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What To Do To Be Saved | How Can You Be Saved | Gift Of Salvation

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What To Do To Be Saved

The Story Of Billy Lind

There are repeated stories of what to do to be saved from internal pain, suffering and torment.  There is the story of Billy Lind below which is a classic story of opening up to the divine at the lowest point of his life.  It is a story about the gift of salvation.

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Billy’s father left at age 5 and at age 12 he began searching the streets looking to fill the deep emptiness inside.  Needing to support himself he began selling his body, which soon became all he knew, and all he could do to survive.

In Billy’s own words…

I cried and cried. I thought if there was a God He didn’t care enough about me to help me… I was alone and angry. However, I needed to survive, so I took a different approach. I decided I would be in control of every situation I would decide who, what, and where. I became a master manipulator. I got what I wanted when I wanted it. I figured if they were going to use me, I was certainly going to use them. I was so alone, lonely, hurt, and disconnected. I just existed and succumbed to my circumstances, so I started to do drugs, and lots of them to mask the pain.

It is a torturous story that is an example that many people report of what to do to be saved. Billy Lind’s life turned around once he recognised that life is so much bigger than himself.

Even though I do not recognise myself as a Christian – and maybe you do not either – I do recognise that often we go through life unaccepting and without conscious recognition and surrender of what might be true about life that is bigger than each of us, namely what some call God.

This is how you can be saved, it is what healing is about.  It is about Truth.  Aligning with what is real about life instead of maintaining a feeling of needing to be in control and manipulating people.  We do this because without conscious recognition and an attitude of surrender and humbleness to the creator we have nothing, and that hurts.  I hope this helps you understand what you can do to be saved.  Turn everything over and receive the gift of salvation.

Teach Me How To Pray, How To Pray Effectively

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Teach Me How To Pray

How Do I Know What To Pray For?

If you are searching for ‘teach me how to pray’ or ‘how to pray effectively’ the most important point I have found is that asking must be done from the heart.

What Sort Of Things Do I Say?

Pick something you would like to experience and ask that you experience it.  This is a great way to practice being integral, authentic and honest.  It is a perfect opportunity for you to notice how much of a challenge it is to put your truth into words.

You can begin by saying ‘I ask that…’.

The clearer you can get on what it is you are asking the better you will feel about what you are saying.

Things To Watch Out For

  1. Make sure you say what it is you want to experience and not what you don’t want to experience.  For example don’t ask for less anxiety but ask for inner peace instead.
  2. Not letting go, not trusting.  The paradox here is that by asking you imply       that you have at least a little faith that you are connected to something bigger and more expansive yet by not letting go and trusting you imply that you don’t have faith.
  3. Having specific expectations.  It is impossible to know exactly why things happen to us the way they do or why we find some area of life a breeze but are clueless in another.  Therefore, expectations that outcomes should look a certain way or your path to fulfillment and success must look a certain way and holding on to these expectations can hold you back.
  4. Asking for something from your head and not your heart.  Your conscious mind and its ideas are not designed to know what it is you really want.  Ideas in the mind usually come from
    clever marketing and advertising to make you think having certain goods is the way to happiness.  You can ask for possessions but be clear that receiving them won’t make you feel OK for any longer than about 3 days.  Then the mind will set its sights on the next expensive thing, much to the advertisers delight.

I hope this goes someway to helping you if you have been searching for ‘teach me how to pray’ or how to pray effectively.