When we are mindful in our prayer time with God, we really contact the Divine. We can’t just rotely rattle off a prayer and expect that the angels will respond with joy and excitement! If we aren’t sincere, do you think the angels are going to say, “Let’s get right to it—this disciple is earnest in what he is praying to God about”? When God and the angels feel that sincerity and authenticity, the energy of our prayers quickly rises to the divine worlds, and then of course the heavenly beings are excited about responding.

Righteous prayer is an art, though it’s not about flowery words. Many of our prayers and decrees are beautiful. They have rhythm and rhyme to key us into higher thoughtforms and patterns of light. Yet it’s the sincerity, the authenticity, and the devotion with which we pray that brings our pleas right to the throne of God, to the nexus of cosmic alteration and change, where God says, “Okay, it’s time for us to intercede and mediate in the world of mankind because of this true, deep, abiding presence of sincerity.”