Let us make the Lord our hope and our strength

Whatever the remaining distance between us and Him, it is ours to travel! The beckoning stepping-stones are there. You have come thus far by faith in Him, though you have “miles to go before you sleep,” and your faith will take you even further. Please ponder this eloquent pleading to the Father. It is by the same Jesus who volunteered in the premortal world by saying meekly and simply, “Here am I, send me”. Here are the pleading words: “Listen to him who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him—Saying: Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him whom thou gavest that thyself might be glorified; wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name,

that they may come unto me and have everlasting life”.

He is always thinking of us!

I so testify as one of His apostles and do so in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Neal A. Maxwell

We are followers of Jesus Christ. And we have been His followers and have loved Him

for a long, long time. Nothing is more important than working and sacrificing and

enduring for Him. Let us be the generation ….. that finally walks away from the

world. If we will Awake to who we are, Arise by making of our lives ministries, and

come unto Christ by steadily becoming more holy, we will have a degree of influence the

world and the kingdom of God have never felt before an influence that has no limit and

no end. We can do this. I know we can. I know that God is our Father, and that the only way to worship

 Him is by following His Son. I know the heavens are open, that angels minister, and that the Spirit speaks.

And I know that Jesus Christ can heal us, strengthen us, sanctify us, lift us, and redeem us. I

testify that the power to have righteous influence comes when the Atonement changes our hearts.

Sheri Dew

“…Often people have such a firm grasp on things of the world that which is telestial that no amount of urging and no degree of emergency can persuade them to let go in favor of that which is celestial. Satan gets them in his grip easily. If we insist on spending all our time and resources building up for ourselves a worldly kingdom, that is exactly what we will inherit.”

Spencer W. Kimball

As the Savior declared, “Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation

of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great”

 “You know… that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small

helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.

“Therefore….let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then

may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed”.

I declare my apostolic witness that Jesus the Christ is the light and the life of the world. He lives;
I know and witness He lives…..

I invoke the blessing upon you that, according to your desire, your faithfulness, and your

diligence, you may have eyes to see and the capacity to press forward and persevere in the

powerful spiritual pattern of small and simple things bringing to pass great things in your

individual lives, in your families, and in your righteous pursuits. Of these things I testify and

these blessings I invoke upon you in the sacred name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

David A. Bednar

“With a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion. More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy things.”

D. Todd Christofferson

Let us do all that we can do to increase our faith in and reliance on our Savior so that we can say, “give us strength according to our faith”. And on the days when we feel our faith is lagging, let us be like the father with the child possessed by a spirit, who when Jesus said to him, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth . . . cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief”. Let us make the Lord our hope and our strength. Let us follow Him with exactness. Let us draw near to Him. Let us put our trust and our love in the true and living God because His strengthening grace is, and always has been, and always will be, sufficient in every season of our need.

Sandra Rogers

To increase our faith simply means to place more trust in God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Our faith will increase when we live up to our Heavenly Father’s expectation of us. Increasing our faith will purify our hearts and sanctify our souls and bring us closer to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ, who by far suffered the most, has the most compassion for all of
us who suffer so much less. Moreover, He who suffered the most has no self-pity!
He cared, even in the midst of enormous suffering. He reached outwardly, when a
lesser being would have turned inwardly.”

Neal A. Maxwell

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.