The most important and powerful prayer to pray is “Thy Will be done,” and the most important act is one of surrender to that Will. For surrendering to the Spirit is to receive the Spirit; and in receiving, we find God’s provision for every circumstance and situation that is being worked out for the highest and greatest good of all.
These things are worked through and in a Spirit of Love, and not through an attitude of selfish gain or of misguided, worldly fear.
This is the foundation built upon the teachings of Jesus Christ. Everything else pertinant to our spiritual life follows, and will eventually oveflow into our physical life.
(Put another way: what is within will eventually become evident without. See Matthew 15:18-23.)
Diary of a Christian Mystic 