That Promised Day

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Feel the Power of Christ's Atonment for YOU

 

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What you feel as your see these beautiful pictures is the answer to man's most pressing question: "Who Am I?"  You will feel that you really are a son of God and entitled to his blessings.

What  you feel when the Holy Ghost is communicating the truth to you is so much more important than what you might see or hear.  Trust your tender feelings.

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The Real Meaning of Christmas

The Spirit of Christmas

 The True Spirit of Christmas

A Modern Apostle Speaks on Christmas

Dieter F. Uchtdorf - German Apostle--Select Uchtdorf Address

A Modern Prophet Speaks About Christmas

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Apostle Henry B. Eyring

First Counselor in the First Presidency

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

 

What all of uslong for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.  This is the promise of eternal life, which God has called His greatest gift to His children (See Doctrine and Covenants 14:7).  That is made possible by the gifts to us of His Beloved Son: the Savior's life and mission, Atonement and Resurrection.  It is through the Savior's life and mission that we have the assurance that we can be together in love and live forever in families.

Christmas Homecoming

The feeling of longing for home is born into us.  That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith--enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God.  This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.  Then, in the next life, we can be welcomed by our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son to that home of our dreams.

Even in this life we can have an assurance of the coming of that day and feel some of the joys we will know when at last we arrive home.  The celebration of the Savior's birth at Christmas gives us special opportunities to experience those joys in this life.

As we gather in that heavenly home, we will be surrounded by those who have been forgiven of all sin and who have forgiven each other.  We can taste some of tha joy now, especially as we remember and celebrate the Savior's gifts tous.  He came into the world to be the Lamb of God, topay the price of all of the sins of His Father's children in mortality so that all might be forgiven.  In the Christmas season we feel a greater desire to remember and ponder the Savior's words.  He warned us that we cannot be forgiven unless we forgive others (See Matthew 6:14-15).  That is often hard to do, so you will need to pray for help.  This help to forgive will come most often when you are allowed to see that you have given as much or more hurt than you have received.

When you act on that answer to your prayer for strength to forgive, you will feel a burden lifted from  your shoulders.  Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden.  As your forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.  At this Christmastime you can give and receive the gift of forgiveness.  The feeling of happiness that will come will be a glimpse of what we can feel at home together in the eternal home for which ye yearn.

A time of joy together

There is another glimpse of that joyful future home that we can see more easily at Christmastime.  It is the feeling of givieng with a generous heart.  This can come as we feel the needs of others more than our own and when we sense how generous God has been to us.

It helps to see the kindness of others at Christmastime.  How many times have our gone to leave a gift on a doorstep, hoping not to be notice, only to find more than one unmarked gift already there?  Have you felt, as I have, the impression to help someone only to find that what y ou were inspired to give was exactly what someone needed at that very moment?  This is a wonder assurance that God knows all of our needs and counts on us to fill the needs of others around us. 

King Benjamin Teaching His People

God sends those messages to us with more confidence at Christmastime, knowing that we will respond because our hearts are more sensitive to the Savior's example and to the words of His servants. At Christmastime, we are more likely to have read recently and been touched by the words of King Benjamin.  He taught his people, and he teaches us, that the overwhelming gift of forgiveness that we receive should make us feel an overflowing generosity toward others.  "And behold, even at this time, ye have been calling on his name, and begging for a remission of your sins.  And has he suffered that ye have begged in vain?  Nay; he has poured out his Spirit upon you, and has caused that your hearts should be filled with joy, and has caused that your mouths should be stopped that ye could not find utterance, so exceedingly great was your joy."

The Christmas Season

The Christmas season give us encouragement to remember Him and His infinite generosity.  Remembering His generosity will help us feel and respond to the inspiration that there is someone who needs our help, and it will let us see the hand of God reaching to us when He sends someone to succor us, as He so often does.  There is joy ingiveing and in receiving the generosity that God inspires, especially at Christmas.

There have been times, often at Christmas, when we have felt parts of what we will experience when we at last come home to the Father who loves us and answers our prayers and to the Savior who has lighted our lives and lifted us up.

I testify that because of Him, you may have an assurance that you can go home not only at Christmastime but also to live forever with a family whom you love and who love each other.

Apostle Henry B. Eyring

A Personal Witness of Jesus Christ

Suggestions On Prayer

 Jesus Set the Example

Prayer must always be done in faith, as we receive the Spirit of prayer only through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are to pray to God our Heavenly Father with a sincere heart and with real intent, having faith in Christ our prayers will be answered in the way that is best for us.  We need to learn the language of prayer, which shows that we love and respect our Heavenly Father.  In English we us scriptural pronouns such as Thee, Thou, Thy, and Thine.

We Can Pray Almost Anywhere

Always express gratitude for your many daily blessings.  A conscious effort to be grateful will help you recognize just how merciful the Lord has been in your life.  Pray specifically for the guidance and help of the Holy Ghost. Show that you value this blessing by being sensitive and aware of spiritual promptings when they come.  Then courageously follow the promptings.  You may be seeking help for yourself and then be prompted to offer help and assistance to someone else.  Many of our prayers will be best answered by other people and we must follow the prompting to seek out those who are prepared to help us.  Others of our prayers are best answered through service to others.  It is often when we can forget ourselves and think only of the needs of others that we receive the answers to our own prayers.


Pray with love and charity for other by calling them by name.  Pray for the understanding and and what you can do to help others.  Pray that you will be shown where to go and what to do.  Pray that you might be led to those that your can serve; for in this you are assisting the Lord in answering the prayers of others.  Remember always that your Heavenly Father know what you need better than you do.  Rely on the Spirit to prompt you regarding the things you should pray for.

Prayer Is Our Heritage

In your prayers at night, give the Lord an accounting of your day's activities and review with him your plans for the next day.
Pray to overcome temptation and for the strength to do what you know is right.  Pray and ponder about the scriptures; for it is the scriptures that can open the window to revelation.  Keep in mind that what you say to God is prayer and what he says to you is revelation.  

Pray With Family Members

Believe that God will answer your prayers recognizing that God's thoughts may not be your thoughts and trust that God will answer your prayers in his own way and in his own time.
If you offer the same prayer day after day, your are not giving sufficient thought and preparation before praying.  When you communicate with your friends you would not just say the same thing every time your meet. So don't do it with God. Let prayer become the way your begin and end each day, but carry a prayer in your heart as your perform your daily tasks.   Don't suppose that God will answer your prayers if you do no more than just ask.  It is the way you think and the way you live that determines, at many times, just how your prayers will be answered.  To offer sincere and worthy prayers takes practice and is not learned on the spur of the moment when a crisis confronts you.  The way you live may well determine the nature of the answer you will receive when you pray.  Our prayers and the way we live are carefully intertwined and difficult to separate.  Live a good life and enjoy the fruits of prayer which are the miracles, revelation, and other spiritual prompting, and protection to endure the trials of life with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and a knowledge of your Heavenly Father that can only come from sincere communication with him.

Always Remember You Are Talking with Your Heavenly Father

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Men and Women Are Creators

 Man Has Created the Means to Travel Across the World and Into Space

As the children of God, we inherit a tremendous ability to create either things that have never existed before, or we can create something better than what already exists. We even have the opportunity to create new life like unto our own.  Our great ability to create, unlike all other forms of life, is proof positive that we are the children of the Great Creator of worlds without number and all that first exists upon them.  Creativity was not an evolutionary ability that gradually came to primitive life forms.  If so, other life forms would be able to create more than a den, a nest, a hive, and bear their young in a bed at best made of either feathers or fur. Man alone can alter his own environment and protect himself from danger, disease, and other crisis generating problems. Man along can travel high above the earth and into outer space.


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Housing Being Built in Baharine in the Middle East

Could evolution possible explain the tremendous creations shown on this page.  Don't fool yourself.  Men and women were born into this life with a natural ability to create and there seems to be almost no limits upon what they can create, because they are the literal children of a Great Creator, even our Heavenly Father.

Human-like Robot Performing Many Human-like Tasks

Man now has the power to take a heart from one human and transplant it into the body of another human and extend the live of the recipient for many years.  Did this come to pass only because of evolution?  Did this occur only because the human brain evolved over long periods of time to allow these marvelous things to be created?  Other humans use their creative abilities to create things that destroy life and take from man his God given liberty make his own choices. 

Modern Heart Transplant Surgery Has Saved Humans from Certain Death

Only the children of the One True God could accomplish all that has been accomplished in our successful civilizations since Father Adam entered this world with nothing but the skins God put upon him to hide his nakedness.   Let's all rejoice in the goodness of God to his faithful children,