| A Child's Prayer - Children's Songbook #12 |  |
Heavenly Father, are you really there?
and do you hear and answer every child's prayer.
Some say that Heaven is far away,
but i feel it close around me as i pray.
Heavenly Father, i remember now,
something that Jesus told Disciples long ago.
Suffer the children to come to me,
Father in prayer I'm coming now to thee.
Pray, He is there.
Speak, He is listening.
You are his child,
his love now surrounds you.
He hears your prayer,
He loves the children,
of such is the Kingdom,
the Kingdom of Heav'n.
DO YOU BELIEVE HE HEARS YOU?
You are his child after all, you should know this. You should feel confident that He will hear you.
ALWAYS, even when you feel like He is far away. You should know that He loves you no matter what you have done, or who you are.
YOU ARE HIS CHILD!
How inspired it is that a child learn this in their early years in Primary...
WHY DO WE FORGET THIS SIMPLE TRUTH?
Spencer W. Kimball, "Prayer", New Era, Mar. 1978, 14
Why should we pray? Because we are the sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, on whom we depend for everything we enjoy—our food and clothing, our health, our life itself, our sight and hearing, our voices, our locomotion, even our brains.
Do you not realize your dependence as you stand in perfect health with your opportunities? Do you think that they are of your providing? Do you give to yourself your breath, your life, your being? Can you lengthen your days by .a single hour? Are you so strong without the gifts of heaven? Are your brains made by self, and did you fashion them? Can you give life or give it prolongation? Do you have power to do without your Lord? Yet I find that many fail to pray. We are commanded to do so by our all-wise Heavenly Father: “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.” (James 1:5.)
One young man in his early teens lacked wisdom but was not lacking in faith or sincerity. His prayer opened a closed heaven and a confused world for further exploration. The common woods were made sacred that day; they blazed in glory. The trees were hallowed and the soil made holy ground.
The Lord has given us this solemn commandment: “He that observeth not his prayers before the Lord in the season thereof, let him be had in remembrance before the judge of my people.” (D&C 68:33.) “And they shall also teach their children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord.” (D&C 68:28.) “I command thee that thou shalt pray vocally as well as in thy heart; yea, before the world as in secret, in public as well as in private.” (D&C 19:28.)
The Lord has promised he will answer, not always as we would ask, but as is for our good. We ask for what we want, rather than for what we should have.
How much do you pray, my young friends? How often? How earnestly? If you should have errors in your life, have you wrestled before the Lord? Have you found your deep forest full of solitude? How much has your soul hungered? How deeply have your needs impressed your heart? When did you kneel before your Maker in total quiet? For what did you pray—your own soul? How long did you thus plead for recognition—all day long? And when the shadows fell, did you still raise your voice in mighty prayer, or did you liquidate it with some trite word and phrase?
As you struggle in the spirit and cry mightily and covenant sincerely, the voice of the Lord God will come into your mind, as it did to that of Enos:
“Thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed.” (Enos 1:5.)
Do you think prayer is not answered because you do not understand? Did Christ not come because men would not receive him? Is there no sound vibration because ears do not perceive it? Are there no vibrations in the air because no receiver sets are in tune? Does God not speak because our ears are closed? And does he not appear when eyes are leaden? Some people hear a noise; others think it thunders; while others hear and understand the voice of God and see him personally.-----
There are those days where I am so rushed I forget to pray, there are even those times where my burden feels so heavy I don't pray, because I don't have the time to lay it all out, because my emotions are too hard to handle.
That never works. And Why oh, why would I want to do it alone?
When my burden could be more easily carried when I place my load at my Father's feet.
His Son has already carried it for me. Why would I forget or refuse to allow Him to love me the way that only GOD can? He is just waiting to hear me talk to him, plead with him, and cry to him.
He is just waiting for me to TRUST Him enough to come to him.
To express my love, my thanks and my time with him.
HE HEARS ME!
I JUST NEED TO REMEMBER THIS!
This is one of my favorite songs and I came to know that it is one of Anna's, too. (My daughter, Anna, is autistic, epileptic and unable to speak.) One day, I sang this song to her. She became very intent. She was reacting to the song. Then, when I sang the second verse, especially "Speak, He is listening," a powerful flood came through me and spoke to her. I immediately knew that she understood everything in this song and that even though her lips are restrained for now, she DOES have a voice, things that she shares with only Him through the prayers of her heart. He hears her. I know He hears each one of us.
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