Hello everyone. Welcome to another follow him favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with

John by the way. Hi, John. Hi, Hank. John, you know the drill. We take one question from

this week's Come Follow Me lesson. The question this week comes from Romans 8, where Paul talks

about prayer. John, how would you answer this question? Why do we pray? What's so important

about it? Well, that's a good question because sometimes we even get tripped up by am I saying

the right words or am I saying them in the right order and things like that? It is good to

try to pray in the most reverent way and everything. But boy, just the fact that you get on your

knees or opens up the door for the Spirit to inspire you. There's a verse in Romans 8, 26. I've

always liked this. Likewise, the Spirit also help us our infirmities for we know not what to pray for

as we ought. But the Spirit itself make it the intercession for us with groanings which cannot be

uttered. I think I love that verse. That just says just the very act of praying, even if

Italy, Father, I don't know what I need, but I feel the need to pray that the Spirit knows.

And the fact that you have to mix with another scripture, the fact that you have come to knock

and ask and seek means the Lord will open the door to you. Beautiful. Isn't there a verse in

Joseph Smith history that says, I knelt down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God?

That's one of the most simple definitions of prayer, I think. Offer up the desires of my heart.

If it's in your heart, talk about it. If it's something you've been pondering and thinking

about, talk about that. And I think what Paul is trying to say here in Romans 8 verse 26,

John is, you don't have to worry so much about getting your words right. For we know not what we

should pray for as we ought. If you're going to wait to say a perfect prayer, you're never going

to pray. And God is going to accept your imperfect prayer because he knows your heart.

Yeah, I think that the Lord's not going to say, oh, no, you got your deval dines mixed up. I'm

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