D&C 109

I find the Prophet Joseph Smith's dedicatory prayer of the Kirtland temple so touching, it is hard not to include the entire prayer in my blog.  He not only prays for the justice of God be satisfied upon the wicked, but he also prays for the wicked that they are given adequate opportunity to repent and receive the blessings of the gospel.

His prayer includes that all those that faithfully worship in the temple to recieve sufficent power not only to resist temptations of the world, but sufficient power to change of the heart of men or the "work of salvation" throughout the world to gather Israel to Zion or stakes of Zion.

I specifically noted this morning concerning this work of salvation -

"We ask thee, Holy Father, to confound, and astonish, and to bring to shame and confusion, all those who have spread lying reports abroad, over the world, against thy servant or servants, if they will not repent, when the everlasting gospel shall be proclaimed in their ears;
30 And that all their works may be brought to naught, and be swept away by the hail, and by the judgments which thou wilt send upon them in thine anger, that there may be an end to lyings and slanders against thy people.
31 For thou knowest, O Lord, that thy servants have been innocent before thee in bearing record of thy name, for which they have suffered these things.
32 Therefore we plead before thee for a full and complete deliverance from under this yoke;
33 Break it off, O Lord; break it off from the necks of thy servants, by thy power, that we may rise up in the midst of this generation and do thy work."  (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 109:29 - 33)

And that work of salvation is to include with endowed power -

"Put upon thy servants the testimony of the covenant, that when they go out and proclaim thy word they may seal up the law, and prepare the hearts of thy saints for all those judgments thou art about to send, in thy wrath, upon the inhabitants of the earth, because of their transgressions, that thy people may not faint in the day of trouble.
39 And whatsoever city thy servants shall enter, and the people of that city receive their testimony, let thy peace and thy salvation be upon that city; that they may gather out of that city the righteous, that they may come forth to Zion, or to her stakes, the places of thine appointment, with songs of everlasting joy..."  (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 109:38 - 39)

Much as Isaiah had previously prophesied -

"...O Lord, deliver thy people from the calamity of the wicked; enable thy servants to seal up the law, and bind up the testimony, that they may be prepared against the day of burning."  (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 109:46)