A TREATMENT IS AN OPERATION

A treatment is a prayer directed specifically at a definite subject, something that is a pressing problem. Unlike general prayers that are a visit with God, a treatment is a surgical operation on the soul. A difficulty has arisen in your life, the reasons for its arrival a distraction, like spending time wondering who sold the nail you stepped on when a tetanus shot is the action required. Treatment prayers focus on solution, not causality while general prayers typically are “checking” in with God, affirmations of our love, trust and faith. The essential difference is fear. When we are engaged in treatment, we are essentially praying for ourselves. Someone we love or ourselves has become ill. We are facing financial difficulties. Our relationship with someone we care about deeply, perhaps love, has begun to or has turned sour. Our prayers, treatment, in these areas are definite. A simple form of employing treatment is:

1) Get alone, some place quiet. Begin with a general prayer (one that has significance and power for you).

2) See the difficulty in your minds eye; visualize the problem passing from your hands to God’s. If the difficulty is hard to visualize, then visualize the individual (including your self) free of the trouble, surrounded by God’s creative love and healing.

3) End the treatment with a closing prayer affirming God’s love, guidance, limitless power and knowledge. Thank him for the healing you believe will come and then:

4) Leave it be. Do not try to visualize how God will work or the outcome. This is outlining and always leads to trouble. Do not repeat the treatment out of fear. If something happens or changes in regards to the difficulty and it feels appropriate, treat again, but do not begin from fear. If very fearful, then address the fear with prayer and when it has subsided, then repeat the treatment.

Fear is not the difficulty being treated. Fear is what makes the difficulty seem overwhelming. Fear is the self-centered belief that God will not do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. We believe that somehow, someway we have traveled beyond the pale, so far from God that our prayers are not heard or worse rejected or ignored. Nonsense. No one, no matter what has transpired in his or her lives is separated from God. We build the walls; create the false sense of separation, not God.

When we allow fear domination, we operate on our soul with a rusty scalpel and a shaking hand. God can and will solve all our difficulties, if we can stand firm in faith.