You Are Whole

As you might expect, the most frequent prayer request is for healing. 

 Whether it be healing for our body, our broken heart, our anxious mind, or our bank account. The practice of affirmative prayer leads us to healing by way of revealing and reclaiming our innate wholeness. 

The source of our wholeness is Divine Life that expresses as us. Just as we cannot imagine the Divine to be broken or incomplete in any way, a key element to healing is to begin to know the completeness, the wholeness of the Divine as our own Divine Identity.

In her book, How to Pray Without Talking to God, Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett summarizes it this way:

“All prayer intentions, whether about material good, relationships, health, or prosperity have one common aim: a realization of wholeness."

In Truth, we are always whole. Our Divine Identity is full and complete. It is whole. Furthermore it is unchanging, unending, and uninterruptible.

 Our very being-ness comes from and contains the wholeness, the completeness, of Spirit. While the ways of the world tend to break us into pieces- the way of Spirit mends us through the remembrance of the whole of us. Healing requires us to remember and to reclaim the wholeness that we are as individual expressions of Spirt, as well as the whole that we collectively create.

As we grow our understanding of the Divine, we experience more of Its fullness. 
Ultimately, we are growing our understanding of our Self as a living expression of that fullness.

“You are coming to know that your life is not physical in nature. Your life does not originate in the body. The origin of your life is the One Life, the One Mind- God. The One is whole and complete.” 
 (Martella-Whitsett, L.  How To Prayer Without Talking to God. (2011) pg. 139).

Consider for yourself –

  • What does wholeness mean to you?
  • How have you experienced a sense of wholeness in your life?
  • How have you related wholeness with the Divine?
  • How can you claim and assert that wholeness as your own Divine Identity?

Join us Sunday at 10 AM as we explore our Divine Wholeness.





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