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There is a good book by Norman Vincent Peale (USA):
The Power of Positive Thinking
How to pray successfully:
Do not only look for God to answer all your prayers,
look also to your own nature, which is a creation of God,
for your true nature to guide you toward a more beautiful harmonical world.
Realism, rationality, high ideals and feelings are all parts of your nature and so a part of God's message to you and to us all.
Religion Which Works
I was given a thoroughly atheistical upbringing. God was always only a tale to me. But being very serious-minded in my natural attitude to life, I have always been used to feelings of holiness and devotion. Which make me believe fully in the power of prayer – especially now that I believe in God helping too, in addition to what the human nature as a creation of God can do for us when we pray from the bottom of our heart.
God created us with an understanding of our own and with a nature which is a part of God’s message to us. Trusting our devotional feelings together with our understanding makes the religion work for us much better than if we just consider religion foreign to our soul i.e. if we think that religion works some other way than what our instincts and understanding advice us. God is not a machine to make wishes true; we need a living relationship to God, we ourselves with all our feelings, both ordinary and devotional and with all our understanding too.
Nowadays we have a scientifical picture of the world. There is nothing wrong with that: so we get to know many sides of how the world that God created works. We can use our whole picture of the world and pray. Prayer is connected to a feeling of holiness and of devotion. Typically we get such when we meet in the world things of great value, like pure nature or some matters of extreme importance.
PRAYER
Pray with the strenght of your whole feeling (of a need), doing at the same time your very best, using your whole capacity at making things better (even if you cannot noticeably affect things, do not drop this part away: it is your part and God will do the rest).
HOW TO GET OUR THINKING CAPACITY TO WORK FULLY VIA PRAYER
A deep prayer brings calm, sensitivity and a widened awareness during which you can observe the atmosphere of many things in a clear way. Atmospheres are a natural way to make correct observations of the world and of things which are important in life. So is the widened awareness too which can give you a wider understanding with more things taken into account and more new possibilites found. The calm of praying puts your ego down
discouraging your bad habits which usually take your energy, so the prayer brings you toward more natural ways of living via which you get an increased capacity.