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Originally Posted by Lyle
Please Forgive Me i have bad grammar! i am a dyslexic and i just dont want to take all the effort to correct it for this post but will in the future!
so about two years ago. i gave it up i couldn't live the way i was knowing what i knew. On a Wednesday i said to my Girlfriend if you cant move out by Friday i am. but on Thursday morning before she woke up i packed as much as i could and moved to my car. i moved home. that Sunday i saw my bishop who told me that i could be forgiven and that he knew i was going to be alright. i saw the stake president who said he was so glad to see me that he had just seen my dad who lost his rights to the priesthood many years ago.
we had both felt the calling and both came with everything lost. we had both given up all we had. the following day i received a promotion and the gospel began to fall into my hands all around me. and a few months after that i learned of the singles ward (which was a relief i thought everyone who came of that age fell away like me because i couldn't find them anywhere) this is when the lord chose me to change even more.
he changed my life i received the will to live again even though i was physically gone. they never found out what was wrong with me. they said it left my body different than it was. but i am alive. i received a healing blessing once and the lord only offered comfort not healing he advised me in several blessing since that i will suffer and learn much from it and that i would be able to connect to those who are suffering that i might bring them comfort.
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I see you have wakened from a deep slumbering sleep. I think we all go through this in our lives one time or another. Even though the past is the past, we can gain experience and use it for others who are in this slumbering event. This is why we need to a daily review of our lives to see whether we are doing the FATHER's will or not; even in our rebelliousness state, we should strive for the right. Being sinner or living in a rebellious state, we never feel the peace in this mortal life unless we are in complete submission. Even if we are fully active in the church, we still must be submissive to GOD. When we reached this pinnacle of learning, it is then the Spirit begins to sweep away our sins and the memory thereof, and our lives begin to transform as the Savior wants us to be. Returning to that former child when you living in the pre-mortal realm.
Remember, as we truly seek repentance, please take the time and learn this prinicple fully, that you maybe edified and have a complete understanding. You will find members who think they truly know the principle but never truly experience it.
Elder Theodore M. Burton, once as a Presiding Bishopric once talked about this and wrote about this principle that may aid those to gain some insight on this simply principle. the article is "The Meaning of Repentance." It basically breaks down the process of repentance is three steps. Yes! Three simply steps but you will find, it can be hard for those who do not follow these steps truly do not repent. Elder Burton stated:
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Let me read again to you from Ezekiel 33, which outlines three main steps of repentance: (1) commitment, (2) restitution, and (3) forsaking sin. "If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity: he shall surely live, he shall not die." (V. 15.)
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Having the background of this principle and knowledge how to accomplish it appropriately, your repentance process will be quick and receiving back the same feeling you once held a precious fruit that taste sweet and nourishing. Good luck and GOD Bless you on your future journey in the Gospel of Christ.
Article Link: LDS.org - Ensign Article - The Meaning of Repentance