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| Bear testimony that you know that Jesus lives and that you know you too will be resurrected. | For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth: And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God: |
| Demonstrate your purity of heart by not telling or listening to dirty jokes or stories. | Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. |
| Make a special effort to give credit and thanks to the Lord for his blessings to you. | Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. |
| Forsake and confess your sins and pray to your Heavenly Father with a broken heart and contrite spirit, seeking forgiveness. | Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. |
| When you draw near to the Lord in prayer, make sure that your heart is sincere and that you do not just give lip service. | Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid. |
| Show your application for what Jesus suffered by repenting of the sins you need to overcome. | He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. |
| Help a friend understand that the Lord may do certain things that are hard for us to understand, but that we can always trust his greater wisdom. | For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. |
| You can assist in the gathering of Israel by finding out which of your friends are interested in the gospel and teaching them by word and by example. | Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. |
| Make the Bible and the Book of Mormon one in your life by using the cross-references and aids from each that help clarify gospel truths. | The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it,For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. |
| The Church is more than a nice social organization to belong to; it is the kingdom of God. | And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream [is] certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. |
| Make yourself a living example of one who accepts revelations from God through his servants the prophets. | Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. |
| Resolve to pay your tithing the rest of your life and give the Lord the opportunity to open the windows of heaven and bless you. | Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. |
| Complete your own personal pedigree chart and as many family group sheets as possible to demonstrate that your heart is turned to your ancestors. | Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. |
