By Alan on Mar 17 in Blog tagged abortions, Billy Graham, call evil good, direction, forgiveness, Freedom, guidance, Heavenly Father, laziness, One Nation under God, pornography, Prayer for our Nation, spiritual, unborn, values | Comments Off

BILLY  GRAHAM   –  Current  Age: 90
Truth from a man the media has never been able to throw dirt on!

THIS  MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW  OF WHAT’S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY!

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‘Heavenly Father, we come  before you  today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.   We know Your Word  says, ‘Woe to those who  call evil good,’ but  that is exactly what we  have done.  We have  lost our spiritual  equilibrium and reversed our  values. We  have exploited the poor and  called it the  lottery. We have rewarded laziness  and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice.  We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics.  We have coveted  our neighbor’s  possessions and called it ambition.  We havepolluted the air with profanity and pornography and  called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it  enlightenment.

Search us, Oh God,  and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free.  Amen!’

With the Lord’s  help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called ‘One nation under God!’

‘One Nation Under God!

Marie Osmond
For The Family

By Alan on Feb 14 in Blog tagged answers, caution, church, comfort, companion, confirmation, direction, dramatic, eternal, feelings, gifts, gyidance, heart, husband, Lord, love, nature, peace, pleading, pray, prayer, priesthood, revelation, seek, spirit, spiritual, warning, wife | Comments Off

May I take a moment to talk of some cautions that were taught to me regarding the gifts of the Spirit.

Too often people feel that answers to their prayers and their pleading for guidance and direction will be given in dramatic manifestations or through a direct voice giving specific directions from a heavenly host. My personal experience and my observation of the Brethren as they guide and direct the Church and solve problems has taught me that the answers come often times over an extended period of time with almost a natural solution whereby people take actions on the feelings of their hearts—which bring them peace and comfort—rather than through dramatic revelation.

Let me give you an example of how I learned this lesson. As a regional representative, I was traveling with President Marion G. Romney (1897–1988) to a stake conference for the selection of a new stake president. We had been driving in a car for more than an hour discussing the Church and priesthood administration. For some reason, I asked a question that, at the moment I asked it, I realized was inappropriate.

The question I asked President Romney was “What is the most spiritual experience you have had as an Apostle of the Lord?” There was a pause. It seemed like an eternity. Then he said, “I believe what Joseph Smith and Brigham Young taught, that if we would keep our spiritual experiences to ourselves, many more spiritual experiences could be shared with us.”

It seemed like there was a long period of silence after that remark, and then he said to me, “I owe you a better answer.” Then he gave me great counsel. He said the greatest spiritual experiences of his life had been when he had been on assignment from the President of the Church or the President of the Quorum of the Twelve, as we were that day. He said: “We will interview 25 or 30 priesthood brethren, and there will be more than one who will be qualified to be the stake president. But after we have done all we can do, we will get on our knees and pray to our Heavenly Father. We will tell Him of our feelings of who the new stake president ought to be and the reasons why. We will tell Him of the needs of the stake at this time. Then He will give us a confirmation.”

It was interesting that he said “us,” because it was true on that occasion that as we knelt and prayed, we both were able to receive a confirmation.

This is one of the best examples that I have had of what the gifts of the Spirit are and how they are manifest in our life’s work. Apply the principles taught by President Romney to understand that you can have discernment and confirmation of the concerns that confront you, such as choosing a companion or choosing a career that is best for you.

Isn’t it interesting that President Romney was sent to interview 25 or 30 men to choose one stake president rather than being told directly who it should be before his arrival? This is what the Lord means when He tells us to study it out in our own minds. Too often we want to be given answers to questions and problems that, if they were given in the manner we ask for them, would take away our agency and the blessings that come from reaching out to the Lord for answers and direction.

Some think it would be nice to have “spiritual fortune cookies” we could open to find the answers to life’s challenges. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a labeled jar we could reach into for our answers? But that is not the way it is meant to be.

I would like to express my love for my companion. I would not be what I am without her. I love her dearly. She has gifts of the Spirit. We study the scriptures together, and many of the concepts I teach have come because we have had companion study and prayer. That is why I am who I am, and I must acknowledge that.

Many of you young adults are in the process of choosing a companion, and you must go through a long process before you make your decision. You have spent years thinking about what qualities or attributes you would like your companion to have. But at the same time you must be working very hard to make yourself the type of person who will attract the companion you desire.

As you go through your dating and courting relationships, I would hope that you will assess the spiritual inclinations of the individuals you’re getting to know better. How is their testimony? How do they treat their parents? How do they treat their brothers and sisters? Do they respect authority? Do they love the Lord, His servants, and the scriptures? What plans do they have for their lives?

It isn’t enough if they are handsome or beautiful, if they are rich or poor, what kind of car they drive, what kind of clothes they wear, what kind of athletic ability they have, or what kind of intellect they are. You should be seeking to understand the gifts they have that will be eternal in nature.

BY ELDER ROBERT D. HALES

Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

By Alan on Dec 02 in Daily Inspiration tagged choice, direction, Family, judge, the way | Comments Off

The Family, is “The Way” to Eternal Life.  2 Nephi 10:23

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  John 14: 2

Let not your hearts be troubled; for in my Father’s house are many mansions, and I have prepared a place for you; and where my Father and I am, there ye shall be also.  D&C 98: 18

And I, God, made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the greater light was the sun, and the lesser light was the moon; and the stars also were made even according to my word.  Moses 2: 16

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star ^cdiffereth from another star in glory.  1 Cor. 15: 41

SO ALSO IS THE RESSRECTION

3 Ne. 27: 14-15, 25