Meet a Real Mormon!

Some time ago someone asked me to look at a website--always a dangerous proposition when you're LDS. Sure enough, it was an anti-Mormon site. I was about to back out of it when a question in their Q and A section caught my eye. Someone asked about the fact that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints always ask you to find out for yourself if the Church is true by praying about it. This had always been a puzzle to me. I joined the church only because God told me to, and I couldn't figure out why everyone didn't just put it to the test. So I read the answer to find out.

Ah-hah. The site warned people not to pray. They said you can't tell if it's God or Satan answering you. Now I was more puzzled than ever, and started thinking these people were right when they said we didn't worship the same God they do.

Let me tell you something really important about the God I worship. He can do anything--anything. And anything includes being able to answer me in such a way I can recognize His voice. If you really believe God doesn't know how to do that, then I guess you're right. We don't worship the same God at all.

The God I worship not only knows how to answer my questions and fill my heart with the reassurance that it's really Him, but He loves me enough to answer me. If I ask, He will answer. It says so right in the Bible:

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. (James 1:5, King James version of the Bible.)

So, He promised, and why would He promise to give me wisdom and then not figure out how to keep that promise? When my God promises something, He keeps His promise.

Every time.

So don't let people make you afraid to talk to God. Jesus prayed. He told us to pray. Prayer isn't a one way monologue; it's a dialogue between Father and child. Pray. Then listen.

Find out more about prayer.

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