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 https://gospelstudy.us/nt12-2023-i-will-give-you-rest/ These articles are very inspirational, and go with the Come Follow Me scriptures. They have been written by Kelly Merrill. Gospelstudy.us Newsletter This is a great week to determine where our inner peace comes from? Do we get our peace from the teachings of the world, or from our obedience to God? I Will Give You Rest Week 12 is scheduled for study March 13-19, 2023. If we want the rest that can only come from God, we must do those things that produce His rest. At times it may seem difficult, but compared to the burdens we carry from the demands of the world, the rest God offers is a blessed relief. How Do I Ponder?   Have you ever had someone come into the room and say, “Think fast!” as they throw something at you that you either need to catch or dodge? Thinking fast is the opposite of pondering. The act of thinking changes when we slow down the process. As we take time to think things through there is time to do things...

I believe anything from Pres. Nelson is a lift, right now in the situation the world is in, that of a Pandemic, and many people sick, and some dying. March 2020 A Prophet, Preparation, and a Pandemic By  Sean Brotherson  · March 22, 2020 Cover image via Church Newsroom. We are living during what might be called the Great Pause. In our globalized world of the 21 st  century, we have never seen anything quite like it. Businesses are still. Transportation is less. People wait in their homes, apartments, and places of work, wondering and struggling and praying. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed our world on the brink of a different era—and we nervously peer ahead and anxiously wonder about the transitions. It is not easy. It is not pleasant. It is not the way we are used to living and being. In the midst of all this, it is easy to feel paralyzed or panicked. I have those feelings. I wonder about the future. About the present. About each day. ...

This may be the subject of the last mortal message we received from our dear Prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, given in April, 2017. Why Should We Read the Book of Mormon Daily? By Book of Mormon Central  · September 28, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE   “For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children.” 2 Nephi 4:15 The Know Elder Robert D. Hales has taught, “The greatest blessings of general conference come to us after the conference is over. Remember the pattern recorded frequently in scripture: we gather to hear the words of the Lord, and we return to our homes to live them.” [1]   This counsel is especially important in regard to the teachings of the living prophet, who is the president of the church. In his Saturday morning address of the April 2017 session of general conference, President T...

BOOK OF MORMON Book of Mormon Extras—Lesson 4: Obtaining the Best Gifts from Heaven According to Our Desires By Scot Facer Proctor  · January 13, 2016 The Book of Mormon is loaded with powerful messages that are often skipped over or that remain in obscurity to the casual reader. This week’s lesson has one of those. A Pattern I absolutely love Nephi’s response to Lehi’s dream or vision of the Tree of Life. In telling us about his own personal feelings, Nephi gives each of us a pattern to follow to obtain our fondest dreams and receive the richest blessings of heaven. Let’s look closely. “And it came to pass after I, Nephi, having heard all the words of my father, concerning the things which he saw in a vision, and also the things which he spake by the power of the Holy Ghost, which power he received by faith on the Son of God—and the Son of God was the Messiah who should come— I, Nephi, was desirous...