What do you think you would like for your next Birthday? (Listen to students’ wish-list as you pull out your gift box.) Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.Russell M. Nelson, “ Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2018, 95; quoting Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 132.

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. ( B) 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. ( C) A. The dictionary defines the verb as to make a request as a favor. Now, we can’t ask a stranger without doubting. No one is to blame, thats judgement. We need to stop wringing our hands and start using them for others.C. In Philippians 4:19 God promised to provide all our needs only. Not all our wants. How to discern God’s will:

In this way, prayer is a type of work, but which is not bound by space and time. Which is why, of course, as you point out, it is silly to pray for something good to happen if we are unwilling to life a finger to help it take place. If we are not willing to be answers to our own prayers, we have no business praying about them. So it is not really, “Where is God?” but rather, “Where are the Christians?” C. The Bible says in Mark 11:24 that one of the ways we act in faith is to believe we already received what we asked for. 2. Seek is the second kind of Prayer Pray in accord with God’s will:A. Most of the time that Jesus spent in prayer was allocated to pray for others than he prayed for himself, (Luke 22:31)