"What I say unto one I say unto all; pray always lest that wicked one have power in you, and remove you out of your place."
Doctrine and Covenants 93:49
This is a good warning. I think we forget how easy it is to veer off course and listen to Satan and his lies. He always tells us the lies we want to hear, making it really easy to keep after our own desires and to harbor self-deception.
God always tells us the truth. It isn't always easy to hear, but it frees us from that snare of really believing in things that are absolutely not true, which can be amazingly painful if we allow ourselves to listen to the lies and get invested in whatever impossibility Satan is trying to sell us.
Today, let's pray and keep the spirit with us so that we can't be deceived, or encouraged to deceive ourselves. A couple of conferences ago Jeffrey R Holland said "You can have what you want, or you can have something better." ... God is always offering us something better, and if we can trust God enough to let go of what we think we want that leads us in a different direction, he will lead us to something much better than we could dream.
Doctrine and Covenants 93:49
This is a good warning. I think we forget how easy it is to veer off course and listen to Satan and his lies. He always tells us the lies we want to hear, making it really easy to keep after our own desires and to harbor self-deception.
God always tells us the truth. It isn't always easy to hear, but it frees us from that snare of really believing in things that are absolutely not true, which can be amazingly painful if we allow ourselves to listen to the lies and get invested in whatever impossibility Satan is trying to sell us.
Today, let's pray and keep the spirit with us so that we can't be deceived, or encouraged to deceive ourselves. A couple of conferences ago Jeffrey R Holland said "You can have what you want, or you can have something better." ... God is always offering us something better, and if we can trust God enough to let go of what we think we want that leads us in a different direction, he will lead us to something much better than we could dream.
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