This talk is helping me get through this finnancial crunch we are facing right now as newly weds and a laps with new job's pay checks and when our bills are due! AHHHH Be faithful and the Lord will provide, im gonna keep reminding myself that!
Do You need a Miracle? By Elder Larry W. Gibbons
Trust in God is vital, as is confidence that He will do what He says He will do. For example, we pay tithing with faith. He says that He will open the windows of heaven (see Mal. 3:10), and we have confidence that He will.
Next, faith implies enough confidence to act on your belief and to conform your life to truth. I know a family who paid their last $14 in tithing, fully confident the Lord would sustain them.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie (1915–85) taught that faith requires assurance that God will hear our prayers and answer them. No person can have this assurance when he knows he is not living in the way the Lord wants him to live. This is another key element in bringing about miracles. Faith requires repentance. Miracles require faith. So miracles require repentance. Therefore, faith and repentance (which result in righteous living) are the means by which miracles come into our lives.
Are there miracles you desire in your life?
Do you hope and pray you can overcome a habit that has a strong hold on your behavior? Live as you should, work hard at the things you know will help, leave it in the Lord’s hands, have faith, and expect a miracle.
Do you have financial burdens? Live as you should, repent if need be, have faith to pay tithing and fast offerings, work hard, and expect a miracle.
