![]() Where to start for sharing my thought is difficult because I have read these chapters numerous times and they have brought new answers and understanding each time. These chapters will bring you peace and assurance accompanied with the courage to persevere forward with Christ! It will give much needed strength and encouragement to the emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually broken. It will calm the anxious heart that fears the ever-growing “secret combinations” within our government that is plotting to destroy the liberties of a country that has been built by bloodshed and devotion. It will lift the broken heart of parents with teenagers who seem to have wandered off a bit (or a lot), and give them the courage they need to be the lighthouse that will draw their youth home. These chapters will smooth the mind of a parent wondering how to strengthen the foundation of young children to be able to withstand the storms of life that will inevitably hit them at some time. I would encourage you to grab a journal, and prayerfully read the passages of Alma from 56-59, and jot down the answers that you receive to your own worries and concerns. I have pondered what to write and have decided that maybe others are feeling desperate for a little peace and assurance from the Lord. Since that day, I have prayed about what to write here on the blog, and I keep opening to Alma 57-58. As I finished those last two verses, I understood that we need to have to have courage to withstand the winds that would blow, but that I could rest assured that the Lord loves His people and will bring us safely home.Īlma 58:11 Yea, and it came to pass that the Lord our God did visit us with assurances that he would deliver us yea, insomuch that he did speak peace to our souls, and did grant unto us great faith, and did cause us that we should hope for our deliverance in him.ġ2 And we did take courage with our small force which we had received, and were fixed with a determination to conquer our enemies, and to maintain our lands, and our possessions, and our wives, and our children, and the cause of our liberty. It was as if he was personally speaking peace to my soul and filling me with unwavering faith. ![]() It might as well have been Christ himself, sitting next to me, with his arm around me assuring me that he would deliver me and all who followed him out of the hands of the enemy, if we will but listen, and follow him. I flipped the page, looked down, and illuminated on the page was the written words, PEACE and ASSURANCE. I was so overwhelmed with gratitude for the beautiful complete answer that I had received that I leaned back in the recliner and almost closed the Book of Mormon, until I felt I should read on. ![]() With my journal close at hand I filled page after page of peace and assurance that the Lord loves me, he loves my children, and he loves my husband. Then with the faith that I have built up over the last couple years of using the scriptures to find answers to my yearning heart, I opened the scriptures and read. During one of my daily morning questions to the Lord, I begged him for “peace and assurance.” I explained to the Lord that on this particular early morning I needed to physically see peace and assurance. If I’m not careful, fear creeps into my heart and I feel overwhelmed and paralyzed with worry of what to do. Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.Īs a parent of 7 children of my own and an aunt of over 80 nieces and nephews, I can’t help but be concerned about the ever increasing evil that is spreading through the world at an accelerated pace.
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