Purpose

I love studying the scriptures and learning the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I have a firm testimony that through such a study and with the Spirit of God we can learn the way to earn eternal life and return and live with our Heavenly Father again.  I know that this way is only made possible through the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

The purpose of this blog is to serve as a testimony of truth.  According to the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law a testimony is “an affirmative declaration of fact and is based on the personal knowledge of the testifier” (Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/testimony). My personal knowlede of the subject matter contained in this blog has been given to me by the power of the Holy Ghost as I have studied, prayed, and pondered over the scriptures.  The sciptures themseves teach about the roll of the Holy Ghost in the process of learning about God and gaining a personal testimony of truth:

• John 14:26 ”But the ^aComforter, which is the ^bHoly Ghost, whom the Father will send in my ^cname, he shall ^dteach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
•  1 Cor. 2:10-12 ”But God hath ^arevealed them unto us by his ^bSpirit: for the ^cSpirit ^dsearcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
     “For what man ^aknoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God ^bknoweth no man, ^cbut the ^dSpiritof God.
     “Now we have received, not the ^aspirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”
• John 15:26  ”But when the ^aComforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall^btestify of me”
• Moroni 10:5 “And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may ^aknow the ^btruth of all things.”

I want to bear my testimony of what I have learned to be true through the power of the Spirit of God.  I know that God is our Heavenly Father and that He loves each one of His children on this Earth.  I know that God has provided a way for us to retun and life with Him and that way is through our Savior Jesus Christ.  I know that through faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, and obedience to the commandments we can prepare our selves for eternal life.

I also know that the Bible is the word of God; words that were recorded by ancient prophets.  I know that since God loves all of his children, He has revealed His words to prophets in all ages and places.  I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and is a true witness of Jesus Christ and His teachings from prophets in the anchient Americas. I know that God has not forgoten His children in these wicked days and that there is a living prophet on the face of the Earth, namely Thomas S. Monson, who leads and guides the Churh of our Lord Jesus Christ by direct revelation, just as the prophets of old. 

The Spirit of God has born witness of these truths to my heart, and I inturn bare winess of them in the same Spirit.