MISCONCEPTION OF PRAYER

THE MISCONCEPTION OF PRAYER: A COSMIC WAGER FOR THE MODERN SOUL

Why Prayers Are Conversations With the Soul—Not With a God in the Sky

BY: OMOLAJA MAKINEE

Imagine a wager—one as simple and provocative as Pascal’s, yet oriented toward the deepest spiritual truth of human existence.

Wager this: If there is no God sitting in the sky listening to individual prayers one by one, where do your prayers actually go? And—if someone still insists there is such a God—does the soul have any say in the matter at all?

Here is the wager:

1. If God truly exists as an external being who answers prayers selectively, then your soul has no influence over the unfolding of your life. Your destiny is left entirely to divine whim.

2. But if no such sky-deity exists, then every prayer you utter is actually a negotiation between you and your own soul—between your willpower and your freewill.

3. If your soul does answer your prayer because you spoke from sincerity and alignment, you gain direction, clarity, and cosmic harmony.

4. If your soul does not answer the prayer because it conflicts with the conditions in your burden bags, you lose nothing—because you have attempted a negotiation with the only authority that can actually change anything.

Thus the wager is safe, honest, and spiritually precise:

Pray as if your soul answers your prayers. If God exists, your prayers are still heard. If God does not exist, your prayers are still heard—by the one force that can truly respond: your soul.

This is the heart of the misconception of prayer: Prayer is not a plea to the sky—it is a self-renegotiation with the freewill that shaped your destiny before birth.

1. The Evolution of Prayer: From Polytheistic Invocation to Monotheistic Supplication

To understand the confusion around prayer, we must trace its historical evolution.

A. Polytheism: Invocation, Not Supplication

Before monotheism, African and global polytheistic systems did not see prayer as begging, demanding, or complaining.

Invocation was the core:

  • A call to energies, ancestors, and archetypes.
  • A communication of alignment.
  • A request for guidance rather than interference.
  • A recognition of cosmic balance, not a disruption of destiny.

In polytheism, one did not pray for a new destiny. One prayed for clarity, and adjusted self, not fate. Destiny was sacred, not negotiable.

B. When Monotheism Arrived: The Prayer Revolution

With Abrahamic monotheism came a new idea:

“Ask God for anything and He will do it.”

This shifted the spiritual economy from:

  • Working with destiny, to
  • Attempting to change destiny.

The soul already created the conditions in its burden bags before taking incarnation. But monotheistic prayer encouraged people to:

  • Seek wealth not assigned to them;
  • Demand marriages not meant for them;
  • Ask for shortcuts where karmic lessons were needed;
  • Pray away consequences they themselves created across multiple lifetimes.

Thus prayer transitioned from invocation into negotiation, and then into attempted cosmic manipulation.

C. Denominational Fragmentation: Prayer as Biological Craving

When monotheism split into denominations, prayer took another dramatic turn.

Prayer points became shaped by the cravings of the biological body. People began to pray for:

  • Money.
  • Success.
  • Fame.
  • Beauty.
  • Influence.
  • Supernatural shortcuts.
  • Protection from karmic consequences.
  • Escape from lessons the soul itself placed in the burden bags.

And the biological body—whose nature is short-lived pleasure—took full control. Prayer became a tool for:

  • Anxiety;
  • Fear;
  • Escape;
  • Self-gratification;
  • Emotional sedation;
  • Social comparison.

In all this, the soul sat helplessly—watching the body hijack its eternal journey.

2. Where Prayers Really Go

Prayer does not ascend above the clouds. It descends inward—into the structure of the soul.

There are only two forces involved:

A. Freewill (of the Soul)

This is the authority that designed your burden bags before birth. It is eternal, it is sovereign, and it is uncompromising. It cares about:

  • Karmic repair;
  • Cosmic balance;
  • Lineage restoration;
  • Ancestral continuity;
  • Eternal progression of the soul.

It does not care about body cravings, comfort, or convenience.

B. Willpower (of the Body)

This is the biological mechanism of desire. It is emotional, impulsive, intense, and temporary. It cares about:

  • Pleasure;
  • Avoiding pain;
  • Survival;
  • Social acceptance;
  • Bodily security;
  • Material abundance.

It does not care about spirituality or its karmic consequences.

Prayer is the collision point between these two forces. And whichever is stronger in the moment determines whether the prayer:

  • Is accepted by the soul,
  • Is denied,
  • Or is delayed because conditions cannot be altered.

3. Why Most Prayers “Work” Sometimes—But Not Always

People often wonder:

Why did my prayer for money work last year but not this year? Why did my prayer for marriage work for someone else but not for me? Why does God answer selectively?

The answer is brutally simple:

Your soul only fulfils prayers that do not violate the conditions of your burden bags.

You cannot magically erase karmic debts. You cannot shortcut ancestral obligations. You cannot jump timelines your soul has not prepared.

Prayers “work” only when:

  • The request aligns with your predetermined path, or
  • The soul has room to renegotiate conditions without causing greater cosmic imbalance.

Prayers fail when:

  • The biological body requests shortcuts,
  • The request would derail the soul’s eternal progress,
  • Or the burden bag contains unbreakable conditions set by your own freewill before birth.

Thus God does not reject prayers. Your own soul does.

4. Monotheistic Prayer and the Return of Stagnant Souls

There is a hidden crisis in the spiritual realm:

Monotheistic-style prayers, dominated by the cravings of the biological body, are creating a resurgence of stagnant souls. Why?

Because:

  • Souls postpone karmic reparations;
  • Souls delay lessons they must learn;
  • Souls amend burden bags to avoid temporary suffering;
  • Souls struggle to reincarnate;
  • Souls become disoriented upon death;
  • Souls expect heavenly saviours that do not appear;
  • Souls drown in confusion and stagnation;
  • Souls accumulate debts they can no longer carry.

Monotheistic prayer culture—by overusing freewill to protect the body—has unintentionally weakened the soul’s long-term vitality. This is the silent spiritual epidemic of the modern world.

5. The Wager Revisited: The Only Prayer That Cannot Harm You

Here is the safest prayer—the one that keeps both soul and body in harmony:

  • Let your will be done through me.
  • Guide my steps according to my destiny.
  • Do not grant me anything that derails my eternal path.
  • Meet me at the points of my destiny, not the cravings of my flesh.

This prayer aligns with:

  • The soul’s freewill;
  • The body’s willpower;
  • The burden bags;
  • The cosmic laws of balance;
  • Ancestral continuity;
  • Karmic refinement.

It neither manipulates destiny nor abandons the body. It is the prayer that Jesus himself taught.

This is the wager. If God exists, He honours it. If God does not exist, your soul honours it. Either way—you win.

Conclusion: Prayer Must Return to Its Ancestral Purpose

Prayer was never meant to be:

  • A shopping list.
  • A shortcut.
  • An escape mechanism.
  • A denial of destiny.
  • A bribe to the divine.

Prayer was always meant to be:

  • A remembrance.
  • A recalibration.
  • A confession of alignment.
  • A dialogue with ancestral memory.
  • A surrender to the predetermined path.
  • A reaffirmation of cosmic law.

When prayer becomes a tool of the biological body, destiny collapses. When prayer becomes a tool of the soul, destiny flourishes.

The future of spirituality demands a return to ancestral polytheistic consciousness—not as religion, but as memory. Not as worship, but as alignment. Not as invocation of gods, but as invocation of self-knowledge.

For prayer is not the search for a God above. It is the conversation with the God within—the eternal soul navigating the journey across lifetimes.

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