David Journal

Category: General Conference

  • Continually Holding Fast

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    It is easy to choose another path, to relax our hold on the iron rod, rather than enduring faithfully and we’ll to the end. We should strive to attend all our Sunday meetings. How do I build that determination to faithfully follow those outward observances in the rest of my family members?

  • Teaching with the Power and Authority of God

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    Our message to the world can be summarized in two words: God speaks! You must not teach your own ideas—even mingled with scriptures. Your own personal spiritual preparation will be the most important factor in determining how effective you are in your service to the Lord. You must learn to listen. If we will listen…

  • Power in the Priesthood

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    The more I hear about the power of the priesthood and the fact that everyone has access to it the more I am convinced that ordaining women to priesthood office is not only unnecessary but actually detrimental to the purposes of our Heavenly Father and His plan for the salvation of His children. When we…

  • Lamentations of Jeremiah: Beware of Bondage

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    Forms of bondage should be an interesting subject. The messages of Jeremiah before the fall of Jerusalem as haunting. We live in a time when we can expect equally haunting messages. The very gods that Elder Oaks warned of last session bring us into bondage if we choose to serve them. We should do everything…

  • “I Will Not Fail Thee, nor Forsake Thee”

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    The difficulties that come to us… Dang! I lost it. Others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome. Sadness and suffering are universal. This should be our purpose to persevere, to endure yes, and also to become better.

  • Personal Strength through the Atonement of Jesus Christ

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    This telling suggests that Helaman suggested that the sons of Ammon could fight rather than have the father’s break their covenant. I love the observation that the father’s, because they had grown up in wickedness, needed to be more careful about being enticed back to the wickedness of their previous lives than their sons who…

  • The Strength to Endure

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    We won’t be able to get our testimonies into shape by watching General Conference. We have to study the doctrines and live them. Wheat do I need to learn about spiritual endurance besides that which I will learn by doing it?

  • Be Ye Converted

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    Sometimes we wish to gain a testimony of a gospel principle before we will live it. No one can be converted for you (in your place) and no one can force you to be converted.

  • No Other Gods

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    This is an awesome list of alternate gods that even religious people are often serving in the modern world. The commandments are based on and inseparable from the plan of salvation. If we don’t establish our priorities based on the plan of salvation then we are in danger of serving other gods. I had no…

  • To My Grandchildren

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    What choices have I made that have led me to a greater love of God? That is the metric for which choices lead to happiness. The pressures at every stage of life can tempt us to reject or neglect calls to serve the Savior. While serving others we are more likely to plead for the…