Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that the people transgressed the law and polluted the House of the Lord. They committed just as many abominations as the heathens did. The Lord sent messengers to call them to repentance, but they refused to listen to them--mocking and misusing them. They were so wicked that the wrath of the Lord came out against them and they were killed or carried away into Babylon where they became servants. 2 Chr. 36: 14-21 "Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years."

A wonderful verse in the D&C admonishes us to be humble and allow the Lord to lead us by the hand. If we do this, we'll be given answers to our prayers. D&C 112: 10 "Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers."

A verse from a thought booklet tells us to pray for one another because the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Sometimes we may feel helpless to aid someone who is going through trials or tribulations. We feel like there is nothing we can do. But there is something we can do--we can pray for that person! Prayer is powerful and effective and can indeed make a huge difference. James 5: 16 "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

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