5/30/2017 - Section 34:1-12
May 30, 2017 Section 34:1-12 Belief and Faith, Faith and Belief, Faith and Works, Holy Ghost Miracles are ‘Normal’ to the Lord, Obtaining Lord’s Promises Requires Our Work and Our Study, Faith Blessings Of, Second Coming, I often love the synopsis statements at the beginning of the section that describe what we will find in the verses. Sometimes their succinctness helps me focus more on the primary message. That’s what happened as I started to read Section 34: “ 1-4 The faithful become the sons of God through the atonement; 5-9 Preaching of the gospel prepares the way for the Second Coming; 10-12 Prophecy comes by the power of the Holy Ghost. ” The Lord speaks to Orson Pratt as “my son” because as “a young man of nineteen years of age, who had been baptized at the first preaching of his brother, Parley P Pratt” because he believed and he acted on that belief. V’s 4-5 touched me: “ And blessed are you because you have believed; and more blessed are you...