"I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men.
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty."
This made me ponder on religious freedom. How a person of faith only wants to lead a quiet and peaceable life, and somehow it looks like intolerance to those that don't understand. I pondered on the prayers we are saying for our nation, leaders, individuals and families in this country. How I pray religious freedom will be allowed to continue in this land. It isn't hard to imagine our days are being numbered.
"Yea, and I say unto you that if it were not for the prayers of the righteous, who are now in the land, that ye would even now be visited with utter destruction; yet it would not be by flood, as were the people in the days of Noah, but it would be by famine, and by pestilence, and the sword.
But it is by the prayers of the righteous that ye are spared; now therefore, if ye will cast out the righteous from among you then will not the Lord stay his hand; but in his fierce anger he will come out against you; then ye shall be smitten by famine, and by pestilence, and by the sword; and the time is soon at hand except ye repent."
(Alma 10:22-23)
Day 1694
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