followHIM - Doctrine & Covenants 60-62 : followHIM Favorites

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm the host of a podcast called Follow Him, and I have a wonderful co-host. His name's John, by the way. Hi, John. Hi, Hank. This is exciting stuff. John, this is Follow Him Favorites, where we just pick out our favorite little piece from the lesson. So the lesson this week is Doctrine and Covenants 60, 61, and 62. What is your follow him favorite? Well, I just noticed something in all three of these sections that made me happy, gave me some hope. In section 60, verse 7, I am able to make you holy and your sins are forgiven you. I love it when the Lord says I'm able because sometimes all we can do is be willing, but he's able and your sins are forgiven you. And then I saw it again. Section 61, verse 2, I, the able and your sins are forgiven you. And then I saw it again, section 61, verse 2, I, the Lord, forgive sins. I thought, oh, I'm so glad he does. Then I saw it again in section 62,

Starting point is 00:00:53 verse 3. I love this one. Missionaries love this one. Nevertheless, ye are blessed for the testimony which ye have borne is recorded in heaven for the angels to look upon and they rejoice over you and your sins are forgiven you. And that's why we call him the savior because he saves us from death and from our sins and three sections in a row. That's what I do. I forgive sins. I'm thankful for that. Oh, me too, John. I can't tell you. Cause sometimes I don't know about you, but I make dumb mistakes. Me too. So this leads, I think, right to my follow him favorite, which is section 61, where the Lord says, verse 36, be of good cheer, little children, for I am in your midst and I have not forsaken you. There's times where we think, why have you left me? Right. And he said, he kind of

Starting point is 00:01:45 reminds, reminds them and us, I have not forsaken you be of good cheer. Uh, so I try to think, okay, in my daily life right now, what does be of good cheer look like? Maybe it's not a big, like skip into the kitchen and singing a song, but it's putting a smile on my face and complimenting a member of my family. Right. Part of being of good cheer is just looking on the bright side. In fact, Elder Holland said, be of good cheer is a commandment. And so I'm going to try to think myself, how can I better keep the commandment to be of good cheer? You do a good job of that. Oh, so do you. I love it. It doesn't mean, like you said, you're skipping everywhere, but there's an overall sense of, hey, things are going to be okay. The Lord's on our side. He has not forsaken us. I love it.

Starting point is 00:02:29 That's beautiful. We hope you'll join us on our podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can find it wherever you find your podcasts.

followHIM - Doctrine & Covenants 60-62 : followHIM Favorites

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