David Journal

Tag: Repentance

  • Can Ye Feel So Now?

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    I’m not sure how to take notes in this. I have not captured the central thread to the truth that he is speaking and the truths are coming too fast to capture them individually. The words he is speaking regarding the dangers of pornography and the potential for young people to disqualify themselves from missionary…

  • Today

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    “Please sir, they can’t kill a tough old bird like me.” Of all the challenges we face, perhaps the most misguided is the idea that mortality goes on forever and that we can put off repentance. We must seek and tender forgiveness. We must repent and be charitable toward others. “I guess that I had…

  • Cleansing the Inner Vessel

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    The Proclamation on the Family meets the definition for revelation and Latter-day Saints should study and follow it. The power of procreation is not incidental to the plan, it is central to the plan of happiness. The priesthood has the power to break habits and shatter addictions and it should be used. There are both…

  • Small and Simple Things

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    Prayer and Scripture Study are the keys to repentance Everyone who will live the gospel of Jesus Christ daily and endure to the end will gain eternal life – this is the promise of the Lord. In its essentials, the gospel is simple and easy to understand and adapted to the capacity of the weakest.…

  • “Repent … That I May Heal You”

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    The Lord’s desire that we come unto Him and be wrapped in His arms is often an invitation to repent. “Behold, he sendeth an invitation unto all men, for the arms of mercy are extended towards them, and he saith: Repent, and I will receive you.” When we sin, we turn away from God. When…

  • A Few Degrees

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    “I believe I was the second most surprised person to learn that I was called as the Second Counselor in the First Presidency, the first being my wife.” Through years of service I have learned that the difference between happiness and misery in individuals, marriages, and families is often just a few degrees. Saul did…

  • Help Them on Their Way Home

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    We help Gods children best by providing ways for them {to feel God’s love} early in life. The Lord has put in place a way to put the best rescuers in the lives of teenagers. This sounds just As familiar as a request that I might make for the Elders to help the Bishop. Brothers…

  • The Peril of ‘Someday’

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    Choose you this day . . .“I love those who seek me early” is as true of a day as it is of a life – morning prayer, early scripture study.We do not know how long we will have to serve until the Atonement has wrought a mighty change in our hearts but we have…

  • The Consequences of Sin

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    Satan is sometimes called “the Accuser”There is no such thing in the gospel as a ‘point of no return.’Sin is the willful transgression of divine law.God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved.It is not through our own efforts alone that we…

  • Hope Through Repentance

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    Repentance is the Lord’s regimin for spiritual growth.Repentance is conversion. A measure of either can be had only with a measure of the other.The Lord wants me and you as sunbeams but also as welding blacksmiths to curb the curse of family fragmentation.