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Title: Our Divine Worth


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Our Divine Worth
  • Cypress Texas Stake

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Little Boys
  • A little boy was in a relative's wedding.
  • As he was coming down the aisle, he would take
    two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd.
  • While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up
    like claws and roar.
  • So it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR,
    all the way down the aisle.
  • As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from
    laughing so hard by the time he reached the
    pulpit.
  • When asked what he was doing, the child sniffed
    and said, "I was being the Ring Bear."

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Julie
4
Judgment Day??
  • Obedience (Assets)
  • Minus
  • Sins (Liabilities)
  • Negative(Telestial?)

Break Even (Terrestrial?)
Positive (Celestial?)
5
Prophet Moroni, Gifts
  • Moroni 10
  • And again, I exhort you, my brethren, that ye
    deny not the gifts of God, for they are many and
    they come from the same God
  • Ether 1227
  • And if men come unto me I will show unto them
    their weakness.

To Bless And Serve
6
Elder C.S. Lewis
  • Imagine yourself as a living house. God
    comes in to rebuild that house.
  • At first, perhaps, you can understand what
    He is doing. He is getting the drains right and
    stopping the leaks in the roof and so on you
    knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are
    not surprised.
  • But presently He starts knocking the house about
    in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem
    to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The
    explanation is that He is building quite a
    different house from the one you thought of-
    throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra
    floor there, running up towers, making
    courtyards.
  • You thought you were going to be made into a
    decent little cottage but He is building a
    palace.
  • (Mere Christianity p. 176) 

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Apollo 13
8
Elder Bruce Hafen
Elder Bruce Hafen
Fallen, Natural Man
At-One-Ment
Divine Gravity
9
Elder Bruce Hafen
Elder Bruce Hafen
President Eyring All of us can remember times in
our lives when we felt a pull to be better than
we were, to rise higher. The feeling may have
come at about the same time we had the thought
"There must be something better in life than
this."
Make Covenents Repent Trust
The feeling that you are meant to be better,
perhaps in a way you haven't yet discovered,
comes from our Heavenly Father. The opposing
thought, that the upward pull is an illusion,
comes from the adversary, who wants us all to be
miserable, as he is.
Divine Gravity
Fallen, Natural Man
At-One-Ment
Heavenly Father does more than allow you to feel
that upward pull. He has provided a way to rise
higher, almost beyond our limits of imagination,
not by our own powers alone, which would not be
nearly enough, but through the power of the
atonement of his Son,
(Making Covenants with God, BYU Devotional, Sept
1996)
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Gifts of God
Remember Our Weaknesses and Imperfections do not
exist to embarrass or ruin our lives. They are
meant to bless us by teaching us to rely more on
the Lords Tender Mercies. And His grace really
Is sufficient for usif well let it!
  • Moroni 10
  • And again, I exhort you, my brethren, that ye
    deny not the gifts of God, for they are many and
    they come from the same God
  • Ether 1227
  • And if men come unto me I will show unto them
    their weakness.
  • I give unto men (and women) weakness that they
    may be humble
  • and my grace is sufficient

To Bless And Serve
To Humble and Bless us
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The Apostle Peter
  • And Jesus constrained his disciples to
    get into a ship,
    andhe went up into a mountain, apart,
    to pray.
  • And the ship was tossed with the
    waves for the wind was contrary.
  • And in the fourth watch of the night,
    Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
  • And when the disciples saw him walking
    on the sea, they were troubled, saying,
    It is a spirit and they cried out for
    fear.
  • But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be
    of good cheer it is I be not afraid.
  • And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be
    thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
  • And he said, Come.
  • And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he
    walked on the water
  • But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was
    afraid and, beginning to sink, he cried, saying,
    Lord, save me.
  • And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand,
    and caught him
  • And when they were come into the ship, the wind
    ceased. (Matt 14)

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Julie
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Questions for Julie
  • Is God your Heavenly Father?
  • Does He love you more than you can know?
  • Does He want you to be happy?
  • Does He want you to Pray?
  • Is He anxious to answer you?
  • Does He know exactly what you need?
  • Does He know what is going to happen to you in
    the future?
  • If all this is true, then what, exactly, are you
    asking for?

14
Dinner Tonight?
15
Essential Questions
  • So, why do we pray?
  • What are we praying for?

16
Pres. Joseph F. Smith
  • the education of our desires is one of
    far-reaching importance to our happiness
    in life
  • (Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. 1939, 297
  • Desires?
  • Wait! I know what I what I need- dont I?

17
Elder Maxwell
  • One might ask, why is it necessary that
    the Holy Ghost prompt us even in our
    prayers? One reason is that only with the
    help of the Holy Ghost can we be lifted
    outside the narrow little theater of our own
    experience, outside our selfish concerns, and
    outside the confines of our tiny conceptual
    cells.
  • God sees things as they really are and as they
    will become. We dont! In order to tap that
    precious knowledge during our prayers, we must
    rely upon the promptings of the Holy Ghost.
  • With access to that kind of knowledge, we would
    then pray for what we and others should have...
    With the Spirit prompting us, we will not ask
    amiss.
  • Prayer, 44-52

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Brother Johnson, 1964The Apostle Paul of Ghana
  • As I read the Book of Mormon I
    became convinced that it was really
    the word of God, and sometimes
    while reading I would burst into
    tears. I felt the Spirit as I read. . . .
  • One early morning . . . I saw the
    heavens open and angels with trumpets
    singing songs of praise unto God. . . . In the
    course of this I heard my name mentioned thrice,
    "Johnson, Johnson, Johnson. If you will take up
    my work as I will command you, I will bless you
    and bless your land." Trembling and in tears I
    replied, "Lord, with thy help I will do
    whatsoever you will command me."
  • From that day onward, I was constrained by that
    Spirit to go from street to street . . . to
    deliver the message which we had read from the
    Book of Mormon. . . . I did exactly as the Lord
    commanded me . . . and immediately our
    persecutions started.
  • Brother Johnson also reported that at a time of
    great trial early in his ministry, his deceased
    brother appeared to him in a dream and said
  • "Don't worry. . . you have chosen the only true
    church on earth . . . and I am now investigating
    your church." I was surprised. I never knew that
    the Church extended to another world. It was my
    brother who brought that knowledge to me.
  • He said that if I didn't believe him, he would
    sing a song from my church, and he sang "Come,
    Come, Ye Saints." That was the first time I had
    heard that hymn. He said, "Don't leave the
    church, my brother. . . . Please see that I am
    baptized."

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Brother Johnson Continues
  • It was my brother who enlightened me about
    baptism for the dead and brought it to my
    knowledge. . . . Most of my relatives
    appeared to me in dreams saying,
  • "Reverend Johnson, do you know you have a
    work to do for us? Our great grandsons and
    daughters will be in your church soon. See
    that we are baptized." . . .
  • I learned these doctrines before the missionaries
    arrived. Nothing they taught us seemed strange.
    They simply confirmed what we had heard. . . .
    Each time the Lord addressed us in dreams, He
    addressed us as Latter-day Saints, even though we
    had not yet become members.
  • For 14 years Brother Johnson helped organize 10
    congregations. To strengthen his people against
    trials and persecution, he focused on the early
    history of the Church. He said
  • We felt the spirit of the pioneers. . . . We
    gained our strength from the pioneers. We were
    inspired by their works. . . . I would see tears
    falling from the eyes of my members, especially
    when we sang, "Come, Come, Ye Saints." That hymn
    is wonderful. It is my favorite hymn in the
    Church.
  • One night at midnight, after many lonely years of
    struggle, Brother Johnson heard a shortwave news
    broadcast from England in which he heard
    President Kimball's announcement that all worthy
    males could receive the priesthood. He burst into
    tears of joy, knowing that the Church would now
    come to Africa.
  • E. Dale LeBaron, BYU Devotional, November
    1998
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