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Pray Always

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  • "Pray Always," Ensign, Oct 2008, 40-43

    Once we "learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God (namely, God is our Father, and we are his children), then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part. ...

    "The object of prayer is not to change the will of God, but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant, but that are made conditional on our asking for them."1

    Stories or scriptures concerning prayer are featured in the following artwork.

    Left: The Prayer, by James Seward

    Oil on canvas

    "But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul" (2 Nephi 32:9).

    In Favor with God, by Simon Dewey

    Acrylic

    "He that is righteous is favored of God" (1 Nephi 17:35).

    Sister Manwaring and Daughters at Prayer, by George Edward Anderson

    Photographic print

    "And they shall also teach their children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord" (D&C 68:28).

    Notes

    1. Bible Dictionary, 752-53.

    2. Bible Dictionary, 753.

    3. In Church History in the Fulness of Times, 2nd ed. (Church Educational System manual, 2003), 204.

    4. In Lynne S. Turner, Emigrating Journals of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and the Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Trains (1996), 224.

    5. In Turner, Emigrating Journals, 36.

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