If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times, particularly in times of need…I have been a member of this Church my entire life…I have never taught—nor have I ever heard taught—a doctrine of exclusion. I have never heard the members of this Church urged to be anything but loving, kind, tolerant, and benevolent to our friends and neighbors of other faiths…Of all people on this earth, we should be the most loving, the kindest, and the most tolerant because of that doctrine…Love one another. Be kind to one another despite our deepest differences. Treat one another with respect and civility.
- M. Russell Ballard, Doctrine of Inclusion
How To Show Christlike Kindness To Others
Ruth, the Moabitess, would face bigotry, poverty, and much insecurity, but she was converted, and she had decided. She and Naomi became a great team, facing together not only the problems before them, but the opportunities that would come also. In time, Ruth married Boaz, and a child was born to them… “And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.” ...[Through these] lines, which are carefully detailed for us in the first chapter of Matthew, came Jesus who is called Christ. Would you ever have expected the small book of Ruth to foretell such a great event? Ruth confidently met hardships not uncommon in our time.
- Aileen H. Clyde, Confidence through Conversion
Inspiring Short: “I Gave You Strength to Overcome” | Richard H. Cracroft
Mountains To Climb - Gaining Power To Overcome Challenges In Life
Wheelz: Overcoming is Possible
The scriptures contain countless examples of those who have won their wars even in the midst of very hostile situations… All of us can receive the strength to choose the right if we seek the Lord and place all our trust and faith in Him. But, as the scriptures teach, we need to have “a sincere heart” and “real intent.” Then the Lord, in His infinite mercy, “will manifest the truth unto [us], by the power of the Holy Ghost.” ...It will guide us safely through the darkness and confusion that exist in the world today.
- Ulisses Soares, Yes, We Can and Will Win!
Inspiring Short: Wrestling with Comparisons | J.B. Haws
Inspiring Short: An Eternal Perspective | Jean B. Bingham
Inspiring Short: Self-Worth and Divine Love | Barbara Day Lockhart
Inspiring Short: Trusting in God, Day by Day | D. Todd Christofferson
How Could a Loving God Do This to Me?
Trust in the Lord - Youth Theme 2022
In moments of pain, loneliness, or confusion, we know that our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are aware of our circumstances and that They yearn to bless us…As we pray continually, no matter the circumstances of life, the Lord will offer us His peace and abiding support…I know that God the Father lives. He loves us. He hears our prayers, and many times He will answer with feelings of peace…I bear my testimony that the Savior’s promise is true and that a humble prayer for peace in your heart will be honored.
- President Henry B. Eyring, Prayers for Peace
God Wants You to Pray | His Grace
The Baby Chick | A Story About Sincere Prayer
Strength comes to us when we remain righteous, true, and faithful to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, even when others overwhelmingly disregard the commandments and principles of salvation... Satan’s mighty winds and storms are beating upon us, but they will have no power to drag us down if we put our trust in the safest place—in our Redeemer... as we choose to hear His voice and follow Him, we will receive His help. We will obtain a wider perspective of our circumstances and a deeper understanding of the purpose of life. We will feel the spiritual stirrings that will guide us to our heavenly home.
- José A. Teixeira, Remember Your Way Back Home
Why does God give us commandments?
Blessed and Happy Are Those Who Keep the Commandments of God
The Everlasting and Almighty God, the Creator of this vast universe, will speak to those who approach Him with a sincere heart and real intent. He will speak to them in dreams, visions, thoughts, and feelings. He will speak in a way that is unmistakable and that transcends human experience. He will give them divine direction and answers for their personal lives...God cares about you. He will listen, and He will answer your personal questions. The answers to your prayers will come in His own way and in His own time, and therefore, you need to learn to listen to His voice. God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way.
- President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Receiving a Testimony of Light and Truth
This Easter, #HearHim—Jesus Christ's Words are for You
#HearHim: President Nelson Invites Us to Hear the Voice of the Lord
Who is this Jesus whom we worship?... Jesus Christ is indeed more than a king; he is the Son of God, our Savior, our Redeemer, the Author and Finisher of our faith, King of kings, Lord of lords , Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. That is what the gospel is all about. Without him, without his intervention in our behalf, we would be helpless in the face of Adam’s transgression... A little girl, misquoting the twenty-third Psalm, put everything in perspective. She said: “The Lord is my shepherd. That’s all I want!” What more could anyone want?
- Robert L. Backman, Jesus the Christ
Free agency...is not of itself the perfect liberty we seek... through the exercise of their agency more people have come to political, economic, and personal bondage than to liberty…The freewill choosing of a king by the Jaredites led directly to their captivity…This sequence was repeated in the days of Israel. The people—rejecting government by judges, which God had established—clamored for Samuel to give them a king...Samuel therefore anointed Saul to be their king. In due time, just as Samuel had predicted, heavy burdens were laid upon them, their sons and daughters were made servants of the king, and war came.
- Marion G. Romney, The Perfect Law of Liberty
[Y]ou are called of God. The Lord knows you. He knows whom He would have serve in every position in His Church. He chose you. He has prepared a way so that He could issue your call…The person who called you did not issue the call simply because he learned by interviewing you that you were worthy and willing to serve. He prayed to know the Lord’s will for you. It was prayer and revelation to those authorized of the Lord which brought you here. Your call is an example of a source of power unique to the Lord’s Church. Men and women are called of God by prophecy...
- President Henry B. Eyring, Rise to Your Call
Inspiring Short: The Unlikely Shepherd | R. Kent Crookston
The Lord Calls Lehi as a Prophet | 1 Nephi 1:4–6
We show our love for God—and our faith in Him—by doing our very best every day to follow the course that He has laid out for us and by keeping the commandments that He has given to us... As we trust in the Lord, exercise our faith, obey His commandments, and follow the course He has charted for us, we become more the person the Lord wants us to become…As we submit ourselves to His will, we increase in peace and happiness…God wants us to have joy. He wants us to have peace. He wants us to succeed. He wants us to be safe and to be protected from the worldly influences all around us.
- Von G. Keetch, Blessed and Happy Are Those Who Keep the Commandments of God
Blessed and Happy Are Those Who Keep the Commandments of God
Teach of faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. Warn them that they will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery...Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery.
- President Russell M. Nelson, Face the Future with Faith
I Will Go and Do: 2020 Youth Theme (feat. David Archuleta) — Official Music Video
Samuel saw Eliab, Jesse’s firstborn. Eliab, it seems, was tall and had the appearance of a leader. Samuel saw that and jumped to a conclusion. It turned out to be the wrong conclusion...May we likewise not let our eyes, our ears, or our fears mislead us but open our hearts and minds and minister freely to those around us... we are His children, all of us, without exception. We have the same divine origin and the same limitless potential through the grace of Jesus Christ…rather than our seeing each other through the distorted lens of mortality, the gospel raises our sights and allows us to see each other through the flawless, unchanging lens of our sacred covenants.
- Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier, We Are His Children
Inspiring Short: The Unlikely Shepherd | R. Kent Crookston
Your Potential, Your Privileges
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[F]ew of us would probably write into our stories the trials that refine us. But..[t]rials are the elements of the plot that make our favorite stories compelling, timeless, faith promoting, and worthy of telling... For David to overcome Goliath, the boy had to take on the giant. The comfortable narrative for David would have been a return to tending sheep. But instead he reflected upon his experience saving lambs from a lion and a bear... With a desire to let God prevail...the boy David defeated Goliath and saved his people... Jesus Christ stands ready to use us as divine instruments, sharpened pencils in His hand, to write a masterpiece!
- Camille N. Johnson, Invite Christ to Author Your Story
Mountains To Climb - Gaining Power To Overcome Challenges In Life
Your Great Adventure: Overcoming Life’s Obstacles
Crossing the Finish Line: A Story of Overcoming Obstacles
Inspiring Short: Trusting in God, Day by Day | D. Todd Christofferson
David and Goliath | Animated Scripture Lesson for Kids
Trust in the Lord - Youth Theme 2022
Salt. Leaven. Light. Even in very small amounts, each affects everything around it... You may be young or feel of no importance, but you can be as salt in your family, at school, and in your community... With only a small amount of leaven, bread rises, expanding to become lighter and softer…How much light does it take to pierce the darkness in a room? One small ray. And that ray of light in a dark place can emanate from the power of God in you... Your light of faith in Christ can be steady and sure, leading those around you to safety and peace…hearts can be changed and lives blessed as we offer a pinch of salt, a spoonful of leaven, and a ray of light.
- Susan H. Porter, Lessons at the Well
A Message for Children from President Russell M. Nelson | Friend to Friend
Christ is the Strength of Youth
[F]riendship is a fundamental need of our world. I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting relationships can give…What kind of parents or neighbors or servants of the Lord Jesus Christ can we be without being a friend? ... we all have the capacity to be a friend. Our Savior, shortly before His Crucifixion, said to His disciples: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends.”... At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.
- Marlin K. Jensen, Friendship: A Gospel Principle
The Savior has made it clear that to receive forgiveness you must forgive others their offenses against you...If as an innocent victim you have been seriously wronged, don’t harbor feelings of hatred, anger at what appears to be unjust... Such forgiveness is most difficult, but it is the sure path to peace and healing...Don’t burden your own life with thoughts of retribution…of all the necessary steps to repentance, the most critically important is for you to have a conviction that forgiveness comes in and through Jesus Christ.
- Richard G. Scott, Peace of Conscience and Peace of Mind
Forgiving Others: An Easter Message from President Russell M. Nelson
How Jesus Christ Restores What Is Broken
Is there a promise more powerful than the one the Savior Himself made when He declared, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock,” or call, “and it shall be opened unto you”? Prayer is the means of communication with our Heavenly Father that allows us to “call and don’t fall.” …calling is a matter of faith and action—faith to recognize that we have a Heavenly Father who answers our prayers according to His infinite wisdom, and then action consistent with what we asked for...Always think of the Lord as your first option for help.
- Taylor G. Godoy, Call, Don’t Fall
Inspiring Short: Seeking Constant Divine Communication | Patrick Kearon
Draw close to the Lord Jesus Christ. He bears a special love for those who suffer. He is the Son of God, an eternal king. In His mortal ministry He loved them and blessed them... Those who yearned for hope, who yearned for a caring touch, received it from the hand of this King of Kings, this Creator of ocean, earth, and sky. Today Jesus the Christ stands at the right hand of our Heavenly Father... Be of good cheer. The Man of Galilee, the Creator, the Son of the Living God will not forget nor forsake those whose hearts are drawn to Him.
- Joseph B. Wirthlin, Finding a Safe Harbor
Prince of Peace - Find Peace through Jesus Christ
Many patterns in human behavior seem to be common in the natural man—the desire to fit in, the desire to prove oneself, the fear of missing out, and the compelling need to hide so we avoid consequences. It is this final behavior I will focus on today—hiding after we do something that we should not…
This temptation—I will call it the “second temptation”—is the temptation that may bring the greatest consequence if we succumb...
Some might attempt to hide from God because they don’t want to be discovered or exposed, and they feel shame or guilt. However, numerous scriptures teach us that hiding from God is impossible…God knows your sins; you cannot hide from Him.
- Scott D. Whiting, Beware the Second Temptation
[W]hen you do your part, the Lord adds His power to your efforts. Any calling we receive in the Lord’s kingdom requires more than our human judgment and our personal powers. Those calls require help from the Lord, which will come… you will see the Lord is in the work with you…Whatever your calling…, you may have at times felt Heavenly Father was unaware of you. You can pray to know His will... [He] will allow you to feel that He knows you, that He appreciates your service...I testify that He has called you and me into His service knowing our capacities and the help we will need. He will bless our efforts beyond our fondest expectations as we give our all in His service.
- President Henry B. Eyring Eyring, You Are Not Alone in the Work
Inspiring Short: Seeking Constant Divine Communication | Patrick Kearon
The Lord is strengthening His Saints of all ages as they come to His holy house… As we come with willing hearts to the house of the Lord, the most holy place on earth, ...we are filled with peace and joy and unspeakable hope. We receive the strength to remain His disciples even when we find ourselves outside of holy places…The temple is literally the house of the Lord...In this day of confusion and commotion, I testify that the temple is His holy house and will help preserve us, protect us, and prepare us for the glorious day when, with all His holy angels, our Savior returns in majesty, power, and great glory.
- Neil L. Andersen, Temples, Houses of the Lord Dotting the Earth
Mormon temples Solomon's temple comparision Jesus temple
[T]he Lord does hear and answer prayers... From the very beginning, the Lord has instructed His earthly children to remember Him in prayer…There is far more power in simple prayer than many of us think possible…I am convinced that the Lord hears the simple prayers of all people. I am sure He hears the prayer of the aged widow as well as the little child who prays with simple, plain, and understandable faith…May the Lord bless us and help us all to serve Him with simple, childlike faith, simple forgiveness and repentance, and especially with simple prayer...
- Glen L. Rudd, “Because I Pray for You”
In his first message as President of the Church, President Nelson stated: “Your commitment to follow the Savior by making covenants with Him and then keeping these covenants will open the door to every spiritual blessing and privilege available to men, women, and children everywhere…The ordinances of the temple and the covenants you make there are key to strengthening your life, your marriage and family, and your ability to resist the attacks of the adversary. Your worship in the temple and your service there for your ancestors will bless you with increased personal revelation and peace and will fortify your commitment to stay on the covenant path.”
- President D. Todd Christofferson, Why the Covenant Path
The Ten Commandments are fundamental to the Christian and Jewish faiths. Given by God to the children of Israel through the prophet Moses, the first two of these commandments direct our worship and our priorities. In the first, the Lord commanded, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”. ... Thus we offend God when we “serve” other gods—when we have other first priorities... Are we serving priorities or gods ahead of the God we profess to worship? Have we forgotten to follow the Savior who taught that if we love Him, we will keep His commandments? ...We must never dilute our first priority—to have no other gods and to serve no other priorities ahead of God the Father and His Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ.
- President Dallin H. Oaks, No Other Gods
Lovest Thou Me More Than These?
Seeking the Kingdom First: How to Align Your Life with God’s Will