My current wilderness is comparable to the wilderness faced by the families of Lehi and Ishmael.
Gods will for us can be determined from: the scriptures, the inspired words of the Lord’s annointed, and the Spirit of the Lord.
Sometimes we fail to check the compass be abuse we think we know the plan already. Other times we discount where the compass points because it does not make sense to us.
Perhaps my exercise of faith has been waning.
Lord, what would you have me do personally, in my family, and in my church calling.
I want to see how perfectly I can keep all the counsel we have been given regarding making Chris the center of our home and life.
Couples who pray and read scriptures together daily have a divorce rate of 1:1105 as compared to the overall divorce rate of 1:2.
Read President Packer’s talk from April 2000.
President Packer: “Fixing that which you cannot fix is the very purpose of the Atonement of Christ.”
Men that she deals with professionally who have been addicted to porn for decades tell her how much more addictive Internet porn is than the offline porn they started out with.
She has dealt with women who have been unfaithful and in every case they had first struggled to deal with the pornography problem of their spouse. It makes them more vulnerable to temptation.
Because of the way our brains are wired, men have a harder time with repentance and women have a harder time with forgiveness.
Steps of forgiveness:
Identify the extent and nature of what needs to be forgiven
Validate the hurt
Seek to understand the mindset of the offender
Release the offender to god for correction etc.
Reclaim power and responsibility for your own action
Move on
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