How prayer has helped me - English Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
So when I am praying, I'm really concentrating and focusing on my thoughts and my desires and to help me remind of who a Heavenly Father is and who am I really going to be. So I'm always reminded of the fact that I'm a son of God so I can always communicate with him and then when I pray and ask him something and I know that Heavenly Father always listens to me and He already knows my desires way before that I think that I'm desiring something. So a prayer makes people connect to Heavenly Father and so we can get the power of heaven.
Video 2 Transcript
One of the biggest ways that prayer has helped me in my life, there have been several different occasions where I am praying and I get a thought pop into my head while I'm praying. That kind of prepares me for something in the future. I was a missionary in Thailand and I remember saying a prayer. This was during quarantine, during COVID, and I just remember saying a prayer, please help me to be happy. It was a really hard time. I said, just please help me to be happy, and I had the thought pop in my head, be happy wherever I am. I remember I finished my prayer, I came back and we had gotten a text message saying that we were getting sent out of the country, which was really hard for me. It's something that I didn't want to happen, but I knew that I was going to be able to be happy because of that prayer.
Video 3 Transcript
I want to focus on how other people's prayers has helped me, not necessarily the prayers that I have said. My family recently went through a very difficult health crisis and it was really, really scary, but we had so many people praying for us and it was so amazing to see just how much other people's prayers strengthened me and my family. I truly think that those that were praying for us really carried us through that trial and I'm just grateful for the strength that prayers can provide to me, even when I'm not the one necessarily saying them. Of course, it's important to pray on our own, but it's so amazing that other people's prayers can give us the strength that we need.
Video 4 Transcript
Prayer has helped me so many times but especially there's just one prayer that I know I can always ask and I can always receive an answer and that's just a prayer to God to know that he's there and to know that he's aware of me and to just let him know the hard things that I'm going through and without Phil I know every single time I've asked and every time you may ask in prayer if God's there and if he loves you that he'll answer and that you'll feel that love and it can help you get through whatever you're going through.
Video 5 Transcript
Prayer has helped me to communicate with God and to receive personal revelation in my life and to feel his presence.
Video 6 Transcript
Prayer has blessed me in a big way. I think I'm a big advocate for prayer. I know that praying has helped me to get through a lot of trials I've been going through recently and they have helped me when I needed to be humble and when I needed to repent and for all sorts of reasons and I can't think of any reasons why anyone wouldn't, would not need prayer.
Video 7 Transcript
Prayer has been a big help to me in my life and not necessarily in the way that you might think. A lot of people pray and then immediately get an answer or immediately feel better or whatever and that doesn't really happen to me. But the way that prayer helps me is that slowly over time as I'm consistent with praying, I feel stronger. I feel more capable. Not long ago I was facing a challenge and I was just completely overwhelmed. I didn't have answers. I just prayed every day and my prayers kind of developed to be more specific, more personal, more meaningful. And over time, over the course of a couple months, I felt less stressed about the situation and answers slowly came.
Video 8 Transcript
Prayer has been an immense blessing in my life because it has allowed me to be able to stay in constant communication with my Heavenly Father. As someone who does struggle with anxiety, sometimes every single day is a battle and sometimes it's really hard to rely on myself for that kind of courage. But because I have prayer and because I have a direct communication to my Father in Heaven, I am able to draw that kind of confidence that I need to go throughout my day and that I need to be able to have peace. And that has been able to be a big blessing in my life because it has allowed me to get outside of myself and experience new things.
Video 9 Transcript
I'm a firm believer in prayer. I love praying, I love interceding for other people. So basically what I've done is I've created a PowerPoint presentation. It takes me about an hour and a half every night, which I'll go through. The first part of my PowerPoint presentation is based on the prayer template of Jesus. So exalting God and just glorifying His name and just telling Him how deeply I love Him and how wonderful He's been. I focus on praying for others and ministries before I bring anything of my own to God. And I just see that He's just stepped into my life so many times, even before I set up this prayer template. He stepped in and He's just done so much in my life. He's just changed and I've been able to teach others how to pray and I've been able to teach others the importance of prayer and how God answers that.
Video 10 Transcript
The simplest way to explain how prayers help me is that I used to have to plan all the things that I needed to do for the day And now I just have two or three major things of the day and As you ask god just directs and makes your days good. He fills them up He gives you the experiences and the opportunities you need to make your day the best day And allow that best day to serve many people Everyone's enriched and at the end of the day you thank god for everything he's done And he'll continue to do so as long as you're grateful and humble about it
Video 11 Transcript
I think prayer has been one of the most important tools in helping me build a relationship with God. I really feel like we communicate, we talk to each other, I feel like I can be really open with God and it's like that daily communication with Him that I think has built a relationship where it doesn't just feel like I'm talking to Him to ask Him for things or to apologize for things but that we really get to chat every night and every morning and sometimes in between and so I think that has been a key part to building a relationship with God.
Video 12 Transcript
I think for me one of the biggest ways that praying to Heavenly Father blesses me is that it gives me the opportunity to get to know Him. Heavenly Father gives us modern day prophets, prophets of old scriptures to read His words, but prayer is a time when I feel that I can get to know His attributes and His qualities.
Video 13 Transcript
I just love prayer so much, just knowing that we have a Heavenly Father to pray to, that He truly loves us, and He listens to us, and He hears everything that we have to say. And it's amazing that we can have a conversation with Him, and tell Him all the good things, the bad things, and the sad things. And Heavenly Father has really helped me to continue to move forward each day, and has given me the comfort in my life. And knowing that He never judges us, and that He listens to us individually, and it has brought me a lot of peace in my life, knowing that we can pray to Him, and that it's so powerful if you really take the time and talk to Him.
Video 14 Transcript
Prayer has always been a big source of peace and comfort for me. Whenever I get really nervous, like for a big test or when I would have a big soccer game, I always could count on prayer to help calm me down and make me feel better.
Video 15 Transcript
Prayer has helped me because when I had surgery, I was afraid because I was going in to have bladder surgery because I was going to the bathroom every 20 minutes. So I prayed and asked God to help me through the surgery because I thought I was going to die. Well, he did help me get through the surgery because I woke up. Even though I woke up sick, I got through the surgery because I thought I was going to die.
Video 16 Transcript
I find that I feel the most meaning in my prayers when they're just offered, I don't know, at random times. A lot of times I'll pray while I'm walking and just thank God for the day or for things that have happened that have gone well or for the beauty of where I live and I just feel so peace and connection with God as I find time to pray throughout the day and not just when I need Him or when I'm going through something hard, although I do think prayer is essential in those moments, but I find that when I connect with God about the little things throughout the day that I just feel so grounded and so capable because I remember that I have Him with me all the time and that He can help me.
Video 17 Transcript
One thing I really know is that prayer works, you know and one thing that's helped me with that is just being mindful of when I ask for something to really think about it in the future and recognize when it gets answered, you know Because the times that I find myself questioning whether prayer works or when I pray for things But then just kind of forget about it But if you think about in the future write it down then you'll be able to recognize it more
Video 18 Transcript
Prayer has helped me in a lot of ways, but mostly it has really helped me feel closer to the Savior and to draw on his power and his strength when I don't have a lot.
Video 19 Transcript
I take a lot of hope in the fact that the most powerful being in the universe wants to hear from me, and he cares deeply about the things that I experience, the things I struggle with, the things that I have joy about, and just like my earthly parents, he has this desire to connect with me and to know me. Having that line of communication is sometimes the only way that I can truly find peace or support or help in any given situation. Sometimes, I feel like there isn't necessarily a mortal answer, like an answer that the world can give, but if I seek an answer through prayer, often something heavenly comes my way, and that was just what I needed. So, prayer is super helpful.
Video 20 Transcript
For me personally, prayer, it's one of the few things that I can do that will immediately put me in more of like a calm, peaceful mood and tone. It's hard to pray knowing that you're speaking to God and not be at least calmed down a little, at least have a little bit of hope that things will get better and hope that He's listening to you and He will care about you and help you. And just simply getting down on my knees and praying just does that for me. It just puts me in that mood of like, okay, I'm talking to God. I'm going to be humble. I'm obviously going to put more trust in Him than I have in myself. And I'm just hoping that this will help me. And that, that alone is enough to just help me throughout my entire life with whatever I'm going through.
Video 21 Transcript
Prayer has been a blessing because like I have friends and I have family and I know that they'd always be willing to talk to me but sometimes I can feel lonely and like just like I don't have anyone who could like understand what I that I could tell all of my feelings to and so prayers just helped me because I've been able to like build a relationship with Heavenly Father and He knows like what I'm going through and what's in my heart. Sometimes throughout the day I find myself thinking like I really can't wait until I can pray and like talk to Heavenly Father and tell him what's going on because that was crazy and so I just feel like that's really cool it just makes me want to talk to Heavenly Father more.
Video 22 Transcript
Praying helps me feel more calm than normal, and it can be a nice break from the craziness of the day.
Video 23 Transcript
Prayer helps me all the time. I am a person, to be completely honest, that has depressive tendencies and when I'm feeling the lowest of low, it's... prayer is one thing that I know that I can... there's just someone to talk to. There's always someone to talk to. God is there for me. There's at least one person there for me, even if I feel like nobody else is there for me, which when I come out of depression or challenging times, I realize that it's not true and there are more people there for me, but prayer is always there. Prayer, you can always pray. In your mind, you don't always have to vocalize it. It can be in your heart, but it's always there. It's always available and there is someone always there to help you and who wants to help you and that is how prayer has helped me.
Video 24 Transcript
Just last night, I've just been kind of in just a mindset, a place where I just kind of felt like I wasn't putting forth as much effort as I would like to in regards to my relationship with God. So last night I decided to like kneel down and pray, just like really talk to Him. And I just know that what He wants is a relationship with us, and prayer is one of the best ways to allow that to happen. So yeah, that's how it's been able to help me. Sorry, I'm walking up a hill.
Video 25 Transcript
Honestly, it's helped me because I know I can turn and talk to him when I can't talk to anyone else, you know, or whenever I'm feeling like there's nothing in front of me, he just can hear what I'm feeling.
Video 26 Transcript
Prayer has helped me because when I am struggling or even when I'm rejoicing in my life through all the times, the good and the bad, when I pray to Heavenly Father I feel a stronger connection with Him. I feel like He is there with me and He is listening and I feel that He knows what I'm going through, He knows me. Not just when I'm praying, but when I'm speaking the words, but when I actually am listening. When I sit there and listen in my prayers, it really helps me connect with Heavenly Father and I can act as if He's there and I really have been blessed because it gives me inner security and an inner peace of mind and that is wonderful, that's a blessing that we have that not a lot of people have in their lives.
Video 27 Transcript
Prayer is what originally gave me my testament of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and that's real, and gave me that desire to go on a mission. And prayer has been my number one guiding tool. It's literally a way to communicate with your Heavenly Father who loves you and He wants to talk to you, and you receive the guidance and feel the love of your Savior Jesus Christ. Like, why wouldn't you pray? It's kind of dumb not to, and prayer just helped me and guided me in all aspects of my life, brought me peace, gave me comfort, and gave me confirmation and validation. And it's just, you're talking with your Heavenly Father. It gives you eternal perspective and helps you focus on things that actually matter and not focus on things of the world that are crap and don't matter. So you should pray.
Video 28 Transcript
I remember a time when I was like 16 where I didn't I didn't really believe in God and I was just going through this really it's really hard time in my life and I was just very sad and so I just remember you know I had to pray so I prayed to God and just said you know I asked him if he was there because you know I didn't I didn't really know and I just remember just the warmest feeling around me that and he let me know that that he was there and that he loved me and after that like I just knew I knew God exists and that he loved me and that was just a turning point in my life
Video 29 Transcript
Prayer blesses me because I know that someone is listening on the other end, and I believe that he already knows what is best for me, so even though I may be asking for something different, he'll bless me with what I need to grow and become better.
Video 30 Transcript
Prayer is my connection to my Father in Heaven. That's how I feel Him with me. Talking to my Dad, who understands everything that I'm going through, I just know that He understands. I know that He's there to support me and that He'll always stand behind me and forgive me and love me, even when I've done some really bad things or just messed up. Heavenly Father loves us. I really believe that when we show our love for Him in prayer, we can feel His love coming back.
