Shall we pray for problems or pray for solutions or help yourself in all material problems and use God's assistant for all the truly spiritual problems left within ourselves and all humanity?

The most powerful prayer and yet most simple prayer in difficult situations is the prayer of love! Learn when to pray and when to work for your own solutions.

Praying for help or helping yourself.

Self-help or weakness and dependency - what is Gods intention when you have problems or when you create problems. God wants you to grow stronger!

When is it time to pray and when is it time to work and help yourself.

These are situations we need to assess and learn to know when to pray and when to sit down and learn to improve our skills and expertise on our own wiith all available resources.

In the course of a technical problem, I received a nice eMail I would like to share and comment with you. One of the loved one out there wrote as a spontaneous response to my announcement of the hard drive crash earlier the following lines:

"... I sincerely hope that all your problems will be fixed, I will pray for you and your problems. ... "

It shows what people think about God ... the part: "... problems will be fixed" says he hopes someone will fix the problem for me - it is a statement of passivity - a statement of a person used to have others help solving his problems instead of self help.

I remember a saying like: "Help yourself and God will help you!" That saying is very true and means: The support, help and bliss given by God is directly proportional to your own efforts. If you give ALL - then you receive ALL! If you give little - then you receive little. If you do nothing at all on your own - then you may risk to receive nothing at all.

In reality such problems are to be solved by each individual having such problems and never by others! Hence it is and was my sole responsibility to solve this problem - my own way, as God gave me all I need to solve such and ALL similar situations that myself and / or you may be trapped in such situations. We all need to grow and become experts in our field of eternal life. Such problems are a divine gift of love by God to help us to be strong and be free.

In particular - God gave me .. AND you all as well:

Time and all resources needed to learn your job.

Time and numerous opportunities to acquire skills and knowledge needed for the present job.

Time and numerous opportunities to work something useful to earn the money needed to simply pay the damage by purchasing a new equipment if needed.

Hence fur such occurrences in daily life and jobs, there never should be a need for prayers. There is need to be what you are, to prove that you know your job and that you know your trade and to prove you have the connections and available helpers as a direct result of yourself helping others before numerous times with love and professionalism.

One of the cardinal spiritual rules for a successful life is to "stay within your limits". Meaning do what you exactly know to do. And if those limits are too narrow - expand your limits by learning more until you are an expert in what you love to do.

If all life you have been helping anyone ever asking or needing help - then there are always plenty of people ready to assist you where ever team work in repair of any damage is needed. Very early in my current life as well as in all previous incarnations I noticed and learned that depending on others always makes weak. To be weak is a horrible experience and terrifying condition obstructing the flow of love as well as preventing any kind of real joy and happiness in life. To be happy you need to be strong - as strong as can be, as good as needed to be free and to be able to create solutions of love in your all life. Solutions of love for yourself as much as for all others around you and beyond.

The sentence: "I will pray for you and your problems." Shows 2 points that may need adjustment:

He prays for problems - if ever - then I pray for solutions. Most of the time I have no time for prayer - I am either busy loving or busy helping. This sentence shows his state of mind. Either to focus on solutions in all life, solutions in all situations of live OR to get paralyzed by problems and focus on problems. Little difference in words only but a clear manifestation of a true innermost condition of getting lost in problems of life rather than working hardest toward solutions for all.

Too many people pray to God to solve their daily routine problems instead of learning to do it all on your own. There are others having problems and you may be the one to help rather than God. God has proven infinite love and infinite power - WE however are the ones to have to learn and to have to prove that we are strong, that we are loving by proving our love. Our love can be proven by ourselves helping other children of God. By ourselves solving other people's problems rather than by praying for someone to do our job on our behalf.

Problems suck - solutions inspire and uplift!

We all are made to the image of God - we all are made to create. To create solutions of love - to be solution provider. If we fail to be of active help to others - then we become useless - resulting in a feeling of worthlessness. Being obsolete in entire creation is a terrible condition no one ever should strive for. Being useful to as many as can reasonably be is a proof of being actively involved in God's "family business" in God's entire creation.

When someone refuses to accept any kind of most direct and most efficient help - then I ask my father to assist - because then God has to create new situations in that persons life, new situations involving other people, involving people who currently may even lack the willingness and readiness to offer any kind of help at all. New situations in life that require new laws in governments, or existing laws being dropped or modified. It requires others to pay part of the new solutions. People refusing to instantly accept the very first help offered do create very substantial new and highly complex needs for new situations to present solutions of love in a way acceptable by a blocked person or inefficient person.

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When a person dies or is terminally ill as a direct result of extreme ego and selfishness or even hate, then I ask my father for grace, mercy and love to help and heal that person - to give another opportunity in eternal life.

Such are the most severe spiritual reasons or situations I ask God for his help - from the bottom of my divine heart and soul.

For material problems however - I assume full responsibility for all I do and I expect all to do the very same. Our earthly planet with all material lessons are a gift of love offered by our heavenly father to all mankind. To learn on our own to be divine and to be lovingly strong - to be an image of God and thus an adult child of God having his eternal home in God - beyond our physical temporary home on earth or elsewhere on another *planet* or world of any kind or nature.