Riches

We have felt remarkable spiritual blessings come to us as we have been serving.  Our individual and companion study is bearing sweet fruit for us.  Dad finds that as he presides now in many meetings and is called to teach, train, interview and speak, scriptures will come to his mind that teach the principles that are needed.  He uses them to teach individuals and congregations and they bless him and those he teaches. Truly the Spirit can call all things to remembrance in the hour we need them.  As I have been asked to speak or share testimony on the spur of the moment, the scriptures and personal experiences and the witness of the Spirit will line up in my mind so that I feel confident and joyful in sharing, and feel that I am an instrument in the Lord’s hands.  These experiences increase our faith and give us courage to continue despite discouragement at times.  We have been deeply touched by Paul’s expression of his feelings as a missionary because they describe our own feelings:

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

And our desire for you, our dear family, is what we desire for ourselves:

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.  Ephesians 3:8, 16-19