Saturday Afternoon October 2009
When you send your child out the door for the day, don't you prepare them? We check the weather and dress them appropriately. If they are going to be gone a long time we make sure they have something to eat and drink. Pres. Packer gives a similar analogy of a child leaving our Father in Heaven for Earth.
He knew that each of us would be on Earth where Lucifer was able to tempt us, so he sent us with the tools that we needed.
"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. Every child of our Father sent to earth is provided with the Spirit of Christ, or the Light of Christ.1 We are, none of us, left here alone without hope of guidance and redemption."
We need to have regular and personal communication with our Father in Heaven. After Baptism we also have been blessed with the Gift of the Holy Ghost. We need to listen and act upon the promptings we receive.
"That sweet, quiet voice of inspiration comes more as a feeling than it does as a sound. Pure intelligence can be spoken into the mind. The Holy Ghost communicates with our spirits through the mind more than through the physical senses. This guidance comes as thoughts, as feelings through promptings and impressions. We may feel the words of spiritual communication more than hear them and see with spiritual rather than with mortal eyes."
The Holy Ghost protects us. He tells a story of President Wilford Woodruff's life being saved due to listening and acting upon a prompting.
We also need to pray even if we don't feel worthy.
" One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
The Prophet Joseph Smith promised that “all beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.”
Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with “Thy will be done” (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
Do not expect to be free entirely from trouble and disappointment and pain and discouragement, for these are the things that we were sent to earth to endure."
I know that prayer works. I have seen it work many times in my life. I am always amazed and the faith my children have. There simple, humble prayers are often answered swiftly and precisely. May we learn from the children and pray always.
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