A thought from the scriptures
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Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.
Therefore ye must always pray unto the Father in my name;
And whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, which is right, believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall be given unto you.
Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed. - 3 Ne. 18:18-22
"'Remember that whatever you do or wherever you are, you are never alone' was my father's familiar counsel to me as a boy," President Ezra Taft Benson, then president of the Council of the Twelve, recalled at the April 1977 general conference.
"'Our Heavenly Father is always near. You can reach out and receive His aid through prayer.' I have found this counsel to be true. Thank God we can reach out and tap that unseen power, without which no man can do his best.
" . . . We should be alone with our Heavenly Father at least two or three times each day, 'morning, mid-day and evening,' as the scriptures indicate. (Alma 34:21.) In addition, we are told to 'pray always.' (2 Ne. 32:9; D&C 88:126.) This means that our hearts should be 'full, drawn out in prayer unto [our Heavenly Father] continually.' (Alma 34:27.)
" . . . If we don't feel like praying, then we should pray until we feel like praying."
