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Monday, January 12, 2009

Music: This is the Christ






My Thoughts:
I believe it is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir that is singing this song. I so love this one. Pres. Faust, who has since passed away was in the First Presidency of the Church. These words are his. The part that I love so much is the fact that the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are "Special Witnesses of Christ." They know Him personally and can therefore testify of Him. The words here so testify of that statement. I have my own testimony of our Savior. I know that THEY know. It totally governs my life because of it. I read and study all I can of our Savior Jesus Christ. I so want to be like Him. Come to know the Savior and Redeemer of mankind. He CAN heal your soul, he is the only one who can.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

LDS Gems!


TOPIC: Seeking for the Honors of Men

Those who "shine as lights in the world" have no
need to seek the spotlight! (See Philip. 2:15.)
The world's spotlights are not only fleeting,
but they employ inferior light!

WATCHMEN on the Tower: Our Living Prophets & Apostles


Pres. Monson: Be strong. The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness, and pain. You know what is right and what is wrong, and no disguise, however appealing, can change that. The character of transgression remains the same. If your so called friends urge you to do anything you know to be wrong, YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

There is no friendship more valuable than your own clear conscience, your own moral cleanliness--and what a glorious feeling it is to know that you stand in your appointed place clean and with the confidence that you are worthy to do so.

My Thoughts:
Living a life where you are true to your own moral conscious is truly a wonderful feeling of happiness and joy. There is the outside of us that can be so easily influenced by the evil and wrong in the world; there is also the inside of us that truly knows right from wrong and it is when we betray the inside part of us that misery and unhappiness prevail. If we continuously betray what is right for that which is wrong, we can reach a point where we have no conscious at all, we have seared it. We have truly killed the true self when we do that.

Live a life that is good to God, mankind and self. Care, be kind, choose the right and listen to your own moral compass more than you listen to mankind, who can and will lead you astray.

Listen to the words of the Prophet. He will not lead you astray.

WE BELIEVE: Sixth Article of Faith


by James Talmage:
We find, operating in their sacred callings in the Primitive Church, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, elders, bishops, priests and deacons. The purpose of these several offices is declared to be "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." (Ephesians 4:12)

Every office so established is necessary to the development of the Church, which has been aptly compared to a perfect body with its several members, each adapted to particular function and all coordinated for the common good. In an organization planned and established through Divine wisdom, there are neither superfluities nor parts wanting. Eye, ear, hand, and foot, each is essential to the symmetry and physical perfection of the body; in the Church no one in authority can rightly say to his fellow: "I have no need of thee." (See 1 Cor 12:12-21).

The Primitive Church was of comparatively short duration. The world fell into spiritual darkness, and a restoration of power and commission from the Heavens became necessary to the reestablishment of the Church with its ancient blessings and privileges. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims the imperative need of "the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church," and solemnly avers that through the ministration of heavenly beings the Church of Jesus Christ is restored to earth, for the salvation of mankind both living and dead.

My Thoughts:
To me, when Christ was on the earth, He established his Church, for it WAS HIS CHURCH. He knew what was needed in this church to help bring souls back to Him.

To me, the question is asked: When Christ established His Church on the earth in the meridian of time, why do we think, as man, that we can change things around and expect it to be alright.

Christ who is perfect, knew exactly what we needed and thus the Church was established on the earth.

Why does man think he know more than God or Christ himself? What makes man think that he can change things to suit himself or appeal to mankind in general and still say it is Christ's church?

To me it is quite simple. The way the Church was intended and established ORIGINALLY is how it should be now. If you take away or change anything from the original, it is now not the Lord's. Since it is the Lord's church and if I want to know the way back to him, I want to do it the right way, the way the "author" intended, if you will.

Originally it was established with prophets, apostles, pastors, teachers and evangelists, all of which exist in His church today, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Why would anyway want to have a substitute church for the intended Church Christ established?

A pastor is a Bishop, an overseer or a shepherd; An evangelist is a patriarch and Apostles, prophets and teachers should be understood.

For me, I am grateful to be a part of the Lord's Church as He established it originally. It not the works or interpretations of man, it was from Christ himself.