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I know not by what methods rare,�But this I kn...

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

I know not if the blessing�
Sought will come in just�
The guise I thought.

I leave my prayer to Him alone�
Whose will is wiser than my own.

Author: Eliza Hickok, Source: "God�s Will"
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Going to the scriptures to learn what to do mak...

Going to the scriptures to learn what to do makes all the difference. The Lord can teach us. When we come to a crisis in our life... we should go looking in the scriptures for specific help. We will find answers in the scriptures. The Lord seemed to anticipate all of our problems and all of our needs, and He put help in the scriptures for us�if only we seek it.

Author: Elder Henry B. Eyring, Source: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db0...
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The object of our prayers should not be to pres...

The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing. Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
Author: Elder David A. Bednar , Source: http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-851-31,00.h...
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Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commi...

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
Author: Elder David A. Bednar , Source: http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-851-31,00.h...
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Personal ministry can answer prayers. We can of...

Personal ministry can answer prayers. We can offer a daily prayer that enlists the help of the Lord Jesus Christ as we ask: �Help me to be the answer to someone�s prayer today.� The Lord consistently answers this prayer as we tune our eyes and ears to discerning the needs of those around us. . . .

As you leave the Marriott Center today, you will have immediate opportunities to practice your personal ministry. Please, never suppress a generous thought.
Author: BONNIE D. PARKIN , Source: http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=11599&x=66&y=3
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Do not confuse the preoccupation of worry and a...

Do not confuse the preoccupation of worry and anxiety with the preoccupation involved in exercising faith. When your mind is prone to dwell on the adverse consequences of events which you assume you have very little control over, that is worry. In contrast, if your mind dwells on the possible consequences of various courses of action which you will control to a great extent, you are exercising faith.
Author: Grant Von Harrison, Source: Drawing on The Powers of Heaven, p.35
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It is sometimes very hard to discern an answer ...

It is sometimes very hard to discern an answer to prayer for a matter for which we have very deep personal feelings or something which causes strong emotions to arise within us. That is why it is important to receive valid, inspired counsel when one finds himself or herself in such a�circumstance.
Author: Richard G. Scott, Source: http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=11954
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I am convinced that there is no simple formula ...

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would immediately facilitate mastering the ability to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Nor do I believe that the Lord will ever allow someone to conceive a pattern that would invariably and immediately open the channels of spiritual communication. We grow when we labor to recognize the guidance of the Holy Ghost as we struggle to communicate our needs to our Father in Heaven in moments of dire need or overflowing gratitude.
Author: Richard G. Scott, Source: http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=11954
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From the Lord�s condemnation of Job�s visitors,...

From the Lord�s condemnation of Job�s visitors, we learn much about how to comfort those suffering crises of faith. We learn that it does not help to have all the �right� answers if we do not speak the truth in love. (See Eph. 4:5.) With good cause Job complains to Eliphaz: �To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend.� (Job 6:14.)

We also learn that we risk divine displeasure when we cease to comfort and start to accuse. The Prophet Joseph Smith warned that those who see suffering come upon others must �judge not.� (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 162�63.)

From the failure of Job�s comforters, we further learn that the only abiding comfort must come from the Comforter. Job doesn�t need a carefully argued treatise solving the philosophical problem of evil. He needs a renewed witness that God has not forsaken him.
Author: John S. Tanner, Source: Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?, Ensign, Dec 1990, 49. ht...
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The book of Job is a profoundly provocative and...

The book of Job is a profoundly provocative and rewarding book. It refuses to provide us with ready-made answers about why any of us, individually, suffers. It acknowledges how inexplicably cruel life can be. At the same time, it points to a way of enduring adversity. As Samuel Terrien observes, the Book of Job offers �not a speculative answer � but a way of consecrated living.� (�Introduction and Exegesis to Job,� Interpreter�s Bible, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1954, 3:902.)

In a world that seems not wholly intelligible, there is reassurance in knowing where to find solutions to problems of faith. We should welcome a book of scripture that throws us back�just as Job was thrown back�upon the necessity of seeking understanding through personal revelation from a living, and loving, God.
Author: John S. Tanner, Source: Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?, Ensign, Dec 1990, 49. ht...
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Sometimes, even having the right answers isn�t ...

Sometimes, even having the right answers isn�t enough. Thus, Job�s fourth and final comforter, Elihu, utters speeches echoing sentiments that later issue from the whirlwind. Yet young Elihu�s words have no impact on Job. Evidently who speaks matters as much as, if not more, than what is said. Apart from what the Lord says, the fact that he speaks to Job at all fulfills Job�s deepest need�to be reassured that God has not forsaken him.

To our human witness as comforters, testifying of the ultimate goodness of God, must be added the witness of the Spirit that the Lord keeps company with the afflicted�that he loves us still, even now, in our desperation. Only the Lord can confirm his continuing love, through the voice of the only unfailing comforter�His Comforter.
Author: John S. Tanner, Source: Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?, Ensign, Dec 1990, 49. ht...
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Also at issue is Job�s relationship with his do...

Also at issue is Job�s relationship with his dogmatic comforters. While Job could have�and should have�received true comfort from his friends (see Mosiah 18:9), what he received instead was glib explanations about why they think he suffers. Job rejects their pious counsel that he accept his calamities as punishment for sin. To accept their heartless pieties, Job would have to confess that he feels deserving of his afflictions�which he does not, and should not, feel. Instead, he stoutly maintains that, weighed on the scales of justice, his suffering is disproportionate to any sin that could be laid to his charge. (See Job 31:4�40.)

Repeatedly, he cries out for an encounter with the Lord. He doesn�t want theology, he wants theophany. Job begs God to come into the dock so that he might prove his own innocence. (See Job 16:21; Job 23:3�4; Job 31:35.) Job vows to entrust his life into the hands of God, who prefers honesty to hypocrisy: �Let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. �

�Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

�He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.� (Job 13:13, 15�16.)

We sense Job�s powerful integrity and genuine depth of feeling for the Lord�qualities seemingly absent from his coldly �correct� friends. Yet we also sense a measure of pride, even arrogance, that he, Job, a mere man, was prosecuting a case against the Almighty. No wonder Job stands condemned by the Lord in the final chapters of the book as one �that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge.� (Job 38:2.)

But while Job is condemned for attempting to instruct the Lord (see Job 40:2), he is also approved in the end. His comforters, by contrast, are only condemned. The Lord says: �My wrath is kindled against thee [Eliphaz], and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.� (Job 42:7.)

How has Job spoken the thing that is right? Perhaps it has been his speeches of repentance. Or perhaps it has been his refusal to pretend he understood what he didn�t understand; he has kept his integrity. He has steadfastly looked to the Lord for answers, pleading for revelation rather than accepting the pat human answers of his comforters.
Author: John S. Tanner, Source: Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?�, Ensign, Dec 1990, 49. h...
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Every important event in our lives should be pl...

Every important event in our lives should be placed in a record, by us individually...If you have accomplished something worth while during the day, put it down; it may be of use to posterity.
Author: Joseph Fielding Smith, Source: Doctrines of Salvation, 2:204
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There is something eternal in the very nature o...

There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense, our properly written histories are a very important part of our family scripture and become a great source of spiritual strength to us and to our posterity.
Author: John H. Gorberg, Source: Ensign, May 1980, p. 48
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I believe that the busy person on the farm, in ...

I believe that the busy person on the farm, in the shop, in the office, or in the household, who has his worries and troubles, can solve his problems better and more quickly in the house of the Lord than anywhere else. If he will � [do] the temple work for himself and for his dead, he will confer a mighty blessing upon those who have gone before, and � a blessing will come to him, for at the most unexpected moments, in or out of the temple will come to him, as a revelation, the solution of the problems that vex his life. That is the gift that comes to those who enter the temple properly.
Author: John A. Widtsoe, Source: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db0...
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