# Importance of Prayer **Spirit:** [[Spirits/Augustine|Augustine]] · **Medium:** Al Fike · **Date:** 2016-03-25 *Each sincere prayer given to God will strike the mark and obtain a response from your Heavenly Father.* --- Beloved souls, it is your teacher Augustine here. I wish to encourage you to continue in your efforts to gather souls together in prayer. Whatever purpose you may put upon that prayer is of your own choice as long as it is within the desires of your soul and these prayers are sincere. For each sincere prayer given to God will strike the mark and obtain a response from your Heavenly Father. Each prayer that you have has import and purpose and effects in this world. Each time you come together in prayer has an effect in this world, it brings greater Light, it affects the environment around you, it affects you and it is important that you continue to come together in prayer in ways and means to bring about change in this world. God places His hand upon you, my beloved, beautiful souls. He beseeches you to pray and to act in Love, and to grow in your souls, and to seek your guidance, and to enact that guidance within your lives. And you begin to listen more intently and you begin to formulate a clearer understanding of God's Will so your souls grow in the Love. There will be more guidance, more promptings, more efforts for prayer, for healing and for Love. To utilize this channel, this portal of Light in the world, and bring circles and centers of Light into the world. And each time you come together in prayer you strengthen this Light, you bring greater Light, you grow your souls and you clarify within yourselves what it is you are to do and the purpose that God has placed within you becomes more powerfully evident. So I encourage you, my dear students, to continue to pray as you do, and when you feel prompted to pray, please do so. When you feel prompted to bring others together in prayer, please do so, for these times are precious and important, and have purpose. You will know, my beloved students, when you must come together in this way and for what purpose you will be guided, God will guide you, you will know, it will be clear and you will feel the joy within your souls as you comply to God's Will and put forth your prayers in earnest longing and clear intention. All will be given to the souls who do indeed reach out to God in prayer. God bless you, beloved souls. Your teacher Augustine is always with you. God bless you. --- > [!abstract] Description > Augustine encourages the circle to keep gathering souls together in prayer, teaching that every sincere prayer strikes its mark and brings a response from God, with real effects in the world. He assures them that each time they pray together they strengthen the Light, grow their souls, and clarify the purpose God has placed within them, and urges them to act whenever they feel prompted to pray or to draw others into prayer. ## Related messages - [[2016-01-23 The Power of Prayer|The Power of Prayer]] ## Chains - [[Chains/Prayer Soul Longing]] - Elaboration > [!question]- Questions this message answers > - Does it matter what I pray for, or just that I pray sincerely? > - Does God really respond to every sincere prayer? > - How does praying with others change the world around us? > - Why is praying together more powerful than praying alone? > - How do I know when I am being prompted to pray? > - How does prayer help me understand what God wants me to do? > - How does coming together in prayer grow my soul? > - What does it mean that a prayer can affect the environment around me?