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Fasting and health

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  Sama Hoole @SamaHoole · 21h The year is 30,000 BC. You wake hungry and there is no breakfast, because there has never been breakfast. The children are still asleep by the fire. You get up and go out on an empty stomach, and by the second day without a kill your head is clearer and your eyes are sharper than when you were fed. You do not think of this as going without. It is how mornings are. The year is 400 BC. You are ill, and the physician on Kos sits by the bed and tells you to stop eating. To feed a sick body, he says, is to feed the sickness. You find you did not want food anyway. The dog in the yard does the same when it is poorly. It lies down, turns its head from the bowl, and gets up when it is well. The year is 1250. You eat twice a day, the first time near noon, and you fast on something like a third of the days in the year. It is hard by the fourth week of Lent and nobody pretends otherwise. But the whole village is doing it with you, and when Easter comes the roast...
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Expanding temple work

  Brent Walton @TruthHolder2023 My temple president and the matron just completed 5 days with President Oaks and his counselors and the Quorum of the Twelve. I cannot even imagine what that must have been like. Sister Chugg, the temple matron, told us that President Oaks wants us to prepare to receive 50,000,000 patrons in the temples across the world. Can you imaging? That's over 30,000,000 members, and probably more since we're talking about temple-recommend-holding members!!! I'm sitting here imagining what our living prophet may have seen. In my mind, I and imagining people filling the temples, all dressed in white, with full sessions for every ordinance. It makes me want to be in the House of the Lord more frequently. Brothers and sisters, hold on, because we're looking at some amazing missionary work in the days ahead. https://x.com/TruthHolder2023/status/2120552556581793828?a=RvJjUNsjYivEt9Ofh6I&s=20
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Be of Good Cheer

  Jeanine Elsholz @JeanineElsholz In the words of Jeffrey R. Holland— “The Lord has probably spoken enough “comforting words” to supply the whole universe, it would seem, and yet we see all around us unhappy Latter-day Saints, worried Latter-day Saints, and gloomy Latter-day Saints into whose troubled hearts not one of these innumerable consoling words seems to be allowed to enter. Consider, for example, the Savior’s benediction upon his disciples even as he moved toward the pain and agony of Gethsemane and Calvary. On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering the world has ever known or ever will know, he said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. . . . Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27 ). I submit to you that may be one of the Savior’s commandments that is, even in the hearts of otherwise faithful Latter-day Saints, almost universally DISOBEYED; And yet I wonder whether our resistance to this invitatio...
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God is a "minimal interventionist"

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  Matthew Watkins @ITalkOfChrist Jesus raised Lazarus. But He didn't open the sepulcher, unbind Lazarus's burial garment, or raise him with a full stomach. Jesus did the part that only He could do, but directed others to roll away the stone, untie Lazarus, and feed him. Similarly, God didn't give Nephi a completed ship-- or even tools-- just the information on how to proceed. It seems our God is a "minimal interventionist" God. He works by "small and simple means," doing only what absolutely necessary for us and letting us do everything else. Why? Because He doesn't want to deprive us off the blessings of doing it as much on our own as possible. We are supposed to learn to become like Him-- and those muscles are built through work and practice! Be grateful that we have a God who gives us room to exercise our willpower and creativity and contribute to His great work!
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40 years ago - Ezra Taft Benson

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  Jeanine Elsholz @JeanineElsholz “I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world. I testify that the church and kingdom of God is increasing in strength. Its numbers are growing, as is the faithfulness of its faithful members. It has never been better organized or equipped to perform its DIVINE MISSION. I testify that as the forces of evil increase under Lucifer’s leadership and as the forces of good increase under the leadership of Jesus Christ, there will be growing battles between the two until the final confrontation. As the issues become clearer and more obvious, ALL mankind will eventually be re...
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Fast and Testimony meeting

  Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth · 1h Day 3 back at ward This was my third Sunday back in the ward. Fast Sunday. No assigned talks. The pulpit stays open and whoever feels moved gets up. Nothing is scripted, and that is the point. A sister stood. She told us about her twin sister. A brain aneurysm. The first surgery was successful and the family let out its breath. The second surgery was not. She told us what her family went through. The whole time she spoke I wanted to walk up to that pulpit and put my arms around her. I wanted her to know she is loved. And when she sat down I found tears running down my face. I had not planned on them. Something about watching another human being suffer that much. I do not know why it moved me the way it did. It just did. Underneath the tears I kept thinking one thing. This is when a testimony becomes real. Not in the good years. Not when the bills are paid and the children are healthy and the calling is going well. A testimony becomes real ...
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