[Manna - August 29]
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James 4:3
LET us learn to pray aright, as well as to labor
and to hope aright; and in order to do so let us be
swift to hear, slow to speak, swift to hearken to the
Word of the Lord and to the lesson which He has
already given us, and to His method of instructing
us and guiding us and blessing us.
Let us be slow
to tell Him what our preferences are; indeed let us
seek to attain that development of Christian character
which will permit us always not to seek our
own wills, but the will and the way of our Father in
heaven. Z.'03-204 R3217:6