God told us he would help us. Let us leave aside the $64,000.00 question of just how the communication will take place or how the forced will actually come into being (these being ultimately factual questions not logical ones).  Faith, in general, can compared to the state of mind responsible for some form of wish request—a mental picture of a desired goal—and the spiritual and material change that occurs is in the direction of this goal. When one is caught up in a whirlpool of emotion, it is difficult to find a way out alone. Our Heavenly Father did not put us on Earth to fail but to succeed gloriously. When we pray, we are requesting qualification for power beyond our own capacity to do something. When a person wishes that a particular object shall be affected in a particular way, the result is not just that the wish has some kind of effect somewhere or other, it is that it has the wished-for effect at the targeted location. When a person comes to believe that some particular thing is happening to some particular object, this belief is not just the result of some kind of thing happening to some object or other, it is the result of the believed-in thing happening to the identified object. Communication with our Father in Heaven is not a trivial matter, it is a sacred privilege, and it is based upon unchanging principles. So why should we not imagine someone’s wish being transmitted by paranormal means and transformed into whatever kind of force-field required to actually make it happen? #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

When we receive help from our Father in Heaven, it is in response to faith, obedience, and the proper use of agency. You can only communicate in this sort of structured way when and if you—or whoever designed the communication line—know exactly what the characteristics of the channel are and what kind of receiver is on the other end. It is a mistake to assume that every prayer we offer will be answered immediately. Some prayers require considerable effort on our part. True, sometimes impressions come when we have not specifically sought them. They generally concern something we need to know and are not otherwise able to find out. We are here on Earth to gain experience we can obtain in no other way. We are given the opportunity to grow, to develop, and to gain spiritual maturity. To do that, we must learn to apply the truth. How we face challenges and resolve difficult problems is crucially important to our happiness. When we pray, we are approaching trustingly a loving, kind, wise, and understanding Heavenly Father, who wants us to succeed. Our thoughts are transformed into some kind of patterned energy field which is broadcast into the Universe and our brain is acting as some kind of resonator, which God tunes into. He hears every prayer and answers it in his way. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

We are in partnership with the infinite mind. God is supreme intelligence, the Universal creative order, the dynamic law, and the all-perfect presence. We must feel that we are in league with the Universe. Whenever our attention is set on God, he is doing business, and that business is good because God is good. Since there is no competition God has no competitors. There are no others goods so perfect as those God manufactures, there are no other patterns so attractive, there is no other machinery so perfect and efficient. If we have a business which has so competitors and over which there is no monopoly, and if we have a business that is always good because it is always active, and if we have the intelligence to run this business, and if the business is really the business of living, then we are indeed successful. In actual practice we must claim this divine partnership; we must claim that we are members of this firm of God, and we must never deny it. We must learn to counsel with this silent partner of ours and we must state that business is good, that the business of life is active, it is happy, it is whole. Even though the brains of different individuals are all structurally different, it is still possible they might all come to respond in the same and predictable way to the same input if they were trained to do so. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

Trained, that is, to assign the same particular meanings to whatever particular thoughts are in the air—different brains come to assign the same meanings to the same fields of light or sound. In order for such training to occur there would have to be some way for the brain t obtain independent confirmation of where the input is coming from and what it signifies. There is nothing about us God does not know. He is conscious of our every need and could provide all of the answers. Yet, because God’s purpose is our eternal happiness, he encouraged us to make the correct choices. Be assured as the Lord lives, even so surely as you receive a knowledge of whatsoever things you shall ask in faith, with an honest heart, believing that you shall receive. When we receive an impression in our heart, we can use our mind either to rationalize it away or to accomplish it. Be careful what you do with an impression from the Lord. Remember that without faith you can do nothing; therefore ask in faith. According to your faith shall it be done. When we ask in faith, it means we ask in confidence in our Holy Father. A certain power to alter things indwells in the human soul and subordinates the other things to individuals, particularly when one is swept into a great excess of love or hate or the like. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

When therefore the soul of a person falls into a great excess of any passion it can be proved by experiment that it binds things and alters them in ways it wants. A wish can directly create the wished-for state of affairs in the outside World merely by setting this up as its goal. When we take things to God it makes a big difference. It is much like when you have a stomach ache that has been ongoing and different people tell you it is for a variety of reason and to try this and that. However, when you go to the doctor, he or she can tell you exactly what is going on and give you medication that can take care of it right away, and that way it takes away the pain and you are not asking the wrong sources for answers to questions they do not know. That is exactly how prayer and having faith in God works. He will start working on a remedy to our problems immediately. We just have to believe and live right. We are dealing with a dedicated communication channel where the transformation rules from input to output can be and evidently have been laid down in advance: a channel based as it happens on a set of fixed physical and spiritual pathways, permanently in place, whose parameters are preestablished, and for which there has been ample time (both over the course of evolution and within each individual’s life) to devise the protocols and install the requisite transducers. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

If you feel that God has not answered your prayers, ponder these scriptures—then carefully look for evidence in your own life of his having already answered you. To help each of us recognize answers given, the Lord said: “If you desire a further witness, cast your mind upon the night that you cried unto me in your heart, that you might know concerning the truth of these things. Did I not speak peace to your mind concerning the matter?” (Doctrine and Covenants 6.22-23). A witness of truth comes by the power of the spirit. Look unto God and do good continually. There is no gift greater than salvation. Both nature and nurture have made a huge investment in designing and testing this mind-body relationship. Our lives depend on it. The crucial point is, however, that, of all the things in the World, our bodies are the only ones with which our minds can count on having a relationship anything like this. Keep trying and express faith that you will be helped. Refuse to be discouraged. Act with confidence in the Lord, be obedient, and properly use your agency, and you will receive guidance. You will be inspired step after step to success, and will be given power to accomplish the thing which the Lord has commanded. We are required to confide in God, exercise faith and act so that we can receive help along our journey. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

We must act by following spiritual law, and it will give us inspiration and power. Sometimes answers to prayer are not recognized because we are too intent on wanting confirmation of our own desires. We fail to see that the Lord would have us do something else. Be careful to see God’s will. The only way to make the correct decision is where there is righteousness and trust in a Heavenly Father. Wen we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives us gentle promptings. These require us to think, exercise faith, to work, to struggle at times, and to act. Seldom does the whole answer to a decisively important matter or complex problem come all at once. More often, it comes a piece at a time, without the end in sight. Our gratitude is also important. Our sincere efforts to thank our beloved Father in Heaven generates wondrous  feelings of peace, self-worth, and love. No matter how challenging our circumstances, honest appreciation fills our mind to overflowing with gratitude. Look upon us, Lord, and let all of the darkness of our souls vanish before the beams of your brightness. Fill us with holy love, and open us to the treasures of your wisdom. All our desires are known unto thee, therefore perfect what you have begun, and what your spirit has awakened us to ask in prayer. We seek your face, turn your face unto us and show us your glory. Then shall our longing be satisfied, and our peace shall be perfect. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7