“Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God, but to send for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant.”
Susie Becker: Why do we have to ask for these blessings if God already knows what we need?
I would answer that sometimes we don’t already know what we need but we may discover our real needs through prayerful inquiry. That would seem to be in line with the quote from President Eyring (from “Write Upon My Heart” from October 2000 conference):
Our goal when we teach our children to pray is for them to want God to write upon their hearts and be willing then to go and do what God asks of them. …
I have had prayers answered. Those answers were most clear when what I wanted was silenced by an overpowering need to know what God wanted. It is then that the answer from a loving Heavenly Father can be spoken to the mind in the still, small voice and can be written on the heart.
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