Comments on: If we do not follow the commandments, can we still pray for things? https://askgramps.org/if-we-do-not-follow-the-commandments-can-we-still-pray-for-things/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: will7370 https://askgramps.org/if-we-do-not-follow-the-commandments-can-we-still-pray-for-things/#comment-32865 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:15:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29177#comment-32865 The problem when praying for something when you know you are not worthy is that it is usually without faith. Your confidence does not “wax strong in the presence of God”. And at least for me, I don’t “feel” like the requested blessing will be given. The scriptures are very clear:

“There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated—
And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated.” D&C 130:20-21

“For all who will have a blessing at my hands shall abide the law which was appointed for that blessing, and the conditions thereof, as were instituted from before the foundation of the world.” D&C 132:5

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