Ask, pray, and act in faith.
"Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence. Let meprovide an illustration of what I mean and extend to you an invitation.
We properly pray for the safety and success of the full-time missionariesthroughout the world. And a common element in many of our prayers is arequest that the missionaries will be led to individuals and families who areprepared to receive the message of the Restoration. But ultimately it is myresponsibility and your responsibility to find people for the missionaries to teach.
Missionaries are full-time teachers; you and I are full-time finders. Andyou and I as lifelong missionaries should not be praying for the full-timemissionaries to do our work!
If you and I would truly pray and ask in faith, as did Joseph Smith—if we wouldpray with the expectation to act and not just to express—then the work ofproclaiming the gospel would move forward in a remarkable way. Such aprayer of faith might include some of the following elements:
"Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence. Let meprovide an illustration of what I mean and extend to you an invitation.
We properly pray for the safety and success of the full-time missionariesthroughout the world. And a common element in many of our prayers is arequest that the missionaries will be led to individuals and families who areprepared to receive the message of the Restoration. But ultimately it is myresponsibility and your responsibility to find people for the missionaries to teach.
Missionaries are full-time teachers; you and I are full-time finders. Andyou and I as lifelong missionaries should not be praying for the full-timemissionaries to do our work!
If you and I would truly pray and ask in faith, as did Joseph Smith—if we wouldpray with the expectation to act and not just to express—then the work ofproclaiming the gospel would move forward in a remarkable way. Such aprayer of faith might include some of the following elements:
- Thanking Heavenly Father for the doctrines and ordinances of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, which bring hope and happiness into our lives.
- Asking for courage and boldness to open our mouths and share the gospel with our family and friends.
- Entreating Heavenly Father to help us identify individuals and families who will be receptive to our invitation to be taught by the missionaries in our homes.
- Pledging to do our part this day and this week and petitioning for help to overcome anxiety, fear, and hesitation.
- Seeking for the gift of discernment— for eyes to see and ears to hear missionary opportunities as they occur.
- Praying fervently for the strength to act as we know we should. "