Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 27 Sep 2020

Online Elders Quorum
The discussion this week was on M Russell Ballard's talk "Shall We Not Go On In So Great A Cause"

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 20 Sep 2020

Online Sunday School
We continually choose Christ. When we choose when we are you we have a certain perspective. When we are older our perspective is different. When we first accept Chris our perspective is different than when we have been accepting him for years.

We can repent repeatedly until the final judgment. That is the plan and how we grow.

Online Stake Priesthood Meeting

Psalms 46:10

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

When starting a goal, sit down and ponder it.

DnC 9:6-9 - How to receive personal revelation

6 Do not murmur, my son, for it is wisdom in me that I have dealt with you after this manner.

7 Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me.

8 But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right.

9 But if it be not right you shall have no such feelings, but you shall have a stupor of thought that shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong; therefore, you cannot write that which is sacred save it be given you from me.

The gathering of Israel “the greatest challenge, the greatest cause, and the greatest work on earth. And we want to invite you to be part of it!” (Russell M. Nelson, “Hope of Israel” (worldwide youth devotional, June 3, 2018), HopeofIsrael.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.)”

What assumptions do we have about our neighbors that are impeding us in ministering to them?

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 13 Sep 2020

Online Elders Quorum

The lesson was based on President Henry B. Eyring's talk "He Goes before Us"

you can find the talk at this link:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/04/35eyring?lang=eng

My thoughts

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Do we sometimes have trouble calling our personal revelations revelation?  We call it inspiration or a thought or feeling, but perhaps we dance around using the word revelation.

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Someone proposed that the scattering of Israel happened so that Israel would be a leavening agent to the whole world.

In Abraham’s day the priesthood was not given in an organization but was given from father to son.  Abraham was not able to get the priesthood through the accepted way of the time, due to his family situation.

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 6 Sep 2020

Online Sunday School

Helaman 13

2 And it came to pass that in this year there was one Samuel, a Lamanite, came into the land of Zarahemla, and began to preach unto the people. And it came to pass that he did preach, many days, repentance unto the people, and they did cast him out, and he was about to return to his own land.

3 But behold, the voice of the Lord came unto him, that he should return again, and prophesy unto the people whatsoever things should come into his heart.

4 And it came to pass that they would not suffer that he should enter into the city; therefore he went and got upon the wall thereof, and stretched forth his hand and cried with a loud voice, and prophesied unto the people whatsoever things the Lord put into his heart.

5 And he said unto them: Behold, I, Samuel, a Lamanite, do speak the words of the Lord which he doth put into my heart; and behold he hath put it into my heart to say unto this people that the sword of justice hangeth over this people; and four hundred years pass not away save the sword of justice falleth upon this people.

Helaman 13:2-5

• Comparisons to Alma the Younger & Ammonihah

• The phase, "whatsoever thing should come into his heart"

• How determined was Samuel?

• The Lord doesn't give the how's, just the what's.

• How determined are we to what the Lord has asked us to do? Do we need the how's?

• How can we increase our resolve?

• What are the benefits?

Comparison is the thief of joy.

"Have you noticed how Satan works to capture the mind and emotions with flashing images, blaring music, and the stimulation of every physical sense to excess? He diligently strives to fill life with action, entertainment, and stimulation so that cannot ponder the consequences of his tempting invitations. Think of it. Some are tempted to violate the most basic commandments of God because of seductive actions portrayed as acceptable. They are made to seem attractive, even desirable. There seems to be no serious consequence, but rather apparent lasting joy and happiness. But recognize that those performances are controlled by scripts and actors. The outcome of decisions made is likewise manipulated to be whatever the producer wants. 

“Life is not that way. Yes, moral agency allows you to choose what you will, but you cannot control the outcome of those choices. Unlike the false creations of man, our Father in Heaven determines the consequences of your choices. Obedience will yield happiness, while violation of His commandments will not." (Elder Richard G. Scott, “How to Live Well amid Increasing Evil”, April 2004 General Conference)