This is a rather specific question with details and a plan of action! It seems that Jared knew what might happen to their family (being driven out) before he even asked in prayer. How did he know to ask this question? Perhaps he had seen other families driven out of their land. Likely the Holy Ghost had started to give him impressions and he had some feelings as to what might happen. Can the Holy Ghost guide our prayers like this? I believe so. Because Jared followed the promptings of the Holy Ghost to pray about this topic, the brother of Jared was able to receive a great revelation from the Lord. This revelation showed them what to do and promised great blessings for their family - that the Lord would go before them and that from them would rise a great nation.
His prayer is full of the intent to act! This shows faith. He intended to go where the Lord wanted him to go. Although it must have been difficult accept a response that he would have to completely move his family, he was willing to DO it and ACT according to the Lord's will. Elder Bednar teaches us that this is a critical element of sincere prayer - the intent to act!
Unfortunately it is not always easy to accept the Lord's will. Let's say that I pray and ask, "should I move away from my home?" And Lord says, "yes." Would I actually move? Perhaps I could start doubting why I ever asked that in the first place. I had a friend that didn't want to pray about getting married to his girlfriend because he was afraid that the answer might be "yes!" So he delayed praying about his future because he wasn't willing to make the change that the answer might require of him.
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