Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Doctrine & Covenants 67-70 : followHIM Favorites

Episode Date: June 22, 2021

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Hello everyone, my name is Hank Smith. I'm the host of a podcast called Follow Him. I'm here with my co-host the amazing John by the way. Hi John. Hi Hank. We do a little clip each week called Follow Him Favorites. This week, John, the sections of the doctrine and covenants we're studying are section 67 through 70. So you have a lot to choose from here when it comes to sections. So give us your follow him favorite for this lesson. I will happily do that. I love the way section 67 starts out. Behold and harken O ye elders of my church who have assembled yourselves together. And we all know that this is for all of us now. It was specific to them, but what he

says to them, he's saying to us, listen to this part, whose prayers I have heard and whose hearts I know. And isn't that comforting? Here's our prayers, and if you mess up, you can say, Heavenly Father, you know my heart. I didn't mean to do that. That wasn't what, and you know my heart. And there's such great comfort in that whose prayers I've heard and whose hearts I know and whose desires come up before me. Yeah, isn't that nice? You know my heart and that's a great comfort to know that because I think a lot of us make mistakes, but we didn't mean to, you know, and the Lord understands that I think, isn't there a part in the doctrine of covenants where the Lord says, I will judge you according to your works and the desires of your hearts. It's in 46 I think. And then I want

to go to the that's the first verse the last verse of 67 verse 14 first phrase there let not your minds turn back. And I think that what's right in front of us is the now and we can think about the now. But when we look at the past, that's called regret. And I think the Lord's saying here, don't regret the past. Let not your mind's turn back. The Lord always wants us to look forward and to move forward and not dwell on the past

because he's forgiving, and but we keep moving forward. So I love that phrase. Let not your mind's turn back. We can really beat ourselves up over the past sometimes. I love that. And we can do that to others as well. We can always be bringing them of their past, right? We can bring up old mistakes that they've made and they want to move on from. My fellow in favor is section 68 verse 6. I remember finding this scripture when I was just in

high school. When I first started reading scripture, you know, I didn't understand everybody who was being spoken to and all the, you know, all the context behind the verses, but I would find little verses that just gave me a, you know, a good mode. They were motivating to me, to keep believing and to believe in the Lord. And this is, this was one of them, 68, 6. He says, be of good cheer and do not fear. I the Lord, I'm with you. I will stand by you. You will bear record of me, even Jesus Christ. I just, as you take that verse apart,

there's so much good in there. Be of good cheer. That literally means smile, cheer up, speak hopefully, speak encouragingly. Do not fear, right? I the Lord and with you, I will stand by you. I take great comfort in that because like you said, John, we all make mistakes. And the Lord knows our mistakes yet.

He says, I am with you and I will stand by you, even in your mistakes. I am with you. I will stand by you. Do not fear. I love how encouraging, how encouraging the Lord is in these revelations. And if anyone you could think of to have standing by you, can it get any better than that? Absolutely. Yeah. I love it. Well, we hope you'll join us on our podcast. It's called Follow Him and come back here to where you found this Follow Him favorite and join us next week.

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