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How can habits
that overpower
and require total
>surrender to God
be healed inside
a person's soul?
The step of “Faith
cometh not by signs,---
signs come by faith
unto mighty works.”1
- 1. D & C 63:9,11
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He works “mighty
miracles, signs, and
wonders among
the children of
men according
to their faith.” 9
“Faith, hope, --- charity
>bringeth unto me
the fountain of
all righteousness”10
- 9. 2 Nephi 26:13
- 10. Ether 12:28
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“What things soever
ye desire, when
>ye pray, believe that
>ye shall receive them
and ye shall have them.” 15
“We through the spirit
wait for righteousness
by faith---which” does
“worketh by love”16
bringing miracles.
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- 15. Mark 11:24
- 16. Gal 5:5-6
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Zeezrom had been an
“expert in---devices
of the Devil,”20 but
Amulek “convinced”
him of God's power.21
“Harrowed in guilt,”22
“Zeezrom now lay sick.”23
“They took and bound” 24
Amuleck and Alma
and put them in prison.
- 20. Alma 11:21
- 21. Alma 12:7
- 22. Alma 14:6
- 23. Alma 15:3
- 24. Alma 14:4
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And then Alma cried
unto the Lord, saying:
Oh Lord our God
have mercy on
this man, and heal him
according to his faith
which is in Christ.----
And Alma baptized
Zeezrom.”26 belief had
grown in his heart.
- 26. Alma 15 6-12
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with great diligence, and
with patience”30 “and long
suffering,” “ye shall
reap the rewards”
of “fruit unto you.”31
“Elders shall be
called and shall pray
for and lay their
hands upon them
in my name.” 32
- 30. Alma 32:41
- 31. Alma 32:43
- 32. D & C 42:44
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he---who buildeth
up of his own
will and pleasure
and destroyeth
when he pleaseth.”37
The Liahona
sent to Nephi
“did work according
to their faith and”
their “diligence”38
- 37. D & C 63:2-4
- 38. 1 Nephi 16:28
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be humble; and my
grace is sufficient
for all men that
humble themselves
>before me; for if
they humble themselves
before me, then will
I make weak things
become strong unto
- them.”42 that love Me
- 42. Ether 12:27
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“Remember”2
“The Lord is able
to do all things”3
“According to---Faith”4
but “They obtain not---
until after the faith
and neither at
any time hath any
wrought miracles
until after their faith.”5
- 2. Mosiah 1:6-7
- 3. 1 Nephi 7:12
- 4. Ether 12:29
- 5. Ether 12:18
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As Christ healed he said,
“Go thy way; thy faith
hath made thee whole.”11
When calming the storm
“He said unto them, why
are you so fearful?
How is it that
ye have no faith?”12
Live by the faith
of the Son of God.13
11. Mark !0:52; see also Mark 5:34;
12. Luke 8:48, 18:43, 7:50, 19.
Matt 9:29, 15:29
13. Mark 4:40; Luke 8:24-5; Gal 2:20
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“Faith should not stand
in the wisdom
of men, but in
the power of God.”
while “looking unto
Jesus, author and
finisher of faith
And forgive -
that your Father -
may forgive you.”
- 17. 1 Cor. 2:5
- 18. Heb 12:2
- 19. Mark 11:25
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Alma's prayer of
faith followed, “Give us
strength according to
our faith----even unto
deliverance---
they broke the cords---
the walls of the prison
were rent in twain.”
A sick Zeezrom now
sent for them. They came.
25. Alma 14:26-7
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“faith is not to have
a perfect knowledge--.27
Ye cannot know of
their surety at first,
unto perfection,
any more than faith is
a perfect knowledge,
But behold, if ye
will awake and arouse
your faculties,
- 27. Alma 32:21
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He that have faith
in me to be
healed and is not
appointed unto
death shall be healed.”33
“and whosoever---
have not faith to
be healed but believe
shall be nourished
with all tenderness.”34
- 33. D & C 42:48
- 34. D & C 42:43
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“Without” God we
can do nothing. 39
”Men drink damnation
to their---souls except
they humble themselves
and become as little
children, and believe
that salvation
---is---through the
atoning blood of Christ.40
- 39. John 15:5
- 40. Mosiah 3:18
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The answers43 will come
as we learn to do.
“My son peace be
unto thy soul
thine adversity
and thy afflictions
shall be but a
small moment”44 of time.
“Trying of your faith
worketh patience.”45
- 43. belief in a higher power's
- ability to help is the 2nd step
- in a 12 step program
- 44. D & C 121:7
- 45. James 1:3
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For if there be
no faith among
the children of
men God can do
no miracle
among them;”6
“For ye7 receive
no witness until
after the trial
of your faith.”8
6. Ether 12:12
7. “They” or “their” replacing
“ye”, “you”, or “your” would
be more consistent but I left
it as it is in each scripture.
8. Ether 12:6
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When Peter walked
to Him on the
water and feared,
“immediately
Jesus stretched forth
his hand, and caught him,
and said unto him,
oh thou of little faith
wherefore didst thou doubt” 14
Chastisement with love.
14. Matt 14:27-33
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“I say unto all
this was a snare of
the adversary---
that he might chain
you down to”
an “everlasting”
binding “destruction
according to the
power of his
captivity
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“Alma said unto him,
taking him by the hand;
Believest thou
in the power of
Christ unto salvation?----
In the redemption
of Christ thou can
be healed---And he said:
Yea, I believe
according to thy words.
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even to an
experiment
upon my words
and exercise a
particle of faith”
“it will begin
to swell within
your breast.” “If ye
will nourish the
word---, by your faith
28. Alma 32:26-27
29. Alma 32:28
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When Our Savior
came to the Nephites
He said, “your faith
is sufficient
that I should heal you.
To gain enough faith
“Thou shalt not be
proud in thy heart.
Gods “anger is
kindled against---
35. 3 Nephi 17:8
36. D & C 42:40
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“Yield,--to the--spirit--
be---submissive, meek,
humble, patient, full
of love, willing to
submit to all things.
“If men come unto
me I will show---to
them their weakness.
I give unto men
weakness that they may
41. Mosiah 3:19
This poem gave a subtle
but powerful change
to my faith.
Trust and submission
to God's power
could only come
if my love for Him
went beyond my
intense fear of
His Judgment.
Any type of authority
in some way represented
my fear of those
who in my past
had been bullies.
Even my Savior was
one of those bullies.
I needed enough faith
to understand
His unconditional
love and forgiveness.
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