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President Russel M. Nelson spoke 3 times during the conference, he gave counsel on overcoming the world, affirmed God’s condemnation of abuse, urged us to seek truth, and announced 18 new temples!
During his Sunday morning address, he urged members to Overcome the World and Find Rest.
“. . . making and keeping covenants actually makes life easier! Each person who makes covenants in baptismal fonts and in temples – and keeps them – has increased access to the power of Jesus Christ. Please ponder that stunning truth!
The reward for keeping covenants with God is heavenly power -power that strengthens us to withstand our trials, tempatations, and heartaches better. This power eases our way. Those who live the higher lawas of Jesus Christ have access to His higher power. Thus, covenant keepers are entitled to a special kind of rest that comes to them through their covenantal relationship with God. “
“Overcoming the world is not an event that happens in a day or two. It happens over a lifetime as we repeatedly embrace the doctrine of Christ. We cultivate faith in Jesus Christ by repenting daily and keeping covenants that endow us with power. We stay on the covenant path and are blessed with spiritual strength, personal revelation, increasing faith, and the ministering of angels. Living the doctrine of Christ can produce the most powerful virtuous cycle, creating spiritual momentum in our lives.
Now, you may be thinking this sounds more like hard spiritual work than rest. But here is the grand truth: while the world insists that power, possessions, popularity, and pleasures of the flesh bring happiness, they do not! They cannot! What they do produce is nothing but a hollow substitute for ‘the blessed and happy state of those [who] keep the commandments of God.’
The truth is that it is much more exhausting to seek happiness where you can never find it! However, when you yoke yourself to Jesus Christ and do the spiritual work required to overcome the world, He, and He alone, does have the power to lift you above the pull of this world.”
He ended his talk with a beautiful apostolic blessing, that each of us can claim.
“With the power of the holy apostleship vested in me, I bless you in your quest to overcome this world. I bless you to increase your faith in Jesus Christ and learn better how to draw upon His power. I bless you to be able to discern truth from error. I bless you to care more about the things of God than the things of this world. I bless you to see the needs of those around you and strengthen those you love. Because Jesus Christ overcame this world, you can too.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2022/10/47nelson?lang=eng