God hears your prayers
Build a relationship with God through prayer and feel his love for you. Never prayed before?
God hears your prayers
Build a relationship with God through prayer and feel his love for you. Never prayed before?
God hears your prayers
Build a relationship through prayer with God and feel His love for you. Never prayed before?
God hears your prayers
Build a relationship with God through prayer and feel His love for you. Never prayed before?
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You are not alone. Our volunteers have helped hundreds of people like you find answers to their prayers. We look forward to helping you do that too.
You are not alone. Our volunteers have helped hundreds of people like you find answers to their prayers. We look forward to helping you do that too.
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Prayer is a personal conversation between you and Heavenly Father. He wants to hear from you. He asks us to be open with him and not to say the same prayer every time, because it is really a conversation! Take time before you pray to reflect and prepare. You can thank Him for your blessings and ask Him for help, protection, or guidance depending on what you need at the time. After you have prayed, think about what thoughts you have received and act on them!
When you pray, it's important to completely concentrate on speaking with love and respect to your Father in Heaven. This may mean kneeling, bowing your head, folding your arms, and simply closing your eyes. By using these gestures, you show God that you humble yourself before Him.
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The answer is, YES! God promises: when we pray, we will receive answers and guidance from Him. God is our Father. We are His children. That's why He answers us.
When you pray with faith and sincerity, you will experience God working in your life. You will notice how God guides you in your daily life and helps you to make good decisions. God will bless you with comfort and peace. He'll caution you of danger. He wil strengthen you so that you can resist temptations. He'll forgive you of your sins. We feel Him nearby. We have to learn to recognize that influence. We have to learn to listen to the quiet, gentle voice of the Spirit.
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"I often asked myself: 'God, why don't you answer my prayers?' Immersed in the scriptures, the answer to my prayers came."
Jesus Christ taught us to "pray to the Father in His name." Because Christ is our Savior, you can only pray with God the Father through the name of Christ. By addressing Heavenly Father first and then concluding your prayer "in the name of Jesus Christ," you are speaking to the Father through His Son.
When we pray, we strengthen our relationship with our Father in heaven and with Jesus Christ. Your Father in Heaven has a plan for you, called the Plan of Salvation, and if you pray with real intent, you will see His hand in your life and begin to understand what He has in store for you.
It is important to know that although Jesus Christ died for our sins, we do not pray to Him. Jesus Himself instructed us to pray to the Father in His name. When we do this, we come closer to both Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
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"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith."
Such feelings are difficult to describe. But when we have them, we're aware of them. Here are a few examples of what those answers might look like:
Turning on the light in a dark room is like receiving a message from God very quickly, completely, and all at once. Many of us have experience this pattern of revelation when a sincere prayer was answered, or we received the guidance or protection we needed according to God's will and timing. We find descriptions of these sudden and intense manifestations in the scriptures, the history of the Church, and in our own lives. These powerful miracles do indeed happen. But this pattern of revelation tends to be more rare.
Just as the light gradually increases as the sun rises, so it is when you receive a message from God "line upon line . . . precept upon precept" (2 Nephi 28:30). Usually we receive revelation little by little, in small steps. We receive it according to our desire, worthiness, and preparation. This pattern of revelation is more common.
It's hard to describe feelings like that. But when we have them, we're aware of them. Here are a few example of how these answers could look:
Turning on the light in a dark room is comparable to receiving a message from God very quickly, completely, and all at once. Many of us have known this pattern of revelation when a sincere prayer was answered, or we received the guidance or protection we needed. We find descriptions of these sudden and intense experiences in the scriptures, the history of the Church, and in our own lives. So yes, these powerful miracles do still happen. But this kind of revelation tends to be less common.
Just as the light gradually increases as the sun rises, so it is when you receive a message from God "line upon line . . . precept upon precept" (2 Nephi 28:30). Usually you'll receive revelations little by little, in small steps. It is given to us according to our desire and personal preparation. This pattern of revelation tends to be more common.
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Additional Bible passages and other sources
"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."
James 1:5"Pray without ceasing."
1 Thessalonians 5:17"As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me. God shall hear . . ."
Psalms 55:17"But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul."
2 Nephi 32:9"But this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in your closets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness."
Alma 34:26"And the twelve did teach the multitude; and behold, they did cause that the multitude should kneel down upon the face of the earth, and should pray unto the Father in the name of Jesus . . . And it came to pass that when Jesus had thus prayed unto the Father, he came unto his disciples, and behold, they did still continue, without ceasing, to pray unto him; and they did not multiply many words, for it was given unto them what they should pray, and they were filled with desire."
3 Nephi 19:6 & 24"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. Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name it shall be given unto you, that is expedient for you; and if ye ask anything that is not expedient for you, it shall turn unto your condemnation."
Doctrine and Covenants 88:63-65"Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God, and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day."
Alma 37:37"And when ye shall receive these things, I would 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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