[tmtranscripts] Welmek, Dec. 12, 2002

[Donna DIngillo]

WELMEK – PRAYER
December 12, 2002

Good evening.  This is your friend and teacher, Welmek.  Tonight I would
like to continue our discourse on prayer, as we go further into this
exploration of what it means to be in this prayerful, spiritual
communication throughout the universe as you grow in your ability to be
of service.   Tonight I would like to ask you: What does it mean to you
to be prayerful? 

We have spoken of the idea of fullness for several weeks. And I would
like you to take this idea into the nature of prayer. Spend a few
moments, go within, ask your Thought Adjusters to begin to illuminate
your mind with this idea of prayerfulness. And then when you are ready,
share with me what has come to mind about this idea. (Pause)

Student: Welmek, I have a sense of contradistinction between fullness I’m
trying to associate with worship, kind of a bubbling over so you can’t
hold it anymore. You just have to be thankful. …we were directed to think
of our friends who might need prayer, those who are lacking a kind of
conscious fullness. Sometimes we are so richly blessed with the idea of
giving some of our fullness to them; showing some generosity of spirit,
and directing our intention and our love to them. 

Welmek: This is precisely the spirit of the exercise: to be so full of
love for another person, that there is an almost automatic response on
your part to want to serve them through prayer. With outpouring of your
love comes the prayerful desire of your heart, and thereby you bring this
attitude into the actual formation of the words of the petition. And
that, combined with the essence or the spirit of the prayer, becomes a
mighty tool.

We will look more closely into this experiential fullness as we progress
through this evening’s discussion. Are there any other ideas or comments?

Student: I find, many times when I pray, that I don’t feel fulfilled, or
the prayer isn’t complete unless I ask that I do God’s will. I have my
desires, and wants and thoughts, but somehow it does not feel complete
without desiring to know what to do God’s will. And then my prayer feels,
I feel good about the prayer. 

Welmek: As we look more closely into the nature of prayer, we begin to
assemble its components. One of the fundamental components of prayer is
that the Father’s will prevail in the situation or in the life of the
individual for whom the prayer is rendered. Prayer is asking for the
manifestation of spiritual reality. Prayer, then, is never effective, and
as you say, does not feel complete, when the human expectations and ideas
are dominating it. This is when prayer is the least effective. And, if
you want to derive the greatest benefit from prayer, then find that place
within you that knows the ideal, that can see the higher perspective. And
then when you feel that in your heart, ask that the Father’s will prevail
in this situation, or in this individual’s life, or in your own life. 

This is breathing the spiritual life into your request. And even though
you may not always know what the Father’s will is, when you are coming
from that place within your heart of an attitude of desiring the highest
manifestation that you can realize and feel – that opens the door to
being in that desire for the Father’s will to prevail. And this is what
will make your prayer effective. Does this help? 

Student: Yes, it does.

Student: Welmek, somebody mentioned last week that a wonderful byproduct
or consequence of prayer is worship itself. The prayer leads you to a
wonderful feeling, like P. just mentioned. A side effect I’m beginning to
notice, too, is that prayer sometimes leaks the insights into the
situation and the person you are praying for. It is a wonderful thing. It
gives you new, it feels new, a new understanding of what’s happening. 

Welmek: My dear friends, you are all becoming more attuned with
spiritized thinking. And these spiritual thoughts are leading you into a
deeper appreciation of prayer and worship and service. This is quite
distinct from the ideas of self-fullness and being mired in your own
thoughts and your own well-being. 

You are being taken from this realm into the realm of altruism and
service and true love for your Creator and one’s fellows. You are using
your mind in a new and heightened way. And there are distinct forms of
spiritual communication that are now becoming more crystallized within
your awareness. 

This is, indeed, a great time of discovery and birth. And, as you use
your exquisite mind in these new ways, you will find a depth and a
clarity in your thinking that you have not experienced before. And it
will fill you with great anticipation and excitement. For, as you learn
to use your mind in this spiritized way, you will see all new facets of
information come into view, and give you a glimpse of what life is like
out there in the cosmos. 

What a wondrous journey you are embarking upon! It is as if the portals
of your eyes are opening to the spiritual realm, and you are seeing all
the beauty and the goodness and the joy and the wonder that is yours to
partake of as children of the spirit. This is one small byproduct of
prayer. Is it, indeed not a glorious byproduct, indeed? (Amen. Yes.)

Student: Welmek, I’ve noticed over the last few weeks, starting when you
introduced the topic of prayer, a pretty radical transformation in how I
am experiencing life. It’s a distillation process that has let go of a
lot of irrelevant things. And remaining is, essentially, the fatherhood
of God, the brotherhood of man, and loving service to my brothers and
sisters in a manner in which Michael, or Jesus, and the Mother Spirit,
would provide.

And, in that sense of awareness, what’s come through is a recollection
about what you said of prayer as being a communication, a connection, and
an activation of the energies in the entire universe that can be brought
to bear on whatever situation is on the screen at that time. And in that,
the successful-ness and the activation of the will of the Father is most
likely to happen, because the technique or the thinking process is
strictly from the purest place.

And the other part regarding worship is very interesting. Last week, when
you hinted and affirmed about prayer and worship being 50/50, I’ve been
experiencing worship more lately. And worship, as you described it, I
recall, being the recognition and the celebration of the presence of God
in our life. So there’s a combination there, where I’m beginning to feel
that the entire day is just going back and forth 50/50, more and more
now, between those two polarities. And they are very closely connected.
And nothing else seems to be able to stay present anymore. 

Welmek: This is, indeed, the spiritualizing of your mind, of your thought
patterns. You are yielding the currents in your mind to the influence of
the spirit. You are allowing the highest knowledge and truth and ways of
God to prevail in your mind. And that, coupled with the sincere desire of
your heart to learn of God’s ways – and to love God – is what is
motivating your growth and triggering your awareness to the highest-most
levels of universe living.

We have long prepared for those of you who were willing to follow us in
this program of spiritualized thinking. And now you are ready for more
in-depth study of the workings of the universe, and how you can, through
your prayerful efforts, commingle your thoughts with ours to evoke great
changes on your planet. 

But as you have said in your answers this evening that you needed to be
prepared for this. Your mind needed to develop and to mature, and it is
still unfolding. We are going into this in-depth discussion of prayer so
that you can engage in this form of communication in conjunction with the
celestial workers who are so actively pouring forth all of their love and
energy into the salvation of this world. 

Do you fathom how important your contribution is through prayer? Do you
appreciate how important it is for your minds to be so spiritized as to
engage in this level of undertaking? Do you understand how important your
faith is, as you grow, as you love, as you serve?

These new awarenesses within you are, indeed, beginning to reveal these
new ideas in your mind. We who have watched over you and taught you are
very excited about what we see happening. And you should be very proud of
your efforts. For, as we have said before, you are the ones who are so
richly blessed. You are the wealthy ones on your planet. And you are the
ones who are healing your world. As you grow more spiritual in your
thoughts, through prayer and through worship, you will find in time that
these two states of being are the only possible places that you could
ever operate from. 

Student: Welmek, if I may be so bold, I would like to do a communications
check at this time. This afternoon, I called upon you to join me in
prayer for a dear friend, and had the experience that you did join me. We
said this prayer together. I would like to know now if that was your
experience.

Welmek: I am not going to give you a direct answer on this question, my
friend. And I know this may be a difficult response to receive. But I ask
you to be in that place in your heart where you sense the communication,
and where you felt the blending of our minds, and to just reiterate what
you experienced within as your validation of the actual moment of prayer
between us. 

These inner sensings within you are primarily a faith-based reality
experience. Grow more confident in your own ability to sense this. Seek
the validation in your own experience, through the leadings of your
Thought Adjuster. This will give you more of your own spiritual dynamism
and make you a stronger faith son. Will this answer suffice for now, my
friend?

Student: Yes, your words ring very true in my heart. I understand your
answer. Thank you for that. (You are most welcome).

Student: Welmek, I’d like to add something to this process, based on what
you said a couple of minutes ago. I’m remembering that it’s only very,
very recently that this state of spiritizing is part of me as much as it
is. And that the process I had to go through was a very long and drawn
out letting go of everything I had done in the past – focusing on
developing myself. And basically detoxing from that approach, while
starting all over again at the bottom of the faith in God as the Father,
and all of the variations of that, through Michael and Jesus and Mother
and the teachers, and so forth. I noticed that. 

And the other part that I noticed was that the recommendations and the
habit of a lot of people and the beings that I have been hearing have
been around loving the Father and the Mother Spirit. I noticed during
quite a bit of this period of time I didn’t really feel that. I
recognized intellectually how important it was to feel it. So I kept on
practicing it, as if I felt it. And I would like to report that it’s just
a very, very short time that I’ve begun to be able to truly feel that
love. And that the love is activated through the power of this process of
prayer and worship. 

The experience I had last week in the monastery, I think, was part of
that breakthrough. I am very grateful for having had that opportunity. So
I am very thankful now to you, and all the supporting team that’s
involved in this whole process, for the remarkable efforts and the
remarkable results that are going on. 

Welmek: Each soul is so precious and valuable to us, that we – and I use
this term as a collective unit of all of the spiritual divinities and
agencies that hover around you – will do everything in our power to
minister to you, and to bring you into the fullness of this most
exquisite and loving of all relationships: the divine parent with the
human child. 

Michael’s correcting plan has within it a very pervasive and dominant
component of helping you feel the love for your Creator and your
Creator’s love for you. You are being taken into the realm of coming to
understand this personality in a very real sense,  in a relationship,
just as you would share a relationship with another person. 

To know and to love God requires that you first begin to understand the
nature, and to sense the presence, and to feel the love God has for you.
And then when you begin to sense this, your faith can grow, and your love
for this Divine Being can begin to blossom.

Your prayers to know God are answered. Your prayers for help in your life
are answered. You see, my friends, all you need to do is to ask. And, if
what you are asking for are the things of spirit, then you are given it
freely and lavishly and in a way that is palpable and experienceable by
you.

And now that you have all sensed this within you, you are being drawn
into the family of God, the family where we all love and nurture one
another, and help one another. Now you are being asked to help your
younger brothers and sisters – to help them find ways to experience the
love that you are receiving. 

This prayerfulness of being in the awareness that the help that you
desire is achievable is there for the asking. It is so fundamental for
your continued growth, and for the growth of others. Be the prayer for
those people close to you, that they cannot say for themselves, for they
do not have the faith that you have. Be in that place – the fullness of
appreciation of what you have been given. And say a prayer for these
people that they experience this as well. 

You will not know how this will unfold in their lives. You will not know
the environment of their mind, and how this prayerful seed will be
implanted and emerge within their conscious mind. But that is not your
responsibility. You are the spiritual workers in the field. And it is
your job to lay the seeds in the soil. After you have planted the seed,
call on the Father’s love to nurture this each time you think of this
individual or situation, and ask for more love and more truth and more of
the Father’s will to grow within the environment of this individual or
this situation. 

Ask for those spiritual agencies that can assist this individual or
situation to bring their energy into this circumstance, and to be the
spiritual drawing power and essence that the Father’s will can be
manifest.

I would like to lead you now in a prayer for those individuals within
your life that are very spiritually wanting. We will spend a few moments
in a prayer for these individuals. And then we will go into more general
prayers for circumstances on this planet. 

Center yourselves now in this attitude of loving service. Find that place
within your heart that is so full of a desire to serve. (Pause) When you
have sensed this desire within you, find that place of intention that the
Father’s will prevail. Be of that trusting nature that the Father’s will
is the only and best possible outcome – and be in this place of sensing
this intention. (Pause)

 Now, what I ask you to do is to bring into your mind those individuals
who you know to be spiritually wanting. As you bring them into your mind,
place them visually in the center of the room, where the energy ball is
located; and as you place them in there, we will offer a collective
prayer that I will lead you in, once we have finished bringing everyone
into the center. Spend a few moments now, and we will continue in just a
moment or so. (long pause)

Now lift your hearts with me, as we offer these individuals to our
Creator Father Michael and Creative Mother Nebadonia. “Oh divine Mother
and Father, we offer these, your children, to you as needing of your
ministry and salvation in their lives. We ask for them to be encircuited
in your presence. We ask that your Spirit of Truth take deeper root in
them, and that their minds be opened to your mercy ministry. Guide them
with your celestial presences. Nurture them in ways of spirit. Open their
hearts to comfort and peace, forgiveness and understanding. We pray this
for each child presented before you, as we celebrate their spiritual
rebirth in the love that you so freely bestow to them. And so it is.
Amen.” (Students: Amen)

Now, as you recall these individuals throughout the day, focus on them in
spirit. You may not know the environment of their mind, the quality or
the nature of the thoughts that they think. But you can align with them
in your spirit, and feel the love that you have for them and ask that the
Father’s love flow more fully through them. Bring them into the presence
of our Father and Mother. Present them before our parents, and ask that
their love flow into this individual. Raise them up, let them be uplifted
in spirit, and you will have performed a wonderful service for them. 

I would now like each of you to think of a particular situation on your
planet that you find to be distressing to you, and in want of spiritual
correction. When you have thought of this situation, spend a few moments
asking the Father: “What is the highest truth of this situation I can
pray for?” When you have received your answer, place the situation into
the energy ball in the center of the room, and we will pray for all of
the situations when everyone is finished. (long pause)

Draw this situation now into the very healing hands of Michael. Place
this in front of him, and ask that the situation be brought into his
bosom. (Pause) “Creator Father, we ask that you take all of these
situations and draw them into your presence. We ask that you heal these
situations through your love, through your truth. We ask our dear devoted
Mother to encircuit these situations within Michael’s actual being, to
open the environment of the situation, to release all the spiritual
negativity and error and sin and rebelliousness and pour forth your
cleansing action on the situation, and make it whole and righteous in
your being. Release the repression of truth in the years of this
situation. Establish within it a new foundation, a new revelation of
goodness, of beauty, of righteousness, of truth. Send forth your angels
of ministry into the very fray, the very center of this situation. As you
re-encircuit this within Michael’s being, we begin a new era of spirit
reality that is the Father’s will.  This we ask as your children. And so
it is. Amen.” (Students: Amen)

My friends, do not underestimate the power of your thoughts, as you add
more spiritual pressure to bear on any situation on this planet. The
years have taken a heavy toll. And the spiritual fabric of all of the
social conditions, all of the environmental conditions, on your planet
must be corrected, as part of the rehabilitation plan. Your prayers add
more spiritual pressure, and actually begin to reestablish that fabric
within the lives and the situations itself. 

This spiritual fabric is a living and dynamic fabric. It is very real. It
is the foundation of your new social institutions, and it must be tightly
woven in order for it to make its mark in the material lives on this
planet. You are creating a new identity for your world, and it is this
foundation of spirit that is the new creation. For each time you pray,
you are adding more threads to this fabric, when you are bringing it into
the realm of the material, as it begins to integrate within the nature
and fabric of your society. 

I say this to stress the importance to you in your own awareness of the
effectiveness of your prayers, and to encourage you to be more prayerful
– that what you are doing is of vital importance now. Are there any
questions that I may clarify for you on this nature of being in the state
of prayer fullness? 

Student: Welmek, the question that comes to mind: All the love and power
of the universe, I know it can change things here in an instant. Yet it
seems only our prayers can really bring about this change. I am having a
difficult time understanding this concept. In my heart I do know the
answer. I would like you to speak about it, if you would. 

Welmek: You well know the evolutionary nature of the growth of spiritual
awareness for a planet and for the individual. This is part of the
Father’s plan for the worlds of time and space. And while it is true the
Creators could step in and instantaneously change this world; you, my
friends, are given a great opportunity to participate in the outworking
of the evolutionary plan, both on an individual and collective basis.
While it may seem to be a struggle, and even be discouraging at times
because you do not see progress, that is not the point. The validity of
the exercise comes in building this deep, strong, flexible, spiritual
foundation that grows very slowly over time and gives each individual the
opportunity to participate, as they grow more in spirit accordance with
the plans and the over-workings of the Supreme Being. 

So, as you ponder this answer, I encourage you to think about the
evolving Supreme, and reread in your text the function and the
over-control and the reason for this to be so. And you will see more of
the divine wisdom as to why this evolutionary plan is so important. Does
this answer your question?

Student: Yes, it does. Thank you very much. 

Student: Welmek, I’m in this echo of R.’s quandary, because centermost in
my mind for the last two weeks, because prayer seemed in one way so new,
the nature of the spirit you are revealing to us, at times, strikes me as
really, really strange. And I pondered it, what is this mechanism that
enables Michael, in any way, shape or form, love someone more. And I came
to that same conclusion that enables me to participate. And I accept on
faith what both you and Michael have told us, that it does work –
because, as you say, the results in an objective sense are not there.
That I trust further what the text says that the nature of divinity is
something called sharing, which is maybe why God has this whole universe,
to begin with.

Welmek: My dear friend, you are emerging from the shadow of your basic
evolutionary nature. You are coming into the reality of life in the
spirit; and as you say, it is new. It is different, challenging, and
strange and an yet exciting and wonderful experience all at once. You are
being acclimated to a new reality. And so it is quite understandable that
it would all seem to be somewhat disorienting, strange, foreign, at
first. 

But as your faith grows, and as you begin to see more with the eyes of
the spirit, you will see more of the subtleties of the workings of the
spirit. Your spiritual vision will become more finely tuned, your senses
more richly honed to the subtleties of the spirit. You will find your
senses to be magnified, as it were, to these subtle impressions that grow
and weave through you. 

You are in a time of transition and integration of the new, with that
which you have experienced. This is a great time of discovery. And it is
even, I would say, more compelling, because it is happening at the level
of the material realm, whereas some of your brothers and sisters must
awaken on the morontia spheres to experience what you are now partaking
of as you live your life in the spirit. 

Enjoy this time in your life, my friend. It will be unique in the whole
universal career that awaits you, this being awakening. The spiritual
rebirth in a mortal of time of space is the most wonderful awakening
there is. 

I honor that which you have accomplished, and look forward to that which
you will see unfolding within you. (Pause) Are there any more comments or
questions before we conclude this evening?

Student: Welmek, do you have any suggestions on introducing this
wonderful thing called prayer, any suggestions to introduce it to members
of family or friends – people who are, essentially, unaware or in some
cases skeptical and maybe non-believing. I want so much to share this
with folks that are close to me, and find it very difficult to do that;
although I pray for that, whether they know it or not. And sometimes I
just want so much for them to have this wonderful gift and tool to use in
their daily lives. Do you have anything to suggest on this?

Welmek: When you engage in conversation with them, before speaking with
them, bring in prayer an idea that you would appreciate an opportunity to
share these ideas of spirit with them. Make an appeal, and then begin to
talk with them as you would normally do – being mindful in your speaking
of being led by your spirit. And practice this many times, and wait and
see how the conversation meanders; and when you feel so inspired, then
the time will be to share more of what you have experienced on your own
with them. 

This may take several attempts, and I do not want you to be discouraged
when, after the first, second or third or fourth time, it does not seem
to work. All the time that you hold this focus in all of your
conversations will you be adding that spiritual connection from your mind
into theirs. And you can make an appeal to their inner spirit before you
engage in conversation with them; that your spirit and their spirit can
communicate one with the other. And allow some time to elapse before you
speak, and thereby be assured that more of this spiritual connection is
well grounded. 

At this level of your engagement with them at the spirit, you will find
that what you say will flow more effortlessly, and you will not be so
concerned about trying to convince them about the validity of what you
speak. They will sense a dynamism within you of the spirit – at some
level – and in time their conscious mind will respond. So I ask that you
be patient as you try this; and see it emerge over the course of several
weeks, as opposed to the course of several conversations. Do you
understand? (Yes, thank you.) Does this help? (Yes, it does.)

My friends, what we are embarked upon is a very enriched course of study.
You are using your mind in new and improved ways. And so I encourage you
to be not discouraged if your attempts to be prayerful are not as optimal
as you would like. There are still many habits of the past that are still
to be weeded out of your being. 

And so be patient with yourselves, and try to be in this state of prayer
fullness as much as possible. Do not be discouraged if your other
thoughts get the better of you. Simply acknowledge them and return your
focus as best you can to the realm of spirit. In time, you will feel this
environment of prayerfulness grow within you. All we ask is that you try.
Your spirit will guide you. It will lead you more assuredly into deeper
realms of spiritual communication. Know that any attempt you make is
honored and accepted and loved and appreciated. Good evening.