"Discovering Answers to Your Prayers"
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- čas přidán 16. 01. 2024
- Steven Tueller
Administrative Vice President
Brigham Young University-Hawaii (January 16, 2024)
Vice President Steven Tueller shares guidance with students in seeking answers to prayers at today's devotional. He highlights the importance of faith, openness to diverse answers, recognizing God's guidance in various forms, considering past experiences, and trusting personal agency, emphasizing the need to patiently and trustingly discover how God answers prayers in His way and time.
“We do not need to fear. God has a divine plan for each of us. He can certainly make adjustments to ensure we do not lack the experiences we need to choose to return to Him.” -Steven Tueller
Steven Tueller’s full transcript of his speech, “Discovering Answers to Your Prayers”, can be found here speeches.byuh.edu/devotionals....
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Steven Tueller has nearly 30 years of experience in the Church Education System, starting at BYU in Provo's Physical Facilities Division. He specializes in budgeting, strategic planning, space management, and sales and marketing. Since June 2006, he has served as managing director of budget and Human Resources at BYU-Hawaii. Steven was a missionary in Osaka, Japan, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He earned his bachelor’s degree in human resource development, a master’s degree in international and area studies, and an MBA, all from BYU in Provo.
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After hearing this address by President Steven Tueller, I was guided by The Spirit how to seek and find help to a near fatal medical problem by realizing how The Lord was answering my prayers in a different way than I expected. Thank you Brother Tueller for your Inspired Direction and talk on this Sacred Subject. Our Father in Heaven DOES hear and answer our prayers! We just need to learn to listen to His Guidance through the prompting of The Holy Ghost!
I was “led” to this talk today. Thank you.
Same.
Me too, just what I needed to hear 😊
I loved this talk. Some of the things said were a great revelation to me. Having gone through a divorce after 40 years of marriage I realized that all the warning signs were there before my marriage and in my enthusiasm to be married I didn't listen to the spirit.
Interestingly, this morning while pondering and re-reading 1 Ne. 7.17-18 where Nephi prays for strength to burst the bands that bound him. The Lord did not, but loosed the bands. A small distinction, but the Lord did not grant Nephi powerful strength, but rather loosed the bands. Another example of the Lord answering a prayer differently than requested.
He sounds like my Dad because we did the same in our neighborhood for the Widows and he was always available for our family needs
While not many of us had a father like this, perhaps there are many things that we can learn from his goodness and example. All of the noteworthy things he did, we can also do to our friends, family, neighbors and even strangers. We can listen without judgment, express gratitude, show up, spend time in meaningful conversations, listen without judgment, love the Savior and bear testimony of Him, play with a child, and serve.
Wow! Thank you so much for this inspired talk.
My Heavenly Father answered my prayers through your talk brother Steven and your wife, I definitely appreciate you sharing your spiritual life experience with God’s directions through the Holy Ghost inspiration.
I really appreciate this wonderful talk! Understanding of different ways of how we can all personally receive answers to our prayers becomes clearer and clearer to me. Thank you.
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Cool talk, bro! 🤗 Hit me like a FREIGHT TRAIN 😮 I needed THIS talk THIS day. 👊😎👊
Thank you for your testimony we learned as we go through living are life.
I was engaged and she seemed like the one but I very clearly got the answer of "No".
Later when I met my wife I prayed but didn't get a "No." I just felt good about sbout it and none of that stupor of thought or butterflies. Peace
What I invariably think whenever I hear these stories of amazing, loving dads is, "Why didn't I get one?" Growing up in the LDS Church is really hell when you are bombarded with stories like this and it's not remotely like your reality. The second thing I thought was, "And when you follow the promptings you receive in answer to prayer and it turns out horribly? As in really bad permanent earthly consequences or eternal consequences horribly?" It's not always quite as straightforward or as warm and fuzzy as presented. I think if it really were as simple as you always get one of two answers, and you always eventually see why there was something better than what you missed out on -- sometimes there isn't a something better and sometimes what you get is something awful -- no one would struggle with this. It's exactly because there are experiences that don't ever appear clear and don't ever provide something better that people struggle.
So sorry that you are struggling.
Sometimes we wonder why the Lord is having us go through such hard things.
In thinking about your comment, I had the thought to tell you to read Sarah Hinze books. She has written several. They are mostly about pre-birth experiences. For whatever reason, I felt that you should read them.
Remember, no matter what you’re going through, the Lord knows and loves you!!
That’s so important for all of us to recognize - certainly a very natural reaction to hearing these stories. Perhaps it would help to realize that you DO have the best father anyone could dream of in your Heavenly Father. I know, it’s not the same. It’s hard when you don’t have an awesome relationship with an earthly father, but know that your joy with your Father in Heaven will far exceed your disappointment and pain here on earth!
Perhaps God wants you to take the harder path, have experiences which are not what we dreamed of, or wanted. Sometimes, the grandeur path is the one which is not the model, not what everyone promotes or dreams of, eg, what happens when we don’t have that happy, supportive marriage and family, etc.
My husband is a good man, but follows his father, does not read scriptures or pray out loud. Two out of three sons have Asperger, and really struggle, in great pain! Our oldest died bc of his struggles with bipolar. The problems continue. My sons did not go on missions. Two reject a belief in God. One particularly needs help with his discouragement and lack of ability to sleep.
However, my faith has been tested and strengthened! I have learned to have more empathy, and remain stronger in the Gospel. Like Job, can I still believe when I do not enjoy the blessings of a believing family. I have myself and my belief, experiences, a strong hope in our beautiful belief in the preciousness of our eyes open to God, love, and growing through life with prayer, scripture and good people around us, dear friends. Remember, we will be blessed greatly in the next world of the spirts. Because of what we don’t have now, but desire, we will be most blessed and strengthen others.
@lanarobertson5455 In essence, what this boils down to is we go through decades of torture telling ourselves that it will all be worth it somehow. I detest the story of Job and always have. I never, ever wanted to be a Job, I think the story is horrendous and cruel, the concept that one child replaces another is obscene, and whenever it's been discussed in church I want to start screaming. It's also delusional. He literally finds out his friends are not friends and his wife doesn't love him, and then he goes right back to pretending they are his friends and he has a great marriage. Which is insane. Not that it matters, but I could match you trial for trial and add considerably to the list. Except I don't have some of the supports you mention and never have. I am exhausted and completely fed up. I've reached the point where I'm done spouting the usual "all is well in Zion" party line. All is not well. It has not been well for a very long time. Every time I say anything, church members descend with utterly empathy-less comments and I get told -- again -- how great this all is for me and how it will help me develop compassion. I'm an empath. I was born with enormous amounts of compassion. That has not served me well, especially in the church. I'm to the point where I think it would have been much better for me if I'd had a lot less compassion for others, and others had had a lot more compassion for me. All it's achieved is the church and people have drained me dry, and they stand there with their hands out, demanding that I give more and angry when I say how I feel about it. I'm sure Christ is somewhere. Whether he's in this church I think is an open question.
@joanne2078 Yep, this is all because I have not been doing anything I should be. 🙄 And if I'd been reading my scriptures, praying, going to the temple, etc., I wouldn't feel how I feel and my perspective would be completely different and I'd feel how you feel. Oh, wait, let's see, 60+ years of doing that. Right back to screaming. Every time I get told this I so wish I had not wasted a significant portion of my life on those things. What's the point of doing them only to be told you aren't doing them because if you were then you would think differently and not be the person you are? Judgment just permeates.
Why are church members just so unable to accept differences in situation and temperament and life experiences? I would gladly insert everyone who makes these comments into my life and see how well they would handle the garbage I've been through. Since 99.9% of people I've dealt with cannot even comprehend most of it and pretty much run the other way as fast as they can with the barest outline, I'm not thinking most people would have dealt as brilliantly as they imagine. I'm so tired of having the response to my opening my mouth be, "Well, if you'd just . . . . . ." Exactly why for the last 60+ years I haven't opened my mouth at all and I've just had it and now I'm opening my mouth. Probably won't be stopping any time soon. I. Have. Had. It.
This talk was an answer to my prayers
Thank you very much for your message 🙏
Thank you for this inspiring message.
Happy St Valentine's Day everyone if you got healthy food in your belly and clean water to drink and clean clothes and comfy blanket then your doing ok if your lonely your not alone and all of us in the lonley club need you to hold on to hope and fill up with love and joy tomorrow you do it all over AGEN if you give up then all of us who are in same boat will loose a piece of our good heart ❤😢😊love susan
That was the answer to my prayers today❤. Thank you.
you are the answer to my prayers ❤
Eu estou com muito sono para continuar lendo as letrinhas da legenda. Mas é interessante observar a mente buscando as conexões das palavras familiares para fazer a traduçao . Eu estive no Templo hoje e consegui em alguns momentos ficar a sozinha para orar mais à vontade O Templo tem um poder incrível sobre a minha mente , amo a casa do Senhor como a minha casa. Enquanto eu olhava para um quadro lindo de Jesus Cristo pude encontrar medos que me fizeram cometer 3 erros mas que nâo preciso repití los para sempre, gostei de aprender mais vendo a ilustração de Plano do Pai Celestial e eu pude encontrar em Pérola de Grande Valor grandes tesouros. Muito obrigado!
Pure inspiration. I’m ending my senior mission in a month and feel like my future is a blank wall. Really not sure what the future holds. But I am confident there is a plan. However, this message was such a blessing. I appreciate your example and faith. There will be opposition but you and your family are a beacon of light and hope. Some very direct answers to prayers here. Thank you!
At first thought this was a funeral .
You should begin your talk by telling the people Jesus is not created, he was not born in Heaven. Mormonism is not a biblical religion, it does not tell the truth on the pulpit that they believe in a different Jesus and God.