Suggestions On Prayer

 Jesus Set the Example

Prayer must always be done in faith, as we receive the Spirit of prayer only through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are to pray to God our Heavenly Father with a sincere heart and with real intent, having faith in Christ our prayers will be answered in the way that is best for us.  We need to learn the language of prayer, which shows that we love and respect our Heavenly Father.  In English we us scriptural pronouns such as Thee, Thou, Thy, and Thine.

We Can Pray Almost Anywhere

Always express gratitude for your many daily blessings.  A conscious effort to be grateful will help you recognize just how merciful the Lord has been in your life.  Pray specifically for the guidance and help of the Holy Ghost. Show that you value this blessing by being sensitive and aware of spiritual promptings when they come.  Then courageously follow the promptings.  You may be seeking help for yourself and then be prompted to offer help and assistance to someone else.  Many of our prayers will be best answered by other people and we must follow the prompting to seek out those who are prepared to help us.  Others of our prayers are best answered through service to others.  It is often when we can forget ourselves and think only of the needs of others that we receive the answers to our own prayers.


Pray with love and charity for other by calling them by name.  Pray for the understanding and and what you can do to help others.  Pray that you will be shown where to go and what to do.  Pray that you might be led to those that your can serve; for in this you are assisting the Lord in answering the prayers of others.  Remember always that your Heavenly Father know what you need better than you do.  Rely on the Spirit to prompt you regarding the things you should pray for.

Prayer Is Our Heritage

In your prayers at night, give the Lord an accounting of your day's activities and review with him your plans for the next day.
Pray to overcome temptation and for the strength to do what you know is right.  Pray and ponder about the scriptures; for it is the scriptures that can open the window to revelation.  Keep in mind that what you say to God is prayer and what he says to you is revelation.  

Pray With Family Members

Believe that God will answer your prayers recognizing that God's thoughts may not be your thoughts and trust that God will answer your prayers in his own way and in his own time.
If you offer the same prayer day after day, your are not giving sufficient thought and preparation before praying.  When you communicate with your friends you would not just say the same thing every time your meet. So don't do it with God. Let prayer become the way your begin and end each day, but carry a prayer in your heart as your perform your daily tasks.   Don't suppose that God will answer your prayers if you do no more than just ask.  It is the way you think and the way you live that determines, at many times, just how your prayers will be answered.  To offer sincere and worthy prayers takes practice and is not learned on the spur of the moment when a crisis confronts you.  The way you live may well determine the nature of the answer you will receive when you pray.  Our prayers and the way we live are carefully intertwined and difficult to separate.  Live a good life and enjoy the fruits of prayer which are the miracles, revelation, and other spiritual prompting, and protection to endure the trials of life with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and a knowledge of your Heavenly Father that can only come from sincere communication with him.

Always Remember You Are Talking with Your Heavenly Father

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Men and Women Are Creators

 Man Has Created the Means to Travel Across the World and Into Space

As the children of God, we inherit a tremendous ability to create either things that have never existed before, or we can create something better than what already exists. We even have the opportunity to create new life like unto our own.  Our great ability to create, unlike all other forms of life, is proof positive that we are the children of the Great Creator of worlds without number and all that first exists upon them.  Creativity was not an evolutionary ability that gradually came to primitive life forms.  If so, other life forms would be able to create more than a den, a nest, a hive, and bear their young in a bed at best made of either feathers or fur. Man alone can alter his own environment and protect himself from danger, disease, and other crisis generating problems. Man along can travel high above the earth and into outer space.


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Housing Being Built in Baharine in the Middle East

Could evolution possible explain the tremendous creations shown on this page.  Don't fool yourself.  Men and women were born into this life with a natural ability to create and there seems to be almost no limits upon what they can create, because they are the literal children of a Great Creator, even our Heavenly Father.

Human-like Robot Performing Many Human-like Tasks

Man now has the power to take a heart from one human and transplant it into the body of another human and extend the live of the recipient for many years.  Did this come to pass only because of evolution?  Did this occur only because the human brain evolved over long periods of time to allow these marvelous things to be created?  Other humans use their creative abilities to create things that destroy life and take from man his God given liberty make his own choices. 

Modern Heart Transplant Surgery Has Saved Humans from Certain Death

Only the children of the One True God could accomplish all that has been accomplished in our successful civilizations since Father Adam entered this world with nothing but the skins God put upon him to hide his nakedness.   Let's all rejoice in the goodness of God to his faithful children,

In the Spirit of Thanksgiving

Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are in general a very thankful people. Our prayers offered multiple times a day always include detailed expressions of gratitude for God's blessings in our daily life. We have been promised by the Lord that nothing will be withheld that is for our good, if we live a life of righteousness. Even though our search for righteousness is far from complete, the Lord honors our requests as long as we are working on improving ourselves and our abilities to serve our fellowmen.

We teach our children to pray even when their vocabulary is severely limited and encourage them to enjoy the benefits of prayer throughout their life.  Ask any Mormon about the power of prayer and you will discover just what I am attempting to say.  Prayer is real and prayer is powerful.

Here are some examples of what I am sharing.

In the Spirit of Thanksgiving

If you don't pray regularly or at all, try getting on your knees, address your remarks to God, and express your gratitude as the people in this video; only make these expressing to God and then ask God for those personal things you need at the time of your pray.  You can pray for other people, your employment, your education, your fears and concerns.  There are no limits to want God wants to hear from you.  Try it.  You'll love the feeling that comes over your as you conclude your conversation with God.

Between Earth and Heaven- Temple Video

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Prayer and Promptings

“No father would send His children off to a distant, dangerous land for a lifetime of testing where Lucifer was known to roam free without first providing them with a personal power of protection. He would also supply them with means to communicate with Him from Father to child and from child to Father.” To believe anything less than this is to deny the powers of God and his love for each and every one of his children.

God provided every one of His children sent to earth with the Spirit of Christ, or the Light of Christ. We were never to be alone unless we chose to be separated from God. Those who sought guidance and a redemption of their sins could receive it upon their request and their willingness to keep God’s commandments to the best of their ability.

What does God want us to know? He wants all his children to learn all there is to know about His great plan for their happiness and success in this life (Alma 42:8). By keeping His commandments we are prepared to make known to God the desires of our heart and receive counsel and guidance from Him.

God has given to each of His children a power called agency by which the child is allowed to determine what and who he will worship and what he will become. No one is ever forced as to what he will believe and who, if any, he will serve. We are free to seek an understanding of Christ’s Atonement so that our mistakes can be washed away, and our mortal body restored to its perfect frame after death.

To make this possible, the Spirit of Christ is given to every man, woman, and child that they might come to know good from evil. That which is good is of God and it will restore to each faithful child the powers and blessings of God. That which is evil, can bring us only sorrow, suffering and future regrets. It is by the Holy Spirit that we can come to know even the “deep things” of God.

A fullness of the knowledge of God is available only to those who have come to him that they might be cleansed of their sins by baptism, and then receive through confirmation the gift of the Holy Ghost which is as Internet between man and God. It is the Holy Ghost that carries our prayerful messages to God and then delivers to us, His answers.

“That sweet, quiet voice of inspiration comes more often as a feeling than it does as a sound. The Holy Ghost communicates with our spirits through our mind more than through our physical senses. The Holy Ghost communicates with us through the voice we are most familiar with; that being our own. We are more likely to understand messages delivered in our own language than those made known to us through the language of another.

Not even with regular communications between ourselves and God can we expect to always have a life free from troubles, disappointments, and pain. We were sent to this earth to experience both sickness and health, light and darkness, pleasure and pain and both happiness and sadness. Dealing with these vast differences with the help of God, we prepare ourselves to survive and even prosper under different cultures, people and situations.

Jesus taught the people to “Draw near unto me and I will draw near unto you; seek me diligently and ye shall find me; ask, and ye shall receive; knock and it shall be opened unto you” (D&C 88:63). We must make the effort to initiate a conversation with God, and it need not be just when we are facing a mental or physical crisis. We can, and should seek him, when things are going well, as when we have dire need of his help. We can always seek God, if for no other reason, we desire only to express our gratitude for his many blessings and miracles in our life.

These sacred communications between man and God are intended to enable the faithful and obedient to discover, through prayer, the powers and glories of heaven and how we might be granted approval to exercise them in righteousness.

Often, it is not sufficient to merely ask for the desires of our heart. Rather, we must ponder and pray that our desire might be magnified until they worthy of God’s attention. Jesus has said, “Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me. But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right. But if it is not right you shall have no such feelings” (D&C 9:7-9).

Thus we must learn how to pray. We must pray often. Pray in your mind as well as vocally. Pray in your heart. Pray on you knees, or while you are in bed, or as you are laboring. Prayer is our personal key that unlocks the doors of heaven. The lock is on our side of the veil separating man from God. We have the key and we have access to the lock that will open the doors of heaven when we seek knowledge with real intent.

I ask each of you that when you have read these things, “I exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart; with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.”

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