This is the 4th of 7 steps involved with the extended prayer practice using the spiritual power of agape. As I developed this practice, I prayed for an expanding list of persons (a few of the steps took a long time to develop, so I didn’t move from step to step until I was fully ready).
For this 4th step, choose to pray for someone who is a neutral person. Honestly and truly pray for the well-being of agape to come into the life of that person who is merely an acquaintance of yours, but who otherwise you are not especially friends with.
Follow the prayer process from Step 3 with the neutral person. Feel the emotion of sharing in agape with that person. Feel the power of agape flowing into the center of that person’s being. Imagine that person being drawn close to and opening up to both the personal Presence of God and the vastness of eternity. Desire that person to find personal well-being and happiness.
Remember that agape is not coming from you, but is a flow that moves through you. Your sense of prayer is not one of directing, but is more like you are merely following where God is sending agape.
So this prayer practice is not meant to stay inside you. Instead, there is a motivational force to it. You should feel inspired to actually follow agape out into the relationships of your life -- to feel the power of agape moving through your daily activity, out to actively helping lives.
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