Day 307

  • Principle: Keep a prayer always in your heart.

  • Book of Mormon Reading: 3 Nephi 20:1 - 20:22

  • Verse 1

    • Russell M. Nelson: 

      “Prophets have long told us to pray humbly and frequently. …

      “Prayers can be offered even in silence. One can thinka prayer, especially when words would interfere” (in Conference Report, Apr. 2003, 5; or Ensign, May 2003, 7).

    • Boyd K. Packer: 

      “Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. …

      “Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil [see Revelation 3:20]” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1994, 76–77; or Ensign, Nov. 1994, 59).

  • Dallin H. Oaks teaches about being filled with the Spirit (verses 8-9)

    • “Attendance at church each week provides the opportunity to partake of the sacrament, as the Lord has commanded us (see D&C 59:9). If we act with the right preparation and attitude, partaking of the sacrament renews the cleansing effect of our baptism and qualifies us for the promise that we will always have His Spirit to be with us. A mission of that Spirit, the Holy Ghost, is to testify of the Father and the Son and to lead us into truth (see John 14:26; 2 Nephi 31:18). Testimony and truth, which are essential to our personal conversion, are the choice harvest of this weekly renewing of our covenants. In the day-to-day decisions of my life and in my personal spiritual growth, I have enjoyed the fulfillment of that promise” (in Conference Report, Apr. 2002, 38; or Ensign, May 2002, 34).

    • Dallin H. Oaks also invited: “To those brothers and sisters who may have allowed themselves to become lax in this vital renewal of the covenants of the sacrament, I plead in words of the First Presidency that you ‘come back and feast at the table of the Lord, and taste again the sweet and satisfying fruits of fellowship with the saints’ (‘An Invitation to Come Back,’ Church News,22 Dec. 1985, 3). Let us qualify ourselves for our Savior’s promise that by partaking of the sacrament we will ‘be filled’ (3 Nephi 20:8; see also 3 Nephi 18:9), which means that we will be ‘filled with the Spirit’ (3 Nephi 20:9). That Spirit—the Holy Ghost—is our comforter, our direction finder, our communicator, our interpreter, our witness, and our purifier—our infallible guide and sanctifier for our mortal journey toward eternal life” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1996, 82; or Ensign, Nov. 1996, 61).

  • Why should you always have a prayer in your heart?

  • What can you do to keep a prayer always in your heart?

  • Additional Study: