2017 AD


07.01--
SABBATH

the New Earth shall be graced with the very presence of God the Father.

Today I sang God Send Us Men for both England and Germany as a prayer to God to raise up Priesthood there.


8/18/2022 And He did, shortly afterward, in both places.

UNDATED

01.01


ENDOWMENT PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE

END ZRF, p. 14, lines 10-11 (Q.5, CHAR. 1)

In the great work of the Eternal, God is your Father in a deeper sense than you now know.

END ZRF, p.27, lines 23-25 (Q. 5, Char. 4)

In finer, deeper, more radiant ways than you have ever known, this Marvelous Being will be your Father!

END ZRF, p.13 lines 3-7
(Q. 5, Preface)

"You have not even begun to dream of that which I the Lord had in mind in the erection of the temple, things which have as yet been but slightly realized, but in the years of the future will be realized however, and when they are, their effect and influence shall be felt over the entire world."

END ZRF, p. 27, line 4 (Q. 5, char. 4)

(God is the) loving Creator of stupendously vast universes.

END ZRF p. 3, line 3 (Q.1)

(God's) inmost name is Love.

END ZRF Q. 5, Char. 1, p. 16, lines 17-33.


Power through spiritually-won knowledge.


 END ZRF, Q. 5, Char.2, p.21, line 22.

Only what you prepare yourself to receive, can God show you.

(Paraphrased)Last Edit: Aug 18, 2022 at 1:18am by BrentKoivopolo888Love is sacrifice.

04.04--
YOM SHLISHI-DAY BEFORE WEDNESDAY

If all the sea were ink and the sky a parchment made, and every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade; to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry, nor could the scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky!
-From A Song.

Enoch wrote many books.  For some, he was given a reed of quick writing to write with. -Secrets of Enoch (II Enoch)

If lightning or thunder were given all their power, they would overthrow the earth.-Ante-Nicene Fathers.

The rain is let down to the earth by threads. -I Enoch.

The wind is kept in storehouses beneath the mountains.- The Aeneid, Virgil.

     2017 AD


CDT


01.19--
THURSDAY

Rewritten 3-3-17 and other dates afterward.

O Lord, I consecrate and dedicate this work unto Thee O God, that it may be for the welfare of my soul and may edify all who read it. Amen.

Compiled from a few sources and extensively added to and corrected from my experiences and new perspectives on past experience.

Holy Spirit, pour out Thyself upon me as I pen these lines, that I may put things in the way you would have me to put them, and leave out what You would have me to leave out.  Thy will be done, Father.
Amen.

       When I was a boy, very young, but at least eight, I strongly desired to be baptized into the RLDS Church after the split which I was unaware of at that tender stage of my life.

Although I was also not aware of it, my paternal grandfather Toivo Wilfred Sohlden had been ordained to the office of Priest in that Church in 1966.

 Although I had the desire to be baptized, this strong desire, I was not able to be baptized.  By my freshman year of high school, I was a believer in an "upper entity" though I did not know Him.  I thought him to be possibly Zeus, but I did believe there was some God.  I was not a Christian at all, and did not see my need for a Savior.  I believed that Jesus Christ had been a real person, for my grandmother on my mother's side had given me a comic book novel about the life of Jesus called 'The Man Who Moved The World' which I had read at a young age.  Some time in my early teenage years I read about 40 chapters of Genesis in my paternal grandmother's family Bible.  The Lord was preparing my heart to receive His Grace.  He moved further in my Sophomore year of high school when by the portion of His Spirit that had been with me since I had been born He led me to attend an after-school Bible study called Pure Fire, though I knew not that He was leading me.  This Bible study was led by a lawyer named Mike Thomas.  Satan tried to stop what happened next by stirring up strife through the misinterpretation of a letter Mike Thomas sent through the mail to those who attended Pure Fire.  I was led to believe my Bible study was a cult and I used great swelling words against it in a letter I wrote that I wanted to be published in the student newspaper, the Voice. Then a group of believers had a talk with me and gave me a tract, but I was led to believe that the tract was wrong.  But I kept attending the Bible Study until, on October 12, 1999, a man named Wade answered some questions and gave me a NIV Bible. I thought I was saved, but wasn't actually saved until October of 2019. When I was given the NIV Bible I was in the 16'th year of my age.

02.14--
YOM SHLISHI-VALENTINE'S DAY

Rewritten 3-4-17 and possibly other dates afterwards.

 At first, during my early walk as thinking I was a believer, I continued to attend my grandmother and grandfather's Church, even the RLDS Westwood Congregation, Flint District, until just after 2001.  Near the time the RLDS changed its name to Community of Christ I tried some other churches (Methodist and Missionary) and settled on a black church that my sister Destiny had attended called Greater Zion Hill Bible Church, then Zion Hill Bible Church, then later called Restoration Outreach Center (R.O.C.).
While I was yet living at my dad and stepmother's house I was baptized into that church. When I moved to an Adult Foster Care Home after living with my Grandma for a time, then back at dad's and a stay at a mental ward, and  crisis home, while at the AFC Home I would visit Grandma's house on the weekends, and, eventually, because of my sister's prayers I moved back to Grandma's.  I continued attending the R.O.C. because it was close by. Sometime while I was at Grandma's while I lived at the AFC home still (by that time I had completely rejected the Restoration, having thrown the Book of Mormon away that Sister Elaine Hanners had given me (Sister Elaine Hanners of Westwood had also given me a Doctrine and Covenants), my Uncle Mark Got me to read part of his book 'The Continual Creation Story of The Author', and every word in that book weighed on me. Every word.

Mark also continually preached to me and wrote me letters.  Although these letters contained a heresy known as 'Christian Naturism'--Nudism--, the letters played a big role (for the truth they also contained) in the decisions I would later make to take the Kingdom of God seriously.

   While living at the Adult Foster Care Home, I was writing in my 16'th journal, weighing the consequences of whether to believe in the Book of Mormon and Restoration, I made the decision right then and there in the AFC Home to believe, regardless of what those consequences were.

    After moving back to Grandma Marge Sohlden's house, Mark and then Grandma started taking me first to the Oakwood Restoration Branch, then to the Otter Lake Restoration Branch, but for a while, until 2004, I still attended the R.O.C.  But after seeing corruption in that church, I left it and cut up my Membership card, then began attending the Restoration Branches full time.  During that time my Uncle Mark took me to the Kirtland Temple about 3-4 times.  And during one of those visits, I met Kevin Brown at the Kirtland Restoration Branch.  When I got home I wrote Kevin an email desiring him to baptize me.  However, although he said he would, he either wasn't able to or never did.  My desire for baptism began to wane, though I continued to study the Scriptures and various Church books and tracts.