Fear Thou Not; For I am with Thee

 In the months leading up to me getting married, I experienced a tremendous amount of opposition trying to prevent me from doing right and being fully repented, and marrying in the temple.

I was going through alot of personal issues and trying to resolve those, and everytime I tried to do good, it felt like I was pushed 2 steps back. I prayed alot and did what I thought was good, but still I felt alone; that is until I read the following scripture introduced to me from my brother.

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” (Isaiah 41:10)

When I read that I felt so comforted knowing my Heavenly Father was there for me. He will strengthen me and uphold me, as long as I am doing whats right. Each and every time I felt down, I quickly read that scripture and it made me feel so good! I know there will always be opposition, but when you do whats right,  conquer it, it makes it all the better.I feel you must know the bad to appreciate the good (stemmed/referenced from 2 Nephi 2:22)

I know, and have a strong testimony, that if you do the Lords work, obey the commandments and do all things with the magnifying of your calling you will be blessed, and granted all that you desire:

” And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” (Luke 11:9)

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Doing the Impossible

I recently watched a great movie  called the  Mountain of the Lord , a feature length film about the pioneers and building up of the Salt Lake Temple. Its a great movie, and I would reccomend all to see the movie!

Now after watching this, it really got me thinking about a few things. How on earth did pioneers who walked thousands and thousands of miles , and which had nothing at all on them but their oxen and means of transportation, build such a fine and beautiul temple? The work is the finest of all the world, the craftsmanship, design, architecture, artwork  – everything.  I’ll tell you how: by the grace and power of the Lord.

A couple interesting quotes from the movie caught my attention. When you are doing the Lord’s work, you are blessed in your lives, and plus it was a commandment from the Lord to build a temple.

“And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them” 1 Nephi 3:7

Every detail of that temple, the walls, the design, down to the doorknobs (seirously, click on that picture on this post, and think to yourself how long it would take YOU to just carve out ONE doorknob!? ) , were all built only using the finest material, and finest designs. I truly believe that the Lord will bless each and everyone of us if we obey His commandments and do His work. It is an amazing thing that these people could have build such a beautiful building with arriving into the Valley with almost nothing at all.

“…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.” Malachi 3:10

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