He will hear our prayers

It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. … If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers."

Gordon B. Hinckley

Step follows step. Hope follows Courage.

What God knows about each of us is infinitely more important than what others think about us.

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small.  Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own.  Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”

Henry B. Eyring

Sometimes life is uncertain. In those moments, no matter how hard we look,

it seems a clear path might never be found.

So there is unrest, and unease. Perhaps we have a wounded heart.  Maybe we long for solace.  Whatever the case may be, it is a time of soul searching, of drawing apart. To find peace amidst the uncertainty. We should pray.

The Savoir prepared Himself  in prayer and fasting.

by Emily Freeman

1.  ”And in the morning, rising up a great while before day…”  One of the first things the Savior did on that morning was to pray, a great while before His day was to begin.

2.  ”He went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed…”  I love this example of living deliberately.  Not only was the appointed time deliberate, the place was deliberate.  A solitary place, where He could communicate freely with God.

Then came the moment when a decision had to be made…Peter approached the Lord and said, “All men seek for thee.”  

With so many longing for what only He could give, where would He go?  Where did His Father want Him to be on that day, and what did He need Him to do?

3.  ”And he said unto them, Let us go to the next towns, that I my preach there also; for therefore came I forth.”  Why did the Savior come to that solitary place so early in the morning to pray?  Perhaps it was to find out where He should go, to find out what His Father needed Him to do.  To help Him make the decision.

….think of the leper who we are introduced to two verses later in this same chapter.  The man who came beseeching, kneeling down, hoping.

What if the Savior had not come to his town on that day? From these few verses We begin to understand the power of deliberate prayer.  Both for those who are seeking direction, and for those who are seeking solace.

Isn’t it interesting that two lives were blessed by that one prayer?  Both the One who was asking for direction, and the one who came pleading for healing.

He sought His Heavenly Father’s guidance.

when we find a solitary place to pray we have the opportunity to ask The Father for direction.  He knows our hearts, He knows our uncertainty, our longing for healing, and the need for solace.

Change your thoughts and you’ll change your World.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

Live a humble life that pleases God not men.