Reaching God

In the lessons of A Course in Miracles as Teachers of God we make contact with God, as Love, as Truth, as ourselves. Through prayer love is received.

First we reach for the idea of God and communicate our desire to be heard.

 It is from that action of contact, a single desire for the Father as our Source that an answer is received.

(from the manual for teachers) It has been asked and answered, and he keeps in constant contact with the Answer. He is set, and sees the road on which he walks stretch surely and smoothly before him.

A prayer is not complete until a contact has been made with God. This means when we have become actually conscious of the Presence of God, there is a feeling within us that God has declared Itself; God has made Itself evident in us.

Then be assured, there will be answered prayer!
The reason there is not answered prayer is that we are not reaching God. We must learn to “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and these things that you would pray for will be added unto you.

In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved. In conflict there can be no answer and no resolution, for its purpose is to make no resolution possible, and to ensure no answer will be plain.

A problem set in conflict has no answer, for it is seen in different ways. And what would be an answer from one point of view is not an answer in another light.

You are in conflict. Thus it must be clear you cannot answer anything at all, for conflict has no limited effects.

Yet if God gave an answer there must be a way in which your problems are resolved, for what He wills already has been done.

Thus it must be that time is not involved and every problem can be answered now. Yet it must also be that, in your state of mind, solution is impossible.

Therefore, God must have given you a way of reaching to another state of mind in which the answer is already there. Such is the holy instant.