====== BYU devotional: Elder Rex D. Pinegar ====== //From June, 12, 2001// * Gospel truths serve as the foundation of learning and teaching * Brigham Young never lost sight of his greatest priority: prophet, seer, and revelator * Grow in grace and knowledge from day to day, year to year * Every minute we should strive to improve our lives * Spiritual and temporal aspects of the gospel are one in the sight of God * The practical teachings are the priority * The simple things: prayer * Seek the Lord until you open a pathway between God and your soul * Ask God to put you where He wants you, and what He wants you to do * He has provided us a way to know * "There is no other resource to compare with prayer." - President Hinckley * He has made it an easy as possible to communicate with Him * Answers to prayer are not always so easy to recognize * When He brings our heart and mind in harmony, then we have received the spirit of revelation. * Don't let any earthly circumstance hurry you through prayer * Trust in Him; leave the matter in the Lord's hands * Do not try to predict how the Lord will answer prayers * Enquire what we can do for ourselves * Sometimes fasting is needed to answer a prayer * Naaman was made clean after he was humbled * Any calling, faithfully filled, can have inestimable results * The small things of the Gospel, alone, do little, but together, they will become strong. It's like concrete - each of the elements that make it, by themselves cannot support a foundation * The Gospel is very simple, and very profound * The religion of Jesus Christ is a matter-of-fact religion * Christ is practical * The Gospel requires our very best efforts