by kdm | May 12, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post. . . Elder Boyd K. Packer wrote: Controls for Discipline Like the man in the shop, many of us may never have been told how serious an offense of Profanity can be. Ere we know we are victims of a vile habit—and the servant of our...
by kdm | May 10, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his book ‘in Wisdom and in Order’: A number of years ago I went with a brother to tow a wrecked car. It was a single-car accident and the car was demolished; the driver, though unhurt, had...
by kdm | May 8, 2024 | #character, #discipline, Choice, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Jeffrey R. Holland and his book “For Times of Trouble” Psalms 18:36; 94:18-19 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me...
by kdm | May 7, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Neal A. Maxwell and his book “All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience”: We must not approach God as if He were somehow constrained by finite knowledge and by time. A useful and illustrative episode is the one involving the prophet Elisha and his...
by kdm | May 6, 2024 | #character, #discipline, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, The Plan, Today's Post
From “Thoughts for One-Hundred Days”, Richard L. Evans wrote: A thoughtful physician remarked: “I used to think of impatience as simply a natural part of some peoples personality, but over the years I have come to conclude that habitual impatience is...
by kdm | May 2, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
. . . . and his book ‘For Times of Trouble’: he quotes from Psalms 18:2, 30; 61:2, 62:6 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. . . . As...