Never Alone: Christ Knows Your Pain and Is By Your Side

Having Crohn's Disease makes life very difficult. There are times where I feel no one understands my pains. I previously wrote a post about how Christ truly has complete empathy for us. For some reason during this past very difficult week I had forgotten this truth and felt alone again. I have my loving husband who helps ease the pain but he can never truly understand how I feel. On Sundays I enjoy looking at LDS.org I found this article and it re-opened my eyes. It helped me find "The Son" in this stormy time of my life. The title of the article is Christ has Felt my Pain .

I testify that Christ truly understands our pains. He will help us endure, by comforting, lifting, guiding and teaching us. He has perfect empathy and is the only one who can truly state, "I know how you feel."

I invite you to memorize this following scriptures and remember that when you feel as though you have fallen into darkness and pain that the "Son" our Savior, Jesus Christ will bring the light back into your life.

James 5:11 - New Testament 
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

Ether 12:27 - Book Of Mormon 

And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

Always remember you are never alone. A great talk By Elder Bednar reminds of that we all have burdens and that our trials helps bring us closer to Christ.  Bear Up Their Burdens With Ease.

We must remember also that if we have faith we can be healed if it is God's will. We must come to His son. Let us have faith enough to endure and faith enough to be healed according to Heavenly Father's Plan and timing. 

I testify that Christ has the power to heal as He did in the Old Testament and as He did in The Book Of Mormon. Let us come unto Christ and allow Him heal our hearts, and guide us in enduring to the end. 

Scripture List for #week3charityandlove

Scripture Study

What is charity?

• Moroni 7:45–48
• 1 Corinthians 13
• Bible Dictionary, “Charity”

How did Jesus Christ demonstrate charity?

• 1 Nephi 19:9
• Alma 7:11–13
• Ether 12:33–34
• Luke 7:12–15

What do these verses teach you about charity?

• 2 Nephi 26:30
• Mosiah 2:17
• Mosiah 28:3
• Alma 7:24
• Ether 12:28
• D&C 88:125
• 1 Timothy 4:12
• 1 Peter 4:8; _{see footnote a}

Scripture Links for #week2hope

Here are the scripture links for Hope. I learned a lot and gained more understanding of hope

Scripture Study

What is hope and what do we hope for?

• 2 Nephi 31:20
• Alma 58:10–11
• Ether 12:4, 32
• Moroni 7:40–48
• D&C 59:23
• D&C 138:14
• Romans 8:24–25
• Hebrews 6:10–20
• Topical Guide, “Hope”

Scripture links for #week1faith

I was going to post the scripture links a while ago and I totally forgot. Here they are. I learned a lot from studying these.

Scripture Study

What is faith?

• Alma 32:21
• Ether 12:6
• Hebrews 11:1; _{see footnote b}
• Bible Dictionary, “Faith”
• True to the Faith, “Faith,” 54–56

How do you obtain faith, and what can you do through faith?

• 2 Nephi 25:29
• 2 Nephi 26:13
• Mosiah 4:6–12
• Alma 32
• Helaman 15:7–8
• Ether 12:7–22
• Moroni 7:33
• Romans 10:17
• Hebrews 11

What blessings come through faith?

• Mosiah 3:17
• Mosiah 5:1–15
• Helaman 5:9–12
• John 14:6

Experiencing Charity and Love

This past week and a half I have been super busy getting packed and ready to come out to school and doing orientation. 

So I am going to redo my #week3charityandlove starting today. 

These past weeks have really taught me a lot about Charity and Love. My family and friends have truly been helping me get through these busy times. 

They have shown me Charity by helping me move and unpack and get everything situated. I just kept thinking that if Christ were here spending time with me He would be doing what my family and friends were doing. He would be talking with me, helping me and caring for me. It was great to feel a Christlike love from these great people who are truly disciples of Christ. 

At orientation I felt more Charity and Love. From meeting new people, to the talks filled with the spirit and to the Spirit testifying to me that this is where I am meant to be. 

These weeks reminded me that we are truly Christ's hands upon the earth. We must reach out and lift those who are feeling down. Let us be Disciples 24/7 and share Christlike love through our words, deeds, actions and attitudes. 

#week3charityandlove 

Hope Is Vital

We all need hope. With out hope we become depressed, lonely, or faithless. Though when we have hope in Jesus Christ and His atonement then we are full of joy, peace, love and faith. 

Faith is a part of our spirits. When we have hope in something we center our faith on that and work to have it come to pass. 

If we truly center our hope on Jesus Christ then the other hopes we have in other things will become stronger. 

As we know there is opposition in all things such as light and darkness. The opposite of hope is despair. Satan wants us to feel the loss of hope. He wants us to be miserable like himself. We must defeat him, let us come to Christ and be full of light and hope. 

When we are righteous and obedient we can have hope in eternal life and the love of the Savior. We can also have hope in the power of repentance and forgiveness. 

Hope truly leads us to action that is why it is vital in our lives. 

Hope In A Hard World

Living in this time can be a struggle. We have wars and rumors of wars. There are even moral and spiritual wars. Some might say with all the tragedies how can we have hope? 

I have asked myself this question as well. Though I read a scripture in Moroni that touched my heart.  

Moroni 7:41-42 states  41 And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise.

 42 Wherefore, if a man have faith he must needs have hope; for without faith there cannot be any hope.

I really like this scripture. It helps us know what to have hope in. If we have hope in Jesus Christ and His atonement then we truly can endure all the trials that face us. 

I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who gave us His Son to Sacrifice His life for us. We are blessed to be able to have hope in eternal life and Heaven. 

I really like this song by Mercy River. It opened my eyes on how to have hope in a sometimes hard life and world. 

"The Reason For The World" 

There are no words in times like these

When tears don’t hide the tragedies

And all you want is a reason for the world

No comfort in the greeting card

Cause God is good

But life’s still hard

And your heart just wants a reason for the world

Maybe the reason for the pain

Is so we would pray for strength

And maybe the reason for the strength

Is so that we would not lose hope

And maybe the reason for all hope

Is so that we could face the world

And the reason for the world

Is to make us long for home

For God so loved your broken heart

He sent his son to where you are, 
and he died

To give a reason for the world

So lift your sorrows to the one

Whose plan for you has just begun

And rests here in the hands that hold the world

Maybe the reason for the pain

Is so we would pray for strength

And maybe the reason for the strength

Is so that we would not lose hope

And maybe the reason for all hope

Is so that we could face the world

And the reason for the world

Is to make us long for home

Well I know your past the point of broken

Surrounded by your fear

I know you’re faint and tired and lonely

From the road that you walked down here

But just keep your eyes on heaven

And know that you are not alone

Remember the reason for the world

No ear has heard

No eye has seen

Not even in your wildest dreams

A beauty that awaits beyond this world

When you look into the eyes of grace

And hear the voice of mercy say

Child, welcome to the reason for the world