Mormon Direction

It really is, all about attitude. How our day has been, what life is like or what life should be like. How other people are viewed and how we see ourselves with them. We are usually our own worst enemies, failing to stop the negative spiral in our thoughts and self-perceptions. I understand as well as the best of us that life can be very challenging, hard, overwhelming, but to maintain a good attitude is the better way to go, for our own health (mental and physical) and for our families. It shows resilience and fortitude.

So, to help others with maintaining the right attitude, I thought I would provide some good examples!

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Prayer does work and when done properly it works very well. The workings of prayer are rather simple, but despite this simplicity, so many fail to understand how prayer works and many find that prayer works only sometimes if at all. The scriptures tell us that we are to pray often and diligently. This is not an idle direction from God neither is it contingent on personal preference. A person who prays rightly and often will find that his/her state of mind and heart will abide in the first commandment. Their faith will receive support and direction.

All faith that is not focused into proper works is a dead faith, but rather than getting into the doctrinal support and reason for proper and frequent prayer, I wish to write here a personal aspect of proper prayer.

Prayer has worked well for me, despite experiences where it appeared at times that what help I had asked for seemed to never come.

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