How to Get and Keep the Spirit II
Continuing from How to Get and Keep the Spirit, D. Kelly Ogden wrote: Fire is a symbol of the Holy Ghost, and of his effect on a person. How can you get the fire in your bones? How can you get the Spirit of God or the Holy Ghost inside you to make mighty changes in...* Remembering the name of the Lord our God
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.~ Psalm 20:7 Elder Jeffrey R. Holland wrote: It is important to remember that the first principle is not faith in an abstract sense, but specifically “Faith in the Lord...How to Get and Keep the Spirit
D. Kelly Ogden from his book “8 Mighty Changes God Wants for You Before You Get to Heaven,” under the above chapter title shared: Gary, one of my high school friends, grew up to be a police officer. He was tall and funny. One day Gary said to me, very...* Journal and Desires to Improve
Continuing with a post from Larry W. Tippetts’ book ‘Receiving Personal Revelation’: Recently I read the biography of President Henry B. Eyring, ‘I Will Lead You Along.’ The book includes hundreds of excerpts from his personal journals. I...Grounded, Rooted, Established, and Settled
Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in addressing Brigham Young University students and faculty in September 1981 said. . . . Whatever our vocation, we should be sweetened, not hardened. Keeping our sense of proportion whatever we do,...* Keeping up. . . .and Catching up
From his book ‘Thoughts for one hundred days’ Richard Evans wrote: “We recall the often quoted comment of Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen: “Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.”12 One of...Personal inspiration written becomes personal scripture.
Larry Tippets wrote: Tom Mould, an anthropologist not of our faith, spent several years researching and associating with members (of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) in a North Carolina stake to better understand how Latter-day Saints narrated personal...* Ask For His Help
Sister Wendy Watson Nelson wrote: The Savior entreats us to come unto him. He wants us to come close to him. He wants us to have increasingly repeated interactions with him and to really get to know him. . . . As we increase our interactions with the Savior—as...* Saving Themselves. . . ?
From Timothy Keller’s book, ‘The Reason for God.’ The devil, if anything, prefers Pharisees—men and women who try to save themselves. They are more unhappy than either mature Christians or irreligious people and they do a lot more spiritual...
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