Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. If you want your children to recognize, understand, and act on the promptings of the Spirit, you must study the scriptures with them.ĭon’t yield to Satan’s lie that you don’t have time to study the scriptures. 5 Make them an integral part of everyday life. To know what the voice of the Divine sounds and feels like, read His words, study the scriptures, and ponder them. He most often communicates back to us through His written word. The second tool is to study the word of God in the scriptures and the words of the living prophets. Family prayer should be a nonnegotiable priority in your daily life. Protect your children from daily worldly influences by fortifying them with the powerful blessings that result from family prayer. Children are bombarded every day with the evils of lust, greed, pride, and a host of other sinful behaviors. Parents, help safeguard your children by arming them morning and night with the power of family prayer. It will help you to manage those challenges from an eternal perspective. That peace will focus an eternal light on your struggles. But as you exercise that agency and include Him in every aspect of your daily life, your heart will begin to fill with peace, buoyant peace. Share with Him your full range of feelings and experiences.īecause He respects your agency, Father in Heaven will never force you to pray to Him. He is interested in the most important as well as the most mundane facets of your life. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him. Choose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. ![]() As I speak, consider evaluating your personal use of each tool then seek the guidance of the Lord to determine how you could make better use of each one of them. Today I have chosen to discuss four of these tools. When these tools become fundamental habits, they provide the easiest way to find peace in the challenges of mortality. Our Father in Heaven has given us tools to help us come unto Christ and exercise faith in His Atonement. Such exercise invites the positive, faith-filled power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ into our lives. The prophet Lehi taught, “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.” 4 Despite all of the negative challenges we have in life, we must take time to actively exercise our faith. Sometimes we may feel more aware of the negative things of mortality than we are of the positive. 3 We knew we would face the evils of the adversary. We were taught in the premortal world that our purpose in coming here is to be tested, tried, and stretched. Each of us is intimately aware of our own struggles with temptation, pain, and sadness. It is not necessary to describe all of the possible challenges and heartaches that are a part of mortality. I need not list all of the sources of evil in the world. He prepared a way through the life of His perfectly obedient Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, for His Atonement to overcome every difficulty that we may experience in mortality. It is all part of His perfect plan of happiness. Our Father in Heaven knew this would happen to us. We are able to understand peace because we feel turmoil. The Fall made possible in our lives feelings of both happiness and sadness. 1 We are blessed with agency, which is our ability to make decisions and to become accountable for those decisions. Their choice made it possible for each of us to come to this earth to be tried and tested. Through Adam and Eve’s partaking of the forbidden fruit, knowledge of good and evil was introduced into the world. They began to feel sadness as well as joy. They began to encounter sickness that weakened their health. They began to experience principles of opposition. By so doing they were no longer in a state of innocence. They had never felt turmoil, so they could not feel peace.Įventually Adam and Eve transgressed the command to not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Because they had never experienced hard times, they did not know they could be happy. They had no difficulties, challenges, or pain. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, all that they needed for daily sustenance was abundantly given to them.
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