When we go into debt, we give away some of our precious, priceless agency and place ourselves in self-imposed servitude. We obligate our time, energy, and means to repay what we have borrowed - resources that could have been used to help ourselves, our families, and others...
Priciple for Answers to Prayer... (1) Show Faith Through Works: "The legendary football coach Knute Rockne implied the same principle when he said, I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.' (2) Stop Worrying: "When we worry about the future, we create unhappiness in the present." Instead, we should do all we can and "leave the worrying to your Heavenly Father". (3) Do Good: "As we do good, the Lord can bless our efforts. As our actions contradict our professions of faith, our prayers become weak. When we do good, the Lord can work though us and magnify our efforts." (4) Delight in the Lord: Instead of displaying concern about unanswered prayers, be grateful and happy. "Know that the Lord, in his time, will bring about all your righteous desires, sometimes in ways we predict, others in ways we could not have possibly foreseen." (5) Commit to keeping the Lord's commandments. (6) Wait: "The Lord has his own timetable and, although it may frustrate us, his timing is always perfect,"