The basis of prayer should be the affirmative word speaking the word of truth. However, it is important to understand that an affirmation, the statement of truth, these words that we call affirmations, they’re not spoken to make a thing true. You don’t say a thing over and over and over, hoping it’s gonna be true for you. This is a misunderstanding. It’s a matter of re-focusing your consciousness to that which is true. You’ve been centering upon limitation. You lift your conscious to center on that which is positive. The word affirmation comes from the Latin root ad and firmare, together it means “to add firmness”.