Increasing Faith
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If you want to
increase your faith, you must set up experiences that will cause you to stretch
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A missionary who
can already memorize five concepts in one hour and sets that as his goal is
foolish---he knows he can do it
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As long as you
try to do only what you already know you can do, you are not going to grow much
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You must look
beyond where you are and what you are capable of doing to pull down power from
heaven to help fulfill it
1.
Increasing Your
Hope
i)
You must hope
with all your heart for a good cause, that it will come about, and if you
exercise your faith in it, and if it be right, it WILL come to pass
ii)
You must
spiritually perceive something that the world cannot see. You see it
spiritually in your mind and then with patience wait for it. Then you have something
to hope for.
2.
Hearing the Word
of God
i)
Any time we have
the opportunity to hear the word of God preached by the Spirit, we have an
opportunity to increase our faith
3.
Reading
Prayerfully the Word of God
ii)
If we will liken
the scriptures unto ourselves, they will give us hope
iii)
By studying the
prophecies and words of the Lord, our hope and faith in the Lord will truly
become unshakable
4.
Acting in
Accordance with Present Understanding
i)
“The only way to
receive additional faith and light is to practice according to the light which
we have: and if we do this, we have the promise of God that the same shall grow
brighter and brighter until the perfect day.”- Orson Pratt
ii)
“Belief and
unbelief are independent in men, the same as other attributes. Men can
acknowledge or reject, turn to the right or to the left, rise up or remain
seated, you can say that the Lord and His Gospel are not worthy of notice, or
you can bow to them. Your own experience may satisfy you that faith is not
brought into requisition by the presentation of either facts or falsehoods to
the external senses, or to the inward perceptions of the mind.”- Brigham Young
5.
Keeping the
Commandments
i)
Probably the
greatest counsel that anybody could give you, if you want to increase your
faith, is that faith will come according to your personal righteousness
ii)
If we can pray
with confidence that we are trying to
be sinless, not that we are perfect, but that we are trying to live up to what
we know to be right, then we will have the assurance that what we ask for, the
Lord will grant
iii)
When our own
hearts condemn us, we cannot obtain the faith and assurance necessary, nor the
confidence to ask the Lord for a blessing
6.
Sacrificing
through Trials and Tribulations
i)
It is rather easy
to make a covenant. As members of the Church we make many covenants. But the
Lord is asking for more than that. To make the covenant is only the beginning.
ii)
The Lord is going
to prove us to see if by sacrifice we will keep the covenants we have made
iii)
You need to look
closely at your own life for the things that the Lord wants you to sacrifice.
Most often, He wants us to give up our sins.
iv)
“A religion that
does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to
produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for, from the first
existence of man, the faith necessary unto the enjoyment of life and salvation
never could be obtained without the sacrifice of all earthly things.” - Joseph
Smith
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