A HALFHEARTED prayer will never take us farther than halfway into the consciousness of God's benevolent, healing presence. If we would arrive at the very throne of God, if, in other words, we would reach the spiritual altitude where divine Love is truly enthroned as supreme in our affections, our prayers must be wholehearted.
Prayers in Christian Science include positive affirmations of Truth—fervent, sincere, consecrated, and conscientious. They declare the verity of God as changeless, all-inclusive Love, unfailing Truth, immortal Life. They acknowledge our Father-Mother God as the source of our inheritance of every Godlike quality, for we are in reality heirs of God. We are His children, beneficiaries of all that He is, all that He has, all that He knows.
In Christian Science, prayer emphasizes the truth that man is made in God's image and likeness, is Godlike. God is Spirit; so man is spiritual and reflects God in quality, though not in quantity. Spiritual qualities, such as joy, radiance, freedom, integrity, and love, identify every child of God, and they, with hosts of other Godlike qualities, are happily recognized and demonstrated in scientific prayer.
