Most Powerful Prayer of My Life!

 3 May 2022

I've been very slack in posting my thoughts when I read the scriptures. Shame on me! I read Elder Gary E. Stevenson's talk in April 2022 General Conference this morning: "Love, Share, Invite". I sometimes grieve a little that we are not serving a traditional mission as a couple. This is no reason not to be a member missionary. I don't exactly live in a place where I can teach a neighbor. Set a good example is a fall-back position, and probably wimpy at that. I must repent. Maybe this is how I'll start. As I was reading from the Book of Mormon this morning in Mosiah 23 & 24, a note in my scriptures I wrote in 2021 caught my attention. I'll share it:

Mosiah 24:13-14

This is so powerful! Think about it. Covenant people will be blessed and during the trials, the Lord will fight their battles —"deliver them out of bondage". Is this what my dear friend Floy was talking about five days before she passed? We are covenant children and the Lord will deliver us from bondage. He will ease burdens. And why? Verse 14 - so that we can be witnesses for Him and of Him that he does visit us in our afflictions.  

Does it have to be just afflictions? I don't know that I see a lot of afflictions, but I do get myself into stressful situations frequently. I play the piano. That brings with it a little complexity in my life at times. I schedule things too tight. I wonder how in the world I'll pull it off, but God give me the strength and sometimes He even adjust schedules so that I can keep my commitments. My kids say, "Oh Mom, you bring on your own stress. You keep yourself too busy." But everything I do I do because I love the Savior. He delivered me out of bondage. I will serve Him to my dying breath because of His mercy, grace and care of me. I saw it! It was visible! It was tangible! I will NEVER deny it?

FYI, at the time I was delivered, I wasn't keeping my covenants. I was a covenant child, but I was off the rail. I was still a covenant child. My parents WERE keeping their covenants and I prayed that THEIR prayers in my behalf would be answered. The most powerful prayer of my life!!!