Power to Overcome the
Adversary
BY ELDER PETER M. JOHNSON
Of the Seventy
Let us be careful and not casual in
our use of technology. Continually
seek for ways that technology can draw
us closer to the Savior and allow us to
accomplish His work as we prepare for
His Second Coming....
My dear friends, please do not let
anyone steal your happiness. Do not
compare yourself to others....
First, remember that the first and
great commandment is to love God
with our heart, might, mind, and
strength. All that we do should be
motivated by our love for Him and
for His Son. As we develop our love
for Them by keeping Their commandments, our capacity to love ourselves
and to love others will increase. We
will begin to serve family, friends, and
neighbors because we will see them
as the Savior sees them—as sons and
daughters of God....
Elder David A. Bednar taught: “The
ordinance of the sacrament is a holy
and repeated invitation to repent
sincerely and to be renewed spiritually.
The act of partaking of the sacrament,
in and of itself, does not remit sins.
But as we prepare conscientiously and
participate in this holy ordinance with
a broken heart and a contrite spirit,
then the promise is that we may always
have the Spirit of the Lord to be
with us.”...
My friends, I promise that as we
strive to love God with all our heart,
pray in the name of Jesus Christ, study
the Book of Mormon, and prayerfully
partake of the sacrament, we will
have the ability, with the strength of
the Lord, to overcome the deceptive
practices of the adversary, to minimize
distractions that limit our divine potential, and to resist the discouragement that
diminishes our capacity to feel the love
of our Heavenly Father and His Son.
We will come to fully understand who
we are as sons and daughters of God.
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