David Journal

Tag: testimony

  • There Is Power in the Book

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    This is s series of modern stories that would fit in “How rare a possession.” We have begun reading the Book of Mormon as a family regularly and though the blessings of doing so have likely already started we will yet see greater blessings if we continue the practice.

  • Turn to Him and Answers Will Come

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    When I prayed to know if the Book of Mormon was true I didn’t receive an answer. God doesn’t answer just to respond to our curiosity, we must have a sincere heart and real intent. When we ask these questions we have to ask with the intention to do something with the knowledge we seek.…

  • Stay in the Boat and Hold On!

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    Rules for safety when rafting: Stay in the boat Wear a lifejacket How do we stay on the good ship Zion? It requires a continuing conversion. Many of those who have slipped away from the church had taken eid off of the central doctrines of the gospel. Sometimes saints begin to focus on the appendages…

  • Eternal Life—to Know Our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ

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    Do you remember the first time you knew that you were a child of God? This is all about how the Father and the Son are separate but united beings.

  • I Know These Things of Myself

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    Do we each know for ourselves that the gospel of true? Is your testimony truly your own? If we don’t continue to nourish our testimonies they will wither. This isn’t because they were faulty, it is because we abandoned them and/or took them for granted.

  • Joseph Smith

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    A testimony of Joseph Smith is crucial for a testimony of the restored gospel.

  • The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

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    Unless it was among the talks I missed, this is the first Easter-themed message of conference this year. Christ satisfied the demands of justice and then became our judge, meting out justice under this replacement plan (in other words the plan that replaced the requirement for individual perfection). Before Christ was born there were many…

  • If Ye Lack Wisdom

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    In a real sense we face the same dilemma Joseph Smith faced – we lack wisdom. How do we find truth? Examine the fruit. Experiment in the word. Ask in faithful prayer. His friend sounds like Laman and Lemuel. If we are sincerely seeking the truth we will do all in our power to find…

  • These Things I Know

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    What an interesting journaling effort, writing more verses to the poem every decade. The work of the righteous shall be peace and the effect of righteousness is {contentment} Each son or daughter of God can receive instantly the things they need to know.

  • 4 April 2013

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    3 Nephi 11 I think it is important to note that the people were not talking about the sign of the death of Christ, they were talking about Christ, the person about whom the sign was given. Likely a good Putin of the discussion was about the words they had heard in the darkness and…