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JC Davis 40th Birthday
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Debbie received 6 containers, each a cabinet with a glass door front. We put one together down stairs.
We listened to Saturday morning session of the 190th General Conference, the afternoon session and the evening session. President Nelson announced the changing of the Church logo. It now contains the name of the Church with JESUS CHRIST in the center and standing out and a picture of the statue of Christ. He also ask the church member and people of the world to fast next April 10, 2020, Good Friday, for the people in the world, that the Lord will stay the plague of the coronavirus that is sweeping the earth. All the talks were good and I gleaned some very good spiritual nursement. The foundation of the Salt Lake Temple is being reinforced to withstand a major earthquake. We should take a look at our spiritual foundation and start reinforcing it to withstand the shafts, the whirlwinds and all the mighty storms Satan could throw at us. Nephi told his father, I will go and do the things the Lord has commanded because I know He gives no commandment to the children of men save He provides a way for us to accomplish the thing which He has commanded. No light enters the body except through the eye. If our eye be single to his glory then our entire body is filled with light but if our eye is filled with "R" rated movie and some PG-13 movies then our body begins to be filled with darkness. I am careful about what I take into my body and I will now be even more diligent about what I take into my spirit.
It is the same with faith versus fear and doubt, they both can not exist in the same person. Either doubt will chase fear out or faith will chase fear out. You can not serve two masters, either you will love the one and hate the other or you will hate the one and love the other. You can not love God and serve the devil or love the devil and serve God. You have to choose one or the other.
For the second time in as many weeks, Latter-day Saints and all others are being called to join in a worldwide fast.
“For all whose health may permit, let us fast, pray, and unite our faith once again,” said President Russell M. Nelson in his Saturday evening general conference address. “Let us prayerfully plead for relief from this global pandemic.
“I invite all, including those not of our faith, to fast and pray on Good Friday, April 10, that the present pandemic may be controlled, caregivers protected, the economy strengthened and life normalized.”
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This proclamation was read by President Russell M. Nelson as part of his message at the 190th Annual General Conference, April 5, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
We solemnly proclaim that God loves His children in every nation of the world. God the Father has given us the divine birth, the incomparable life, and the infinite atoning sacrifice of His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. By the power of the Father, Jesus rose again and gained the victory over death. He is our Savior, our Exemplar, and our Redeemer.
Two hundred years ago, on a beautiful spring morning in 1820, young Joseph Smith, seeking to know which church to join, went into the woods to pray near his home in upstate New York, USA. He had questions regarding the salvation of his soul and trusted that God would direct him.
In humility, we declare that in answer to his prayer, God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to Joseph and inaugurated the “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21) as foretold in the Bible. In this vision, he learned that following the death of the original Apostles, Christ’s New Testament Church was lost from the earth. Joseph would be instrumental in its return.
We affirm that under the direction of the Father and the Son, heavenly messengers came to instruct Joseph and re-establish the Church of Jesus Christ. The resurrected John the Baptist restored the authority to baptize by immersion for the remission of sins. Three of the original twelve Apostles—Peter, James, and John—restored the apostleship and keys of priesthood authority. Others came as well, including Elijah, who restored the authority to join families together forever in eternal relationships that transcend death.
We further witness that Joseph Smith was given the gift and power of God to translate an ancient record: the Book of Mormon—Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Pages of this sacred text include an account of the personal ministry of Jesus Christ among people in the Western Hemisphere soon after His Resurrection. It teaches of life’s purpose and explains the doctrine of Christ, which is central to that purpose. As a companion scripture to the Bible, the Book of Mormon testifies that all human beings are sons and daughters of a loving Father in Heaven, that He has a divine plan for our lives, and that His Son, Jesus Christ, speaks today as well as in days of old.
We declare that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, organized on April 6, 1830, is Christ’s New Testament Church restored. This Church is anchored in the perfect life of its chief cornerstone, Jesus Christ, and in His infinite Atonement and literal Resurrection. Jesus Christ has once again called Apostles and has given them priesthood authority. He invites all of us to come unto Him and His Church, to receive the Holy Ghost, the ordinances of salvation, and to gain enduring joy.
Two hundred years have now elapsed since this Restoration was initiated by God the Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Millions throughout the world have embraced a knowledge of these prophesied events.
We gladly declare that the promised Restoration goes forward through continuing revelation. The earth will never again be the same, as God will “gather together in one all things in Christ” (Ephesians 1:10).
With reverence and gratitude, we as His Apostles invite all to know—as we do—that the heavens are open. We affirm that God is making known His will for His beloved sons and daughters. We testify that those who prayerfully study the message of the Restoration and act in faith will be blessed to gain their own witness of its divinity and of its purpose to prepare the world for the promised Second Coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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