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SearchTrue Prayer is Communion with God
Jesus brought to God, as a man of the realm, the greatest of all offerings: the consecration and
dedication of his own will to the majestic service of doing the divine will. Jesus always and
consistently interpreted religion wholly in terms of the Father‘s will. When you study the career
of the Master, as concerns prayer or any other feature of the religious life, look not so much for
what he taught as for what he did. Jesus never prayed as a religious duty. To him prayer was a
sincere expression of spiritual attitude, a declaration of soul loyalty, a recital of personal
devotion, an expression of thanksgiving, an avoidance of emotional tension, a prevention of
conflict, an exaltation of intellection, an ennoblement of desire, a vindication of moral decision,
an enrichment of thought, an invigoration of higher inclinations, a consecration of impulse, a
clarification of viewpoint, a declaration of faith, a transcendental surrender of will, a sublime
assertion of confidence, a revelation of courage, the proclamation of discovery, a confession of
supreme devotion, the validation of consecration, a technique for the adjustment of difficulties,
and the mighty mobilization of the combined soul powers to withstand all human tendencies
toward selfishness, evil, and sin. He lived just such a life of prayerful consecration to the doing
of his Father‘s will and ended his life triumphantly with just such a prayer. The secret of his
unparalleled religious life was this consciousness of the presence of God; and he attained it by
intelligent prayer and sincere worship — unbroken communion with God — and not by leadings,
voices, visions, or extraordinary religious practices.