"Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea."
Jacob 4:6
This is cool. It isn't a specific story about being able to do these things, but just a claim that they can... but it is part of the same chain that he is writing about. They searched the prophets, or in other words, the scriptures, and they also *were* prophets, because they recieved revelation and had the spirit of prophecy, and those things combined to give them hope, and the more hope they had in God and that they could follow the pattern, the more they could see the power of hope and use it to transform their lives and their world.
Today, let's use our reading purposely to work on our hope in Christ, let's pray earnestly and sincerely, gathering information in our own minds and hearts and seeing the hand of God in our lives, and as we learn and understand the ways of God more, our faith will grow until it is unshaken, and we can do as the verse before us says. Let's keep the chain going, so that further generations may also gain hope from our words.
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