12/27-
WEEK 52, DAY 4-WEDNEDSAY



To prepare me for the time when we will not have cars anymore, I have been taking a lot of long walks lately. Today it was a little more than eight miles. Before that it was about five miles. I have been taking these walks with my cousin Nathaniel.

Not too long after I first got to the land of Zion in the tenth month Anno Domini two thousand and five a miracle happened while my three cousins and I were on a walk: Nathaniel and Nephi got hit by a car and received no real injuries, save that Nephi got a scratched finger. I believe angels were protecting us.



Tonight we are going to prayer and testimony service at Israel’s Gathering.

On the thirty and first day of this month, Alexis, Storm, and Kyra will be baptized at our church. On the twenty and first day of the first month Anno Domini two thousand seven, there will be a worship service sponsored by the Joint Conference of Restoration Branches entitled, The Great And Marvelous Work: Testimonies From The Field. Brother Gary will be there. On the twenty and third and the twenty and fourth days of the second month Anno Domini two thousand and seven will be the Winter Gathering. And on April fourth through the eighth two thousand and seven, the third annual Joint Conference of Restoration Branches will take place, event I am looking forward to most of all, where the Voice of the People will be heard once again. Something exciting is happening with the church and I want to be a part of it.



Praise be to the Lion of Judah, the King of Heaven, whose name is above all other names, whose years never fail, even Jesus Christ, the Eternal God!

Bless His holy name forever!



Lord my love for You knows no bounds!

But my sins separate me from You!

O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death!

How can I be counted worthy enough to sing Your praises?

It is because of Your mercy, O Lord.

Thank You, Lord for your mercy toward me all the days of my life.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.



Lord, you have warned me that satan desires to destroy me, both body and soul.

Rebuke the devourer for my sake, Lord.

Stand by me in this evil day.

Be thou my Shield.

Help me to withstand the temptations of the flesh!

Keep the vision You gave me etched within my memory!

I am calling out to Thee Jesus!

Help me, O Lord!





Protect and hide me under Your wings as a mother hen.

In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.



Lord, bless us all exceedingly and abundantly at prayer and testimony service tonight, above and beyond what we could hope or expect.



I pray this in Your Son’s most Holy and Precious name, even Jesus the Christ, Amen.



Now I shall continue to read the prophet Jeremiah.



It is later. The Lord answered my prayer. Hubert and Barbara Smith, who had been a long time absent, were there. There was life in the prayers of each one who prayed. Brother David asked to join our congregation, and we welcomed him.



Dear Lord, show young Christopher the value of his life, and persuade him not to take it! Bring him to your Gospel and help him to be baptized into Thy body. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.



On the radio program, ‘Back To The Bible’, I learned that we need to constantly seek for new challenges from the story of Caleb, even in his old age, asking for his inheritance among the Anakim, the sons of Anak, which were giants that had not been driven out of the promised land. I also learned to always be generous from the story of Barzillai the Gileadite in Second Samuel, seventeenth chapter, twenty and seventh thru twenty and ninth verses.

  2009
07/01-
WEDNESDAY

This blessing from Sister Melanie was in answer to my silent prayers and most deep and secret petitions unto God :



You are blest. I want to be around people like you. You are a beautiful spark of motivation. May the Lord God bless you from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, may He place your feet in paths of gentle breeze. May your days reach a greatness of multitute. May you be blest with much seed in Zion. In Jesus' name.