A loving Heavenly Father (Part 2: Prayer)

So, Life.  What's it all about?  Why is it?  And how can we make the most of it?

How do we individually and personally reach Life @ it's Fullest?

​We approach our loving Heavenly Father, and give our lives to Him.  

And mean it.  Trust His love.  Feed all the light and good and faith and joy and divinity and righteousness and happiness inside of you!  Feed it and starve ALL the bad.

What does He do then?

He Himself can then teach us.

How?

This gospel of Jesus Christ.

The beauty and perfection of the gospel God our loving Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, restored in our day and age--personally and permanently, to bless the lives of all the children of God.

I would like to suggest that life at its fullest is accessed very largely through prayer.

​This is a picture my companion took without me knowing.  We had had a long day, and this restaurant didn't have anything but expensive cola drinks and juices.  We wanted water, but they didn't have any.  We walked over to our table and sat down.  Heavenly Father heard our prayers and desires.  A waitress walked over and surprised us by giving us a jug full of water, and two cups!

It was a small thing, but it impacted us hugely and we felt our Heavenly Father's love and kindness. 

I stopped what I was doing and immediately thanked Him.

He hears us.

He always hears us.

The Bible Dictionary says this about Prayer:

As soon as we learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God (namely, God is our Father, and we are His children), then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part (Matt. 7:7–11). Many of the so-called difficulties about prayer arise from forgetting this relationship. Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant but that are made conditional on our asking for them. Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings.

There are many passages in the New Testament that teach the duty of prayer (Matt. 7:7; 26:41; Luke 18:1; 21:36; Eph. 6:18; Philip. 4:6; Col. 4:2; 1 Thes.5:17, 25; 1 Tim. 2:1, 8). Christians are taught to pray in Christ’s name (John14:13–14; 15:7, 16; 16:23–24). We pray in Christ’s name when our mind is the mind of Christ, and our wishes the wishes of Christ—when His words abide in us (John 15:7). We then ask for things it is possible for God to grant. Many prayers remain unanswered because they are not in Christ’s name at all; they in no way represent His mind but spring out of the selfishness of man’s heart.

Book of Mormon references on prayer include 1 Ne. 18:3; Alma 34:17–28;Ether 2:14.