Answers to Prayer(Alma 58:10-12)

Therefore we did pour out our souls in prayer to God, that he would strengthen us and deliver us out of the hands of our enemies, yea, and also give us strength that we might retain our cities, and our lands, and our possessions, for the support of our people.

Yea, and it came to pass that the Lord our God did visit us with assurances that he would deliver us; yea, insomuch that he did speak peace to our souls, and did grant unto us great faith, and did cause us that we should hope for our deliverance in him.

And we did take courage with our small force which we had received, and were fixed with a determination to conquer our enemies, and to maintain our lands, and our possessions, and our wives, and our children, and the cause of our liberty.

Answers to prayers come in many ways. I love the answers that Helaman's people received in response to their cries to the Lord. I desire these answers to my own prayers:

• Peace.


• Faith.


• Hope.


• Courage.


• Determination.

The Tender Mercies of the Lord(1 Nephi 1:20)

But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance (1 Nephi 1:20).

The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works (Psalm 145:9).

The Lord's tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ.

~Elder David A. Bednar (April 2005)

How have you experienced the tender mercies of the Lord?