Post # 87 – Come, Follow Me -- Week 9 ---“He Taught Them as One Having Authority”
February
25–March 3 --- Matthew 6-7
Dear Family
and Friends
This week we
are continuing with the Sermon on the Mount in chapter six. Jesus teaches His disciples
the Lord’s Prayer. We can learn how to improve our own prayers from this. He
commands His disciples to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness first
before anything else. He also commands us to seek the kingdom of God first
before anything else. In chapter seven
Jesus finishes up the Sermon on the Mount. He gives a command for us to ‘judge
not; to ask of God; and to beware of false prophets. Jesus promises salvation
to all those who will do the will of the Father.
These are just a few thoughts I had for Matthew 6
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Do not do service to get gain or praise of
world. Be careful of your motivations in helping others, it should not be to get
money or the praise of men.
n Do not pretend to really want to serve others just so you can look good to them and others.
n Do not pretend to really want to serve others just so you can look good to them and others.
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Do service to help others not for praise of
man. You do not need to tell anyone that you are serving someone.
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Serve others for God. Not praise of man. Don’t
brag about taking care of others. God will bless you.
n Do not
be a hypocrite. praying in public for praise of man. Pray secretly got no recognition.
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Think about your prayer before you prat. Don’t
pray to for glory. Heavenly Father hears your prayers and He will answer your
prayers. He knows your needs before you ask.
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We need to take thought of what we wat to say
in our prayers before we say them and not just doing a rote prayer. Our prayers
do not have to have many words or fancy words, just speak the righteous desires
of your heart. If we don’t know what to pray for the Holy Ghost will give us the
words we need to say and what or whom we need to pray for.
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Heavenly Father knows of our needs before we
ask, He is only waiting for us to ask. Remember in Psalm 23:1 it says: ”The Lord is my shepherd. I shall
not want.”
Address the Father, acknowledging His name, glory, power. --- Dear Heavenly Father – next you should thank Him for all the many blessings you have received; you then ask Him for all that you are in need of at the time. The last thing you should do is to close your prayer “in the name of Jesus Christ, amen”
Address the Father, acknowledging His name, glory, power. --- Dear Heavenly Father – next you should thank Him for all the many blessings you have received; you then ask Him for all that you are in need of at the time. The last thing you should do is to close your prayer “in the name of Jesus Christ, amen”
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Acknowledge in our prayers that His will be
done and not ours. We must
remember that it is the will of the Lord that we will need to pray for.
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Thank Him for all of our blessings. Ask Him
to bless you that you will be able to provide for yourself and your family.
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Ask Him to
forgive us of our weaknesses, faults, offenses to others and our sins. Remember,
we must forgive those who have offended us or sinned against us.
n We ask
Heavenly Father to help us, to give us the strength to resist, avoid, not to be
led into temptation. To protect us from the devil and his followers. To deliver
us out of their snares and give us the strength to change our lives.
n We should
forgive others and have patience with them, so that our Heavenly Father will
forgive us and have patience with us.
n We need
to confess our sins and ask forgiveness of the person we have sinned against,
then ask our Heavenly Father for His forgiveness as well.
n When
we fast we should have a cheerful countenance not advertising that we are
fasting.
n Only
your Heavenly Father needs to know that you are fasting, not the world. Be sure
you are fasting for a righteous purpose. Put great thought into your fast
before you fast.
n We need to save only treasures that we can
take with us when we die. Our family, knowledge, good works,… eternal
treasures, not treasures of the world.
n In the New Testament
Peter teaches us that id we focus our treasures on heavenly treasures we will
have an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and it will not fade away, and
it is reserved in heaven for each one of us.
n We want
to be thinking on heavenly things not earthly things as our treasures. where
our treasure is there will our heart be.
n The Lord teaches us that the eye is the
light of the body and if our eye is single – focused in on – to His glory, the
whole body will be full of light. He also teaches us that no one can give us
this light except for Him. He is the only one with the power to give us His
light.
n He taught that blessed are those have an
eye single to His glory, according to His commandments.
n So, if we keep His commandments,
we will receive His truth and His light, until we will be glorified in truth
and then we will know all things! Wow!!
n We do
not want to have spiritual blindness because we chose something other than the
Lord’s truth to guide our lives.
n If we
are not one of the followers or children of Christ, then we belong to the
devil. We cannot serve two masters. We must choose whom we will follow.
n This
verse may be geared toward missionaries, but I think it can be applied to each
of us in that we should not worry about what we are going to eat or where our clothing
will come from.
n As long
as we are doing our best to serve the Lord, the Lord will take care of the
rest. We only need to ask Him. In D&C
84:81 He says that we should take no thought for tomorrow…
n He doesn’t
want us to get anxious or overly concerned about our life, what we will eat or
drink, or for what we will wear. He asks us in the last part
n We are
better than the birds and our Heavenly Father feeds them, so it would make
sense that He would feed us as well.
n When
you are in the service of the Lord, He will take care of your needs, just as He
cares for the lilies.
n If you have faith that the Lord will provide,
He will provide for you the things that you need.
n He tells us not to worry about these
things, He will take care of them. He will give us the strength and the
knowledge to work, to earn a living or be provided.
n Heavenly
Father knows of our needs before
we need them. He
our weaknesses, of our iniquities, our sins.
n He teaches us that we
should seek Him first, and His righteousness. We should have a desire to build
up His kingdom on the earth and work to establish His righteousness. We should
not seek the things of the earth.
n Remember what Solomon
asked the Lord for? He only asked Him for wisdom, but the Lord also blessed him
with wealth and honor – there would be no other king like Solomon.
n We need to seek for
wisdom and for the riches of eternity. With than wisdom we can learn of the
mysteries of God.
n We are to set our sights on the things of
heaven – not the vain things of the world. We cannot take the things of the
earth with un into the next life, so it is important for us to focus on the
things of eternity.
n
He asks us each to consider on the
blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For they ---
each one of us are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if
they – if each one of us – hold out faithful to the end they – each one of us –
are received into heaven, that they – each one of us – may dwell with God in a
state of never-ending happiness.
n The
Lord teaches us to not worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care of itself.
n If we hear
and act on the Lord’s teachings, our lives will be built on a firm foundation.
n Jesus
teaches us – commands us to judge not. If we judge others, we will be held
accountable for our judgment of them. He will judge us using the same judgment
against us.
n He teaches
us that we should not be a hypocrite, if we see wrong in others and do not change
the wrong in ourselves, we are being a hypocrite.
n He teaches
us that we need to ask for our needs, if we ask with a righteous heart; with
righteous desires He will give it to us.
n If we seek
it with pure intent, we will find what we are looking for.
n If we knock
it shall be opened to us. He is at the door, but we must invite Him in.
n Do unto
others as you would have them do unto you.
n Enter in at
the straight gate and stay on the narrow path that leads us back to our
heavenly home.
n He teaches
us to beware of false prophets. We will know them by their fruits if they are a
true prophet of God.
n He teaches
us about the wise man who built his house upon a firm foundation and the
foolish man who built his house upon the sand. The wise man’s house stands
still when the storms rage about, but the foolish man’s house gets washed away
in the storm.
n He is
teaching us that we must build our house of faith upon all of His teachings so
that we will have the help of the Holy Ghost to navigate the storms of our
lives. We do not want to be like the foolish man☹
n Jesus
likened us to the men in this parable. Will we choose to be like the wise man
and build our firm, safe foundation upon Him and His teachings. Or will we choose
to be like the foolish man and follow the ways of the world???
The Savior concluded His sermon with a parable that might help
each of us to better understand the importance of living by the Savior’s
teachings. This parable is of the wise man and the foolish man which are found
in Matthew 7:24–27; then this parable is
expounded in Helaman 5:12.
24 Therefore
whosoever aheareth these
sayings of mine, and bdoeth them, cI will liken
him unto a dwise man, which ebuilt his house upon fa rock:
25 And the arain descended,
and the floods came, and the winds blew, and bbeat upon that
house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a crock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and
doeth them not, shall be likened unto a afoolish man,
which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that ahouse; and it bfell: and great was
the fall of it.
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And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer,
who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when
the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind,
yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have
no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo,
because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a
foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.
The Savior taught us how to pray.
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If we study the Lord’s Prayer, it might help us to identify how each
one of us can improve our own prayers by following the Lord’s example.
11 Give us this day our daily abread.
13 aAnd blead us not
into ctemptation, dbut deliver us
from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the eglory, for ever.
Amen.
or in Luke 11:1–4
1 For it came to pass after I had desired to know the
things that my father had seen, and believing that the Lord was able to make
them known unto me, as I sat apondering in
mine heart I was bcaught away in
the Spirit of the Lord, yea, into an exceedingly high cmountain, which I
never had before seen, and upon which I never had before set my foot.
2 And the Spirit said unto me: Behold, what adesirest thou?
3 And I said: I desire to behold the things which my
father asaw.
4 And the Spirit said unto me: aBelievest thou
that thy father saw the btree of which
he hath spoken?
As we ponder the Savior’s words, what do we learn about the
attitudes we should have as we pray? I think we need to know what we desire before
we pray [ desire to know], we need to believe that our prayers well be answered
[believe that the Lord can make things known to us]. What do we learn about the
kinds of things we should pray for and about?
It may be helpful to paraphrase some of the Savior’s phrases as
things each one of us might say in our own prayers. For instance, “Give us this
day our daily bread” could be paraphrased as “Please help me in my efforts to
provide for my family.”
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We may each may benefit from studying other examples of the
Savior praying to His Father, such as Matthew 26:36–42[Jesus Prays in Gethsemane] and John 17[ Intercessory Prayer]. As we study some of these passages, let’s be
searching for answers to questions like “What do we learn about prayer from the
way the Savior prayed?” and “How can we make our prayers more like the
Savior’s?”
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The Savior went off to pray by Himself; He bowed Himself down to
pray; He asks Heavenly Father if it were possible for Him not to need to go
through what He knew was coming next in His life, but only if it was the will
of His Father; Jesus tells his disciples to watch and pray so they are not led
into temptation;
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We learn that we should go to our Heavenly Father in prayer when
we are troubled; distressed; sorrowful; sad; grieved; suffering, in misery;
trials; tribulations; in torment; aa Jesus did. We will all have our
Gethsemane, but we need to remember to be like our Savior and ask that our will
be that of our Heavenly Father’s in our prayers – not my will, but thine be
done. We can accomplish anything through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
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Do you have any experiences you could think of that are related
to prayer? President Thomas S. Monson shared several personal experiences
related to prayer in his message “Consider the Blessings” (Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2012, 86–89). The entry “Prayer” in the Bible Dictionary may also be helpful. You can find
it here: https://www.lds.org/study/general-conference/2012/10/consider-the-blessings?lang=eng
Heavenly Father answers prayers.
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To help each of us strengthen our faith that God will hear and
answer our prayers,
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These three things were mentioned in these scriptures: ask, seek, and knock. I t may be helpful
for us to search the scriptures looking for examples of people who “asked,”
“sought,” and “knocked” we can find some examples in these verses: 1 Nephi 11:1; Ether 2:18–3:6; Joseph Smith—History 1:11–17. I put them side by side
so that it would be easier for comparing.
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Book of Mormon
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Book of Mormon
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Pearl of Great
Price
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Nephi
asked God to show him what his father has seen in a vision.
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The brother of Jared
asked God to help him with his preparations
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Joseph Smith Jr.
sought God in prayer, he needed wisdom.
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1 For it came to pass after I had desired to know the
things that my father had seen, and believing that the Lord was able to make
them known unto me, as I sat ponder-ing in mine
heart I was caught away in
the Spirit of the Lord, yea, into an exceeding-ly high moun-tain, which I
never had before seen, and upon which I never had before set my foot.
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18 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared cried unto the Lord,
saying: O Lord, I have performed the work which thou hast commanded me, and I
have made the barges according as thou hast directed me.
19 And behold, O Lord, in them there is no light; whither shall we
steer? And also we shall perish, for in them we cannot breathe, save it is
the air which is in them; therefore we shall perish.
20 And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: Behold, thou shalt make
a hole in the top, and also in the bottom; and when thou shalt suffer for air
thou shalt unstop the hole and receive air. And if it be so that the water
come in upon thee, behold, ye shall stop the hole, that ye may not perish in
the flood.
21 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did so, according as
the Lord had commanded.
22 And he cried again unto the Lord saying: O Lord, behold I have done
even as thou hast commanded me; and I have prepared the vessels for my
people, and behold there is no light in them. Behold, O Lord, wilt thou
suffer that we shall cross this great water in darkness?
23 And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: What will ye that I
should do that ye may have light in your vessels? For behold, ye cannot have windows, for they will be dashed in pieces;
neither shall ye take fire with you, for ye shall not go by the light of
fire.
24 For behold, ye shall be as a whale in the midst of the sea; for the
mountain waves shall dash upon you. Nevertheless, I will bring you up again
out of the depths of the sea; for the winds have gone forth out of my mouth, and also the rains and the floods have I sent forth.
25 And behold, I prepare you against these things; for ye cannot cross
this great deep save I prepare you against the waves of the sea, and the
winds which have gone forth, and the floods which shall come. Therefore what
will ye that I should prepare for you that ye may have light when ye are
swallowed up in the depths of the sea?
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11 While I was laboring under the extreme difficulties caused by the
contests of these parties of religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first
chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men
liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
12 Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the
heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with
great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and
again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I
did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would
never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of
scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question
by an appeal to the Bible.
13 At length I came to the conclusion that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must
do as James directs, that is, ask of God. I at length came to the
determination to “ask of God,” concluding that if he gave wisdom to them that lacked wisdom, and would give liberally, and not upbraid, I might venture.
14 So, in accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the
morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of
eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made
such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the
attempt to pray vocally.
15 After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to
go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and
began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so,
when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely
overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my
tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it
seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.
16 But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the
power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I
was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to
destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being
from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before
felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the
brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell
upon me.
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me
bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them
spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
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What do we learn from these examples about obtaining answers to
our prayers? We must have faith that our Heavenly Father will answer our prayers.
We must not stop praying even when the adversary tries to overcome us or tries
in different ways to get us to not pray at all doe one reason or another, we
must continue to pray – just as Daniel did. We need to pray for our righteous
desires and we need to do our part – just as the brother of Jared did in his preparations.
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Some important context for Matthew 7:7–11 can be found in the Joseph Smith Translation of Matthew 7:12–17. In these verses, Jesus’s disciples anticipated
some reasons people might give for not seeking truth from Heavenly Father. Let’s
imagine together that we have a friend who is reluctant to seek guidance or
blessings from the Lord. What might we say to encourage this friend? How might we
use the Savior’s words that are found in Matthew 7:7–11?
We can identify true and false prophets
by their fruits.
Each of us have most likely been exposed to false philosophies
and other deceptions of the adversary, whether on the internet, text messaging,
tweets, Facebook, Pinterest, television, movies, or from other sources. You may
have also heard others criticize the Lord’s servants at one time or another.
How can we help others understand how to discern false prophets and teachings
from true ones? Let’s pretend we have several pieces of fruit on the table in front
of us. Now what can we assume about the trees they came from. They were good
trees because they produced good fruit😊 How can doing this
exercise help us understand about false prophets Matthew 7:15–20? Of course by the fruits
they produce😊if they bring forth the
truth of god. We can know through prayer if they are true prophets. They must
be called of God, by someone with the authority of God as we read in the
Articles of Faith 1:5. You can read it below these verses😊
15 ¶ Beware
of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep’s clothing,
but inwardly they
are ravening wolves.
18 A
good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
20 Wherefore
by their fruits ye shall
know them.
Articles of Faith
1:5
We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on
of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in
the ordinances thereof.
You could also read
together some recent messages from the living prophets. What “fruits” or
outcomes does following their counsel produce?
We can know true
prophets by their fruits.
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Matthew
7:15–20 could help build our faith in the divine mission of the
Prophet Joseph Smith. What are the fruits of the work Joseph Smith accomplished?
For some ideas, see Elder Neil L. Andersen’s message “Joseph
Smith” (Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2014, 28–31).
“A sincere inquirer should see the spreading of the restored
gospel as the fruit of the Lord’s work through the Prophet.” There are now more
than 29,000 congregations and 88,000 missionaries teaching the gospel across
the world. Millions of Latter-day Saints are seeking to follow Jesus Christ,
live honorable lives, care for the poor, and give of their time and talents in
helping others.
Jesus said:
“A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. …
“… By their fruits
ye shall know them.”20
These explanations are convincing, but the sincere inquirer
should not rely on them exclusively to settle his or her search for truth.
Each believer needs a spiritual confirmation of the divine
mission and character of the Prophet Joseph Smith. This is true for every
generation. Spiritual questions deserve spiritual answers from God.”
You
can read the whole talk here: https://www.lds.org/study/general-conference/2014/10/joseph-smith?lang=eng
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How could we use the
Savior’s analogy in Matthew
7:15–20 to bear testimony to our friends and family about the
Prophet Joseph?
This week, as we study many of the miracles the Savior performed,
I challenge each one of you to ponder examples of modern-day miracles—whether big or small—that you have experienced
or heard about.
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What principles
related to prayer can we learn from the lyrics of “Prayer Is the Soul’s Sincere
Desire”? (Hymns, no. 145).
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Reading, singing, or listening to “Praise to the Man,” Hymns, no. 27,
might help us if we think of some of the fruits by which we can know that
Joseph Smith was a prophet of God (see also D&C 135:3; “Joseph Smith,” Gospel Topics, topics.lds.org).
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Prayer Is the Soul’s Sincere Desire
Peacefully
1, Prayer is the
soul’s sincere desire,
Uttered
or unexpressed,
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
2.Prayer is the
burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye
When none but God is near.
3.Prayer is the
simplest form of speech
That infant lips can try;
Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach
The Majesty on high.
4.Prayer is the
Christian’s vital breath,
The
Christian’s native air,
His watchword at the gates of death;
He
enters heav’n with prayer.
5.Prayer is the
contrite sinner’s voice,
Returning
from his ways,
While angels in their songs rejoice
And cry, “Behold, he prays!”
6.The Saints in
prayer appear as one
In word and deed and mind,
While with the Father and the Son
Their fellowship they find.
7.Nor prayer is made
on earth alone:
The
Holy Spirit pleads,
And Jesus at the Father’s throne
For sinners intercedes.
8.O thou by whom we
come to God,
The Life, the Truth, the Way!
The path of prayer thyself hast trod;
Lord,
teach us how to pray.
Text: James
Montgomery, 1771–1854
Music: George
Careless, 1839–1932
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Praise to the
Man
1.Praise
to the man who communed with Jehovah!
Jesus anointed that Prophet and
Seer.
Blessed to open the last
dispensation,
Kings shall extol him, and nations
revere.
Hail to the Prophet, ascended to
heaven!
Traitors and tyrants now fight him in
vain.
Mingling with Gods, he can plan for
his brethren;
Death cannot conquer the hero again.
2.Praise
to his mem’ry, he died as a martyr;
Honored and blest be his ever great
name!
Long shall his blood, which was shed
by assassins,
Plead unto heav’n while the earth
lauds his fame.
Hail to the Prophet, ascended to
heaven!
Traitors and tyrants now fight him in
vain.
Mingling with Gods, he can plan for his brethren;
Death cannot conquer the hero again.
3.Great
is his glory and endless his priesthood.
Ever and ever the keys he will hold.
Faithful and true, he will enter his
kingdom,
Crowned in the midst of the prophets
of old.
Hail to the Prophet, ascended to
heaven!
Traitors and tyrants now fight him in
vain.
Mingling with Gods, he can plan for
his brethren;
Death cannot conquer the hero again.
4.Sacrifice brings forth the blessings
of heaven;
Earth
must atone for the blood of that man.
Wake
up the world for the conflict of justice.
Millions
shall know “Brother Joseph” again.
Hail
to the Prophet, ascended to heaven!
Traitors
and tyrants now fight him in vain.
Mingling
with Gods, he can plan for his brethren;
Death
cannot conquer the hero again.
Text: William W. Phelps, 1792–1872
Music: Scottish folk song
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Stories about prayer.
President Boyd K. Packer told of a family prayer his family
had before he left on a trip to California. A veterinarian had told them that
their cow would not live through the day. “Our little boy said our prayer.
After he had asked Heavenly Father to ‘bless Daddy in his travels and bless us
all,’ he then started an earnest plea. He said, ‘Heavenly Father, please bless
Bossy cow so that she will get to be all right.’”
“In California, I told of the incident and said, ‘He must learn
that we do not get everything we pray for just that easily.’
“There was a lesson to be
learned, but it was I who learned it, not my son. When I returned Sunday night,
Bossy had ‘got to be all right’” (“Prayer
and Promptings,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2009, 45).
Brother Mangal Dan Dipty,
a member of the Church from India, said: “As a child I attended the German
Lutheran church regularly. We would go to the mountains to pray together often.
One rainy day, everyone in the prayer group was drenched, and one of the
preachers offered a fervent prayer pleading with the Lord to stop the rain. To
our amazement the rain stopped. That was the beginning of my faith in God and prayer”
(“My
Journey as a Pioneer from India,” Ensign, July
2016, 67).
For other stories about
prayer, see the Latter-day Saint Voices section of the Ensign or Liahona. https://www.lds.org/study/liahona/2012/06/latter-day-saint-voices?lang=eng
“Every day we should ask
ourselves, ‘How can we better live as Jesus Christ taught and lived?’”
President Nelson said. “This mindset will help fill our lives, our homes, our
neighborhoods, and our churches with more of Christ’s light and power.”
The changes the Church is
making apply to many aspects of Church communications. Four areas are of note
for Latter-day Saints and the general public:
Websites: The Church’s official website will become ChurchofJesusChrist.org. This change is effective
today, March 5, 2019, when the domain name ChurchofJesusChrist.org begins
pointing to the LDS.org home page. In the coming months, the
ChurchofJesusChrist.org domain name will replace what were the following:
LDS.org (ChurchofJesusChrist.org)
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Well, Dear Family and friends, here we are at the end of
this lesson. I hope my sharing it with you has sparked some interest of your
own to do some further exploring and learning about prayer and prophets😊 I believe
they are both powerful, amazing, and essential to our eternal progression. I know
that we have a living prophet upon the earth today – even President Russell M.
Nelson, who has been called by God. I also know that if we follow his counsel
and that of his apostles we will be blessed. I know that their counsel comes
directly from the Lord and what better source can we have, right?
You know I have been noticing so many television commercials
about cancer in the past few years, and not some very specific to breast
cancer. I have watched more movies and shows about someone with cancer or
losing someone to cancer. Is it just me or does cancer seem more out there – it
seems to be getting so much exposure these days. Almost like it has gone a bit
rampant. I know so many friends and acquaintances who have different forms of
cancer – none are age or gender specific, cancer has no one type of person in
mind when it comes. Anyway, this has just been my observation lately. i don’t
know if it is just me, but I thought I would put it out there for you😊
As always, I hope and pray that the messages I share with
all of you in my blog are of some benefit to each of you and uplifted you today
as you have been reading and studying with me. And today with such important
topics as prayer and true prophets of God, I feel like there is so much more to
learn. We will just have to keep learning and studying together and delving
deeper into these topics as we go. We have covered enough for today, so until
my next post be sure to make it a spectacular week😊 Remember
that you are each a child of a Heavenly Father who lives you so much that He
sent living prophets to lead and guide each of you through all of your trials
and tests of this life.
