Some years ago, some close friends of ours loaned us their cabin in Island Park, Idaho. When we arrived at the cabin, we found that the key that we had been given to unlock the front door didn\u2019t work. <\/p>
We tried to undo windows and pry open screens, all to no avail. <\/p>
Suddenly our son Steven, who was about seven years old at the time, shouted to us that he had just successfully opened the front door. Steven, with a big grin on his face, was standing triumphantly inside the front doorway. <\/p>
I was amazed. I asked him how he did that. He responded with wonderful, childlike spontaneity: \u201cI bowed my head and prayed. When I looked up, my eyes spotted this big rock by the front steps, and I thought, \u2018There is a key under that rock.\u2019 And sure enough there it was.\u201d <\/p>
The prayer of a child had been heard. I thank the Lord for his mother, who had taught him to find keys in moments of crisis.<\/p>
Pray Unto The Father In My Name General Conference April 1997<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some years ago, some close friends of ours loaned us their cabin in Island Park, Idaho. When we arrived at the cabin, we found that the key that we had been given to unlock the front door didn\u2019t work. We tried to undo windows and pry open screens, all to no avail. Suddenly our son Steven, who was about seven years old at the time, shouted to us that he had just successfully opened the front door. Steven, with a big grin on his face, was standing triumphantly inside the front doorway. I was amazed. I asked him how he did that. He responded with wonderful, childlike spontaneity: \u201cI bowed my head and prayed. When I looked up, my eyes spotted this big rock by the front steps, and I thought, \u2018There is a key under that rock.\u2019 And sure enough there it was.\u201d The prayer of a child had been heard. I thank the Lord for his mother, who had taught him to find keys in moments of crisis. Pray Unto The Father In My Name General Conference April 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,42,40,51],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-fingerprints-of-god","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}