Give Yourself a Seven Day Break From Fake

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Joined: Nov 2023

President Russell M. Nelson counsels us to disengage ourselves from the influences of social media.  Could you give it up for 7 days? Could you give away your favorite sin?

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I’ve been experiencing increasing levels of anxiety this past year, to the point where I got desperate enough to ask the Lord what I needed to change in my life to get a hold of my mental health. One day in sacrament meeting I received two distinct promptings: 1. Be willing to give away even your favorite sin. And the follow up impression to that was: 2. Delete social media off of your phone. I didn’t even realize that was a sin of mine. But after fasting from social media for a week, I realized I WAS indeed addicted to social media and that it was playing a HUGE role in negatively affecting my mental health. Within weeks my anxiety disappeared and as promised from a prophet of God, I was able to “overcome” the weight of a worldly problem I was having at this time. Later on my wife joined in the President Nelson’s 2018 challenge to “disengage from a constant reliance on social media” and we have seen amazing blessings in our personal health, our marriage, our relationships with our children, our spiritual sensitivity, and much more. This experience was yet another testimony to us that President Nelson is a prophet of God. As we follow his council (even in things that we didn’t think applied to us ha ha) we will grow closer to our Savior Jesus Christ and experience more abundantly the blessings he desires for us: “Disengage from a constant reliance on social media in order to decrease its worldly influence upon you. I acknowledge that there are positives about social media, but if you are paying more attention to feeds from social media than you are to the whisperings of the Spirit, then you are putting yourself at spiritual risk, as well as the risk of experiencing intense loneliness and depression…. So, give yourself a seven-day break from fake.” President Nelson 2018 world wide youth devotional

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