I am always struck by a very sad phenomenon within the ranks of many, many well-meaning Christians that I continue to witness all too frequently.

I am referring to the vast number of words ‘about’ God that flow so easily from the mouths of so many Christian preachers, pastors, and teachers —about God’s love, His goodness, His peace, His joy, His truth, His beauty, the inner freedom and the healing He intends for us, etc., etc.

At the same time, I observe with huge sadness their disappointing silence (due, perhaps, to a lack of their own personal inner, direct spiritual experience of these gifts) when it comes to offering their flock a simple, guaranteed way to actually EXPERIENCE —FIRSTHAND FOR THEMSELVES — all or any of these highly essential gifts whenever they might want or need them.

Yet I believe that if we were all made to understand that there actually IS such a way, and that this way is simple though not always easy, we’d all be chomping at the bit to find this way and make it ours!

The way I am talking about is the way of praying with your heart. 

It is the way Jesus himself taught you and me in Matthew 6:6.

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Praying with your heart is also the way to one-ness with God.

It’s this way that guarantees you all the gifts of God that so many preachers and teachers talk so repeatedly and volubly ‘about’ but stop short of providing folk with a guaranteed way to receive!

I believe this is why so many Christians experience defeat when a faced with a trauma, crisis, or deep inner pain.

To make my point, I want you to imagine for a minute the following scenario:

Out of the blue, you suddenly find yourself struggling with a crisis, personal trauma, or an experience of deep inner pain.

What would it mean to you if you had someone trustworthy and well-experienced in the Lord whose hand you could hold and who could provide a clear path on which, together, you could walk forward through your pain and crisis, and do so in a way that allows you to regain and maintain, NOT LOSE, your inner peace and joy?

Well, the path has been provided by Jesus himself.

It’s praying in the way Jesus taught. 

And God has also gifted us with trustworthy spiritual guides to hold our hand and help us walk along this prayer-path to our ultimate healing and victory!

Your one-ness with God and God’s one-ness with you is CRUCIAL.

You see God, in His vast love and wisdom, wants to be sure that He has guaranteed you a way to actually EXPERIENCE His LOVE, PEACE, and JOY —freely, and without any conditions attached!

God does NOT want you merely to hear ‘about’ His healing gifts ‘second-hand’ through preachers and pastors.

He wants you to be able to experience them FIRSTHAND FOR YOURSELF, and to do so whenever you want or need them

And the way He has provided is the way to one-ness with Him.

This one-ness is the conduit through which the Lord delivers the many gifts He has waiting for you.

And it is these gifts that bring you the healing and victory you are searching for when you are traumatized, desperate, or in pain.

Praying with your heart is a guaranteed way to one-ness with God whenever you need or want it.

And it’s a one-ness that lasts!

And it gets stronger with time!

As many of you perhaps know, for 26 years I have been a Christian spiritual guide to women from any and all Christian denominations. I have also received an ultra-intensive, personal training (both academic and experiential) in Christian spiritual formation.

And to keep me transparent and honest before God and those whom I guide, (an essential requirement for any effective Christian spiritual guide) for 34 years I myself have received regular spiritual guidance from holy, humble, trained, gifted and highly experienced Christian guides.

But even more importantly, I have walked very closely with the Lord through both joyful and traumatic episodes every day for the last 40 years.

Forty years ago, as a young married woman of 35, I experienced a severe personal crisis. As if that were not bad enough, just when I needed the Lord most urgently I was unable to ‘find’ Him.

For the first time in my life, my prayers seemed to fall on deaf ears.

In fact, God seemed to have completely disappeared off my radar.

This was when the Lord answered my urgent prayer for help by sending me a manifestly holy, peace-filled, joy-filled, long- experienced, and specially gifted Christian spiritual guide.

She introduced me to this ancient way of prayer. Under her high-quality guidance, this prayer rescued me once and for all.

And over the last 40 years, its unique and astonishing benefits have only got better and better and more and more far-reaching. 

The Path Taught By Jesus

Although taught us by Jesus himself  and practiced by the early Christian church for the first 300 years or so of its life, the sad fact is that this way of prayer had for a variety of reasons been gradually relegated to the sidelines of Christianity.

Eventually, it had disappeared almost totally.

In the late 1970’s, however, in His great mercy and wisdom the Lord revealed to 4 holy, humble, dedicated, and learned Christian Cistercian and Benedictine monks His desire that this way of prayer (the way taught us by Jesus himself) be resuscitated and taught again.

With the Lord himself as its author, this way of praying is unparalleled.

It is unparalleled because it is guaranteed to connect you directly to the Lord’s presence.

As a result, it opens you to a mature, ongoing, growing, and lasting intimacy with God. It also makes it possible for you to enjoy one-ness with Him.

I myself was specially blessed to have been taught this way of prayer in the first 8 years immediately following the new teaching of these monks.

I was further blessed by the fact that one of my ongoing spiritual guides had herself received the new teaching directly from one of these 4 monks!

In the nearly 50 years since, Christians from many denominations have learned to depend on this way of praying for ‘finding’ the God they thought they had lost (or at least become unnervingly distanced from) and for maintaining an ongoing real and intimate connection, and even union, with Him.

Here’s the thing:

There’s nothing to beat it!

This is true at any time in your life.

But it is especially true when you’re facing any sort of crisis or trauma.

It Really IS Worth Your While to Learn How to Pray with Your Heart

It really IS worth your while to learn how to pray with your heart.

You’ll never regret it.

You’ll always be thankful that you did.

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‘Relax Your Body’

Pin it up on your wall somewhere you can see it every time you pass it. It reminds you that God is your best Friend, NOT a nasty policeman waiting to ‘get’ you!

When you pray with and from your heart, God gradually heals the unconscious baggage that has, since your early childhood, and largely unknown to you, created barriers between you and Him.
And, amazing as it seems, God himself gradually dissolves your barriers.
We all carry baggage inside us, often without even knowing it!

Your only role is to pray in this way for a few minutes each day.

These barriers dissolve a little more each time you pray in this way.

This is how you and the Lord start to become ONE.

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Like an Athlete/Performer Delivering her Art

Next time you go to a sports event or a musical concert, spend a moment watching the star performer delivering her/his performance. Notice how they seem totally in sync, totally at one with their work. The performer and her performance are one and the same. You simply can’t distinguish where one begins and the other ends.

It’s like that when you discover how to pray with and from your heart. The one who prays and the One to whom you are praying become ONE.

On occasion, you might intuit or experience this one-ness for just a few fleeting seconds.

You see, because you’ve made the decision to open up to the Lord’s presence He is now more able to penetrate your emotional, mental, and spiritual clutter than previously. This is how you and He start to become ONE.

And it’s this becoming one with Him that that really matters in the end because you are now able to actually receive FIRSTHAND FOR YOURSELF  

• an actual EXPERIENCE of His LOVE for YOU —NOT for someone else, for YOU!
• the gifts of His own peace and joy
• experience all 3 of these whenever you want or need to

Like a Carpenter Working His Craft