I'd like to visit this idea that God grants to men according to their desires.
Eons 1:12 And it came to pass that after I had prayed and labored with all diligence, the Lord said unto me: I will grant unto thee according to thy desires, because of thy faith. Enos's desires were granted because of his faith.
Psalms 37:4 Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Our desires are contingent on our delight in the Lord.
Alma 41:3 And it is requisite with the justice of God that men should be judged according to their works; and if their works were good in this life, and the desires of their hearts were good, that they should also, at the last day, be restored unto that which is good.
4 And if their works are evil they shall be restored unto them for evil. Therefore, all things shall be restored to their proper order, every thing to its natural frame—mortality raised to immortality, corruption to incorruption—raised to endless happiness to inherit the kingdom of God, or to endless misery to inherit the kingdom of the devil, the one on one hand, the other on the other—
5 The one raised to happiness according to his desires of happiness, or good according to his desires of good; and the other to evil according to his desires of evil; for as he has desired to do evil all the day long even so shall he have his reward of evil when the night cometh. Our final state is consistent with our desires while in mortality. Does this mean that The timing of the granted desires is post mortem?
D&C 7:8 8 Verily I say unto you, ye shall both have according to your desires, for ye both joy in that which ye have desired. There are different desires that are acceptable to the Lord and appropriately make us happy.
D&C 11:17 And then, behold, according to your desires, yea, even according to your faith shall it be done unto you. This one seems to equate desires with faith. Does that correlation exist only for righteous desires or is a lack of faith equivalent and associated with unrighteousness desires?
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