Miracle Prayer Book Review

Just about everyone has had this experience. You think about someone and the next day or maybe even the next hour, the phone rings and it’s the person you were thinking about. I am a believer that thoughts have power. The question is, how to harness this power. So it was with great interest that I read Miracle Prayer: Nine Steps to Creating Prayers that Get Results by Susan G. Shumsky.

The premise of the book is that our inner thoughts create our outer circumstances and we can and do make things happen just by thinking about them. The problem is, according to Shumsky, is that over the years, through conditioning, we develop a false set of beliefs. We are taught that life is full of trials, tribulations, tests and struggles and so that is what we experience--hardship.

“Past and present negative environmental influences can and do prevent you from fulfilling your divine purpose,” writes Shumsky. “As a result of these influences, you may find yourself frustrated, unhappy and incomplete.”

God, according, to the book, gives us everything we ask for. It’s just that some of us are asking for more trials and tribulations because that is what we feel we deserve.

Shumsky says that contrary to the belief that God punishes us for wrong doings, in truth we are actually punishing ourselves with our thoughts of rewards and punishments. These thoughts, form what the book calls our “Mental Laws” and these laws or beliefs determine our destiny.

One aspect of the book I found particularly helpful is the Mental Law Exercise, which helps readers identify limiting beliefs. Following the exercise is a prayer which is designed to help readers release these negative mental laws.

“You are, in reality, perfect and unlimited,” writes Shumsky. “Your only limitations are the restrictions of your personal mental law.”

The heart of the book outlines instructions on using the 9 step “Scientific Prayer Method” to reach a goal.

For those who are unsure of what to pray for, Shumsky offers an exercise to help with clarity. After outlining the philosophy and basic steps of the Scientific Prayer methodology, Miracle Prayer guides readers in writing their first Scientific Prayer.

Miracle Prayer describes prayer mistakes you may be making and offers solutions. If you are not up for writing your own prayers, the book provides “basic affirmative spiritual healing prayers” and hundreds of affirmations in the areas of health, success, relationships and much more.

I borrowed Miracle Prayer: Nine Steps to Creating Prayers that Get Results by Susan G. Shumsky from the Brooklyn Public Library.