18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
20 Despise not prophesyings.
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
These scriptures have many ideas and blessing of ways to get the most of our prayers. Praying always, with gratitude for all our blessings. A few General Conference's ago Elder Bednar give a talk about gratitude, he suggested that once in a while when we pray we should only say thank you for our blessing and not ask for anything. I have tried this, I remember one morning when I started my prayer and I felt the spirit whisper "make this a gratitude prayer", at first I didn't want to, I had so much to ask for and help in many areas for my day, but I tried it and by the end of my prayer I was so glad. I felt love from Heavenly Father, I felt more grateful for all the blessing I have and the problems that I needed help from seemed a little more doable. I was also thinking of Verse 19 "Quench Not the Spirit". Who would not want the spirit, who would try and put it out when you have the spirit with you? Well surprisingly enough, all of us. Many times we have the spirit, we know that prayers work, we felt the power in reading our scriptures, we get blessing from priesthood blessing. But mornings come and we don't have time to pray, night time comes and we are to sleepy to say our prayer, we don't ask for special blessing because we think we should do things on our own, we are quenching the spirit, we are not letting the spirit work in us. The cool thing is Heavenly Father knows this is how we learn and grow, he will still be there. Jesus Christ is still there with his arms wide open. Each day we try, we are better than we think. Love Sister MaryAnn Jensen
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