Marc Barney

Child of God, Child of the Covenant, Disciple of Christ. Eternally sealed to my sweetheart Julie. LMFT

[Marc Barney @mjbarney12]

@Easthill4978 @realKellyKnight presence of God. That is the standard. If a person will not abide a celestial law, he can not abide a celestial glory. I only hope and pray my own efforts to approach God with faith and humility and to repent earnestly will lead to the grace i desperately need through Christ.

[Marc Barney @mjbarney12]

@Easthill4978 @realKellyKnight weaknesses and temptations. But it us only we humans who tend to want to excuse ourselves by considering that "my particular weakness or temptation places me in some sort of special category which should allow for sone sort of exception. No unclean thing can dwell in the

[Guy Incognito @GuyInco15542744]

What makes more sense?

God will damn billions of His children to hell for eternity for not living at a time where they could hear the name of Jesus Christ?

Or

He has declared liberty to the dead and provided a way for everyone who ever lived to hear and accept His Son through vicarious work in Holy Temples?

https://t.co/nQAUWSz1PZ

[Marc Barney @mjbarney12]

@jkdavis89 Been listening ro "Rough Stone Rolling" over the past couple of weeks and this video really resonated with me. My testimony of Joseph as a prophet and of the Gospel restored through him as God's chosen instrument is stronger than ever!

[John Davis (Modern Parables) @jkdavis89]

This is hands down the best series of the life of Joseph Smith that I have seen!

If you have ever wondered why millions of people consider Joseph to be a Prophet of God, or why historians who studied his life can't write him off as an obvious fraud, then you need to watch this.

https://t.co/OE15LQdReW

[D. Todd Christofferson @ChristoffDTodd]

Ask yourself, “Does the Lord know that I will do what He wants me to do?”

[Ronald A. Rasband @RonaldARasband]

What a remarkable and inspiring weekend we had at the Seminar for New Mission Leaders. We were blessed to hear from President Dallin H. Oaks, who shared that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will soon have more missionaries serving than ever before.

Missionary service is especially dear to me. From my own mission as a young man, to serving with Melanie as mission leaders of the New York New York North Mission, to my current service on the Church’s Missionary Executive Council, I have witnessed the miracles of this work. I love missionaries and I love this calling.

I hope that you will see and feel the majesty of this moment that is happening right before our very eyes.

To the 87,000 missionaries currently serving and those preparing to serve: you are serving in one of the most remarkable times in the history of God’s work. You have the privilege of representing the Lord Jesus Christ during a season of growth that fills us with wonder and awe. Count yourself blessed—called for such a time as this.

I feel that we are only scratching the surface of what the Lord has in store for us as He prepares the world for His second coming.

As we go forth from to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the world, I firmly believe that the best is yet to come.

[Peacemaking Saint @PeacemakingSt]

Over 200 years ago, God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith in the Sacred Grove.

To mark this landmark event in human history, President Nelson traveled to Palmyra in 2020 to share “The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World.”

This proclamation is inspired and should be shared more often alongside other prophetic messages we revere!

Watch President Nelson’s introduction to and reading of the proclamation in the Sacred Grove 👇

[Marc Barney @mjbarney12]

@ryanswalters73 with a sincere intent to receive and follow the confirmation of its truth by the power of the Holy Spirit which witnesses of all truth and youll see for yourself. https://t.co/bjCYpkLzQG

[Marc Barney @mjbarney12]

@ryanswalters73 of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Savior and Redeemer of mankind and through it, together with the Bible, God is inviting all to come unto Him through His son, Jesus Christ and to be saved. I encourage you to seek these truths and to read prayerfully the Book of Mormon

[Dallin H. Oaks @OaksDallinH]

Missionary work is soaring to new heights. We are days away from the opening of 55 new missions. This brings the total number of missions to 506. There is a total of over 87,000 full-time missionaries. And we are currently being reinforced by the first wave of 18-year-old sisters beginning their service. 

In coming weeks, we will have the largest number of full-time missionaries in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

These missionaries’ first responsibility is to testify of Jesus Christ to a world that suffers without knowledge of His divine mission. They invite people across the globe to become part of His true and living Church.

I affirm my testimony of Jesus Christ and the truth of His gospel. The Holy Ghost has given me a witness of its truthfulness, and I rejoice that I can spend my life in proclaiming it.

[Peacemaking Saint @PeacemakingSt]

President Christofferson’s visit to Independence Hall sheds more light on how the Lord inspired the U.S. Constitution and paved the way for independence.

Check it out:

[Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth]

Took me 20 years to comprehend Joseph

Late in his life, hunted and persecuted, Joseph Smith returned again and again to a single image of what his whole work was finally about. It was not a doctrine of separate souls saved one at a time. It was a welding.

He saw the human family as a chain reaching back through every generation, and he saw the work of salvation as the forging of that chain. Link by link. Father to child and child to father, until not one soul was left hanging alone at the end of the line.

Heaven was not a gathering of individuals who happened to be saved in the same place. It was one welded family. And the binding of it, the sealing of parents to children across the whole length of human time, was the very thing the restored gospel had come into the world to do.

"There is a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children… For we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect." (D&C 128:18)

Postmodern America has built a secular civilization of separated souls. Every person sealed behind his own eyes, wired to everyone and bound to no one, more connected than any generation in history and lonelier than nearly any that came before.

And beneath the loneliness sits a quiet assumption we have half swallowed without ever deciding to believe it, that the isolation is simply the truth about us. That we arrive alone and leave alone, and spend the middle as fundamentally separate selves, straining across an abyss that cannot be closed.

This is the whole modern portrait of a person. An individual standing by himself, autonomous, complete in his solitude, a self for whom relationship is something added from outside rather than the very thing he is made of.

The LDS welding doctrine says that portrait is false at the deepest level there is.

You were never built to be a single soul. You were built to be a link, bound on every side, your own perfection tangled up in others and theirs in yours, so that not one of you arrives without the rest.

The isolation you feel in the worst hours is not your nature reporting in. It is your exile from it. It is the felt weight of the scattering, the ache of a family not yet welded back into one.

Joseph demolishes, in one stroke, the lonely picture of salvation, the idea that you get hauled out of the water one soul at a time while everyone else treads on their own.

No one is saved alone. Joseph put it in words I still cannot get all the way through in a single breath. We without them cannot be made perfect, neither can they without us.

The chain comes up whole or it does not come up.

I cannot be made complete without my fathers, and my fathers cannot be made complete without me.

The living and the dead are bound into a single body that has to be welded back together, link by link, before any part of it can be carried home.

[Henry B. Eyring @EyringHB]

Many of us, in moments of personal anguish, feel that God is far from us. The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God; it occasionally covers us.

God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.

Our own desires, rather than a feeling of “Thy will be done” (Matthew 6:10), create the feeling of a pavilion blocking God. God is not unable to see us or communicate with us, but we may be unwilling to listen or submit to His will and His time.

We remove the pavilion when we feel and pray, “Thy will be done” and “in Thine own time.” His time should be soon enough for us since we know that He wants only what is best.

The Lord’s delays often seem long; some last a lifetime. But they are always calculated to bless. They need never be times of loneliness or sorrow or impatience.

Although His time is not always our time, we can be sure that the Lord keeps His promises. For any of you who now feel that He is hard to reach, I testify that the day will come that we all will see Him face to face.

Artwork: "Faith is Holding Both" by Jenna Conlin

[Marc Barney @mjbarney12]

@ryanswalters73 @BYUdude7 Just so you know, the person doing the commanding that "they" testify of "my name" is Jesus Christ. Christ was commanding that His followers testify to all the world of His name. The same commandment given to His original Apostles.