How do you know that the world needs reforming and who is it you are going to reform?

And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mould a new reality
Closer to the Heart
Closer to the Heart

To be seized with an ardor to go out and reform the world is to be seized with a sudden enlargement of the accusing instinct. How do you know that the world needs reforming? Maybe it is only yourself that needs reforming. If there is only one presence in the universe, and that is the Omnipotent God, who is it you are going to reform? *

Just as soon as you sit down in Jerusalem (the self), and take yourself and all your own thoughts in hand, you will find more changed of heart and newly converted people appearing in your presence, than ever you supposed were possible. What you have thought in the closet is thus noised on the housetops.

I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.

Is any among you suffering? let him pray.

Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.

Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. -- James 5:13-18

"Prayer that craves a particular commodity,—any thing less than all good,—is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends." Emerson

Jehovah-jireh. Jehovah-shammah

Genesis 27:29

He  who uses his mind to curse gets the curse in return,
while the mind that blesses receives blessings in return.

In all our prayers, talks, and songs with God as the subject, we should first have a period of silence, a selah, in which the divine presence is invoked as the creative power.

Tell Yourself You Deserve It

"Let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:
Cursed be every one that curseth thee,
And blessed be every one that blesseth thee." Genesis 27:29

He  who uses his mind to curse gets the curse in return,
while the mind that blesses receives blessings in return.

A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without sincerity in it, a prayer without soul in it, a prayer without Spirit in it is a fruitless prayer.