“The Spirit Which Teacheth a Man to Pray”
The Holy Ghost will always lead a man to prayer and in prayer. That is, the Spirit teaches us to pray and also gives us direction in that for which we should pray. To have the Holy Ghost is to have the promise that it will “be given you what you shall ask” (D&C 50:30), and the promise that “he that asketh in the Spirit asketh according to the will of God; wherefore it is done even as he asketh” (D&C 46:30). The prayer of the Twelve in 3 Nephi is a classic illustration of this principle. Of their prayer we read, “They did not multiply many words, for it was given unto them what they should pray, and they were filled with desire” (3 Nephi 19:24).
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