Waiting upon the Lord: Thy Will Be Done

Excerpt from a talk by Robert D. Hales

To wait upon the Lord means planting the seed of faith and nourishing it “with great diligence, and … patience.”¹⁷

It means praying as the Savior did—to God, our Heavenly Father—saying: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.”¹⁸ It is a prayer we offer with our whole souls in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Waiting upon the Lord means pondering in our hearts and “receiv[ing] the Holy Ghost” so that we can know “all things what [we] should do.”¹⁹

As we follow the promptings of the Spirit, we discover that “tribulation worketh patience”²⁰ and we learn to “continue in patience until [we] are perfected.”²¹

Waiting upon the Lord means to “stand fast”²² and “press forward” in faith, “having a perfect brightness of hope.”²³

It means “relying alone upon the merits of Christ”²⁴ and “with [His] grace assisting [us, saying]: Thy will be done, O Lord, and not ours.”²⁵

As we wait upon the Lord, we are “immovable in keeping the commandments,”²⁶ knowing that we will “one day rest from all [our] afflictions.”²⁷

And we “cast not away … [our] confidence”²⁸ that “all things wherewith [we] have been afflicted shall work together for [our] good.”²⁹

17.  Alma 32:41.

18.  Matthew 6:10; Luke 11:2.

19.  2 Nephi 32:5.

20.  Romans 5:3.

21.  Doctrine and Covenants 67:13.

22.  Alma 45:17.

23.  2 Nephi 31:20.

24.  Moroni 6:4.

25.  Doctrine and Covenants 109:44.

26.  Alma 1:25.

27.  Alma 34:41.

28.  Hebrews 10:35.

29.  Doctrine and Covenants 98:3.