‘How to Use the Power of Prayer’ is a book by Joseph Murphy. He wrote more than thirty books and is most famous for “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind,” which became an immediate bestseller. Murphy was acclaimed as one of the best self-help book writers. This book conveys that you can have whatever you desire, all you have to do is ask. It emphasizes on believing that your prayers are answered and that prayers are packed with a mysterious power that gives you what you ask for. In this book, Murphy claims that no matter how big an obstacle appears, how hopeless things seem to be, all can be solved through a prayer. The book covers a wide range of topics such as how to heal oneself, how to overcome worry and fear, how to have a better future, and a lot more simply by following the steps given and regularly practiced, connecting with the divinity within us, and effectively praying. Through the study and application of mental laws, you can find the way to health, harmony, peace, and prosperity; scientific prayer is the practice of the Presence of God.
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(Arabic: جوزيف ميرفي) Joseph Murphy was a Divine Science minister and author. Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boy's school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for the priesthood and joined the Jesuits. In his twenties, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York (having a degree in chemistry by that time). Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931. In the mid 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at the Institute of Religious Science. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He died in 1981.
