Three Steps

I pray. I listen. I act.

In any situation, I can take three simple steps to see my way through: Pray, listen, and act.

Prayer attunes me to God. It quiets my mind, stills my emotions, and prepares me to receive direction. Prayer turns me temporarily away from the conditions that concern me so I am open to ideas for solving them.

During prayer I pause, ready to hear or to sense from within my answer. Listening to God means waiting for the right ideas to illumine my mind. Intuitively sensing a course of action and accepting it readies me for the kind of action that cannot fail to bless and prosper me.

"But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers."--James 1:22

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