Elder Brown - Leadership Session - Summary
Elder Brown asked “How do we know when real ministering is taking place?” He then showed the good Samaritan Bible video and led a discussion about it. He pointed out that the good Samaritan had somewhere he was going but still cared for the man. He stayed with and cared for the man through the night. When he finally left, he didn’t seem to want to leave. Elder Brown asked “when is our service enough?”
Elder Brown asked again “when is real ministering happening?” Answers from those in the congregation included the following:
When love is shared
When we are serving
When it’s not about me, but about them
Elder Brown added that ministering is in the home. He said that our service can be uncomfortable at first. He then talked about a man who was called as his branch president. When he was called, he also became Elder Brown’s Fatter. This branch President was a minister
Elder Brown asked how Heavenly Father ministers to us. Answers included:
Through others
Through the Holy Ghost
One by One
He showed another video on ministering. A conversation followed, where it was pointed out that minister became engaged, relationships grew, ministering occurred in both directions between the minister and those to whom he was assigned, and change occurred. It was mentioned that this kind of ministering causes a ward to become a family.
Elder brown asked the following questions:
Who can you really minister to?
What will you do to show your love for that person?
What will you share with them?
What will you invite that person to do?
He talked about Love, Share and Invite. He said that it is important to be bold, but we shouldn’t cut off love if someone declines an invitation. We need each other. He concluded by saying that he is the product of ministering.
Elder Brown - Adult Session - Summary
In his Saturday evening address, Elder Brown said that he and his wife pinch themselves “every day to be here in the Salt Lake Valley.” He told of the valley boys who went to meet the handcart companies who were weak and dying in the Martin’s Cove area. They had no supplies but they came with a message that food and supplies were on their way. He quoted that “salvation lies in going forward.” Those saints moved forward, filled with hope that wagons filled with food were ahead.
One of the great miracles of the gospel is our missionaries. He said that parents and grandparents are still sending out valley boys, to rescue our brothers and sisters.
Elder Brown shared what President Nelson said in his recent talk “Peacemakers Needed” that the gospel net is the biggest net in the world. He asked who is already in the gospel net but feels like they don’t belong. The Lord will share where the net should be cast. He shared his thoughts from his study of this concept. He asked if we will only keep the salmon but throw back the other fish. He asked if we are making room in the fridge (our hearts) for the fish we catch?
He read D&C 1:17 substituting President Nelson’s name for Joseph Smith. It read “Wherefore, I the Lord, Knowing the calamity which should come upon the inhabitants of the earth, called upon my servant [President Nelson], and spake unto him from heaven …” President Nelson is the Lord’s prophet today. President Nelson has announced 155 temples since he was called as prophet. He quoted President Nelson who said “Anytime you do anything that helps anyone—on either side of the veil—take a step toward making covenants with God and receiving their essential baptismal and temple ordinances, you are helping to gather Israel.” Elder Brown said that he and Sister Brown talked about what they were going to do while living in Utah. They have been attending the temple every week. They are so excited to be able to attend so many different temples. He also said that if they announce a temple in Jamaica, he’s going home.
Elder Brown - Youth Session - Summary
Elder Brown drew on a whiteboard, the timeline of earth’s history. He asked the youth what we were doing when Adam and Eve where here, Noah and the flood, when Christ came, and when He suffered in the garden. He asked where we are now in the earth’s history. He told the story of when he declared his spiritual independence. Elder Brown’s grandmother joined the church, but his mom was very much opposed to it. Elder Brown’s mom did not want him to be baptized. He saved all the money he could for his mission, but his mom made it clear that she wouldn’t support him on a mission, including financially. When he was on his mission, they were in a training meeting in a church when there was an angry knock on the door. His mother was not happy, and was there to take him home. Elder Brown said he knew that he had a duty and wasn’t leaving. He had been waiting for 6,000 years for this. His mom finally left after being convinced by her husband.
Elder Brown told the youth to be who Heavenly Father wants them to be. He said the Holy Ghost will help them know who they are. He then talked of the peace in the millennium, asking the youth if they could imagine a world free from hate, enmity, and bullying.
Elder Brown - General Session - Summary
Elder Brown Started by asking one of the full-time missionaries why he loves Jesus Christ. The missionary answered that it was because he first loved us, and that he frees us from guilt. He then asked Sister Brown the same question, and she said it is because he is our perfect example. His sacrifice allows us to be together forever.
Elder Brown read Moses 6:34 which reads “Behold my Spirit is upon you, wherefore all thy words will I justify; and the mountains shall flee before you, and the rivers shall turn from their course; and thou shalt abide in me, and I in you; therefore walk with me.” He asked how we walk with our Savior. Elder Brown then told the story of walking on the water to meet Christ, and of a loving Savior who reached out and saved him.
Elder Brown shared that walking with our Savior often means to “take up his cross” daily. Paul was shipwrecked and imprisoned, Joseph in Egypt was left to die, sold into slavery, and imprisoned, we all know Job’s story, and Joseph Smith’s life was riddled with trials. Did they walk with Christ? He asked if it is worth it and answered with a resounding yes. He said that walking with Christ does not equal a perfect or easy life. He said “When you think your day couldn’t be any worse, I promise it could be, bit because of Him it isn’t.” He concluded by saying that when we walk with Christ, we walk back to the presence of our Father.
Celebrating Continuous Covenantal Conversion Stake Conference Leadership Training August 26th, 2023 Thirty-three years ago this November, I went to the beautiful Denver, Colorado temple to receive my own personal endowments in the House of the Lord. A few short weeks later, in December, my fiancé Shawn and I were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple for time and all eternity! I knew that I wanted to be sealed to Shawn forever which would then be the beginning of an eternal family, but I didn’t fully appreciate the blessing of those covenants I was privileged to be making through priesthood ordinances until years later. Over time, I have come to cherish my covenants and they’ve meant so much more, as loved ones have passed away, children have been born, trials and tribulations seem ever present, temptations arise, and hope is needed in this darkening world. That is why I’m truly grateful for the theme of this Stake Conference, “Celebrating Continuous Covenantal Conversion!” From the Fall of Adam and Eve and throughout the history of this earth, Heavenly Father has blessed His son’s and daughter’s with the ability to enter into sacred covenants with Him because of His eternal love for us! Covenants that give us spiritual power and protection, heavenly light and knowledge, a pattern for living a holy life, the capacity to become like our Savior progressing from glory to glory, and the ability to return back to the presence of Heavenly Father. Elder Renlund also taught about the blessings of temple covenants in his most recent General Conference talk, Accessing God’s Power Through Covenants when he explained, “By making and keeping temple covenants, we learn more about the Lord’s purposes and receive a fulness of the Holy Ghost. We receive direction for our lives. We mature in our discipleship so that we do not remain perpetual, unknowing children. Rather, we live with an eternal perspective and are more motivated to serve God and others. We receive increased capacity to fulfill our purposes in mortality. We are protected from evil, and we gain greater power to resist temptation and to repent when we stumble. When we falter, the memory of our covenants with God helps us return to the path.” In 1846, during the days and weeks leading up to the Nauvoo saints exodus to the west, Brigham Young kept the temple running all day and all night without stopping in an effort to get as many saints endowed as possible before they departed. The prophet knew of the absolute need of the power, dedication, and determination their covenants would give them as they would soon experience disease, exposure, blizzards, starvation, exhaustion, contention, infestations, and the death of loved ones. When the temple doors were closed those who were without endowments wept. However, the saints who had not received their endowments were even more determined and driven because they desperately wanted to go where the covenants were! They knew and wanted the unequaled blessings that come from making and keeping sacred covenants! Today, like the pioneers, we face our own troubles and pain, and need the fortification of covenants to aid us in our individual journeys. My sweet friend Jen has been experiencing one of the greatest challenges of her life over the past couple of years as she and her family have been the caretakers of her aged mother who has dementia. The type of dementia that she has makes her aggressive and sometimes physically violent, which has made Jen nervous about her children being near her. Jen’s mother can’t be left alone, and she has trouble sleeping which makes getting rest for Jen difficult if not impossible! Going places with her mother is extremely difficult, so they are confined mostly to home. They don’t have the funds to place Jen’s mother in assisted living and Jen is the only sibling able and willing to take care of her mother on a full-time basis. Jen has had an amazing attitude and loves her mother very much, but she is tired in every way and doesn’t see any relief in sight. She has completely given her own desires, needs, wants and life over to taking care of her mother while still trying to be a wife and mother to her own family. Recently, Jen came to my work on a rare outing with her son for his appointment. While we were talking about life’s trials and how she was getting along, with tears in her eyes, she bore the most passionate testimony of the power of temple covenants I have ever heard. She said that she had been praying desperately for help, answers, and strength to be able to endure her life. She felt the impression that she and her family needed to go to the temple weekly. In faith, they began to serve in the temple every week. She quickly realized that each time she went to the temple, she was receiving power and the ability to be able to handle challenges that would arise daily. Slowly, as the week went on, she found that she would be spiritually depleted by the end of that week and would need to be refilled again by serving in the temple. She testified that her weekly temple trips and covenants are giving her the peace and hope she needs to endure her struggles, and that she would not survive without them! She and her family have not missed a week to serve in the temple since they started regularly going because she said she can’t afford to! In his book “The Holy Covenants,” Anthony Sweat teaches that from the Doctrine and Covenants we learn that, “Through the endowment we are promised power in this life to perform marvelous works and miracles beyond our own abilities; power to discern truth from error; power to more deeply understand God’s purposes and plans for His children, individually and collectively; power to have increased hope and peace in the midst of the daily demands and difficulties of life.” As Jen and the pioneers know, making and keeping covenants can infuse us with the power to endure life’s difficulties, ease our burdens, and heal our hearts! Our stake conference theme “Celebrating Continual Covenantal Conversion,” begs the question, are we continuing to be converted through our covenants? How do we know if we’ve been converted and still are? In the Gospel reference book, “True to the Faith,” we read that “Conversion is a process, not an event. We become converted as a result of our righteous efforts to follow the Savior. Although conversion is miraculous and life changing, it is a quiet miracle.” Over time, as we seek the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, partake of the sacrament weekly, attend the temple, repent daily, study our scriptures, and communicate to Heavenly Father through prayer, our faithful efforts will increase our conversion and we will be characterized like the people in the Book of Mormon who were described with these attributes listed in True to the Faith: First, they desire to do good. In Mosiah 5:2, we read that King Benjamin’s people declared, “The Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent… has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually.” Secondly, they do not rebel against the Lord. In Alma 23: 6 and 7, Mormon told of a group of Lamanites who had been wicked and bloodthirsty but who were “converted to the Lord.” These people changed their name to the Anti-Nephi-Lehis and “became a righteous people; they did lay down the weapons of their rebellion, that they did not fight against God anymore, neither against any of their brethren.” Third, they share the gospel. Enos, Alma the Elder, Alma the Younger, the sons of Mosiah, Amulek, and Zeezrom dedicated themselves to preaching the gospel after they became converted to the Lord. We don’t have to leave home to share the gospel, we just need to live our covenants and we will naturally have missionary experiences. Fourth, they are filled with love. After the resurrected Savor visited the people in the Americas, the people were all converted unto the Lord, upon all the face of the land, both Nephites and Lamanites, and there were no contentions and disputations among them, and every man did deal justly one with another… In Fourth Nephi we read, “And it came to pass that there was no contention in the land, because of the love of God which did dwell in the hearts of the people.” “And there were no envyings, nor strifes, nor tumults, nor whoredoms, nor lyings, nor murders, nor any manner of lasciviousness; and surely there could not be a happier people among all the people who had been created by the hand of God. “…but they were in one, the children of Christ, and heirs to the kingdom of God.” What a way to live and be! As we continue to be converted though our covenants, we can have that same desire to do good, and have unity as we go about doing good, sharing the gospel and loving others! As I said in the beginning of my talk, it has been over the years that I have come to appreciate and recognize the incredible blessing that our covenants are, and I still have so much more learning and conversion to go! I am so thankful for Heavenly Father’s patience! In closing, I testify that my heart does feel like celebrating as I think of the love Heavenly Father and the Savior have for each one of us! They have provided a way for us to be bound to them and to share in their power through our covenants. I have felt greater hope, and peace in this life because I know that if we choose, we can overcome this fallen world through our covenants that lead us to Christ. I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ live! I know that They are so pleased as we keep trying no matter how many times we may fall, and that They will never stop loving and cheering us on! In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Sister Brown told a story of traveling to Aruba with Elder Brown for church business. Aruba is known for its conch shells, so Sister Brown learned a bit about them. She said that a conch shell is ten times stronger than a mother of pearl. The conch shell has three layers of protection with a zigzag pattern that makes the extremely strong. The conch shell can protect its inhabitants for up to 30 years. Sister Brown asked the youth what our layers of protection are. She said that having the Holy Ghost with us is our most important layer of protection. The other layers are focusing on the Savior, and filling our lives with truth.
Sister Brown said that they youth should attract the Lord’s attention with PSST. This is the sound we make when we want to get someone’s attention. She said that P stands for prayer, and talked about Joseph Smiths first vision. She told the youth that prayer has the power to dispel the darkness in our lives. The first S stands for scriptures. The second S stands for the sacrament. The sacrament helps us repent, and fortifies us for the next seven days. Finally, T is for temple worship. We represent the as we participate in temple ordinances, and help Him bring salvation to others.
Sister Tingey shared information about the Utah Layton Mission. She said that said that the Utah Layton mission is a very large mission. They have many missionaries waiting for visas to travel to their assigned missions, and all are sad to leave.
The Layton Mission is a pilot program bringing proselyting and service missionaries together under the same mission president. They have over 220 service missionaries in addition to their proselyting missionaries, with many Senior missionaries. Missionaries serving in the Layton Utah Mission include wheelchair missionaries, and Down syndrome missionaries. No missionary is second class. They are all missionaries. A pair of sister service missionaries recently had three baptisms. Another service missionary said in a meeting “I’ve always felt I was in the way, but here I don’t.”
She then shared what we can do to help gather Israel. Their missionaries have been challenged to teach 70 lessons a week, so we can invite them to share a message with our families. She said that missionaries move on, but members don’t. We can find out who the missionaries are teaching and attend lessons with them.
President Tingey talked about the miracles of conversion that happen all the time, right here around us. He talked about the blessings that come to each person who makes and keeps covenants. He talked about the invitations for us to live higher laws. These laws include Love, Share, and Invite.
President Tingey told the story of John and Kathy. John and Kathy lived out of state but were looking for a change and wanted to move. He was willing to go anywhere but Utah. His wife wanted to come here, so this is where they ended up. When they arrived, John told all of his neighbors that he and Kathy did not want to be included in their religion. However, his neighbors had five cute little girls who loved him. They talked to him and asked how he was doing. John was an alcoholic. One day he was in his garage and very distinct feeling that he needed to change “now”. Then he though of those cute little girls and decided to talk to their dad. John and Kathy started meeting with the missionaries and the rest is history.
President and Sister Medaris were released the week after the conference, so this was their last speaking assignment. He said that there are 2,400 ordinance workers in the Ogden temple, and since President Nelson announced the Syracuse temple, 70% of those interviewed to serve as ordinance workers have been from Syracuse.
President Medaris said that the temple is an intersection between heaven and earth. He spoke of our sacred covenants. He said that they have seen miracles almost every day. Each of us is elevated in the temple. We can go to the temple and feel the power of sacred priesthood keys. The Saviors grace helps and perfects us, imperfect people.
Sister Medaris talked of the sacred opportunity of serving in the temple. She said that she has never walked in the Holy Land but because she serves in the temple, she has walked where He walked. She bore powerful testimony.
Sister Hamilton told one of her favorite bible stories, the story of David and Goliath. We all have goliaths in our lives. She told the youth that she knows we can beat these Goliaths by being truly converted. The Lord brings to pass great things through plain and simple things. She asked if the youth if the gospel study habits, they learned at FSY have continued at home. She then challenged them to look for ways to improve and act on that.
She told the youth that they can have the best school year ever if they are truly converted. She said that they have the power to change the culture at their schools. Her daughter Ella was treated poorly at school for living true to her standards. Those who treated her this way were members of the church. Sister Hamilton read an email from Sister Ella Hamilton who is currently serving a mission in Brazil. Ella said that conversion is being brought back to the Lord. It is a reunion. It takes a broken heart and a contrite spirit to be converted, and conversion is not a one-time event. Sister Hamilton invited the youth to ask themselves later that day “am I converted?”
Sister Fairbanks talked about needing to feed our beliefs. She said that there is a cycle we need to repeat, and that cycle is our conversion. We need to keep our relationship with Jesus Christ going. She said that she read the Book of Mormon from cover, and that she finds something new that helps her in her life when she reads. She spoke of the importance of Love, Share, and Invite. She said that attending church meetings and the temple are vital tools in our conversion.
Good evening, Brothers and Sisters. I want start with a quote that I heard and honestly don’t know the citing’s. “Time of the message is irrelevant, what matters most is that it was receive.” This week I sat back scared and anxious as we got closer to today. So, I did what I felt was needed and I prayed. I prayed that heavenly father would give me the mindfulness to properly convey my message and the holy spirit would be there at my side. Something that is completely new to me. But immediately I felt at ease and confident.
I thought I had a good life, and I was a great example of what my children and family/friends should be. I am in the AF Reserves for 26 years now and I work at Hill AFB as a School Liaison Officer. My beautiful wife Lasca is here with me today. We have 11 wonderful kids ranging from 2 to 23. As well as a brand-new grandson born just 3 days ago. I’ve lived in Utah for the better part of my life, and I say this with the upmost respect you can't spit without hitting a missionary. I never ever gave the missionaries the opportunity to talk with me. Normally they would stop by, and I would send them on their way with a slap on the back side and a bottle of water.
Lasca and I came together from 2 totally different lifestyles. She was raised LDS and I was raised in the Air Force. Our upbringings were completely different. My dad was Air Force and I lived in 5 different states before 6th grade. In my house we didn’t attend church nor were we part of any type of religious group. We were taught to be good to others and respect would always be given. Growing up in Utah made it hard, especially growing up in an old established Ward. My family were outsiders and different because we weren’t part of the church. Often times, my siblings and I were left out. This put a bad taste in my mouth with regards to the church. When I met Lasca, I made it clear that I didn’t want to be part of or pressured by her to become a member. In the book of True to the Faith is states Conversion is a process, not an event. Lasca was instrumental in my conversion, and she was amazing, she never once pressured me. She never once belittled me. I know it had to be hard for her because she loved me so much and only wanted what was right for our family and our Heavenly Fathers plan. Looking back now I do know how important it was to her. She did, however, find ways to plant little seeds of hope. Weather it was playing church music through out the week or reminding me constantly that miracles were not coincidences. She made sure that I was part of certain moments like our daughters Baptism and the twin’s blessing or simple church activities. She would even go as far as to mowing the yard on Fridays while I was at work or occasionally even at 1000 o’clock at night on Saturdays to keep me from doing it on Sundays.
Then came the twins, Lincoln and Liberty. Liberty has down syndrome and has had a lot of health issues. We constantly were dealing with issues concerning Liberty and Lasca would always find away to tie Heavenly Father grace into Liberty’s success and our outcomes. I never wanted to see it that way. I would always chalk it up as doctors are educated professionals and coincidences. It wasn’t until one stay at Primary’s with Liberty that everything hit me hard. I was there for 13 days with Liberty while Lasca stayed home with our other kids. It was easier for me to Telework there and not have her disrupt the kids lives at home. Well 8 days into the stay and a surgery on the way I had this feeling that I should do right by Lasca and get Liberty a blessing. So, I reached out to the Ward at Primary’s and requested a blessing. An hour or so later an older couple came. They sat and learned about me, and my family and they did the blessing. At this same time, Lasca was home with a family friend, and they were praying together. Their prayer had ended near the same moment my txt came through letting her know I had just got Liberty a blessing. Lasca was moved by this and so excited that our Heavenly Father was aligning our moments. Later that night I was revisited by the same service missionaries. This time they had a few extra folks with them. They had gone back and shared my story and one of them felt the need to come meet Liberty and me. Later I found out it was one of President Nelson’s daughters that felt the need to hear my story. Lasca was beside herself. She couldn’t believe the blessing we had received and didn’t understand how I couldn’t see the value in that moment. The rest of Liberty stay went well, and we headed home 5 days later.
As I was coming home, I hit our street and I noticed 2 missionary boys at the house kitty-corner from ours. I thought to myself, “you boys are wasting your time there”. But none the less, it was in that moment I had a prompting, a voice telling me “Matt, open your eyes”. The house those missionaries were at was the same house that 6 years prior I was the first responder to for a 15 yr old who had tried to end his life with a shotgun. I happen to be outside the morning it took place, and I was the only person mom could see in her panic. As much as I value that day, I know now that our Heavenly Father put those boys there to light a fire under my backside and to add water to the seeds that Lasca had continue to plant. Before both my feet hit the ground there stood Elder Raeder Mendenhall, with his big smile and holding that wonderful Book of Mormon. I feel our heavenly father put Raeder in front of me for a reason, he was a blessing beyond what I ever thought possible. He was patient and persistent. He challenged me as much as I challenged him. He invited me to understand the gospel and see past my bias thoughts. He made me responsible for my desire to learn. He managed to stay with me/family through 5 rotations and was even able to come back months later to Baptize me. He was the fertilizer to the seeds Lasca had planted. He has changed my life in so many ways. So much so that Lasca and I drove to Big Fork Montana to be a part of his Homecoming and it was there I gave my first talk. A testimony of who I had become and how I got there. I am humbled by all that has taken place in my two-year journey, and I look forward to the seeds I can plant and the lives I can touch. I now see what I was missing my whole life. And all though I was a great example to my children, family/friends, Now I feel I am even a better one and I will better influence them. Family is extremely important to me and knowing that we can be sealed together is remarkable and a true testament of the importance of our faith. Knowing that our Heavenly father has a plan for each one of us is even more important to me now. My ward and this stake have been a blessing of nurturing my conversion. There have never been any judgments of who I was nor how my family fit in. I am thankful for my journey. At a General Conference in April of 1997 President Hinckley said Every convert is a great and serious responsibility. We must make an increasingly effort to assist them as they find their way. They need three things: a friend, a responsibility, and nurturing with “the good word of God”. Those 3 things are exactly what I needed. It’s irrelevant when I received my message, but it was God’s Plan that I received it.
I bare my testimony today
That I do know is that the Church is true
That our heavenly father watches over all of us always and is there for us
That Jesus Christ atonement was the ultimate sacrifice for us and our sins
That the Holy Ghost is within all of us for guidance and inspiration
That our living prophet is our modern-day voice which will bring us closer to our Heavenly Father.
And I say these things graciously in the name Jesus Christ, Amen.
Elder Fogleman said that covenants give us access to God’s Power. He talked about getting to teach Kathy. Her husband is John that President Tingey talked about. He said that if you are truly converted you don’t need to be invited to share the gospel, you just will.
Elder Loveless said that he participated in many firesides in the MTC on personal conversion. There is a difference between being a member of the church and being converted. He was asked why he wanted to serve a mission. He said that his real reason was to gain a testimony. He bore powerful testimony.
I broke down the theme of conference, “Celebrating Continual Covenantal Conversion”, and talked about each word separately.
CELEBRATING: Recognizing and “celebrating” daily and weekly forward progress will go a long way in keeping positive spiritual momentum going in our lives.
CONTINUAL: Sometimes we feel like we just can’t keep going. But what if we quit right before we are almost there … before there is a breakthrough … before the answer comes … or before we become stronger and it makes the journey easier. We don’t have to be perfect, but the word “continual” means to just keep moving forward.
COVENANTAL: We receive incredible strength from our covenants. Don’t let those blessings go unclaimed. The covenantal love we have access to called Hesed in Hebrew is a “special kind of love and mercy that is only available to those in a covenant relationship.” Hesed is unendingly and everlastingly available, with ceaseless opportunities for us to repent and start anew.” This means “you have a special place in God’s heart. He will never give up on you!”
CONVERSION: Our testimony needs to be rooted so deep within us that it becomes part of who we are and we become fully converted
SUMMARY: May we each continue on our covenantal path. May we draw close enough to our Savior to truly walk the path with Him by our side and may we come to know Him so deeply that He can trust us with anything.
Spoke on trust and discipline in doing the Lord’s work.
In my experience with my friends and family, it’s very common for people to not feel comfortable around members of our church because of how we may act or treat them. Following the spirit and having trust in what the spirit tells us to do will solve this problem. If we are in tune with the spirit at all times, the spirit will tell us what to do at all times, including how we may treat others. Trusting in the still small voice of the Lord is a skill that takes eternities to master, but if we do our best to work on this skill, it will bless us and others. We may trust all we want, but we must commit and follow the promptings that we receive, which often takes discipline. Having the humility of knowing that it’s what the Lord wants and not what you want will help you to be disciplined in following the Lord’s promptings.
References: Proverbs 3:5
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