David Journal

Tag: AMEN

  • Love Her Mother

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    How can a father raise a virtuous daughter in this world? The most important thing you can do is love their mother. Lead your family to the temple. be a guardian of virtue. Magnify your priesthood. Please join with us as mothers and young women in being guardians of virtue. If she does not come…

  • Waiting upon the Lord: Thy Will Be Done

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    Elder Hales is seated, he looks much older than before, and he appears to have an oxygen tank. How do faithful servant endure trials and challenges? They wait upon the Lord. We do not always understand our challenges but we choose to wait upon the Lord knowing that joy cometh in the morning. We may…

  • We Are All Enlisted

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    “I’d like to speak rather candidly…” as if he is not frequently candid. “We don’t like to speak of Satan often and I don’t like to talk about him at all.” Satan will fight wherever and whenever he can. He knows he will be defeated and cast out but he wants to take with him…

  • It’s True, Isn’t It? Then What Else Matters?

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    If we have the faith to ask this question the things that don’t matter will fall away and the things that do will be put in perspective – either enlarged or diminished in our minds as necessary. I take as my subject today something President Hinckley said in general conference in April of 1973. I…

  • Ye Must Be Born Again

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    I love the symbolism of the transformation from cucumber to pickle. The basic lessons I learned about temporal self-reliance and provident living while picking and canning produce have blessed me throughout my life. Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have. As an adult I have reflected upon…

  • Mothers Who Know

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    More than at any time in history we need mothers who know. Mothers who know desire to bear children. Mothers who know honor sacred ordinances and covenants. These mothers know that they are going to Sacrament meeting where covenants are made. They know that if they are not pointing their children to the temple, they…

  • The Purifying Power of Gethsemane

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    The description of the three gardens of the Lord, the declaration that these were his own words even if they sounded like quotes from scripture, and the testimony that “I shall not know any better {when I meet Christ after I die} than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son” make this extremely…

  • Waiting on the Road to Damascus

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    Sometimes the Lord reveals things that are only for us but most of the time He gives a witness to those who will share it. It is our clear and certain testimony that the heavens are open again and that God speaks to His prophets and apostles. God hears and answers the prayers of His…

  • Your Potential, Your Privilege

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    Too late the man discovered that he had been living far below his privileges. Are we, as priesthood holders, living below our privileges? All the blessings of the priesthood can be given to other worthy children of God in priesthood blessings. Too often our day to day activities go no deeper than a rehearsed script.…

  • Desire

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    We can override any of our physical needs with our strong desires.Cultivating righteous desires. Note the three essentials that preceded the promised blessing: desire, labor, and faith. Are we truly prepared to have our Eternal Judge attach this enormous significance to what we really desire? Readjusting our desires to give highest priority to the things…