Thursday, July 22, 2010

To Teach Their Children To Pray

His Beloved Son, Jehova, left those glorious courts to come down into the world to suffer what we would suffer and to pay the price for all the sins we would commit. Our savior provided for us the only way to go home again to our Heavenly Father and to Him. If the Holy Ghost can tell us just that much about who we are, we and our children might feel what Enos felt. He prayed this way:

"And my soul hungered; and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul; and all the day long I did cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens."

"And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed" Enos 1:4-5

I can promise you that no joy will exceed what you will feel if a child of yours prays in the hour of need and receives such an answer. You will someday be separated from him or her, with a longing in your heart to be reunited. A loving Heavenly Father knows that this longing would last forever unless we are reunited as families with Him and His Beloved Son. He put in place all that His children will  need to have this blessing. To find it, they must ask of God for themselves, nothing doubting, as the boy Joseph Smith did.

I testify that our Heavenly Father answers the pleadings of faithful parents to know how to teach their children to pray. I testify as a servant of Jesus Christ that because of His Atonement, we can have eternal life in families if we honor the covenants offered in this, His true Church. By  President Henry B. Eyring First Counselor in the First Presidency "That He May Write upon Our Hearts" August 2009

Pray fervently to know how to teach our children to pray, that they will be able to council with Him in their time of need!  Tammy
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