List of Doctrines on "Trusting in God"
831. Love of God dispels fear.
832. There is nothing too hard for the Lord; for Him, all things are possible.
833. Those who serve the Lord need never fear, for He will be with them and succor them.
834. Courage emanates from righteous living and faith in God.
831. Love of God dispels fear.
John
John
Mormon
Robert D. Hales
Related Witnesses
Jesus
Recorded in Psalms
Related Witnesses
Paul
John
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. (John writes to the churches in Asia about the love of God) 1 John 4:18-19.
John
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19. We love him, because he first loved us.
20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. (John writes about the love of God to the churches in Asia) 1 John 4:16-21
Mormon
Behold, I speak with boldness, having authority from God; and I fear not what man can do; for perfect love casteth out all fear. (Mormon writes to his son Moroni expressing his own perfect love for little children, prior to A.D. 384) Moroni 8:16
Robert D. Hales
With the Holy Ghost dwelling in us, we feel a love for God and all His children. This love casts out fear and fills us with the desire to open our mouths. (CR 2003Oct; Receiving a Testimony of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, Ensign, November 2003, p.28)
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Jesus,
quoted by John
quoted by John
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. (Jesus comforts the Twelve in anticipation of his crucifixion) John 14:27-28
Recorded in Psalms
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalms 23:4
Related Witnesses:
Paul
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Paul writes to the Saints at Ephesus in Asia Minor, about A.D. 62) Ephesians 3:17-19
832. There is nothing too hard for the Lord; for Him, all things are possible.
Moses
Jesus
Recorded in Luke
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Moses
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. (The Lord promises Abraham and Sarah a son notwithstanding their old age) Genesis 18:14
Jesus,
recorded in Matthew
recorded in Matthew
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (Jesus teaches of the difficulty for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God) Matthew 19:26
Recorded in Luke
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. . . .
37. For with God nothing shall be impossible. (The angel Gabriel tells Mary she shall be the mother of the Son of God) Luke 1:30,37
Jeremiah
Ah Lord GOD behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
18. Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
19. Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
20. Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
21. And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror; . . . (Jeremiah prays, worshipping the Lord) Jeremiah 32:17-21
Jeremiah
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
27. Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? (Revelation to Jeremiah, about 628 B.C.) Jeremiah 32:26-27
833. Those who serve the Lord need never fear, for He will be with them and succor them.
Joseph Smith
Isaiah
Ammon, son of Mosiah
Alma, the younger
Amos
Related Witnesses
Moroni, the Prophet General
Recorded in 1 Samuel
Jeremiah
Paul
Daniel
Jesus
Joseph Smith,
receiving the Word of the Lord
receiving the Word of the Lord
Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you. . . . (The Lord promises to be with his servants who are called to preach the gospel, Nov. 1831) D&C 68:6
Isaiah,
quoted by Jesus,
quoted by Jesus,
quoted by Mormon
For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight; for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel shall be your rearward. (The resurrected Jesus Christ teaches the Nephites using the words of Isaiah, A.D. 34) 3 Nephi 20:42
Ammon, son of Mosiah ,
quoted by Mormon
quoted by Mormon
Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success. (Speaking to his brethren, Ammon recounts their successes and rejoices in the Lord, 90-77 B.C.) Alma 26:27
Alma, the younger,
quoted by Mormon
quoted by Mormon
But if ye keep the commandments of God, and do with these things which are sacred according to that which the Lord doth command you, (for you must appeal unto the Lord for all things whatsoever ye must do with them) behold, no power of earth or hell can take them from you, for God is powerful to the fulfilling of all his words.
17. For he will fulfil all his promises which he shall make unto you, for he has fulfilled his promises which he has made unto our fathers. (Alma instructs his son Helaman, about 73 B.C.) Alma 37:16-17
Amos
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. (The word of the Lord to the house of Israel) Amos 5:14
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Moroni, the Prophet General,
quoted by Mormon
quoted by Mormon
But now, ye behold that the Lord is with us; and ye behold that he has delivered you into our hands. And now I would that ye should understand that this is done unto us because of our religion and our faith in Christ. And now ye see that ye cannot destroy this our faith. (General Moroni commands the Lamanites to make a covenant of peace or be destroyed, about 74 B.C.) Alma 44:3
Recorded in 1 Samuel
David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee. (The boy David goes against the giant Goliath) 1 Samuel 17:37
Jeremiah
Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. (The word of the Lord for Johanan and his captains, about 628 B.C.) Jeremiah 42:11
Paul
Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all. (Letter to the Church at Thessalonica, comprising Jews and many pagan converts, A.D. 50) 2 Thess.3:16
Daniel
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
18. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. . . .
23. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
24. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
25. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
26. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
27. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellers, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
28. Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. (King Nebuchadnezzar casts Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego into the fiery furnace because they refuse to worship his idol) Daniel 3:17-18,23-28
Jesus,
recorded in Matthew
recorded in Matthew
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. (A tempest arises on the sea which causes Jesus' disciples to fear: "Master the tempest is raging, the billows are tossing high. . . .") Matthew 8:26
Author's Note: Fear defined: "A painful emotion excited by an expectation of evil or the apprehension of impending danger." (The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, p. 321)
834. Courage emanates from righteous living and faith in God.
Mormon
Helaman, son of Alma, the younger
John A. Widtsoe
Elder Ezra Taft Benson
Related Witnesses
Francis M. Lyman
Richard L. Evans
Mormon
And they were all young men, and they were exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity; but behold, this was not all—they were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted.
21. Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him. (Helaman takes command of the two thousand stripling sons of the people of Ammon, about 64 B.C.) Alma 53:20-21
Helaman, son of Alma, the younger,
quoted by Mormon
quoted by Mormon
And now I say unto you, my beloved brother Moroni, that never had I seen so great courage, nay, not amongst all the Nephites.
46. For as I had ever called them my sons (for they were all of them very young) even so they said unto me: Father, behold our God is with us, and he will not suffer that we should fall; then let us go forth; we would not slay our brethren if they would let us alone; therefore let us go, lest they should overpower the army of Antipus.
47. Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them. (Helaman's two thousand stripling "sons" fight with miraculous power and none of them are slain, 62 B.C.) Alma 56:45-47
John A. Widtsoe
The gifts of faith are two: knowledge and power. These are to each other as the palm and fingers of a hand, or the charge and the gun to the speeding bullet. Where one is there is the other. These gifts were in the mind of the Apostle Paul when he defined faith as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." From these chief gifts are derived many lesser ones, such as hope and courage, trust and contentment. Faith, once developed, contributes to the solution of every problem of life. (Man and the Dragon, p. 139) TLDP:178
Elder Ezra Taft Benson,
also quoting Paul
We all have our difficulties, our problems, our reversals. "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth." (Hebrews 12:6.) It is in the depths that men and women learn the lessons that help to build strong men and women, not at the pinnacle of success. In the hour of a man's success is his greatest danger. It sometimes takes a reversal to make us appreciate our blessings and to develop us into strong, courageous characters. We can meet every reversal that can possibly come with the help of the Lord. Every reversal can be turned to our benefit and blessing and can make us stronger, more courageous, more godlike. ACR(Manilla)1975:11
Related Witnesses:
Francis M. Lyman
Courage has its root in cheerfulness, and cheerfulness becomes rich and deep in a mind busy with earnest work. Doing good to others is a complete cure for the blues. Let the heart be warmed by love, and the mind, too much concerned in the failings and failures of self, begin to make plans for the happiness of others, and we will feel gladness coming into our own souls. It is a duty to be cheerful as well as courageous, for a happy man is of more value to the world than is a melancholy one. A buoyant spirit that fathers pleasant smiles and cheerful words helps the world forward, for joy is a tonic, it gives more energy than does hate, and directs its use in a wholesome way. But if a man would be cheerful, he must live at peace with his neighbors, and be ready to do more than his share of their common labors. He must be prepared to endure criticism, just and unjust, and invariably do good for evil. ("Manhood," IE1904Jan:176-77) TLDP:321
Richard L. Evans
Keep courage. Do not feel sorry for yourselves. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourselves. You live in a great age of opportunity. I remember the words of one very sharp and shrewd observer who said, "Whenever I hear someone sigh and say that life is hard, I am tempted to ask 'compared to what?'" What are the alternatives? No one ever promised us it would be easy. It is a schooling; it is an opportunity; it is a learning period, and a wonderful one. Despite all the disappointments and difficulties, the great and ultimate rewards are beyond price. CR1961Apr:76
Author's Note: Courage is "That quality of mind which enables men to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear;" (The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, p.197)
