I loved all the messages today, I found many in alignment with my own current life and circumstances. One of my favorite messages was on six practical suggestions to dissipate the discouraging voices of the adversary and restore peaceful assurance and Spiritual confidence. #ldsconf #spiritualconfidence #peace #yourbodyisatemple #physicalwellbeing #spiritualwellbeing 1. Take responsibility for your own spiritual well-being. Stop blaming others or your circumstances, stop justifying and stop making excuses for why you are not fully striving to be obedient, he said. 2. Take responsibility for your own physical well-being. Decide today to begin a regular, long-term exercise program suited to your abilities, combined with a healthier diet. 3. Embrace voluntary, whole-hearted obedience as part of your life. Make the Church and the restored gospel your whole life, not just part of your outward or social life, he said. Spiritual confidence increases when you are truly striving, for the right reasons, to live a consecrated life, in spite of your imperfections. 4. Become really, really good at repenting thoroughly and quickly. Establish an attitude of ongoing, happy, joyful repentance, he said. Spiritual confidence increases when you voluntarily and joyfully repent of sins both small and great in real time by applying the Atonement of Jesus Christ. 5. Become really, really good at forgiving. Forgive everyone, everything all the time. Don’t hold grudges, dont be easily offended, forgive and forget quickly. Spiritual confidence increases when you know that the Lord knows that you bear no ill feelings toward another soul. 6. Accept trials, setbacks and surprises as part of your mortal experience. When trials come, the adversary will tell you that you did something wrong, that this is a punishment, that Heavenly Father doesnt love you, he said. Ignore that! All good by Elder Jorg Klebingat of the Seventy.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:23:11 +0000