Take upon You My Whole Armor

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Take upon You My Whole Armor

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Elder Henry B. EyringTo Church Educators

• the troubles and the temptations our
  students faced just five years ago pale in
  comparison with what we see now, and even
  more difficult times are ahead.
• I have felt as many of you have felt that what we
  have done and are doing will not be enough. We
  need greater power to get the gospel down into
  the hearts and lives of our students.
• Our aim must be for our students to become truly
  converted to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ
• True conversion depends on a student seeking
  freely in faith, with great effort and some pain.
  Then it is the Lord who can grant, in His time,
  the miracle of cleansing and change.

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Sister Susan W. TannerYoung Womens General
President

• How can we as leaders write the gospel message
  in the fleshy tables of the hearts of our young
  women? Let me suggest four ways
• Desire Young women must be hungry for truth and
  learn to ask the right questions.
• Repetition Young women must hear the doctrines
  over and over.
• Learning by heart young women must fix the
  truths in their minds and hearts they must learn
  the gospel by heart.
• Practice Young women must do they must pray,
  repent, and keep covenants.

Only when you have questions are you really
thinking and learningNo questions equal no
understanding, superfluous questons equal
superfluous understanding, unclear questions
equal unclear understanding. (Critical Thinking,
P.114)
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One more way

• Our youth, as well as us, must be properly
  defended.

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Doctrine and Covenants Section 27

• 15 Wherefore, lift up your hearts and rejoice,
  and gird up your loins, and take upon you my
  whole armor, that ye may be able to withstand the
  evil day, having done all, that ye may be able to
  stand.
• 16 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about
  with truth,
• having on the breastplate of righteousness,
• and your feet shod with the preparation of the
  gospel of peace, which I have sent mine angels to
  commit unto you
• 17 Taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall
  be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
  wicked
• 18 And take the helmet of salvation,
• and the sword of my Spirit, which I will pour
  out upon you, and my word which I reveal unto
  you, and be agreed as touching all things
  whatsoever ye ask of me, and be faithful until I
  come, and ye shall be caught up, that where I am
  ye shall be also.

DC 35 13 Wherefore, I call upon the weak things
of the world, those who are unlearned and
despised, to thrash the nations by the power of
my Spirit 14 And their arm shall be my arm, and
I will be their shield and their buckler and I
will gird up their loins, and they shall fight
manfully for me
Harold B. Lee "And the heart, what kind of
breastplate shall protect our conduct in life? We
shall have over our hearts a breastplate of
righteousness. Well, having learned truth we have
a measure by which we can judge between right and
wrong, and so our conduct will always be gauged
by that thing which we know to be true. Our
breastplate to cover our conduct shall be the
breastplate of righteousness.
Harold B. Lee "By what shall we protect our
feet, or by what shall we gauge our objectives or
our goals in life? . . . How fortunate are you if
in your childhood in the home of your father and
mother you were taught the doctrine of
repentance, faith in Christ, the Son of the
living God, the meaning of baptism and what you
gain by the laying on of hands for the gift of
the Holy Ghost. Fortunate is the child who has
been taught to pray and who has been given those
steps to take on through life. Feet shod with the
preparation of the gospel of peace! . . .
Harold B. Lee "The armoured man holds in his
hand a shield and in his other hand a sword,
which were the weapons of those days. The shield
was the shield of faith and the sword was the
sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God. I
can't think of any more powerful weapons than
faith and a knowledge of the scriptures, in which
are contained the Word of God. One so armoured
and one so prepared with those weapons is
prepared to go out against the enemy that is more
to be feared than the enemies that strike in the
darkness of the night, that we can't see with our
eyes
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Elder L. Tom Perry

• We were dressed in our home each morning,
  not only with hats and raincoats and boots to
  protect us from physical storm, but even more
  carefully our parents dressed us each day in the
  armor of God. As we would kneel in family prayer
  and listen to our father, a bearer of the
  priesthood, pour out his soul to the Lord for the
  protection of his family against the fiery darts
  of the wicked, one more layer was added to our
  shield of faith. While our shield was being made
  strong, theirs was always available, for they
  were available and we knew it." (Ensign, May
  1974, p. 98.)

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Apostle Paul

• Romans 1311
• And that, knowing the time, that now it is high
  time to awake out of sleep for now is our
  salvation nearer than when we believed.
• The night is far spent, the day is at hand let
  us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and
  let us put on the armour of light.