Promises for Sabbath Day Observance
What You Must Do
Take the Sacrament and renew covenants
D&C 20:77, 79 - Sacrament Prayers
What You Must Do
Don't do homework on the Sabbath
James E. Faust - Oct. 1991 Gen. Conf. - “The Lord's Day”
What You Must Do
Go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my Holy Day.
D&C 59:9
What You Must Do
Rest from your labors and pay thy devotions unto the Most High. Offer our religious offerings and sacraments with thanksgiving, and confess our sins unto thy brethren and before the Lord. Let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart. Confess His hand in all things and obey his commandments.
D&C 59:9-13, 16-21
Ezra Taft Benson, May 1971 Ensign -“Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy”
What You Must Do
Set this holy day apart from activities of the world and consecrate themselves by entering into a spirit of worship, thanksgiving, service, and family centered activities appropriate to the Sabbath. Make your Sabbath activities compatible with the intent and Spirit of the Lord.
First Presidency statement on the Sabbath - January 1993 Ensign
What You Must Do
Keep the Sabbath Day Holy
President George Albert Smith, Oct. 1935 Conference
The Lord's Promises to You
Always have His Spirit to be with us.
D&C 20:77, 79
That thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world.
D&C 59:9
The Lord's Promises to You
I would counsel all students, if they can, to arrange their schedules so that they do not study on the Sabbath. If students and other seekers after truth will do this, their minds will be quickened and the Infinite Spirit will lead them to the verities they wish to learn.
Sure protection for ourselves and our children against the plagues of our day.
James E. Faust. November 1991 Conference Ensign, p. 34, “The Lord's Day”.
The Lord's Promises to You
Our joy will be full.
The fullness of the earth is yours (the animals, good things of the earth, whether for food or for raiment or for houses, or for barns, or for orchards, or for gardens, or for vineyards; ...both to please the eye and to gladden the heart;...to strengthen the body and to enliven the soul.)
D&C 59:9-13, 16-21
Ezra Taft Benson, May 1971 Ensign -“Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy”
The Lord's Promises to You
Lives will be filled with joy and peace.
First Presidency statement on the Sabbath: January 1993 Ensign
The Lord's Promises to You
“Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
“And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
“And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. …
“For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you”.
The Lord's Promises to You
Escape sorrow and distress. (“Much of the sorrow and distress that is afflicting...mankind is traceable to the fact that they have ignored his {God's} admonition to keep the Sabbath day holy.”)
President George Albert Smith, Oct. 1935 Conference
The Lord's Promises to You
“There is power in keeping the Sabbath day holy. ...he gives us commandments so he can bless us as we keep them and thereby have joy. As we keep the Sabbath day holy he will bless us, and we will achieve a quiet power for good as individuals, as families, and as nations, that we cannot obtain in any other way.”
“..there is power in keeping the Sabbath day holy—power to help others as well as ourselves. If we would have God’s blessings and protection as individuals, as families, as communities, and as nations, we must keep His Sabbath day holy.”
“The Power of Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy” - John H. Groberg - October 1984 Gen. Conf.
The Lord's Promises to You
No man goes away from this Church and becomes an apostate in a week or in a month. It is a slow process. The one thing that would make for the safety of every man and woman would be to appear at the sacrament table every Sabbath day.
We would not get very far away in one week—not so far away that, by the process of self-investigation, we could not rectify the wrongs we may have done.
If we should refrain from partaking of the sacrament, condemned by ourselves as unworthy to receive these emblems, we could not endure that long, and we would soon, I am sure, have the spirit of repentance. The road to the sacrament table is the path of safety for Latter-day Saints.
Elder Melvin J. Ballard - Classic Discourses from the General Authorities: The Sacramental Covenant
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