I am amazed at your resilience.
This morning we have heard from speakers who come from every populated continent on earth.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is exactly what we need to hear in the confused world.
No other message is more vital {or} infused with more hope.
Every blessing begins with faith that God is willing to bless us and guide us.
Start today to increase your faith.
- Study – become an engaged learner
- The gospel of Christ pertains to you.
- Learn about miracles
- Trust His power and timetable
- Only your unbelief will influence his ability to move the mountains in your life.
- Choose to believe in Jesus Christ
- Take your questions to the Lord or other faithful sources
- Don’t study to find flaws
- Stop rehearsing your doubts with other doubters (doubters is not just people with doubts)
- Act in faith
- Missed – it was short
- Ask
A non-believer may say that faith is for the weak.
They would be right. Faith is for the weak – it gives them the strength to keep going.
It takes faith to accept a disappointing answer.
The mountains in our lives do not always move how or when we want but faith always propels us forward.
Your growing faith will move … mountains of misery in your life.
The atoning sacrifice and Resurrection of Jesus Christ changed each of our lives forever.
Each of God’s children deserves the opportunity to hear and accept the healing, redeeming message of Jesus Christ. No other message is more vital to our happiness—now and forever. No other message is more filled with hope. No other message can eliminate contention in our society.
If there is anything we need in society it is the elimination of contention.
Everything good in life—every potential blessing of eternal significance—begins with faith. Allowing God to prevail in our lives begins with faith that He is willing to guide us. True repentance begins with faith that Jesus Christ has the power to cleanse, heal, and strengthen us.
Saving my relationship with Laura begins with faith. I need to see it laying, not foresee it crumbling to dust.
The Lord understands our mortal weakness. We all falter at times. But He also knows of our great potential. The mustard seed starts small but grows into a tree large enough for birds to nest in its branches. The mustard seed represents a small but growing faith.
The Lord does not require perfect faith for us to have access to His perfect power. But He does ask us to believe.
My dear brothers and sisters, my call to you this Easter morning is to start today to increase your faith. Through your faith, Jesus Christ will increase your ability to move the mountains in your life, even though your personal challenges may loom as large as Mount Everest.
This is the call of this conference.
- Study
- Become an engaged learner.
- Immerse yourself in the scriptures to understand better Christ’s mission and ministry.
- Know the doctrine of Christ so that you understand its power for your life.
- Internalize the truth that the Atonement of Jesus Christ applies to you. He took upon Himself your misery, your mistakes, your weakness, and your sins.
- Learn about miracles.
- The more you learn about the Savior, the easier it will be to trust in His mercy, His infinite love, and His strengthening, healing, and redeeming power.
- Choose to believe in Jesus Christ.
- If you have doubts about God the Father and His Beloved Son or the validity of the Restoration or the veracity of Joseph Smith’s divine calling as a prophet, choose to believe and stay faithful.
- Take your questions to the Lord and to other faithful sources. Study with the desire to believe rather than with the hope that you can find a flaw in the fabric of a prophet’s life or a discrepancy in the scriptures.
- Stop increasing your doubts by rehearsing them with other doubters.
- Act in faith.
- What would you do if you had more faith? Think about it. Write about it. Then receive more faith by doing something that requires more faith.
- Partake of sacred ordinances worthily.
- I need to build a habit of regular temple attendence again as that opens up again.
- Ask your Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, for help.
A nonbeliever might say that faith is for the weak. But this assertion overlooks the power of faith. Would the Savior’s Apostles have continued to teach His doctrine after His death, at the peril of their lives, if they had doubted Him? Would Joseph and Hyrum Smith have suffered martyrs’ deaths defending the Restoration of the Lord’s Church unless they had a sure witness that it was true? Would nearly 2,000 Saints have died along the pioneer trail if they did not have faith that the gospel of Jesus Christ had been restored? Truly, faith is the power that enables the unlikely to accomplish the impossible.
Faith is a good tool for the weak, one that will help them become strong. Faith is not evidence of weakness as non-believers might claim.
Do not minimize the faith you already have. It takes faith to join the Church and remain faithful. It takes faith to follow prophets rather than pundits and popular opinion. It takes faith to serve a mission during a pandemic. It takes faith to live a chaste life when the world shouts that God’s law of chastity is now outmoded. It takes faith to teach the gospel to children in a secular world. It takes faith to plead for the life of a loved one and even more faith to accept a disappointing answer.
This is “doubt your doubts rather than doubting your faith.”
Please know this: if everything and everyone else in the world whom you trust should fail, Jesus Christ and His Church will never fail you. The Lord never slumbers, nor does He sleep. He “is the same yesterday, today, and [tomorrow].” He will not forsake His covenants, His promises, or His love for His people. He works miracles today, and He will work miracles tomorrow.
Faith in Jesus Christ is the greatest power available to us in this life. All things are possible to them that believe.
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