by kdm | Feb 11, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Chapter 4 of Rick Warren’s book:’The Purpose Driven Life’: Made to Last Forever God has . . . planted eternity in the human heart Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT) Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no, man...
by kdm | Feb 10, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
The prologue from Bruce C. and Marie K. Hafen’s book ‘Faith is Not Blind”: The barren hills of the Judean Wilderness rolled out in every direction from where we stood overlooking Wadi Qelt, a river valley and ancient road between Jerusalem and...
by kdm | Feb 9, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Larry W. Tippetts and his book ‘Receiving Personal Revelation’. “I am learning that the Spirit cannot always be felt or heard ‘on demand’, so to speak. There are times when we are almost desperate to feel God’s guidance and we...
by kdm | Feb 8, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Revelation, The Plan, Today's Post
Joseph B. Wirthlin wrote: Another reason many prayers have little power is that they lack faith. We approach our Heavenly like a child who asks something of his or her parents, knowing they will refuse. Without faith, our prayers are merely words. With faith our...
by kdm | Feb 7, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from ‘A Disciple’s Journey’: One day William and Elizabeth stood looking at the beautiful home they had sold a few years earlier to accept their mission call. William asked her if she would like to have her house back. Elizabeth replied,...
by kdm | Feb 6, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritual workout, The Plan, Today's Post
From Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: . . . .”When Zoram had made an oath unto us, our fears did cease concerning him” (1 Nephi 4:37). What of the ancient promise “made to the fathers” as described in the scriptures...
by kdm | Feb 5, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From Larry W. Tippetts book ‘Receiving Personal Revelation’: “The prompting that goes un-responded to may not be repeated. Writing down what we have been prompted with is vital.” ~Neal A. Maxwell Despite their good intentions, some people have...
by kdm | Feb 4, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Bruce C. Hafen and his book ‘Spiritually Anchored in Unsettled Times’: In 1898, Andrew Kimball, age forty, had a nice home and a young family in Salt Lake City, including a three-year-old son named Spencer. The First Presidency called Andrew to be the...
by kdm | Feb 3, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, Revelation, The Plan, Today's Post
From Timothy Keller’s book ‘The Reason for God’: My question—that which at the age of fifty brought me to the verge of suicide—was the simplest of questions, lying in the soul of every man . . . a question without an answer to which one...
by kdm | Feb 2, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From his book ‘Be Not Troubled’, Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, teaches: Since ancient times, fear has limited the perspective of God’s children. I have always loved the account of Elisha in 2 Kings. The king of Syria...