The Prayers and Preaching of Enos
Generally we think about Enos as the one who persevered
in his supplication to the Lord because he prayed all day and into the
night. He wrote, “I kneeled down before
my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own
soul; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I
did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens” (Enos 1:4). That certainly was an incredible act of faith
to pray that persistently and that long, and the Lord answered his prayers in a
powerful way. But this really was only
the start for Enos; as we read the rest of his book we see just how much he
poured out his soul unto God. He told us
that after he received this answer, “I began to feel a desire for the welfare
of my brethren, the Nephites; wherefore, I did pour out my whole soul unto God
for them.” He described his prayers as
“struggling in the spirit” and again the voice of the Lord came to him. After that answer he did not stop praying, though;
he wrote, “My faith began to be unshaken in the Lord; and I prayed unto him
with many long strugglings for my brethren, the Lamanites.” Enos got his answer from the Lord “after [he]
had prayed and labored with all diligence.”
But, this was not all. He
continued to describe his concern for the sacred records, and wrote, “Knowing
that the Lord God was able to preserve our records, I cried unto him
continually…. I had faith, and I did cry
unto God that he would preserve the records” (Enos 1:9-16). Enos had mighty prayer and supplication, he
raised his voice high to the heavens, he poured out his whole soul unto God, he
struggled in the spirit, he prayed with all diligence, and he cried unto the
Lord continually—what an example of true, heartfelt, persistent communion with
the Lord. Enos didn’t just make an
extended effort on a single day to get an answer to his prayers, but he sought
the Lord will all his heart, all his life.
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