Prayer and intention

The concentration of thought without forcing the thought. Let go of the idea once you have formed it. Not asking for something with hope, but deciding that thing with confidence. J.C once talked about if you had faith the size of a mustard seed you could tell that mountain to pick it'self up and throw it'self into the sea. I believe I believe is not the same as...I am confident I can, or I am confident it will do what I tell it. The more you understand about the way the system works, the way I influence the Universal God energy, the more confidence I will gain. We talk often about confidence in sport. I often ask my players, what comes first the confidence or the win? They will often say I need to win to be confident, but then they will conclude after thought that they cannot win if they are not confident when they play. How is this any different? If confidence is the connecting factor to intention...otherwise called faith, then you will get exactly what you expect, and it will be good. It is likely that intention is the creative trigger, but without confidence.....what is it exactly that you expect at a truely deep level? If it is to fail, then that is what you will experience. If in sport you lost to a player and you are due to play them again, how do you have confidence to play them to win? Well you have to have changed something since the last time you played them. You have to have got fitter, or faster, or more accurate, or more tactical, or more deceptive or mentally stronger etc. These, are weapons you are adding to your fight. So it is with Creating. If you have not succeeded in the past gaining money for example, you have intention to gain it this time, but nothing has changed in terms of any added wisdom, or understanding then how can you be confident that the outcome will change? So how much faith do you have? i believe there needs to be a receptor to your intention, but how you house that is irrelevant. For example, if your perception of God is x, or y, or z as the different religions would have you believe, then you would in line with that social or cultural conditioning be praying to that particular entity. But it would be irrelevant as far as the Universe or God energy is concerned, because as long as the intention leaves you, and you have faith in that arrival point then it will work it's magic. Appreciation must also work in a similar fashion, but will look more at that soon. So I am an energy being, I send out an parcel or particle of energy in the form of intention, but it has no return envelope (confidence) so the universe doesn't know where to send it to. Or I have visualized it but not in my now...I was "day dreaming" when I visualized it, rather than in a car, in my now, visualizing that to be my audi TT. So the concept is that I must be clear about what I want, so it is finite, and measurable. I must have release the intention to a provider I have confidence in, and have left with a return envelope and enough fuel for it to return to me. (appreciation of what I have)