Where are you from? Would you like to share your expression of faith online? I’m sure others would greatly benefit from your witness. Let us know if you would like to write or post a video witness of your beliefs, or otherwise help us to move the work forward in your native language.

All the best,

I love and agree with Terrie’s answer and would like to share some personal thoughts as well.

I was talking with a student a few weeks ago who asked me a similar question. She said she’d prayed about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon but wasn’t sure she’d gotten her answer. We talked about the promise in the Book of Mormon. God “will” respond to the honest inquirer,and you are an honest inquirer. I testify that He knows how to reach you and give you an assurance of eternal truths.

When something is right, we have peace, and a sense of our hearts expanding and our outlook opening up. Ponder again how you’ve felt reading and how you’ve felt at Church. It’s easy to override those feelings with intellectual struggle. The gospel does make sense intellectually, but it can’t be proven that way. Think about it. If God had made it so, then there would be no test of faith to believe, and we’ve come for that very purpose. There is “spiritual evidence”, however, sufficient for each one of us personally.

Also, sometimes we don’t see God’s hand as He is answering our prayers until we look back in retrospect. Sometimes he guides us through others, like the friend who invited you to Church. Sometimes we bump into websites so further understanding and light can come. As we recognize these non-coincidental events in our lives, we see that God is there and hearing us along and then it distills on us that the peace we felt reading the Book of Mormon and other divine interventions are not to be unnoticed. They then shape into testimony and witness that our prayers are heard and these things are divine.

I testify in humility, that I know that God knows you, your heart, your name, your questions and that He is beside you, guiding you, and waiting for you to recognize His influence in your life. I know that the Book of Mormon is a true account and that it contains so many principles that unfold just as we need them and testifies of the Savior’s atonement and love for each of us personally and every nation. I testify that the gospel has been restored to the earth by the Lord through Joseph Smith. It has changed my life forever.

God bless. Please let us know if you have further questions.
Love, Karen
km@moregood.com

The Bible tells us to have faith, not intellect, where the gospel is concerned. In James 1:5, the Bible says that if we lack wisdom, we can turn to God for advice. When I finally did this, I got my answer.

There are people who say not to pray about the Church because you can’t tell who is answering. I disagree. In the above mentioned scripture, God told us to pray for answers. God always keeps His promises–always. If He tells us to pray, then He will also give us an answer we can recognize as His. He can do anything, so certainly He can help us recognize His voice (not literally, but we can recognize who is giving us the answer.) It’s a matter of trusting God to be able to keep His promises.

The more you practice praying, even about little things, the easier it will be to recognize His answers. You can prove or disprove anything by trying to do it with your brain. But only God knows the answer to your question, and He wants you to find out for yourself, not to take anyone else’s word. The only way to find out is to go to the source of all truth–God–in prayer.

Isn’t this also called “being inspired”? I think you even named it “motivation.” I ask because a friend has introduced me to LDS. I am interested, yet have a difficult time believing what the book of Mormon says to be true (Right now, I am reading the kid version so that I can better understand the regular version).

So many people describe a feeling wash over them when they feel that God has let them know that the book of Mormon is true. One person described it as a burning sensation. That can’t be explained…I cannot say that was the power of God or that it wasn’t. However, I can research the writings in the book of Mormon, and the more I research, I become less and less convinced.

Why?