There is only one way in which a person's sincerity can be proved, and that is by one's practice.  Fine words can never replace good deeds. Our character is revealed in the choices we make, especially when we are tested. Do you cheat on an exam or on your income taxes, especially when it will cost you?  Do you lie, or cover-up, when disclosing the truth will cause you  injury or embarrassment? A true person is honest and reliable before God, one's neighbor and oneself.  His or her word can be counted on. If you heed God's word and live according to it then you need not fear when storms assail you. God will be your rock and your refuge. Is your life built upon the sure "rock" of Jesus Christ and do you listen to his word as if your life depended on it?

"Lord Jesus, your are my Rock and my Refuge. Help me to conform my life according to your word that I may stand firm in times of trouble and find hope in your promises."

Stages of Growth in Christian Prayer, by Philip St. Romain

Infused Prayer

This is contemplative prayer, properly speaking.  Here the soul is embraced by God without exercising the faculties.  God communicates Spirit-to-spirit, as it were.  Generally, contemplative prayer begins as a natural development from the life of active prayer, which helps to prepare the faculties of the soul to receive the gift of contemplation.  

It should be known that the stages of contemplative union described during the following days refer not only to experiences during times of prayer but also to times when one is not in formal prayer.  They are states of being rather than prayer experiences, per se.