2017 LDS Youth Theme Fireside Slides - "Don't Forget to A.S.K."

An LDS Youth Theme Firesideby Ben Bernards

January 2017

HOW NOT TO PRAY

“If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly

selfish, and we come to think of God as a repairman or a service agency to help us only in our emergencies. We should remember the Most High day and night—always—not only at times when all other assistance has failed

and we desperately need help”Howard Hunter

WHAT PRAYER ISN’T

“The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were

picking up the telephone and ordering groceries—we place our order and

hang up. We need to meditate, contemplate, think of what we are

praying about and for and then speak to the Lord as one man speaketh to

another”Gordon Hinckley

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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. But let him

ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

James 1:5–6

2017 YOUTH THEME

ASK

ASK IN FAITH

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘SAYING A PRAYER’ AND ‘ASKING IN FAITH’?

‘FAITHFUL’ = I TRUST THAT YOU WILL DO WHAT YOU SAID YOU WOULD

“I understand this to mean the necessity to not only express but to

DO, the dual obligation to both plead and to perform, the requirement to

communicate and to act” Elder Bednar, GenConf April 2008

ASK

ASK IN FAITH

ASK

ASK IN FAITHBE FAITHFUL. BE READY TO ACT.

ASK

ASK IN FAITH

SEEK

BE FAITHFUL. BE READY TO ACT.

ASK

ASK IN FAITH

SEEK


SEEKING IS THE MENTAL + SPIRITUAL EFFORT TO FIND YOUR OWN ANSWER. WHERE YOU LOOK MATTERS.

ASK

ASK IN FAITH

SEEK

KNOCK



63. 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.

D&C 88:63

I know not by what methods rare, But this I know — God answers prayer.

I know that He has given His Word, Which tells me prayer is always heard,

And will be answered, soon or late. And so I pray and calmly wait.

I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the way I thought;

But leave my prayers with Him alone, Whose will is wiser than my own,

Assured that He will grant my quest, Or send some answer far more blest.

- Author Unknown

ASK

ASK IN FAITH

SEEK

KNOCK



ASK

ASK IN FAITH

SEEK

KNOCK


KNOCKING IS THE PHYSICAL EFFORT TO COME CLOSER TO GOD. TRUST IN HIS TIMING, BE OPEN TO HIS ANSWERS.


Knowledge is knowing a Tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

knowledge + real world

experience = wisdom

I got up early one morningAnd rushed right into the day,

I had so much to accomplishThat I didn't have time to pray.



Problems just tumbled about meAnd heavier came each task.

"Why doesn't God help me?" I wondered.He answered, "You didn't ask."





I wanted to see joy and beauty,But the day toiled on gray and bleak.I wondered why God didn't show me;

He said, "You didn't seek."






He said, "You didn't seek."I tried to come into God's presence,

I used all the keys at the lock.God gently and lovingly chided,

"My child, you didn't knock."






He said, "You didn't seek."I tried to come into God's presence,

I used all the keys at the lock.God gently and lovingly chided,

"My child, you didn't knock."I woke up early this morning

And paused before entering the day,I had so much to accomplish

That I had to take time to pray. - Grace L. Naessens

2017 LDS Youth Theme Fireside Slides - "Don't Forget to A.S.K."

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