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This is a doctrine we can agree on! My stumbling block comes when the enemy tries to convince me that the other 90% is mine to do with as I please. 😶

I wrote words in a reply just recently and tried to post them and they got wiped. Maybe the LORD wanted me to say something different. So here I go again. In my own opinion I do not believe in progression between kingdoms of glory but I could be wrong. I feel like I am so lacking in worthiness to qualify any glory in the next life. But I like these words written below: "The mortal probation is provided as an opportunity for advancement; but so great are the difficulties and the dangers, so strong is the influence of evil in the world, and so weak is man in resistance thereto, that without the aid of a power above that of humanity, no soul would find its way back to God from whom it came." -- James Talmage I love the way President Gordon Hinckley used to teach this principle. I heard him say, “Brothers and sisters, all the LORD expects of us is to try, but you have to really try!” So, to all who read this, keep trying and working toward the Kingdom of God in your mortal journey. “Yes, you are going to make it as long as you keep repenting and do not rationalize or rebel. The God of heaven is not a heartless referee looking for any excuse to throw us out of the game." (-- Elder J. Devn Cornish) So, do not rationalize or rebel. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. If you fall once or a thousand times, just get up again and keep moving toward the LORD.

When I have bought inverters, they are usually rated for a continuous watt rating with a separate peak watt rating. In the end, as Vort says, one key is to get an inverter rated high enough. In my inverters' installation instructions, there is usually something that says, "inverters above ___ watt rating must be wired direct to the battery and not wired through a cigarette lighter or aux power" for reasons that @Vort covered. You haven't specified the kind of gizmo you want to run. DC-AC power inverters tend to create a square wave power pattern rather than the typical sine wave pattern. Most gizmos will run just fine on the inverter's square wave, but a few gizmos get grumpy with a square wave. Most commonly, I run an old laptop off of my inverters and it runs just fine. I've run power tools (up to the point of overloading the inverter, at least) and small stereos, too. Simple, relatively inexpensive things, I wouldn't worry about. If my gizmo is expensive and ruining the gizmo was going to create significant grief in my life, I would carefully check the AC wave type of the inverter and try to find out if the gizmo is going to accept a square wave.

Those are wonderful stories. Thanks for sharing them.

In fact, my talk focused in part on the meaning of tithing in the larger law of consecration.

Well-behaved (yes, especially those who with abundant love for the difficult ones) can win converts to almost any faith tradition. It takes a compelling God to keep 'em though--especially when those less abundant in love make sideways comments. 😬

Cool story! Reminds me of the Amish folks' story told here: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2007/05/the-healing-power-of-forgiveness?lang=eng Or Daryl Davis, the black guy who befriends KKK members, and loves them so hard they give up their robes: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/documentary-about-black-man-s-attempt-befriend-ku-klux-klan-n534006 Or Bryan Hall, who buddied up to a regular General Conference protester: https://www.ldsliving.com/how-a-mormon-and-a-conference-protester-became-unlikely-friends/s/75428