Comments on: Ask and Ye Shall Receive https://ldsblogs.com/41301/ask-and-receive Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:13:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Aspen https://ldsblogs.com/41301/ask-and-receive#comment-627470 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:13:17 +0000 https://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/?p=41301#comment-627470 Great story about the keys! Thanks for sharing!
Elder Neal A. Maxwell says
“The task is to draw close enough to the Lord that we progress to the point where we petition Him according to His will, not ours. ‘And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.’ (1 John 5:14.) In modern revelations the Lord has declared His willingness to grant us the requests contained in our petitions if what we ask for is expedient for us. (D&C 88:64-65.)
When we become sufficiently purified and cleansed from sin, we can ask what we will in the name of Jesus ‘and it shall be done.’ (D&C 50:29.) The Lord even promises us that when one reaches a certain spiritual condition, ‘it shall be given you what you shall ask.’ (D&C 50:30.)
Thus we clearly need to have the Spirit with us as we petition, because ‘in the Spirit’ we will ask ‘according to the will of God; wherefore it is done even as he asketh.’ (D&C 46:30.)
If, meanwhile, in the face of such sublime ultimate promises, our prayers sometimes seem so very proximate, we should not be discouraged. So much can be done ‘in process of time’ to improve our petitioning. Neither the pure City of Enoch nor pure prayers are arrived at in a day!
To grow to that point when we can utter inspired prayers… is part of being proven. (Elder Neal Maxwell, All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1979], 95.)”

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