Accept trials, setbacks, and “surprises” as part of your mortal experience.” Become really, really good at repenting thoroughly and quickly.ĥ.Become really, really good at forgiving bear no ill feelings toward another soul.Ħ. Take responsibility for your own spiritual well-being by applying the Atonement of Jesus Christ daily.Ģ.Take responsibility for your own physical well-being.ģ.Embrace voluntary, wholehearted obedience as part of your life.Ĥ. Elder Kelbingat suggests six steps to help us achieve the confidence we need to approach our King.

In order to even imagine getting close to God, we need to have faith and a spirit of repentance for the sins we have committed.

Approaching the Throne of God with Confidence by Elder Jorg KlebingatĮlder Jorg Klebingat’s talk covers the confidence with which we approach God’s throne. We will stumble and fall, but we can always come to Him through faith and a desire to be clean. That is why He gave us the gift of repentance because we are human. It may be easier to simply give up, but Jesus wants us to try. It may seem overwhelming for God to ask for perfection of us. Jesus longed for our hearts to be purified by keeping our hands clean from the stain of sin. He urges a repentance of sin in order to walk with God and allow Him to guide us on our spiritual journey through life.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.” “As we appropriately seek for and receive the spiritual gift of faith in the Redeemer, we then turn to and rely upon the merits, the mercy, and the grace of the Holy Messiah (see 2 Nephi 2:8 ). He reminds us of the message from the book of Nephi. He urged the congregation to go back to the message of Jesus when He visited America during His three day mission. Bednar gave his talk on two outstanding doctrines of the LDS church: repentance and faith.

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