Today’s Reading: Alma 34: 16-31
27 Yea, and when you do not cry unto the Lord, let your hearts be full, drawn out in prayer unto him continually for your welfare, and also for the welfare of those who are around you.
Today’s reading block is about praying for mercy, humility, your farms or ranches, your houses, your enemies, and the strength to withstand the devil. Not only are you to pray for all those things with your families in family prayer, but continue to pour out your heart and soul in your personal prayers in quiet places.
Last week I wrote about prayer and that I often have my most heart felt prayers when I’m not on my knees. Verse 27 speaks to my heart when it says let your hearts be full, drawn out in prayer…continually. There are days that I feel like I never stop praying. For good and bad reasons. There are days that I can’t thank Heavenly Father enough for all that I have, for my children or my husband. Then there are days that I’m praying for strength to keep my cool and just take the day one hour at a time. There have also been a handful of days that I’ve prayed for my husband from the time that he has left home until he returns.
My husband works in construction. He builds houses, apartments, business, etc and there have been days that as soon as he walked out the door, I had this strong feeling to pray for him. Almost like a firm, yet quiet voice telling me to pray and this unsure feeling that he might not come home. So I would literally get down on my knees right then and there and pray for his safety and then keep a prayer in my heart for his welfare until he set foot in our house at the end of the day. I don’t know why I had those feelings and I don’t want to find out why. Now that he is no longer doing much of the physical work but more of the office/management work, I don’t have those feelings hardly ever.
I am most definitely grateful for the promptings to pray for the welfare of my family and others. Never postpone a prompting. Even if it’s just a prompting to pray for someone. You never know what kind of an impact your pray could have on someone.
Megan is a wife, mother, and daughter of Heavenly Father who loves cooking, working out, photography and being a stay-at-home-mom!