Being humble = answered prayers.
How does this connection work?!
Most people hear “be humble” and think about someone who is too proud to pray.
Someone who thinks they can do it all on their own, or that they need to do it all on their own.
But the opposite is true, too, right?
Someone who thinks they don’t deserve to ask for God’s help.
Someone who is afraid of what God thinks of them. Someone who thinks they need to repent or change before they start communicating with God.
As with most things in life, the answer lies perfectly in the Bible Dictionary definition for “Prayer”.
Even if you’ve read and loved this definition before, look at this portion through the lens of one of the most popular scriptures, “Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers.” D&C 112:10
Here we go:
“As soon as we learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God (namely, God is our Father, and we are His children), then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part.
“Many of the so-called difficulties about prayer arise from forgetting this relationship.”
Prayer becomes difficult, unnatural, and ineffective when we forget who we are.
When we think we are too much for God, or when we think we are too little.
But when we remember exactly the relationship that we have with God, when we remember that He is our Father and that we are His children.
When we remember that we are loved eternally and authentically by Him.
When we remember that He is eager to forgive and full of mercy.
Then prayer becomes NATURAL and INSTINCTIVE.
And when prayer becomes a natural instinct to us, God is able to take us by the hand, to lead us, and to answer every prayer.
Not that He grants us every wish and whim, but He communicates because we are ready to hear Him.
So the key to receiving constant guidance and answers to prayers?
Be thou humble, and know exactly what your relationship is like with God.
Happy Studying!
-Cali Black
