Saturday, August 30, 2008

Beyond Checklist Prayers

Don't you love how Elder Bednar takes important gospel subjects and breaks them down into specific things we must do? He summarized the message of his last conference address as follows. I added used bullet items, highlighting and italics for emphasis.

We can move beyond routine and “checklist” prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we:
  • appropriately ask in faith and act
  • patiently persevere through the trial of our faith
  • humbly acknowledge and accept "not my will, but Thine, be done"

Elder David A. Bednar, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Ask in Faith, April 2008 General Conference, Sunday Afternoon Session

By following Elder Bednar's counsel, I pray that we all can learn how to communicate more effectively with our Heavenly Father.

Love,

Dad/Mark

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