God Doesn’t Want to Work FOR You, He Wants to Work WITH You


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God wants to work with us, not for us. Somewhere inside, we all know that's true. It's a no-brainer. Yet, we oftentimes still approach God hoping that this time, He'll cut us some slack and do us a solid without requiring any effort on our part—but that's just not how this prayer thing works. Elder Scott's bombshell of a talk via lds.org Back in '91, Elder Richard G. Scott gave a great talk called Obtaining Help From the Lord. In it, he talks about the challenge of petitioning God for certain blessings: True, the Lord has said, 'Ask, and ye shall receive.' (D&C 4:7.) But He also declared, 'Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me.' (D&C 9:7.) It is evident that He intends that we do our part. But what, specifically, are we to do? No one would expect to receive a result from physical law without obeying it. Spiritual law is the same. As much as we want...

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