Day 84 Pray Always and Not Faint

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth, and in the same sentence offers a warning that savorless salt is good for nothing. Join me in an attempt to be savory salt as I share each day one verse of scripture and one small thought. Perhaps this small daily emphasis can lead to greater savor in your life, and ultimately, you and I can be savory salt.

Hello, my friends and family, wherever you're listening from, thank you for joining me, and know that I am cheering for your every success. Welcome to Day 84. We are getting so close to the end of the book of 2 Nephi.

This is crazy. We've been in 2 Nephi for a long time, or at least it seems like that, but well done on your path. Today, on your 365-day journey through the Book of Mormon, you're going to be reading from 2 Nephi 32.

Now, before you freak out, don't worry, it's nine verses. I think you can handle it today, but it is such a powerful nine verses. Nephi really finishes up his writings like swinging for the fence.

And I love some of the verses in here. It's really hard to pick some of these verses even though there are only a few of them to pick from. Today's verse is going to be right at the end of the chapter.

We're going to be reading from 2 Nephi chapter 32, verse 9. And let's read that and dive straight in. Verse 9 says, "But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always and not faint." I love this because this is a brief and yet very powerful call to prayer from Nephi.

What do your prayers sound like lately? How can you savor them up a little bit? You know, it's interesting.

Prayer is such an interesting thing because it's so personal to each one of us. I remember growing up, I used to have the opportunity to take the sacrament to a lady that was not able to leave her house. And we would go every Sunday and take the sacrament.

And her prayers were like personal conversations with the Lord. You just knew that when she was talking to the Lord, she knew him in her way, and she was talking directly to him. And then another one that came to mind that would be really quite a different style of prayer.

I remember teaching on my mission that a regular opportunity is to teach someone how to pray the very first time. And many people have never even experienced what prayer is like. And as you taught them about Heavenly Father, being, you know, God of the universe, and his son, Jesus Christ, in teaching about these immortal and all-powerful beings, and yet all-loving beings, I have loved some of the memories that I have of investigators kneeling and for the first time expressing out loud a desire to know Heavenly Father.

I even remember one in particular that just started out saying—I mean, obviously, it was in Mongolian—but he started out saying, "Heavenly Father, if you even exist, please help me and my family know." And I think the faith behind that is so powerful. So Nephi's call to action here for us to remember to pray always... I want to take... I hope you are too.