Prayer to Our Heavenly Father
Bernard P. Brockbank October 1979 Sunday Morning Session
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“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa.
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this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent”
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shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind”
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“Pray always, and I will pour out my Spirit upon you, and great shall be your blessing—yea, even more than if you should obtain treasures of earth”
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“In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thes.
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“Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work”
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“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
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Nephi taught “that ye should not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul”
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“By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins—behold, he will confess them and forsake them” (D&C 58:42–43).
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“For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened” (Matt.
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“But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul” (2 Ne.
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“And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie; wherefore, my guilt was swept away” (Enos 1:2–6).
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“And behold, I say unto you that if ye do this ye shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of your sins; and ye shall grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created you, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true” (Mosiah 4:9–12).
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“And as I have prayed among you even so shall ye pray in my church, among my people who do repent and are baptized in my name.
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“And whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, which is right, believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall be given unto you” (3 Ne.
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“Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed”
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Parents have the sacred responsibility to teach their children the importance and value of prayer, and the responsibility to teach their children how pray.
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“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure”
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 2: Preexistence and Foreordination of the Christ
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- Open paragraph (John 17:3)
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When the hour of His betrayal was near, in the last interview with the apostles prior to His agonizing experience in Gethsemane, Jesus comforted them saying: “For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 4: The Antemortal Godship of Christ
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- Open paragraph (Matt. 6:9)
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- Open paragraph (Matt. 6:9)
The following is an instructive excerpt: “Name in the scriptures not only = that by which a person is designated, but frequently = all that is known to belong to the person having this designation, and the person himself.
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