{"id":11825,"date":"2019-10-29T23:52:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2019-10-29T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:57:02","slug":"the-power-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/the-power-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If there is one thing I wouldn\u2019t know how to get by without in life, its prayer.\u00a0 Prayer is such a critically important part of my life and always have been – I pray for guidance, I pray about the decisions I need to make, I pray for my loved ones, I pray for help overcoming my fears, I pray for strength to handle life\u2019s stresses, I pray to thank God for my blessings.\u00a0 Prayer is what keeps me sane. Prayer is what keeps me strong. Prayer is the one constant I can always count on in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As CEO of my\ncompany I constantly relied on prayer to help me lead my company and I shared that\nopenly with my employees. At times I even asked my employees if they would also\npray for me to make the best decisions possible for our company.  And while I was open that my own prayers were\nsaid to God the Father in the name of his son Jesus Christ, even those employees\nwho believed in a different higher power than I, or even those who didn\u2019t\nbelieve in a higher power at all, were so kind about letting me know they\u2019d offered\nprayers on my behalf. I know their prayers made a huge difference in helping me\nas their leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent conference held in Boston Massachusetts, religious leader M. Russell Ballard invited<\/a> everyone to join in a new movement to invite their neighbors, colleagues, and friends to pray for our country, for our leaders, for our people, and for families, stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cOur nation was founded on prayer, it was\npreserved by prayer, and we need prayer again\u2026 pray for this country, for our\nleaders, for our people and for the families that live in this great nation\nfounded by God. Remember, this country was established and preserved by our\nfounding fathers and mothers who repeatedly acknowledged the hand of God through\nprayer\u2026.   I invite you to join in a new\nmovement. Invite your neighbors, your colleagues, your friends on social media\nto pray for this country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a great movement to start!!!\u00a0 We all need more prayer! And our leaders do need us to pray on their behalf – whether you politically support those leaders or not – the wisest thing each of us can do is to pray for them and ask God to help them make the best decisions possible for our country. Our prayers WILL make a difference – I can personally attest to that! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer is SO\npowerful. Truly, it is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal and it is\navailable to all of us every single day so we should be taking full advantage\nof it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we are to\nhave [God\u2019s] help, including in our day-to-day concerns, we need more or less\nconstant recourse to our Heavenly Father in prayer. He can and will guide us in\nthe small and simple things as well as the things of greater consequence\u2014which,\nthough we may not realize it, are usually one and the same.\u201d   – D.\nTodd Christofferson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I LOVE this movement of encouraging everyone to offer more prayers and increasing the frequency of our own prayers. \u00a0I\u2019M IN! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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