Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Ideas for ApplicationAccording to your own needs and circumstances, follow one or more of these suggestions.• If your family holds regular family prayer, family scripture study, and family home evening, prayerfully consider ways you might improve in one or more of these settings. James H. Moyle wrote to his grandchildren concerning the family prayer of his own home.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

It will lead you to the comforting, strengthening experiences that flow from prayer to Father in Heaven and the answers He gives in return.Perspective and PatienceA pebble held close to the eye appears to be a gigantic obstacle.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Children often challenge and tax the strength and wisdom of both parents.How Often Do You Have Family Prayer? President Kimball asked, “How often do you have family prayer?”Bishop Smoot answered, “We try to have family prayer twice a day, but we average about once.”President Kimball answered, “In the past, having family prayer once a day may have been all right.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

One night, Brother Monson, you offer the prayer, aloud, on bended knee. The next night you, Sister Monson, offer the prayer, aloud, on bended knee.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Now, it is important to have individual prayer, but it is a wonderful thing to have family prayer. What can families do to establish a habit of daily family prayer?

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The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

Stand the dominoes, or other objects, that you have labeled in a line, with the domino labeled prayer first, closest to you, and the other dominoes lined up with the sin-labeled side facing the class, away from you and in front of the prayer domino. This brings happiness.)Poster and wordstripHold up statement 2: Elder Neal A. Maxwell said, “It is out of the depths of true prayer that an individual rises to real heights” (in “What Should We Pray For,” in Prayer, p. 52).

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Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

You may want to compare this prayer to part of Jesus’ great intercessory prayer before His Crucifixion, as recorded in John 17:20–23.) Why is it important that followers of Jesus Christ “be one” with Him and the Father? How can prayer help protect us from Satan’s temptations?

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

If Heber happened to be there at prayer time, he was invited to kneel with the family and participate in family prayer. It seemed to me that he talked to the Lord as one man would talk to another.” 1Many incidents in President Heber J. Grant’s life exemplify his dependence on his Heavenly Father and his faith in the power of prayer.

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 2

Others may have received many answers to prayer. The next few days were filled with prayer.

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 3

When it came time for the ordinance of the sacrament, I was suddenly impressed by the prayer I heard being repeated.It was the same prayer I had heard for many years, but there was a sincerity to it that made it new and important to me. I felt I was in a holy place, and the prayer was saying words I

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 1

Discussion• Why do we know that President Snow’s prayer was sincere? Heavenly Father is pleased when his children show their faith through fasting and prayer.Fasting and Prayer Bring Great BlessingsAdviser presentationExplain that God worked great miracles through the sons of Mosiah and Lorenzo Snow because they sought his help through fasting and prayer.

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Preparing for Exaltation: Teacher’s Manual

If not, what can you do to make prayer a more important part of your life? Explain that the Savior gave us the pattern of prayer, giving clear instructions: “After this manner therefore pray ye.” Point out that he showed us that we should address all our prayers to Heavenly Father.

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Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

What are some of the things Solomon prayed for in the dedicatory prayer? When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers.

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Gospel Principles

Nothing will help us draw closer to God than prayer. We open and close all of our Church meetings with prayer.

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Gospel Art Picture Kit

Family prayer is essential to building strong families. Prayer helps families focus on the most important things in life as family members express gratitude for their blessings and each other and evaluate their family’s needs.Great blessings are given to families who gather together each morning and evening for family prayer.

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Primary 3: Choose the Right B

Suggested Lesson Development Invite a child to give the opening prayer. After he had finished his prayer, a wonderful thing happened.

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Primary 4: Book of Mormon

Why is family prayer important? (3 Nephi 18:21.) How can you help your family have regular family prayer? How can we pray unceasingly? (3 Nephi 20:1.) Why should we always have a prayer in our hearts? (3 Nephi 18:15, 18.) How can prayer help us avoid temptation?

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Primary 2: Choose the Right A

Explain that when we say “amen” at the end of a group prayer, it means that we agree with what the person speaking said in the prayer. Before the prayer, have the children get ready to pray by softly singing “A Prayer Song” and doing what the song tells them to do.

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2008 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation: I Am a Child of God

“All of you are children of the most High” (Psalm 82:6). Objective: To help children understand that as children of God they are part of an eternal plan and rich blessings are in store for them as they follow Jesus Christ. Outline for Sharing

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Children’s Songbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

AccountabilityChurch of Jesus Christ, The 77Dare to Do Right 158I Believe in Being Honest 149I’ll Walk with You 140I Want to Be Reverent 28Kindness Begins with Me 145My Country 224Second Article of Faith, The 122Stand for the Right 159The Church of

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