Master Your Thoughts Through Prayer

In these unsettling times, it is easy to become stifled by worry. This excerpt from Unity author James Dillet Freeman’s book, Prayer: The Master Key, describes how to calm your mind through prayer.
“God’s good is being expressed in my life. Even if misfortunes occur and I receive a setback or fall ill, I am not going to profit by becoming frightened or depressed.

... It is our imagination that seizes hold of us and carries us down into mind’s dark underworld of fear and anger and depression. So I ask myself of things that pass through my mind:
Has this ever happened?

Is this happening?

Will this happen?

Usually my answer to all three of these questions is no. ... For most of us, the more concrete and exact we make our thought, the easier it is to control it. ... Say the words, ‘I am a child of God.’ ... Know it. Keep knowing it—even when it seems far from the truth, even when it seems impossible to believe. Take your step in faith.”

Program Objectives:

 To experience the Presence of the Divine in everything happening and in everyone, learning to live in Grace
 To experience a greater understanding and awareness of Truth and how it expresses in our lives through prayer
 To experience a deeper surrender to Divine Will knowing its all good
 To experience the awareness that our lives are healed by Unconditional Love – giving it and receiving it
 To experience the blessing of service in prayer as a path to Peace
 To celebrate our oneness in Spiritual Family or Ohana *


*("Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten." - Lilo & Stitch ).

The foundation of the Unity movement is prayer.

In 1886 a simple affirmation changed the lives of myrtle and Charles Fillmore.

"I am a child of god and therefore i do not inherit sickness”

This affirmative prayer opened the mind and the heart of Myrtle Fillmore to her oneness with source / god and she experienced a physical healing. The unity movement emerges as others approached myrtle for prayer. Since 1890 our unity family has been praying for millions of people diverse religions and philosophical traditions all over the world.

Prayer transforms lives because it renews the mind. we begin living a prayer centered life and it pours out into our experience. it has no choice because god and good is all there is and prayer is the awareness of this truth.

Thank you for stepping forth and offering god your life as a prayer so that spirit can pour itself into the world trough you. Our world is waiting for transformation and it begins now, with each and every one of us.

I behold the Christ in you, namaste!


Rev. Luzette M. Rivera-Diez
Associate minister of prayer and service
Unity on the Bay

Prayer Ministry 2008

UNITY ON THE BAY
Prayer and Pastoral Care Ministry
UOTB Prayer Team member commitment
My commitment as a Member of the UOTB Prayer team:
 I commit to transform my life by allowing the Presence of God to teach me love, faith, and gratitude.
 I commit to hold “The High Watch” for myself and others by compassionately seeing past appearances to the Infinite Possibilities of the inner Christ Presence.
 I commit to become a loving presence that is fully present, listening without judgment, both to others and to my own internal dialogue.
 I commit to release everything I hear to God affirming confidentiality and surrender both for myself and others.
 I commit to experience a Life of Prayer everyday through an awareness of the Good in all and all.

I agree to demonstrate my commitment to the Prayer Ministry, my fellow team members and my Spiritual Community in the following ways:
 Making Prayer and Prayer related activities my first priority for the life of this commitment.
 Providing a minimum of 10 hours of service every month as detailed in the “Prayer Team Member Expectations”
 Maintaining open communication with the Pastoral Care staff or my team leaders and coaches so that I can be supported as needed and when needed.
 Punctually attending all monthly meetings and annual training sessions.
 Enjoying the time invested in the Prayer Ministry as sacred time devoted to the deepening of my relationship with Spirit.


I hereby agree to all of the above stated commitments for a period of one year.