We’re In The Midst Of Climate Change . . .
By Alan on May 04 in Daily Inspiration tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, climate, colder, constitution, courts, God, life, Lord, prayer, promised land, prophecy, religion, scripture, worship | No Comments
We’re In The Midst Of Climate Change . . .
“We’re in the midst of climate change—one that’s getting colder and colder toward religion.”
“Thus we see how quick the children of men do forget the Lord their God, yea, how quick to do iniquity, and to be led away by the evil one.” Alma 46:8
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Take Time To Give THANKS To Those Who Give ALL
By Alan on Mar 28 in Blog tagged armed forces, fearless, freedom. worth of souls, Great, line of duty, lives, Lord, men, men and women, military, thanks, war | Comments Off
“We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law” (Articles of Faith 1:12).
Military service shows dedication to this principle.
” If one must go to war, they should go in a spirit of truth and righteousness, with a desire to do good. They should go with love in their hearts for all God’s children, including those on the opposing side. Then, if they are required to shed another’s blood, their action will not be counted as a sin.” Source
“Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.” D&C 18:10
Cathy Adams
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Thanks For The Ride!
By Alan on Mar 10 in Daily Inspiration tagged bliss, happiness, life, Lord, thank, the ride | Comments Off
Life – A Perfect Bliss?
Bliss is an emotional state that is characterized by perfect happiness (feelings of enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction).
“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal, is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise.
Life is like an old time rail journey . . . delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and a thrilling burst of speed.
The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”
Gordon B. Hinkley
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It’s Gotta Be The Last Days
By Alan on Feb 12 in Blog tagged addictions, alchohol, beliefs, commandments, compass, drugs, Jesus Christ, laws of God, Lord, moral, Moses, movies, opposite, pornography, profanity, religion, right, sex, sin, society, standards, television, the Last Days, The Osmonds, troubled times, wrong | Comments Off
It’s Gotta Be The Last Days
“We have come to the earth in troubled times. The moral compass of the masses has gradually shifted to an “almost anything goes” position.
I’ve lived long enough to have witnessed much of the metamorphosis of society’s morals. Where once the standards of your religion and beliefs, and the standards of society were mostly compatible, now there is a wide chasm between us, and it’s growing ever wider.
Many movies and television shows portray behavior which is in direct opposition to the laws of God. Do not subject yourself to the innuendo and outright filth which are so often found there. The lyrics in much of today’s music fall in the same category. The profanity so prevalent around us today would never have been tolerated in the not-too-distant past.
Sadly, the Lord’s name is taken in vain over and over again. Recall with me the commandment—one of the ten—which the Lord revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai: “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” I am sorry that any of us is subjected to profane language, and I plead with you not to use it. I implore you not to say or to do anything of which you cannot be proud.
Stay completely away from pornography. Do not allow yourself to view it, ever. It has proven to be an addiction which is more than difficult to overcome. Avoid alcohol and tobacco or any other drugs, also addictions which you would be hard pressed to conquer.
What will protect you from the sin and evil around you?
I maintain that a strong testimony of our Savior and of His gospel will help see you through to safety.” Thomas S. Monson
“It’s Gotta Be The Last Days”
LISTEN: The Last Days
“It’s Gotta Be The Last Days”
“Nations take up their battle stations.
Patrons of zodiac revelations.
Lustations breaking family relations.
Litigation allowing shoot-up sensations.
That’s what they said
Some day it woiuld be.
Now just look around,
if that’s what we see…
It’s gotta be the Last Days.
Gotta be the Last Days.
People living lives of confusion.
Millions caught up in revolution.
Cities lost in their own pollution.
Question, what is the constitution?
That’s what they said
Some day it woiuld be.
Now just look around,
if that’s what we see…
It’s gotta be the Last Days.
Gotta be the Last Days.”
Written and Sung by: The Osmonds
© 1972
Scriptural Warnings:
“For their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening with destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.” Helaman 5:2
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God”. 2 Timothy 3:1-4
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“I know of nothing in the history… of the world to compare with our present circumstances. Nothing happened in Sodom and Gomorrah which exceeds in wickedness and depravity that which surrounds us now. Words of profanity, vulgarity, and blasphemy are heard everywhere. Unspeakable wickedness and perversion were once hidden in dark places; now they are in the open, and even accorded legal protection. At Sodom and Gomorrah these things were localized. Now, they are spread across the world, and they are among us”.
Boyd K. Packer
President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The United States Is The Promised Land
By Alan on Jan 03 in Blog tagged America, beliefs, faith, founding fathers, government, Jesus Christ, Lord, morality, promised land, religious, United States | 1 Comment
The United States Is The Promised Land
Foretold In The Book of Mormon
The Lord prepared a new land to attract the peoples of the world who sought liberty and religious freedom. This new land was blessed with strong leaders who felt duty bound to establish a government that allowed individuals to worship according to their own conscience.
The Founding Fathers of the United States believed that religious faith was fundamental to the establishment of strong government. Many people in the world, however, have forgotten the central importance of religious beliefs in the formation of the policies, laws, and rules of government. Many Americans, for example, do not understand that the founders believed the role of religion would be as important in our day as it was in their day. The founders did not consider religion and morality an intellectual exercise—they forcefully declared it an essential ingredient of good government and the happiness of humankind.
This position was set forth by the first U.S. president, George Washington, in his Farewell Address. He said:
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. … Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. … Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
“It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.”1
The United States is the promised land foretold in the Book of Mormon—a place where divine guidance directed inspired men to create the conditions necessary for the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was the birth of the United States of America that ushered out the Great Apostasy, when the earth was darkened by the absence of prophets and revealed light. It was no coincidence that the lovely morning of the First Vision occurred just a few decades after the establishment of the United States.
The First Vision precipitated a flood of revealed truth. Knowledge was restored about the nature of the Godhead. A new translated scripture gave a second witness and testament of Jesus Christ. The restoration of the priesthood reendowed mankind with the power and authority to act for and on behalf of God in conducting priesthood ordinances and in reestablishing the Church of Jesus Christ on the earth. We are blessed to be members of the restored Church.
Elder L. Tom Perry
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
The Ensign – December 2012
The Tradition of Light and Testimony
Book of Mormon Evidence
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Native Americans Are Decendants Of The Jews; The Lords Chosen People.
By Alan on Sep 16 in Blog tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, chosen people, decendants, dwindled, Fathers, Gold Plates, iniquity, Ishmaelites, jews, Lamanites, Lemulites, Lord, Moroni, native Americans, Nephites, promises, savior, testimony, unbelief | Comments Off
Native Americans Are Decendants Of The Jews;
The Lords Chosen People.
Nevertheless, my work shall go forth, for inasmuch as the knowledge of a Savior has come unto the world, through the testimony of the Jews, (the Bible) 
… even so shall the knowledge of a Savior come unto my people. — And to the Nephites, and the Jacobites, and the Josephites, and the Zoramites, through the testimony of their fathers— (The Book of Mormon)
And this testimony shall come to the knowledge of the Lamanites, and the Lemuelites, and the Ishmaelites, who dwindled in unbelief because of the iniquity of their fathers, whom the Lord has suffered to destroy their brethren the Nephites, because of their iniquities and their abominations.
And for this very purpose are these plates preserved, which contain these records—that the promises of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he made to his people;
And that the Lamanites might come to the knowledge of their fathers, and that they might know the promises of the Lord, and that they may believe the gospel and rely upon the merits of Jesus Christ, and be glorified through faith in his name, and that through their repentance they might be saved. Amen.
The Lamanites (Native Americans) left Jerusalem about 600 B.C. and came to North America as recorded in the Book of Mormon. Because their fathers dwindled in unbelief and because of iniquity and in trying to destroy their brothers the Nephites, the Lord Jesus Christ made promises to them; that the gold plates would come forth and reveal the knowledge of their fathers and of Jesus Christ and that they would believe. (As contained in The Book of Mormon.)
This is now happening!
Native Americans are decendants of the Jews;
the Lords chosen people.
1 Nephi 13: 38-39
See Book of Mormon Evidence.
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THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS Of AMERICA!
By Alan on Aug 15 in Blog tagged Americqa, blessed, covenants, forefathers, God, Jesus, Lord, prayer, promised land, religion, religious, righteous, served God, trust, worship | Comments Off
U.S. Capitol Tour with David Barton
We began as a righteous nation.
Let’s return to it and never forget our God!
It is “IN GOD WE TRUST”
“Whatsoever nation shall possess this promised land should serve God, or they should be swept off.”
Ether 2: 9-12
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The Spirit can prompt you and protect you.
By Alan on Jun 03 in Daily Inspiration tagged comfort, faith, Holy Ghost, Jesus, Lord, peace, power, quiet, spirit, whisper | Comments Off
The Spirit can prompt you and protect you . . . but you have to LISTEN!
The Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead. He is a personage of spirit, without a body of flesh and bones. He is often referred to as the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the Lord, or the Comforter.
He is the Comforter (John 14:26). As the soothing voice of a loving parent can quiet a crying child, the whisperings of the Spirit can calm our fears, hush the nagging worries of our life, and comfort us when we grieve. The Holy Ghost can fill us “with hope and perfect love” and “teach [us] the peaceable things of the kingdom” (Moroni 8:26; D&C 36:2).
Through His power, we are sanctified as we repent, receive the ordinances of baptism and confirmation, and remain true to our covenants (see Mosiah 5:1–6; 3 Nephi 27:20; Moses 6:64–68).
He is the Holy Spirit of Promise (see Ephesians 1:13; D&C 132:7, 18–19, 26). In this capacity, He confirms that the priesthood ordinances we have received and the covenants we have made are acceptable to God. This approval depends on our continued faithfulness.
In this ever trying world, may we choose well and listen to that “still small voice” or the Spirit and be led to safety, success, answers to your questions, and eventually to The Way of Everlastin g life with our Heavenly Parents once again.
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Remember Who You Are
By Alan on Dec 31 in Daily Inspiration tagged count youir blessings, family & friends, Happy New years, Jesus Christ, Lord, pray, regret, remember, right, sober, who you are | Comments Off
Enjoy this New Years! Spend it with family and friends. Do what is right and don’t let the other guy or gal persuade you to do something you will regret! Stay sober. Be chaste. Have a Pure Heart and a Contrite Spirit.
Count your blessings! Stop and pray for your family and friends and give thanks that you are alive!
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean NOT unto your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge HIM and HE will direct your path!
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Come Back And Re-Bless America
By Alan on Dec 19 in Daily Inspiration tagged America, food, gas prices, getting bad, Lord, more want you, re-bless America, than those who don't | 1 Comment
Hi Lord, its me.
We are getting older and things are getting bad here.
Gas prices are too high, no jobs, food and heating costs too high.
I know some have taken you out of our schools, government and even Christmas, but Lord I’m asking you to come back and
re-bless America.
We really need you!
There are more of us who want you than those who don’t!
Thank You Lord, I Love you.
“Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point.“
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