As Though It Has Already Happened

โ€œWherefore, the prophets, and the priests, and the teachers, did labor diligently, exhorting with all long-suffering the people to diligence; teaching the law of Moses, and the intent for which it was given; ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐š๐ก, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ. And after this manner did they teach them.โ€
-Jarom 1:11

Suggested Book: An Early Resurrection by Adam S. Miller (itโ€™s on the Deseret Book Plus app)

To study: the Hebrew term โ€œProphetic Perfectโ€

Have you ever prayed as if you already have the thing youโ€™re praying for?

I did this recently.

My daughter has a dance competition coming up and I knew we didnโ€™t have the money to stay in a hotel. I was just thinking weโ€™d stay with a friend. I later found out that her competition starts at 7:00 AM so the most convenient thing would be to stay in a hotel, plus it makes it more fun for my daughter to be with her dance team friends and that is also important to me, itโ€™s a fun tradition we have to go and have that time together. And I know that whatโ€™s important to my daughter and I is important to Heavenly Father as well.
So knowing all of this, I decided to pray, โ€œHeavenly Father, thank you for providing a way for us to stay in a hotel for dance competitionโ€ฆโ€ and just days after, we received a check in the mail making it possible for us to be able to do that.

So I am now trying to pray for things as if theyโ€™ve already happened, for the things I need and for the things I desire.

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