*Apologies again for the sudden cut off at the end. Fortunately, my voice recording app seems to know when I'm wrapping these sessions up!*

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Today, we study one of the 21 Day Book of Mormon Challenge sections focused on faith. We learn about how faith begins to grow and how we cultivate that faith.

Elder David A Bednar: The exercise of faith in Jesus Christ is relying upon His merits, mercy, and grace. We begin to come to know the Savior as we arouse our spiritual faculties and experiment upon His teachings, even until we can give place in our souls for a portion of His words. As our faith in the Lord increases, we trust in Him and have confidence in His power to redeem, heal, and strengthen us.

True faith is focused in and on the Lord and always leads to righteous action. “Faith [in Christ is] the first principle in revealed religion, … the foundation of all righteousness, … and the principle of action in all intelligent beings.” Because acting in accordance with the correct principles the Redeemer proclaimed is central to receiving and exercising true faith, “faith without works is dead.” We are to be “doers of the word, and not hearers only.