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uponto make choices of one sort or another. Some are trivial, some more far-reaching. Some will make no difference in the big picture of things, and others will make all the difference in the world. Choices all come with consequences and fall into three categories: the right of choice, the responsbility of choice, and the results of choice.
In our journey through life we will encounter forks and turnings in the road but we cannot afford the luxury of a detour from which we may never return. In today’s world there are forces of good but also forces of evil that may pacify and lull us into carnal
security saying there is no wrong . . . which can lead us carefully down to misery! Should we ever find ourselves in that situation, we must decide and ask ourself if it is a promise of momentary pleasure that urges our passions or is it the pressure of your peers? It is then that you need to have the courage to say no, the courage to say yes, knowing that decisions do determine destiny.
We are living in the best of times when so many options and choices are available to us. We must prepare to meet the challenges of today by becoming good people, educated, and trained in skills that can provide financial income to do what ever your dreams are in life. You must be strong physically and take good care of your body and mind. Talk good talk and think good thoughts! ”You become what you think about!”
So go and start today, if you already haven’t. Ponder and pray for inspiration that you may choose the direction you wish and find happiness. It will take work. Nothing good comes easy! An education, a career, a family, they all come with hard work!


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A testimony of the plan of salvation can give us hope and purpose as we wrestle with the challenges of life. We can find reassurance in the knowledge that we are children of God and that we lived in His presence before being born on the earth. We can find meaning in our present life, knowing that our actions during mortality influence our eternal destiny. With this knowledge, we can base important decisions on eternal truths rather than on the changing circumstances of life. We can continually improve our relationships with family members, rejoicing in the promise that our families can be eternal. We can find joy in our testimonies of the Atonement and the Lord’s commandments, ordinances, covenants, and doctrines, knowing that “he who doeth the works of righteousness shall receive his reward, even peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come” (D&C 59: 23).
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“ZION” people. . . ‘the happiest people that ever lived’! Moses 7: 18-19
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It seems that things are moving so fast these days and that there are always headlines of warnings, cautions, alerts, and latest news headlines with program interruptions bringing us special announcements. We see troubles and revolutions arising all over this world of ours. We hear of stealing, robberies, child molesting, drug busts, earthquakes, wars, murders, abortions, divorces, collusions, marriage being re-defined and confusion on what is a family, with lust, greed, lies and dishonest dealings even in the White House. These are things that we have been warned about in the scriptures for many years. In fact, in 1973 my brothers and I even wrote a song about today where we mentioned certain things that were prophesied would happen; and if that’s what we see, “It’s Gotta Be The Last Days”! Well, take a look around. We are there now! It can’t get much worse we say… but if we read the scriptures, it will! Yet, there is hope and we know how things will happen and end up. We just need to make choices to be there!
Are you ready to stand up, defend your rights, protect your family and loved ones, help those who are downhearted and starving, hurting, and even dying in the streets? Are you ready for wars among nations, even here in America over money, power, riches, glory, and pride with rising costs and food and gasoline shortages? Those are all workings of Satan, and his devilish desires. He is a loser and wants company.
It seems that everybody nowadays is looking for a “Change” in this world. A new World Order, guaranteed pensions with health and retirement funds, marriage with same sex couples, abortions without responsibility, vacations and the luxury’s of life because you deserve it, where anything goes. What happened to those values and principles that we grew up with and success by hard work that our ancestors taught us? The truths that I was taught and raised with says you get what you earn. God is the same and never changing with which various mansions or glories in heaven we can receive. But, you must earn it! The things that we should be looking for in this life are those things that NEVER CHANGE! Such are the ways of God’s Plan of life and The Family. God is the same yesterday, today and forever and so should we, His children.
We seem to have lost that loving feeling and don’t care about others, but have become self oriented and prideful with a focus on the “me” and are only concerned about our own and oneself? Have our hearts become so hardened that we don’t take the time or care enough about the unborn, the aged, the hungry and others who are suffering? We need to quit looking in the mirror and start looking more out the windows of life and into the hearts and needs of others. This is what Jesus taught. Have our values and beliefs in God and His son Jesus Christ become so outdated and taken with deaf ears and a backseat while we strive to live in a new and changed world of stardom, riches, and self serving broken promises and lost values for the lists and sensations of the “natural man” which is an enemy to God? Are our families, our marriages and homes lost and replaced with worldly pleasures and treasures, lacking loving communication and order, with unclean, dishonest, cheating, lies, truce breaking, mortgaged desires, devalued and with no higher learning and with uncaring and lustful hearts seeking after the pleasures of the natural man and woman? We should be seeking for those things that never change and are everlasting and eternal!
Well, here is some advice from our staff at The Family.
Simplify, make good choices. Choose those things which will get you closest to your God. He is in charge. Organize yourselves, prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God. Prioritize your time with those who really are most important and make a difference in your life, your family. Take the time to listen to your spouse and children. Do things together and for those whom you love and for whom you would risk your life and desire to be with forever; even after death and into the next life for all eternity!
Yes, we are living in a day where we need to make good choices and to choose well! We have the freedom and the power to choose! We fought for those freedoms in the world of our pre-existent lives. Those decisions we made before we were born into this world determined where we now are and the conditions in which we live. We are living in a day when we need as much help, truth and light as possible that we may see The Way and follow the light and the Path towards our eternal home and future. Our heavenly parents, are watching over us as well as the spirit of the Holy Ghost who is there to help guide us and to lead us with whispering to our hearts on how to choose the right way and to stay on and get through that straight path to that narrow gate which leads us back home again. Do we really think that God would create us and then leave us, His children, unattended? No! We must have faith and hope and work hard never giving up. That is how we open the doors of tomorrows where we will receive the rewards of our good works here on earth. We are going to this school of life and are definitely being tested to see if we are worthy to receive even greater blessings and powers. We all will live forever and so those weaknesses and tests we get just make us stronger. Those decisions we make now will determine where we will go and in which mansion or glory we will be able to dwell in the kingdoms of heaven.
Here are some more suggestions:
Choose ye this day whom ye will serve. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Fast, tithe 10%, pray and read the Bible and the Book of Mormon and other forthcoming witnesses of Jesus Christ and be converted to the Lord’s ways and to His church.
We have been given commandments to live and to follow since the world began. It would be wise to obey them and keep them. They are NOT suggestions, but are God’s commandments. They are contained in the scriptures which are God’s words through His prophets.
We need more kindness and love and to become better neighbors and friends of all Christian churches with a common goal to protect our freedoms and to choose the right. We need to feed our bodies good foods and eat well and avoid drugs, pornography, and unhealthy stimulants to our bodies and minds.
Your church leaders must have the authority to perform those necessary sacred life saving ordinances here on the earth today. Make sure they do. In order to get to the highest heaven, you must repent of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. You then need to do as even Jesus did and be baptized by one who has the authority given him and can be traced back to Jesus Christ. You then need to receive the Holy Ghost to be your constant companion to help lead and guide you. Again, being done by someone with the authority. All churches teach good things but only Jesus’s church has the authority to bind in heaven as well as here on earth. Authority is a major issue and needs to be addressed. It must be recognized of God.
You should not have any premarital relations before marriage and then marry the person of your dreams and be true and faithful in your covenants as you keep God’s commandment to multiply and replenish the earth. This is a commandment. The proclamation to the world states that marriage is ordained of God between a man and a woman. Creation of life cannot happen otherwise and your exaltation here after will be stopped. If you have sinned, you need to confess and repent and be washed clean to be forgiven. To get to the highest heaven, you will need to be baptized, endowed and be married for time and for all eternity and have your children sealed to you forever in The House of The Lord, or Temple, and not just be together until death do you part! If your were married in the Temple before you had children, those children you have will automatically be sealed to you forever. If you haven’t, now is the time to prepare for the Temple and have your children eternally sealed to you and to get it done before it is too late. Only in the Lord’s House, or Temple, can you do these things as the keys which are required were restored by Elijah the Prophet. This is an ordinance that even the prophet Abraham knew and of which he spoke. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are the only ones with Temples for this purpose.
Your must put on the ‘Armor of Christ’ and endure to the end.
Be prepared. If ye are prepared ye shall not fear. Put some extra food and money away in storage for that rainy day as it will come.
You need to be honest and pay a full tithe of 10% to the Lord’s church.
You need to have a firm testimony of Jesus Christ, a pure heart and a contrite spirit and be willing to give all that you have if necessary to those In need.
Stay positive! Endure To the End! As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Then, enjoy the ride as Jesus Christ is soon going to return to earth to perform His amazing miracles and to rule this world for one thousand years. The earth will then be renewed and receive it’s paradisiacal glory.
God lives. He is not the author of confusion. He did NOT create us to have evil ways but knows that we will be tempted and have choices that we should make. Many today try to change God’s laws and principles and live without values and principles. To change The Way that God designed us would almost be like trying to change gravity. You can’t! It won’t work!
These are things that I can highly recommend. There is only One Way to get to the highest degree of glory in heaven where God dwells and that is as a forever family worthy of God’s creative powers. Jesus is The Way! Yes, there are other glories of heaven like unto the star, the moon and the sun. So also is the resurection. God dwells at the highest of the highest kingdom and mansions of heaven! Our Heavenly parents are counting on us to to do well, to become creators of life and be immortal and have eternal life as we, their children, are their ‘work and their glory’. Lets all strive to be with them, again.
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Life is filled with choices and we are pleased that you have chosen TheFamily.com as a place to visit and to learn.
With love,
Alan Osmond
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