God wants a Powerful People

These passages from Sheri Dew's book "God wants a Powerful People" filled me with peace as I was reading it yesterday.  So, I'm sharing my peace!  :)

"If your faith is wobbly, if you're not sure the Lord will come to your aid, experiment.  Put Him to the test.  A great place to start is the scriptures, for as Jacob wrote: "We search the prophets, and we have many revelations...and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken" (Jacob 4:6).


"It is not not possible to sin enought to be happy.  It isn't possible to buy enought to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ouselves enought t be happy.  It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy.  Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are.  King
benjami understood this and taught it clearly when he admonished us to "consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God.  For...they are blessed in all things,...and if htey hold out faithful to the end...they may dwell with God in a state of neverending happiness" (Mosiah 2:41).

"Satan likely bristles at this principle, for happines is something the ultimate narcissist will never experience. I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.  The Lord has blessed us with covenants that keep us on the straight and narrow path because this "road less traveled" is actually the easier road.  It is so much easier to be righteous than to sin, so much easier to deal with a clear conscience that one ravaged by guilt, so much easier to feel peace of mind and heart when we are living up to who we are rather than coping with the emotional and spiritual ravages of regret, knowing we have lived beneath our divine nature.

"The happiest people I know are those who repent regularly and obey.  And a major reason fr their happiness is that they have increased confidence in approaching and petitioning the Lord and increased access to His power."