lds2 Posted December 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2011 President Uchtdorf in his most recent talk in conference (which is featured on the front page and is THE focus of the NEW Provident Living site) said, "Like two sides of a coin, the temporal and spiritual are inseparable...The Giver of all life has proclaimed, “All things unto me are spiritual, and not at any time have I given unto you a law which was temporal.”...Unfortunately, there are those who overlook the temporal because they consider it less important. They treasure the spiritual while minimizing the temporal."..."The one complements the other. The one without the other is a counterfeit of God’s plan of happiness."..."This work of providing in the Lord’s way is not simply another item in the catalog of programs of the Church. It cannot be neglected or set aside. It is central to our doctrine; it is the essence of our religion. We must not turn aside our hearts or our heads from becoming more self-reliant...The temporal is intertwined with the spiritual. God has given us this mortal experience and the temporal challenges that attend it as a laboratory where we can grow into the beings Heavenly Father wants us to become." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted December 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 President Monson in his final message in the Ensign in June said, "Living welfare principles is about putting our faith in Jesus Christ into action—by...establishing family home storage...Our faith leads us to educate our minds and our hands and to work every day of our lives to be self-reliant. Having taken care of our own needs, we are better able to provide for ourselves and serve others. May we follow the counsel not only to do good but strive to be good, not just to do better but to be better. Obedience to the Lord’s counsel brings temporal and spiritual blessings. It allows us to face the challenges of life armed with courage and confidence rather than fear and doubt."President Thomas S. Monson, Making Principles of Welfare Part of Your lifeJune Ensign 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted February 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 "Today is not different from ages past. The Lord does not love the people of our day any less than in past times...Much of what the Lord reveals to His prophets is intended to prevent sorrow for us as individuals and as societies. When God speaks, He does so to teach, inspire, refine, and warn His children. When individuals and societies ignore their Heavenly Father’s instructions, they do so at the risk of trial, torment, and toil." "God loves all His children. That is why He pleads so earnestly with us through His prophets...That is why His instructions are so crucial and sometimes so urgent. That is why He has not abandoned us today...Our fate and the fate of our world hinge on our hearing and heeding the revealed word of God..." President Uchtdorf, "Why Do We Need Prophets," Ensign March 2012 Why Do We Need Prophets? - Ensign Mar. 2012 - ensign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 A few for my collection... “The Savior has commanded the Church and its members to be self-reliant...As people become self-reliant, they are better prepared to endure adversities” and are “better able to care for others in need.” Church Handbook of Instructions *** The "Doctrine and Covenants 29:34–35 tells us there is no such thing as a temporal commandment, that all commandments are spiritual. It also tells us that man is to be “an agent unto himself...” “Can we see how critical self-reliance becomes when looked upon as the prerequisite to service, when we also know service is what godhood is all about? Without self-reliance one cannot exercise these innate desires to serve. How can we give if there is nothing there? Food for the hungry cannot come from empty shelves... "The key to making self-reliance spiritual is in using the freedom to comply with God’s commandments. The scriptures are very clear in their command that it is the duty of those who have, to give to those who are in need..." "One of the three areas emphasized in the mission of the Church is to perfect the Saints, and this is the purpose of the welfare program. This is not a doomsday program, but a program for our lives here and now, because now is the time for us to perfect our lives..." Elder Marion G. Romney, The Celestial Nature of Self-Reliance, Ensign March 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 President Kimball said, “I remember when the sisters used to say, ‘Well, but we could buy it at the store a lot cheaper than we can put it up.’ But that isn’t quite the answer, is it? … Because there will come a time when there isn’t any store.” (April 1974 Welfare Session.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 "But, is that not a form of prophecy? For has he not said to us over and over again, “Take good care of your material possessions, for the day will come when they will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace.”'--Boyd K. Packer, quoting Pres Kimball, Ensign 1982 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 "We are telling of what the prophets have said-of what the Lord has said to Joseph. Wake up, now, wake up, O Israel, and lay up your grain and your stores. I tell you that there is trouble coming upon the world."--Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 4:336-39 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 "...lay up stores of grain, against the time of need, for you will see the time when there will not be a kernel raised, and when thousands and millions will come to this people for bread. You cannot believe it, can you? You may say, "If one of the old Prophets could rise from the dead and declare it, we would then believe it, but, brother Heber, it is hard to believe it from you."--Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 5:163-64 Reminds me of the First Presidency's message to have food for your family, to help your neighbors and to help the bishop feed the poor and the needy. We all need to be ready and prepared to do that and we have been instructed to do this during times of "abundance"...how long that "time" will last is anybody's guess, but at some point it will be too late. So who cares if we buy today and have to wait five or more years to use it? It is a commandment and it is obedience that will bring the blessings connected with it. Not saying we have that long, as the crops are wilting on the vine, but it is an example of prior years at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSG Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 You may want to look into the cat evacuation kit that was mentioned in an earlier thread... lol!My cat's not LDS...the old saying that you can't baptize a cat doesn't really apply to Methodist sprinkling, but immersing one while saying anything that isn't a stream of obscenities is pretty much impossible.Back to the food storage issue, how many of these would it take to get by for a year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 (edited) ... Edited July 31, 2012 by lds2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lds2 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 "For the righteous the gospel provides a warning before a calamity, a program for the crises, a refuge for each disaster. The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to prophets and stored at least a year's supply of survival food."--Ezra Taft Benson, April 1973 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 "When wars come, we shall have to flee to Zion. The cry is to make haste. The last revelation says, Ye shall not have time to have gone over the earth, until these things come. It will come as did the cholera, war, fires, and earthquakes; one pestilence after another. until the Ancient of Days comes, then judgment will be given to the Saints."--Joseph Smith History of the Church 3:390-91. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 "All we have yet heard and we have experienced is scarcely a preface to the sermon that is going to be preached. When the testimony of the Elders ceases to be given, and the Lord says to them, "Come home; I will now preach my own sermons to the nations of the earth," all you now know can scarcely be called a preface to the sermon that will be preached with fire and sword, tempests, earthquakes, hail, rain, thunders and lightnings, and fearful destruction. What matters the destruction of a few railway cars? You will hear of magnificent cities, now idolized by the people, sinking in the earth, entombing the inhabitants. The sea will heave itself beyond its bounds, engulfing mighty cities. Famine will spread over the nations and nation will rise up against nation, kingdom against kingdom and states against states, in our own country and in foreign lands; and they will destroy each other, caring not for the blood and lives of their neighbors, of their families, or for their own lives."--Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:123. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted August 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 President Wilford Woodruff said: "The Lord is not going to disappoint either Babylon or Zion, with regard to famine, pestilence, earthquake or storms. He is not going to disappoint anybody with regard to any of these things, they are at the doors. Lay up your wheat and other provisions against a day of need, for the day will come when they will be wanted, make no mistake about it. We shall want bread, and the Gentiles will want bread, and if we are wise we shall have something to feed them and ourselves when famine comes." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 18:121, given on September 12, 1875.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted August 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 The more we cleave unto righteousness, the more we enjoy the protecting care of our Savior... Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people...blessings come as we obey the counsel of the prophets and live within our means, avoid unnecessary debt, and set aside sufficient of life’s necessities to sustain ourselves and our families for at least a year. This may not always be easy, but let us do our “very best,”14 and our stores shall not fail—there shall be “enough and to spare.” Be Prepared … Be Ye Strong from Henceforth, Bishop Keith B. McMullin, Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric in October 2005 Ensign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lds2 Posted August 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 President Joseph Fielding Smith noted that: “one of the great failings of mankind is to ignore warnings...the summer is passing and if we are heedless of the warning we will find the summer past, the harvest ended and our souls not saved. While no man knows the day or the hour, yet if we are taken unawares, we will be without excuse, for the signs are ample and we now see them being fulfilled.” ( Church History and Modern Revelation, 1:195.) Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual - Section 45 - "Looking Forth for the Great Day of the Lord""Looking Forth for the Great Day of the Lord" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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