You will absolutely be tested in your beliefs. People will let you down, and situations will turn out very differently from what you expected. When this happens, life will seem dark to you—and depending on how it is processed, it probably will be. From an elevated inner perspective, externalities should never dictate your internal emotional state. What happens in the external world is part of the evolution we are meant to experience here on this plane as souls. Your soul is Divine and is always in an illuminated state. It perceives this material world through the beautiful gift we call the human body, but that is not who you truly are in your purest form. Knowing this and stating it at least once per day is faith.

The moment you realize and remember your true nature and origin, unwanted situations in the material world lose power over you. Everything in your world experience is felt inside, and that is where everything can be resolved—inside. This is why prayer is so powerful. It is you, in private, using words to empower your reality in the direction of your true origin of Light. There is no such thing as prayer done incorrectly. Prayer is an energetic process; when done consistently, it naturally evolves from helplessness into Divine creation. Prayer is the simplest tool to define a problem and allow its solution to manifest in the material world. Prayer is always effective and always healing.

Masters of many traditions have expressed that only two ingredients are needed to create miracles: to be in a state of grace and to be in faith. To be in a state of grace, all that is required is to verbally express gratitude for as much as—and whatever—you can think of. Faith is accomplished by going within and believing in a solution far grander than anything the human mind can conceive, and being at peace with it, even though you cannot yet see it.