Today I read Colossians 4, Paul's closing to the Saints. Paul spends the majority of the chapter saying goodbye to the Saints. He does counsel the Saints to pray always. I remember hearing an analogy once about feeling too bad to pray, like we had done too many things wrong that we could not pray. The analogy said that this made no more sense than saying you were too sick to go see a doctor. It's silly to think such thoughts and they do no one any good. Such thoughts are from the devil, the enemy of all mankind. Nephi clarifies such in 2 Nephi 32:8-9 where Nephi tells us that the evil spirit teaches a man not to pray.
Prayer, just like repentance, is a gift from God. It really is amazing that the God of all creation loves us enough to pay attention to us and our desires and thoughts. Nothing is too miniscule for Him to listen to. And all we have to do is open our mouths. Truly God loves us. And it would be silly not to take advantage of the opportunity that prayer affords us. Pray always Nephi and Paul said. I can't really add any more than that. Until tomorrow.
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