Day 205

• Principle: You can control your mind through conscious effort to focus on righteousness. 
• Book of Mormon Reading: Alma 38:9 - 39:8
  • Verse 12 speaks of a bridling your passions.  Bruce C. Hafen shared:
    • “Is self-denial wise because something is wrong with our passions, or because something is right with our passions? Alma taught his son: ‘See that ye bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love.’ (Alma 38:12; emphasis added.) He did not say eliminate or even suppress your passions, but bridle them—harness, channel, and focus them. Why? Because discipline makes possible a richer, deeper love” (The Belonging Heart [1994], 302).
• Upon what principle are the powers of heaven made available to man?
  • D&C 121: 34-37
• What qualifies man to stand fearlessly before the Lord?
  • Psalms 24: 3, 4
• What thoughts are to occupy your attention?
  • Philippians 4: 8, 9
• How important is it to improve our thoughts?
  • Mosiah 4: 29, 30
• What blessings comes to the pure?
  • Titus 1:15
• How can you live in the world but not be of the world?
  • Matthew 5: 29, 30
• Additional Study:
  • Neil L. Andersen, “Overcoming the World”, April 2017
  • Cast Thy Burden upon the Lord, Hymns No. 110
  • Reverence, Children’s Songbook No. 27