirit\u2026\u201d (Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind textbook, pg. 149).
\nBy writing your own Affirmative Prayer you make it yours. The main thing is to feel into every one of the five steps. It is not the words that you use that make the prayer powerful, it is the feeling tone behind the words.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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