Sunday, December 12, 2021

Most Frequent Promise

The resurrected Christ taught the following precept to his Nephite disciples in the Western Hemisphere:

And whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, which is right, believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall be given unto you.
--3 Nephi 18:20

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The most frequently repeated promise in scripture: ask and ye shall receive. The caveats are that 1) I must ask the Father; 2) I must ask in Christ's name, which means I must pray as He would pray; 3) I must pray for the right thing, which will be revealed to me by the Holy Ghost; and 4) I must truly believe that God can and will answer my prayer, which is to ask with real intent. 

Answers to prayers are not capricious or haphazard. God is anxious to bless me with all I can receive. When I ask, in faith, with an eye single to God's glory, and not My own vain ambition, I turn the key that lets God go to work.

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