God is not activated through prayer.

God’s assistance in your life is always present. You don’t have to plead with God to illuminate your life or the lives of others, for God is not waiting for this pleading. God is already at the door. When you beseech God to respond to the needs that you identify, you are really in fact asking for your own openness so that for which you pray may come forth.

You never activate God through prayer. You activate your own receptivity to what is already present. When you pray to God for help, God does not spring into action and respond with full energy. That response is already there. The dwelling you call home is already bathed in light. All that it needed was to open the windows. That opening is part of the process of sharing, and when you share with one another, you are not pleading that another help you. When you are sharing you are opening those windows that allow the light to expand into your own darkness.

It is therefore essential that you not withhold an expression of need. It is essential that you acknowledge your vulnerability, the need that you have to be illuminated, the need that your life has to overcome the darkness that you may experience.