| Lord's Promise To You | What you must do | Reference |
| 1. Always have His Spirit to be with us. |
Take the Sacrament; renew our covenants. | D&C 20:77, 79 |
| 2. "I would counsel all students, if they can, to arrange their schedules so that 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." | Don't do homework on the Sabbath | James E. Faust. November 1991 Conference Ensign, p. 34, "The Lord's Day". |
| 3. That thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world. | Go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day. | D&C 59:9 |
| 4. Our joy will be full.
5. 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 heart;...to strengthen the body and to enliven the soul.) |
Rest from your labors and pay thy devotions unto the Most High. Offer our religious offerings and sacraments with thansgiving, and confess our sins unto they 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, p. 4, "Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy" |
| 6. Lives will be filled with joy and peace. | Set this holy day apart from activities of the world and consecrate themselves by entering into a spirit of worship, thanksgiving, service, and family cented 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 1992 Ensign, p. 80. |
| 7. Sure protection for ourselves and our children against the plagues of our day. | Sabbath Observance. | James E. Faust. November 1991 Conference Ensign, p. 34, "The Lord's Day". |
| 8.“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”. |
Keep the Sabbath Day Holy. | "Keeping
the Sabbath Day Holy", by Elder Earl C. Tingey, Ensign, Feb. 2000, p.
48-55 Lev. 26:2-6, 9 |
| 9. 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.") |
Keep the Sabbath Day holy. | President George Albert Smith, Oct. 1935 Conference--quoted by Ezra Taft Benson, May 1971 Ensign, "Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy", p. 4. |