Perhaps the most important thing to pray for is the constant remembrance and awareness that of ourselves we can do nothing: that without God's constantly sought help, nothing we do is of any importance or value. We so easily and almost inescapably keep slipping back into the presumptuous illusion that WE are actually doing something, accomplishing something -- that we are of our own ability and wisdom supplying some necessary part of the divine purpose. This is the thinking of the flesh. The spirit -- the informed, intelligent spirit-mind -- recognizes that it must CONSTANTLY, uninterruptedly, seek guidance every step of the way. But we can never assume we ARE guided. We can never be dogmatic and self-assured. We can only humbly hope and pray that we are. We must always recognize the power and probability of self-deception, and pray to be delivered from it. God can give guidance, and He can give "strong delusion." He is not capricious. His reaction is strictly according to how He is approached -- and of recognition of the natural ignorance of the flesh.

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