PowerPrayer for Overcoming Obstacles!

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As you know, in any worthy endeavor/breakthrough ~ obstacles HAVE to arise. 
After I posted yesterday's powerful PowerPrayer for Youth I talked to my son Ben, and he was not doing very well. 
So I grasped the handles of my faith and dug in with Daimoku.  
I chanted for two more hours (after my two in the morning) and Monday morning I chanted another two hours with this PowerPrayer below in mind. When I connected with him after I chanted, he was much better. 

Obstacles are a natural function of life. And the important question is this ~ Can we see problems for what they are, necessary obstacles to FUEL our determination and make us focus our minds while chanting...And deepen our faith!? Or are we FOOLED by them into thinking "Oh no...this is never going to work out." then give up? 
It is up to each of us to either determine to win, or just succumb to losing.

The first step is recognizing them for what they are:
"When devilish functions are recognized for what they are, they lose their power."
Daisaku Ikeda, June 2013, Living Buddhism page 23. 

The second step is rousing our determination and roaring from the depths of our lives with the full force of the Nam-myoho-renge-kyo we are! 

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PowerPrayer for Winning Over Obstacles 
By Jamie Lee Silver from Chantforhappiness.com
PowerPrayers can be read before chanting to increase our focus. 

Obstacles!
___________________________
I see you for what you are!  

No way! 
Not this time
Not any more. 
I'm in charge now.
I AM Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
I am roaring like a lion.
Every Daimoku I chant is impacting this situation in this way: (be specific in what you want your daimoku to accomplish)_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Shoten Zenjin!
Unleash your protective energy!  

As a votary of the Lotus Sutra 
I am doing the Buddha's work on earth. 
Support me in every way!

I use this obstacle to refuel my determination
and I will chant   ______  number of hours
every day until I have ultimate victory.
I will win over_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Obstacle! 
_____________________fill in the blank
You don't scare me! 
I am raising my life condition
and the life condition of ALL 
by challenging and winning over this! 

I will win! I will inspire others by my victory! 
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo! 

Rooooaaaaarrrrrrrr!

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo!