by Steve Marshall

Created on: December 06, 2011

How does prayer relate to faith?

Prayer is a means of communicatively linking yourself to the object of your faith, or to God. Faith increases when this connection is first felt, but on the other hand even if prayer is being prayed without even the accompanying faith being present as yet, it will soon start to develop itself within you. Faith too is a connection to God, but sometimes just one that is not being consciously felt as yet, but it is always being unconsciously felt, known, and acknowledged as such as still being true, because of the existence of this underlying faith.

If we can understand how faith and prayer interact and affect each other, we will then be able to see then why faith knows that prayer works, and so we will gain the knowledge of just exactly how and why prayer sustains, and strengthens this faith.

Prayer in its beginning stages is a presentation that you make to God from the doubt that you still hold, but that you can sometimes dismiss because of your increasing faith. What you do not yet fully consciously understand is these doubts, and why you have them, but your underlying faith already knows all of this.

Faith knows that with time, connection to God's love, through praying to him, will bring you greater understanding and awareness of the truths that are living in you trying to be revealed by your living from them in your own life. You will live from a greater understanding of truth both in relation to yourself, and to others, as you grow wiser in their application in your own life too, from strengthening your faith through prayer.

Love is the focussing agent, and God is the creator. All else loses its perspective separateness to these two energies of being. Our apparent separation from God creates in us a different perceptive view about what we think is happening, or of how God really operates.

This separately held perspective creates an element of doubt within us, that must then be removed not by perspective, but by more faith. Faith exists never in perspective to logic, or to anything else that you might otherwise be thinking as real. Faith's perspective is based not on man's perspective, but on God's. This is why prayer strengthens faith, or continually builds faith within you, because you are connectively listening to God, and so you are gaining insights into his perspective on all of the relevant issues within your own personally individualised life. You are seeing through the eyes of God by connecting to him through prayer.

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