Promises for Caring for the Poor

Promises for holding Family Prayer:

Lord's Promise To You	What you must do	Reference
"I know of no other practice that will have so salutary an effect upon your lives as will the practice of kneeling together in prayer...your children will be blessed with a sense of security that comes of living in a home where dwells the Spirit of God. They will know and love parents who respect one another, and a spirit of respect will grow in their own hearts."	Kneel together in Family Prayer	Pres. Hinckley (Satellite Broadcast Jan. 29, 1984).
"The family that prays together stays together."	Family Prayer	Thomas S. Monson, "Heavenly Homes, Forever Families," Ensign Oct. 1991, pp. 3-4
"...Family prayer in the homes of the people, is one of the basic medications that would check the dread disease that is eroding the character of our society.”	Family Prayer	President Hinckley, Ensign, quoted in “No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
“I am convinced that one of the greatest things that can come into any home to cause the boys and girls in that home to grow up in a love of God, and in a love of the gospel of Jesus Christ, is to have family prayer. … I believe that there are very few that go astray, that very few lose their faith, who have once had a knowledge of the gospel, and who never neglect their prayers in their families, and their secret supplications to God.”	Never neglect prayers in their families and supplications to God.	President Heber J. Grant, quoted in “No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
"If we would help save and strengthen our families, nothing else we do can replace family prayer."	Family Prayer	President Hinckley, Ensign, quoted in “No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
Wise parents will recognize the protective power of regular family prayer. President Kimball taught: “No mother would carelessly send her little children forth to school on a wintry morning without warm clothes to protect against the snow and rain and cold. But there are numerous fathers and mothers who send their children to school without the protective covering available to them through prayer—a protection against exposure to unknown hazards, evil people, and base temptations.”	Family Prayer	President Kimball, quoted in“No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
President Kimball counseled: “When we kneel in family prayer, our children at our side on their knees are learning habits that will stay with them all through their lives. If we do not take time for prayers, what we are actually saying to our children is, ‘Well, it isn’t very important, anyway. We won’t worry about it. If we can do it conveniently, we will have our prayer, but if the school bell rings and the bus is coming and employment is calling—well, prayer isn’t very important and we will do it when it is convenient.’ Unless planned for, it never seems to be convenient.”	Kneel in family prayer, our children at our side on their knees.	President Kimball, quoted in “No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
President Hinckley has encouraged parents to be hopeful and to persist in holding family prayer, even if the blessings of doing so are not immediately apparent: “I give you my testimony that if you sincerely apply family prayer, you will not go away unrewarded. The changes may not be readily apparent. They may be extremely subtle. But they will be real, for God ‘is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him’ (Heb. 11:6).”	Persist in holding family prayer.	President Hinckley, Ensign, quoted in “No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
“Your little ones will learn how to talk to their Father in Heaven by listening to you as parents."	In Family Prayer	President Kimball, quoted in “No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
Parents can also learn much about prayer from their little ones.	In Family Prayer	“No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
President Hinckley has said: “I know of no single practice that will have a more salutary effect upon your lives than the practice of kneeling together as you begin and close each day. Somehow the little storms that seem to afflict every marriage are dissipated when, kneeling before the Lord, you thank him for one another, in the presence of one another, and then together invoke his blessings upon your lives, your home, your loved ones, and your dreams.”	Kneel together as you begin and close each day.	President Hinckley, Ensign, quoted in “No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
Your wives and your children may be blessed”(3 Ne. 18:21)	Pray for family	(3 Ne. 18:21)quoted in “No Substitute for Family Prayer,” Ensign, Feb. 2001, 25
"Family prayer in any home will draw the family closer together and result in better feelings between father and mother, between parents and children, and between one child and another. If children pray for their parents, it makes them more appreciative of their parents, and as they pray for one another, they feel closer to one another and part of each other, especially as they realize that they are talking to their Father in heaven while on their knees in family or secret prayer. Then is when we forget our differences and think of the best in others, and pray for their well-being and for strength to overcome our own weaknesses. There is no doubt that we are better people when we try to tune in to the spirit of our Father in heaven so that we might communicate with him and express our desire to do his will as we pray for his blessings."	Family Prayer	N. Eldon Tanner, Conference Report, October 1967, p. 56
"My sincere counsel to you today is to recommit yourselves to these two basic practices that have been the source of so many blessings....Never let a day go by without holding family prayer and family scripture study. Put this, the Lord's program, to the test and see if it does not bless your home with greater peace, hope, love, and faith. "I promise you that daily family prayer and scripture study will build within the walls of your home a security and bonding that will enrich your lives and prepare your families to meet the challenges of today and the eternities to come."	Family Prayer	(L. Tom Perry, "Back to Gospel Basics," General Conference, April 1993; see Ensign May 1993, p. 92)