If you don't already know what those Super Powers are.....Most members of the LDS church have been given a Patriarchal Blessing which clearly tells you which gift or gifts you have been given.
Now it is up to you to
If you choose not to develop them...it is like the analogy of being on an all paid cruise ship and not realizing that all the food is included..so you pack some cans of soup or beans and eat that food instead.
Every Gift is HUGH....for Example: Say you've been given the gift of Faith...
Just one example of a gift: With the power of FAITH the size of a Mustard Seed...You could move a mountain. We can seek for all gifts .
WHAT IS FAITH:
Faith is an action and a
power.
So whenever we work toward a
worthy goal we exercise faith. We show our hope for something that we cannot
yet see.
Faith is like a muscle that
we need to exercise in order to develop. If we use this muscle it will grow
strong but if we do not use it, it will become weak and unable to move.
Other thoughts on FAITH
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Faith is the
moving cause of all action both temporal and spiritual
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Faith is not only
a principle of action but of power
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Faith is a great
governing principle which has power, dominion and authority over all things.
Some simple examples of
faith:
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I learned about
Faith from the Wizard of Oz – Everyone had faith in the Wizard and were quite
disappointed when they found out that he was just a man. In the end, Dorothy
finds out that the ruby slipper she wore had the power to help her get back
home, but she didn’t believe or have faith that it would work until she had
conquered the wicked witch.
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In the movie Star
Wars Yoda is the master of Faith (the Force) where he pulls the ship out of the
water – Luke says, “I don’t believe it” Yoda says, “That young Skywalker is why
you couldn’t do it’
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Norman Vincent Peale wrote in his very famous book, The Power of
Positive Thinking, which was all about how if you believed in something,
you could make it happen.
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So if you WANT anything, you have to BELIEVE in it- Work on it (applied
wisdom) and that gives you FAITH. So what is it that is the most important
thing that we should want Faith in?
But the true Power of Faith comes when we develop our
Faith in our Savior Jesus Christ. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the Most
Important Faith we must have.
Faith in Jesus: Article of
Faith #4 states that “We believe the first principles and ordinances are first,
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.”
1-
He created the
Earth - John 1:1-3, 14 “In the beginning
was the Word (Jesus) and the Word was with God, and the Word was a God. The
same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without
him was not anything made that was made. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth.”
(Jesus the Christ p 6) We affirm, on the authority of Holy Scripture,
that the Being who is known among men as Jesus of Nazareth and by all who
acknowledge His Godhood as Jesus the Christ, existed with the Father prior to
birth in the flesh; and that in the preexistent state He was chosen and
ordained to be the one and only Savior and Redeemer of the human race.
2-
He came to Earth
in the Flesh and performed many miracles. One miracle was that He walked on
water, Peter walked on water while he had his
eyes focused on the Savior, but when he looked away at the wind or water,
that is when he began to sink
3-
Right after
hearing that His beloved cousin John the Baptist was beheaded, he was grieving
and exhausted so he went to an island alone. The people had followed Him and
though His disciples wanted the people to leave, Jesus bid them stay and fed
all 5000 men (not counting women and children) with only2 fishes and 5 loaves.
4-
Jesus suffered
all things to pay the price so we do not have to go through them. I had a
Seminary teacher once who tried to explain the Atonement. He held up a
flashlight and said this represents the Light within us. This toothpick
represents our sins. He held up the flashlight in front of the toothpick and it
cast quite a big shadow. Then he turned on an overhead projector and said this
represents the Savior’s light. If you take that same sin or toothpick and put
it in front of a more powerful light such as an overhead projector, the rays of
light are so great that it bends around the toothpick and thus no longer casts
a shadow. So it is with Christ’s light which increased with the Atonement as to
overshadow the sins and cares of the entire
population of all mankind. Thus Faith in our Savior is incredibly important to
attaining our Salvation and Eternal Increase.
5-
Mosiah 3:17 “There shall be no other name given nor any
other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of men, only
in and through the name of Christ the Lord Omnipotent
BELIEF IS NOT ENOUGH, WHAT CAN WE DO TO DEVELOP FAITH
IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST?
James 2: 17 “Even so Faith,
if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”
So how do we do we do that?
Well, When my internet went
down the other day I called for assistance and they said to check the power
cords, reboot the battery.
When you Search and read the Holy Scriptures,
I don’t know that it matters the page number or story you are on….I feel that
it is like a giant power socket that you have just plugged into. It puts you in
the right paradigm/frame of mind to see the world with glasses from the Light
of Christ. This helps your problems, your world, your life to come into focus
so you have the knowledge of what to do.
Ponder –
Take time to think about what you read, make it real and listen to the Holy
Spirit and how it can apply to you in your life. Don’t turn on that tv, radio or other reading
material too soon before receiving what it is the Lord would have you know.
In war one of the biggest
tactics for the enemy to post is to knock out the communication of the troops
with their leaders so they are isolated and do not know the current plan of
action. That is what Satan would have us do. He would love to have us fill up
our lives with things that keep us from communicating and building our faith in
our Savior, Head and Leader Jesus Christ. Oh these things that we may be
involved in may be good in and of themselves but sometimes they just take up
our time and prevent us from knowing our current plan of action for these the
last days in where there is so much of the Lords work to do to prepare for His
coming. And That is of ultimate importance.” Thus we need to communicate with
our Leader, Commander in Chief, Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ through
the connection of the Holy Ghost and we need to…
Pray. We need to directly communicate with our Father in
Heaven. The connection was paid for by our Savior Jesus Christ.
Just one example of a gift: With the power of FAITH the size of a Mustard Seed...You could move a mountain. We can seek for all gifts .
So what are you waiting for....MOVE THAT MOUNTAIN!!
Develop your DIVINE POTENTIAL and become a SUPER POWER for the LORD.
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