Daily Scripture

Fear not to do good, my sons, for whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap; therefore, if ye sow good ye shall also reap good for your reward.
D&C 6:33

Daily Thought

“Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.” When we humble ourselves, the Spirit will always tell us what is right.
President Ezra Taft Benson

Daily Scripture

For they that are wise and have received the truth, and have taken the Holy Spirit for their guide, and have not been deceived—verily I say unto you, they shall not be hewn down and cast into the fire, but shall abide the day.
D&C 45:57

Mormon 1-6 Diane Adair - January 24, 2012

QUOTES FOR MORMON 1-6
Diane Adair

"In Hebrew, yad, the most common word for hand, is also used metaphorically to mean power and strength.  Thus hands signify power and strength…To be in the hands of God would suggest that we are not only under His watchful care but also that we are guarded and protected by His wondrous power…

His divine assistance is evident over and over again.  His powerful hands created worlds and yet were gentle enough to bless little children…

Every one of us needs to know that we can go on in the strength of the Lord. We can put our hand in His and we will feel His sustaining presence lift us to heights unattainable alone…

How do we learn to extend our hand and connect to the comfort of the Lord?  Four Keys…Learn, Listen, Seek the Spirit, Pray always.

 The Lord will provide sustenance and support if we are willing to open the door and receive His hand of divine assistance…Imagine the wounds in His hands.  His weathered hands, yes even His hands of torn flesh and physical sacrifice, give our hands greater power and direction.  It is the wounded Christ who leads us through moments of difficulty.  It is He who bears us up when we need more air to breathe or direction to follow, or even more courage to continue.

If we will keep the commandments of God and walk hand in hand with Him in His paths we will go forward with faith and never feel alone."
      Craig Zwick, Ensign, November 2003

"Knowing that his own life would soon be brought to an end, as his enemies hunted the survivors, he pleaded for our generation to walk with faith, hope, and charity, declaring: “Charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.” (Moro. 7:47.)

Such was the goodness, the strength, the power, the faith, the prophetic heart of the prophet-leader Mormon."
           President Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, November 1990

"The word Mormon literally means, more good."   Joseph Smith, History of th Church, 5:400

"When you have the Holy Ghost you can know that the Atonement is working in your life."
        Elder Henry B. Eyring




Mormon 1-6 -Diane Adair - January 24, 2012(Audio)

Daily Thought

Comfort in Trials: Power of the Holy Spirit

Daily Scripture

... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
   Joshua 24:15

Daily Thought

Oh Remember, Remember

President Henry B. Eyring

4 Nephi Nancy Baird - January 17, 2012

QUOTES FOR 4 NEPHI
NANCY BAIRD

"Happy are the people whose annals are a blank."
                               Voltaire 

"Everything I have learned in my seventy five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness."
                               Malcolm Muggeridge, A Twentieth Century Testimony.

"...the grace if God is sufficient to any transgression, and...to judge is wrong, the origin and essence of much error and cruelty."
                               Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 155.

Marie Curie, when pressed to patent her radium extraction process, said:
    "It would be contrary to the scientific spirit.  Radium is not to enrich anyone.  It is an element; it is for all the people."
                               private files, Nancy Baird

When asked what he would do if he had it to do over, the Duke of Wellington replied:
"I would give more credit to my associates and subordinates."
                               private files, Nancy Baird

SCRIPTURES

Moses 7:18,21    "And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind."


D&C 82:19    "Every man seeking the interest of his neighbor, and doing all things with an eye single                          to God."

Jeremiah 9:8    "Their tongue is an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his                                 neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait."

Mosiah 4:26    "I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to                               that which he hath...both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants."

Mosiah 18:28,29    "And thus they should impart of their substance of their own free will and good                                      desires towards God...according to their needs and their wants."

Acts 2:44.45    "And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their                                       possessions and goods, and parted them to all man as every man had need."

D&C 51:3,9    "Edward Partridge...appoint unto this people their portions, every man equal according                          to...his wants and needs...and let every man deal honestly and be alike..."

Hebrews 6:4,5     "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the                                       heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost..."

Ether 12:8    Because of the faith of men he has shown himself unto the world, and glorified the                               name of the Father, and prepared a way that thereby others might be partakers of the
                      heavenly gift..."

Amos 7:7    "...the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.  And                           the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou?  And I said, A plumbline.  Then said the                           Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass                       by them any more."

   
  "I will set a plumbline to the heart of my people Israel..."
                    New English Bible


4 Nephi-Nancy Baird - January 17, 2012(Audio)

Daily Scripture

... remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundtion; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.
Helaman 5:12

Daily Thought

Study the Book of Mormon

President Henry B. Eyring

Daily Scripture

What Do The Scriptures Teach About How To Find Answers?

• Search with all your heart  (Jeremiah 19:13).

• Ask, seek, and knock (Matthew 7:7-8).

• Repentance, faith, good works, and continual prayer invite revelation (Alma 26:22).

• Study it out in your mind, and then pray for confirmation (D&C 9:7-9).

• Be humble, and let God lead you (D&C 112:10).

- New Era, January 2012, p 34

Daily Thought

Feeling the Holy Ghost: Power of the Holy Spirit

Daily Scripture

…be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12

3 Nephi 27 - 30 Diane Adair - January 10, 2012

 Quotes from Diane Adair's lesson

DVD used in class "How Rare a Possession - The Book of Mormon.

"The cumulative weight of all mortal sins-past, present, and future pressed upon that perfect, sinless and sensitive soul!  All of our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement….While bearing our sins, infirmities, sicknesses, and bringing to pass the Atonement, Jesus became the perfect Shepherd…Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?...Indeed we are in His hands, and what hallowed hands.  The wondrous and glorious Atonement is the central act in all human history. 
       Neal A. Maxwell

"Through the simple, yet profound influence of the Atonement all healing can take place." 
      President Howard W. Hunter


"God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son."
      The Living Christ, The Testimony of the Apostles


"True doctrine understood changes attitude and behavior."
      Elder Boyd K. Packer

"For many years I thought of the Saviors experience in the garden and the cross where a large mass of sin was heaped upon Him.  Through the "Book of Mormon Prophets" my view has changed.  The Atonement was an intimate, personal experience in which Jesus came to know how to help each of us.  He learned about our weaknesses, pains, sufferings…He knows how to help us if we come to Him in faith."   
     Merrill G. Bateman

                     "None Were With Him"

                         Jeffrey R. Holland

"Most significantly, through the Prophet Joseph came translations which confirmed and described as never before, the reality of the glorious Atonement…Very few words have come directly from Jesus about His specific and personal suffering during that agonizing and emancipating Atonement.  Almost all of these precious few words come to us through the Prophet Joseph.  Jesus truly did bleed at every pore.  He trembled because of pain.  He suffered both body and spirit.  He pled that He might not shrink or pull back from performing the Atonement.  Jesus let His will be swallowed up in the will of the Father.  Even in the midst of His astonishing personal triumph Jesus still gave all the glory to the Father."
    Neal A. Maxwell

"I am a lover of the cause of Christ."
    Joseph Smith


"Teach the Saints to rely upon God alone for their salvation."
   Joseph Smith


Scriptures about the Atonement:

3 Nephi 11:10-11
3 Nephi 11:14-17
2 Nephi 2:25-28
2 Nephi 9:10-13
Alma 7:11-13
Alma 42:15
Alma 34:14-16
Alma 33:11,13,16

3 Nephi 27-30 -Diane Adair - January 10, 2012(Audio)

Daily Thought

“When we have faith in Christ, we accept and apply His Atonement and His teachings. We trust Him and what He says. … We believe in Christ, and we believe that He wants us to keep all His commandments. We want to show our faith by obeying Him”  
Preach My Gospel 61–62

Daily Scripture

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
1 John 3:17

Daily Thought

"Christ's enabling power helps us feel happiness and cheer amid mortal gloom and doom.  Misfortune and hardship lose their tragedy when viewed through the lens of the Atonement."      
Camille Fronk Olson  (Associate Professor of Ancient Scripture, BYU)

3 Nephi 23 - 26 Nancy Baird - January 3, 2012

QUOTES FOR 3 NEPHI 23-26
Sisters in Scripture
Jan 3, 2012

    “We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than by passing quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.”  
                                     Henry B. Eyring, Conference Report, Oct. 1997, 114-15




    “I hope that for you [studying the scriptures] will become a love affair with the word of God.”
    President Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Light within You,” Ensign, May 1995, 99)



    “…search the scriptures, search the Prophets, and learn what portion of them belongs to you.”       
                                           Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 1:282


 “[One]reason for repeated reading of the scriptures is that many of the prophecies and doctrinal passages in the scriptures have multiple meanings” and “multiple fulfillments…”    
          Dallin H. Oaks, “Scripture Reading and Revelation,” Ensign, Jan 1995, 8



In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens has Scrooge say:
    “…You were always a good man in business, Jacob.”
The ghost of Jacob Marley replies:  “Business! Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business.  The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business.”



“One death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic.”
                                                                 Joseph Stalin



 “We live on dead people’s heads.  Scratching under a suburb in St. Louis, archaeologists recently found 13 settlements, one on top of each other, some of which lasted longer than St. Louis has… And in France, 60 layers of human occupation…We are only about 300 generations from ten thousand years ago.
                                                                   Annie Dillard, For The Time Being, 124


    “How much larger your life would be if you sought to become smaller in it, if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure.  You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theater in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky and in a street full of splendid strangers.”
                                                               C. K. Chesterton, (Nancy Baird, private files)



Isaiah 58:11,12
    “…thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
    And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”



3 Nephi 23-26 -Nancy Baird - January 3, 2012 (Audio)

Daily Scripture

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance...
Proverbs 15:13

Arise & Shine Forth