Daily Thoughts

In the Old Testament I read that in the day of the Lord, His Spirit will be poured out on all flesh and there will be dreams and visions. There will be wonders in the heavens and deliverance for anyone who calls upon the Lord. Joel 2: 28-32 "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call."

In the D&C we're told that when we're trying to teach others the gospel the Lord will put His thoughts into our minds and give us the words to say, in the very hour we need them. The things we declare in the name of the Lord need to be in the spirit of meekness. If we do this, the Holy Ghost will bear record to what we say. We do not convert other people; it is the Spirit that converts. We are merely instruments in the hands of the Lord and we need to be in tune with Him so that we can do a good job of conveying the message that He would have us deliver. D&C 100: 5-8 "Therefore, verily I say unto you, lift up your voices unto this people; speak the thoughts that I shall put into your hearts, and you shall not be confounded before men; For it shall be given you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say. But a commandment I give unto you, that ye shall declare whatsoever thing ye declare in my name, in solemnity of heart, in the spirit of meekness, in all things.8 And I give unto you this promise, that inasmuch as ye do this the Holy Ghost shall be shed forth in bearing record unto all things whatsoever ye shall say."

Some verses with a thought booklet remind us to choose our friends and companions carefully because the righteous cannot fellowship with the unrighteous and light cannot commune with darkness. How often have you seen a wonderful young person take a wrong turn in life after they began associating with the wrong kind of friend? Or someone fall away from the correct path after they married an unbeliever? That doesn't mean we can't have friends who don't believe exactly the way we do, but we should have associates that lift and build us and are a righteous influence in our lives--not ones who drag us down, try to corrupt us, and who are constantly putting temptations before us. 2 Cor. 6: 14-15 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"

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