Let the Spirit Guide Your Prayers

For prayers to be efficacious, they must be in harmony with the plan of heaven. The prayer of faith bears fruit when such harmony exists, and this harmony exists when prayers are inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit manifests what our petitions should be.  Absent this inspired guidance, we are inclined to “ask amiss,”  to seek only our will and not “Thy will.”  It is as important to be guided by the Holy Spirit while praying as it is to be enlightened by that same Spirit while receiving an answer to prayer. 

Bishop Keith B McMullin, Our Path of Duty, April 2010 Conference