Circle of Atonement Healing Prayer Ministry
By members of the Circle Course Community
"Help in prayer does not mean that another mediates between you and God. But it does mean that another stands beside you and helps to raise you up to Him." (The Song of Prayer)
Would you like us to join you in prayer for the significant events and situations of your life?
That is what the Circle of Atonement Healing Prayer Ministry offers you. We offer daily prayers of healing and blessing for all the significant events and situations of your life, free of charge. We join you in praying for healing as you face challenging events like physical illness, financial struggles, and relationship difficulties. And we join you in praying for blessing as you celebrate positive, life-changing events like marriage, a new child, or a new job.
Though our spiritual path is A Course in Miracles, you don't have to be a Course student yourself to ask for prayers. We welcome people of all spiritual paths. We have no desire to "convert" anyone to the Course; our only desire is to freely offer the gift of God's miraculous Love to anyone who comes to us for help.
How it works
Here is how our Healing Prayer Ministry works:
- Send your prayer requests to us at prayerministry@circleofa.org. Let us know what life situation of yours you would like us to pray about.
- We will pray for you at least once a day.
- We will do so for thirty days or until you feel your situation is resolved, whichever comes first. Let us know if you feel your situation is resolved.
- During this period of prayer, we will be in contact with you via e-mail. We will share any insights or possible guidance we feel we have received.
- During this same period, we invite you to stay in contact with us, and share your own insights, guidance, difficulties, and breakthroughs.
How we pray
People pray in many ways. Prayer often takes the form of petitioning God for specific outcomes: "Please, God, give Joe a job." But we pray in a different way, a way that is in harmony with the teachings of A Course in Miracles. We pray in the spirit of this passage from the Course supplement entitled The Song of Prayer:
The secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need.…In prayer you overlook your specific needs as you see them, and let them go into God's Hands....It is to Love you go in prayer. Prayer is an offering; a giving up of yourself to be at one with Love. (S-1.I.4:1, 3; 5:4-5)
This doesn't mean that you shouldn't be specific about "the things you think you need" in your prayer requests to us. On the contrary, we encourage you to describe the specific situation you want prayers about in whatever terms you find emotionally meaningful. But it does mean that in our prayers for you, our emphasis will be on looking past specifics to what the Course promises us is the truth: God is Love, everyone involved in the situation is His beloved, holy child, and He has a loving plan for everyone's life. We believe that seeing this, and trusting in this, is the way to healing and happiness.
What to expect
Though prayer certainly can produce positive changes in external life situations, we don't promise any specific outcome for our prayers. That outcome is in God's Hands. Rather, we hope we can help you get in touch with the loving Father in Whom, as Workbook Lesson 292 tells us, "A happy outcome to all things is sure"-even if that "happy outcome" is not what anyone expected. Our promise is to join mind to mind and heart to heart with you; to stand beside you as your companions in prayer, and help to raise you up to Him.
Though we do not make grand promises of spectacular results, many of our prayer recipients have reported what they felt were the positive results of our prayers. For one example, click here.
Again, this service is free of charge. If you would us to join you in prayer, we invite you to e-mail your prayer request to us at prayerministry@circleofa.org.
In love, peace, and joy.
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