Alma 32

Alma 32 has many great teachings. But this blogpost would be HUGE if I talked about each of them. The verse I really want to focus on is:

"But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words" (27).

Experiment upon my words. That's what Alma says. Experiment. Test out the claims of the prophets. If they say morning and evening prayers and daily scripture study will bless your life, test it out! See what happens. Testing our such a claim is exercising a particle of faith. If you only have the desire to believe, test out the things we are told to do. You'll find how true the prophet's claims are. But you have to exercise a portion of faith.

"Faith is a principle of action and power. Whenever you work toward a worthy goal, you exercise faith. You show your hope for something that you cannot yet see" ("Faith").

 So experiment upon the words of the prophets, desiring to know truth.