"Our Father in Heaven, I offer thanks unto Thee Father for this day. I thank Thee for my sight and for my hearing, for being able to walk and for all of the things I take for granted every day! I am so blessed, because Thou art such a gracious, forgiving and understanding God! Thou art so Loving and Kind! Thou hast blessed and continue to bless me abundantly. Thou hast given me so many opportunities! Yet, I continue to take Thee and all of Thy abundant gifts for granted!

Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to Thee. Forgive me for taking you and your many gifts for granted.

Forgive me Father God, for not appreciating you and Your Beloved Son and the sacrifices you both have made for me. Forgive me for using Thy gifts for my own selfish gain and not for Thy Holy work!

Forgive me for allowing myself to be drawn into the struggling efforts of this world, rather than to help those in this struggling world, by leading them to your message of Hope!

Forgive me for concentrating on my aches and pains, rather than concentrating on Thy Word in the Scriptures and all of the literature you have provided me, to uplift my soul, that I might be of service by passing it on to my neighbors and family and friends.

Forgive me Father, when I complain I don't have enough food, because of all the times I have been gluttonous and eat more than I should and also when I know there are those who have so little or none!

Forgive me Father when I complain about the condition of my life, which exists, because of my own choices, which I have made erroneously, without asking for guidance through Thy Holy Spirit and seeking knowledge from Thy Word!

Help me Father, to end this and every day and start each new day with prayer and with a new attitude of the STRONGEST desire to serve Thee. Let me search for ways to serve Thee, for Thou hast said, "...seek and ye will find, and knock and it will be opend unto you ..."

Father, I ask that Thou will show me the way(s) Thou would have me serve Thee and my fellow man .... Open the door to a re-newed covenant between Thee and me ... Purify my mind and heart and body, that my whole being may be of pure service to Thee! When the human condition tugs at my heart and my mind and my hand Father, let Thy Holy Spirit hold tighter until the tempter relinquishes and I remain free and pure to serve Thee.

Help me Father to concentrate until I am able to hear and KNOW that still small voice of Thy Holy Spirit, which says; "Peace, Be Still, and KNOW that I Am here ...." Let me trust in Thee at all times! Let me pray for those whom I imagine harm from. For I can suffer no harm, when Thou art with me. Let me not judge Father, for you have said that it is your place and ...

if I am judging, I cannot be loving.

Let me practice to LOVE ALL Father, as YOU do, and when that LOVE shows through, may it bring praise unto Thee!

I pray to stay uplifted and joyful, that I may share my joy with those whom I meet each day! Let me share your re-stored Gospel with someone new each week!

I pray Father for our President of the U.S., that you will guide him in his thinking and that you will encourage him to make the right decisions and that those who need to will stand behind him and back him. I pray for more loyalty from all Americans, to show our gratitude for the blessing of the DEMOCRACY in which we live and the abundant FREEDOMS we have!

I pray for our Governors and their burdens of decision-making, and the creative-thinking they must summon, to make new jobs for the citizens of their respective states, for encouraging more revenue and also the many other details which come with their jobs. I pray Father that Thy Holy Spirit be with them and guide them with right choices, though those choices may call for great courage and personal integrity! I pray for more loyalty for them as they have our best interests at heart.

Father, I pray for our brave men and women in the armed services over-seas and for their families. I pray for their safety and I pray that their job to be over soon, that they may return home to their families. I pray for comfort, for the families of these men and women and for the knowledge that You LOVE them and their loved ones, even if they should not make it home, that they are in a safer place, where You are STILL LOVING them AND their families!

I pray Father, for ALL of the people of the world, to come to know Thee and Thy True Re-Stored Gospel, and that ALL will remember Thee and desire to return to Thee!

Father in HEAVEN, I love Thee and I need Thee! Let thy Holy Spirit dwell in my heart and take charge of my life, please. Draw me near to Thee, that I might be with Thee in Heaven!

Let Thy desires for me, be my desires ...

Let Thy thoughts, be my thoughts ...

Let Thy will, be my will ...

Let me serve Thee Dear Father for ETERNITY!

I Pray These Things, In The Name of Jesus Christ, Amen!




(Artist Copyright © 1988 Jon L. Cade)

The picture of Christ was sketched by Jon Cade. He is an AWESOME artist, who has been drawing since he was a child. He also does photography now. If you are interested in his work, please contact him at:



Jon L. Cade

"Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word?
Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another?
Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another.
And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.

And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever;
and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure.

And because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another;
for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.
2 Nephi 29:8-9

"Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers." (D & C 112:10)


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