运用祈祷之力量解决问题的几个步骤

第1个步骤：祈祷并默想有关问题。最好使用天启的祷文，因为天启的祷文有最大的力量。祈祷完毕，静默数分钟，在静默中冥想。

第2个步骤：获得某个决定时，捉住它，这决定通常在默想中出现。它可能看来全无实现的希望，然而，只要感觉它是祈祷的一个回应，是有关问题的解决方案，就抓住它，然后立刻采取下一个步骤。

第3个步骤：下定决心把决定贯彻到底。许多人在这里失败了，以其将决定变成决心，他们只把它当作一个希望，或一个含糊的期待。有力决心之后，马上采取下一个步骤。

第4个步骤：坚信一种力量将流灌全身，正确的道路将会出现，门径将为你打开，你将获得正确的思想、信息、原则或书本。要有信心正确的事物将会出现协助你。祈祷之后，采取第5个步骤。

第5个步骤：仿佛你的祷告已全都获得了回应，以那样的心态，不倦地、不停地行动，似有无穷的力量推动着你。当这样行动时，你将成为一块磁铁，吸引更多的力量，以致你整个身心成为一个天界的力量流窜的管道，通畅无阻。

许多人祈祷之后，没有在第一个步骤的下半部停留。有些人在默想时获得了决定，但没有捉住它。只有极小部分的人有决心将决定贯彻到底，更少人相信正确的事物将会出现给予协助。然而，能够当祈祷已经获得了答案，从而锲而不舍地依照它的指引行动的人又有几个？所谓“比祈祷之力更大的力量，是吟诵祷文时的精神”，而比吟诵祷文时的精神更大的力量，是实践这精神的力量。

——守基‧阿芬第

(上述5个步骤是敬爱的圣护向一名教友讲述如何通过祈祷解决问题时的建议，它属于“朝圣者手札”之类的记叙，因此没有权威性。然而他讲的十分清楚，很有帮助，教友们可不要失去了这么好的东西。)

DYNAMICS OF PRAYER FOR 

SOLVING PROBLEMS 

1st step： 

Pray and meditate about it. Use the prayers of the Manifestations as they have the greatest power. Then remain in the silence of contemplation for a few minutes. 

2nd step： 

Arrive at a decision and hold this. This decision is usually born during the contemplation. It may seem almost impossible of accomplishment but if it seems to be as answer to a prayer or a way of solving the problem, then immediately take the next step. 

3rd step： 

Have determination to carry the decision through. Many fail here. The decision, budding into determination, is blighted and instead becomes a wish or a vague longing. When determination is born, immediately take the next step. 

4th step： 

Have faith and confidence that the power will flow through you, the right way will appear, the door will open, the right thought, the right message, the right principle, or the right book will be given to you. Have confidence and the right thing will come to your need. Then, as you rise from prayer, take at once the 5th step. 

5th step： 

Act as though it had all been answered. Then act with tireless, ceaseless energy. And as you act, you, yourself, will become a magnet, which will attract more power to your being, until you become an unobstructed channel for the Divine power to flow through you. 

Many pray but do not remain for the last half of the first step. Some who meditate arrive at a decision, but fail to hold it. Few have the determination to carry the decision through, still fewer have the confidence that the right thing will come to their need. But how many remember to act as though it had all been answered? How true are these words “Greater than the prayer is the spirit in which it is uttered” and greater than the way it is uttered is the spirit in which it is carried out. 

—Shoghi Effendi 

The above five steps were suggested by the beloved Guardian Shoghi Effendi to a believer as a means of finding a solution through the use of prayer. This statement belongs to the category of statements known as “pilgrims notes”, and as such has no authorily, but since it seems to be particularly helpful and clear it was felt that believers should not be deprived of it. 

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