Yesterday I spoke about how difficult it is to be humble. Today I share with you how to become humble. I am mostly writing this blog for me, as the challenge we are going through in our Nation is paramount on my mind. How can I know the Lord is behind our government? Who can I trust, and how can I help this wonderful USA remain as a blessed Constitution.
I ask you the following question that President Nelson asked us, “How can we find answers to questions that perplex us?…”
Below are other worthy thoughts from the same talk, Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives that President Nelson spoke of. Prayer is the most simple and powerful tool we have been given to answer our questions and to help us stay humble.
“Pray in the name of Jesus Christ about your concerns, your fears, your weaknesses—yes, the very longings of your heart. And then listen!…”
“Does God really want to speak to you? Yes!…”
“You don’t have to wonder about what is true. You do not have to wonder whom you can safely trust….”
“Regardless of what others may say or do, no one can ever take away a witness borne to your heart and mind about what is true….”
“I urge you to stretch beyond your current spiritual ability to receive personal revelation, for the Lord has promised that “if thou shalt [seek], thou shalt receive revelation upon revelation… “
“I am optimistic about the future. It will be filled with opportunities for each of us to progress, contribute, and take the gospel to every corner of the earth. But I am also not naive about the days ahead. We live in a world that is complex and increasingly contentious. The constant availability of social media and a 24-hour news cycle bombard us with relentless messages. If we are to have any hope of sifting through the myriad of voices and the philosophies of men that attack truth, we must learn to receive revelation.
Our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, will perform some of His mightiest works between now and when He comes again. We will see miraculous indications that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, preside over this Church in majesty and glory. But in coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.”
All quotes above from, “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives” By President Russell M. Nelson
President Ballard pleads with Latter-day Saints to ‘pray for this country’ as United States is at ‘another crossroad’
By Sarah Jane Weaver Updated 21 OCT 2019 11:25 AM MST
WORCESTER, Mass. — Concluding a busy, three-day visit to New England — an area rich in Church and U.S. history — President M. Russell Ballard pled with local Latter-day Saints to “join a new movement” by inviting their neighbors, colleagues and friends to pray for the United States, its leaders and its families.
“Our nation was founded on prayer, it was preserved by prayer, and we need prayer again,” said the acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “I plead with you this evening to pray for this country, for our leaders, for our people, and for the families that live in this great nation founded by God.”
Speaking to an estimated 12,000 people gathered in the DCU Center near Boston, President Ballard reminded the congregation that “this country was established and preserved by our founding fathers and mothers who repeatedly acknowledged the hand of God through prayer.”
New England, he continued, was the seedbed of so very much that led to the founding of this nation.
“We must stand boldly for righteousness and truth, and must defend the cause of honor, decency, and personal freedom espoused by Washington, Madison, Adams, Lincoln, and other leaders who acknowledged and loved God.”
President Ballard arrived in New England on Friday, Oct. 18, accompanied by Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Kathy Christofferson; and Elder Randall K. Bennett, a General Authority Seventy, and his wife, Sister Shelley Bennett. The leaders participated in a member devotional at the site of the Joseph Smith Birthplace in Sharon, Vermont; spoke to missionaries in the area; met with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and other local VIPs; attended sacrament meeting and addressed millennials living in and around Boston.
President Ballard said as he prepared to address Latter-day Saints, he realized that looking for the Lord’s hand in the early history of the United States “might help us recognize His hand in our own lives.”
“Please look for the Lord’s hand in your lives and in the lives of your family, as I do in the lives of my ancestors and family,” he said. “Expect it. Do not dismiss it. Do not relegate the experiences in your lives to coincidences.”
From the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776 through the signing of the U.S. Constitution in September 1787, the “wise men” whom the Lord “raised up unto this very purpose” relied upon divine providence, said President Ballard.
“As an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I have a solemn duty to face the Lord and deliver His message,” said President Ballard. “His words often include words of encouragement and expressions of love. They also include words of warning.”
America and the nations of the earth, as in times past, “are at another crossroad,” he said.
“Let it begin today that we take leadership and reach out in our own prayers and encourage our neighbors, our friends, our families … to pray for this country that we all love much.” Read the rest of the article here
America is the Promised Land
Knowing this Promised Land of the United States of America is indeed the land promised, helps each of us understand the Covenant we have made with the Lord. We are a blessed people, all who live on this Covenant land. We have an obligation to pray for its success, to live righteously, to utilize this land for the prosperity needed to share the Gospel with other wonderful lands. If we know not the land that the Book of Mormon speaks of, how could we know who these covenants are made with? The greater stewardship that we Americans have will be our grater downfall if we fail to utilize this land the Lord has given us.
Why is Elder Ballard in his talk above pleading for each of us to pray for the United States? If we fail, the world fails. If we are unrighteous how can we bless the lives of the world in need? Are we more blessed than other lands or people” No! We have been given a different stewardship and I am afraid if we fail, our punishment will be greater than those who are not blessed with this land. The Lord loves us all equally and He is a righteous judge.
Marion G. Romney in 1975 said, “I bear you my personal witness that I know that the things I have presented to you today are true.” Now read what he said below and you will know that indeed the United States of America is the Promised Land of the Lord.
America’s Destiny
“Millennia ago he declared: “There shall none come into this land [he was speaking of America] save they shall be brought by the hand of the Lord… In the western part of the state of New York near Palmyra is a prominent hill known as the “hill Cumorah.” (Morm. 6:6.) On July twenty-fifth of this year, as I stood on the crest of that hill admiring with awe the breathtaking panorama which stretched out before me on every hand, my mind reverted to the events which occurred in that vicinity some twenty-five centuries ago—events which brought to an end the great Jaredite nation… Thus perished at the foot of Cumorah the remnant of the once mighty Jaredite nation, of whom the Lord had said, “There shall be none greater … upon all the face of the earth.” (Ether 1:43.)… This second civilization to which I refer, the Nephites, flourished in America between 600 B.C. and A.D. 400. Their civilization came to an end for the same reason, at the same place, and in the same manner as did the Jaredites…
The tragic fate of the Jaredite and the Nephite civilizations is proof positive that the Lord meant it when he said that this “is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity.” (Ether 2:9.)
This information, wrote Moroni, addressing himself to us who today occupy this land, “cometh unto you, O ye Gentiles” (now, Gentiles is the term used by the Book of Mormon prophets to refer to the present inhabitants of America and to the peoples of the old world from which they came)…
Now my beloved brethren and sisters everywhere, both members of the Church and nonmembers, I bear you my personal witness that I know that the things I have presented to you today are true—both those pertaining to past events and those pertaining to events yet to come. The issue we face is clear and well defined. The choice is ours. The question is: Shall we of this dispensation repent and obey the laws of the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, or shall we continue to defy them until we ripen in iniquity?
That we will repent and obey and thereby qualify to receive the blessings promised to the righteous in this land, I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Amen.” America’s Destiny Marion G. Romney Oct 1975
Another Plea from Elder Romney
“I will give you a lesson today that the Lord has taken great pains to bring to us… In the western part of the state of New York near Palmyra is a prominent hill known as the “hill Cumorah” (Mormon. 6:6). [There] perished at the foot of Cumorah the remnant of the once mighty Jaredite nation, of whom the Lord had said, ‘There shall be none greater… upon all the face of the earth’ (Ether 1:43, p. 461). “As I contemplated this tragic scene from the crest of Cumorah and viewed the beautiful land of the Restoration as it appears today, I cried in my soul, how could it have happened?… This second civilization to which I refer, the Nephites, flourished in America between 600 B.C. and A.D. 400. Their civilization came to an end for the same reason, at the same place, and in the same manner as did the Jaredites…I bear you my personal witness that I know that the things I have presented to you today are true—both those pertaining to past events and those pertaining to events yet to come.” (President Marion G. Romney of the First Presidency 145th Semiannual Conference, Saturday Morning Session, October 4, 1975; emphasis added.)
Are We Listening to our Leaders, Past and Present?
Below is a copy of Rod Meldrum’s 36 Prophesies and Promises that show the Book of Mormon references that indicate the United States of America as the Promised Land of the Nephites.
