I Love FHE

Last night Kempton gave the FHE lesson since most of the family was together. It was a really great lesson and something that I definitely needed to hear. We each had reading assignments and gave a brief story of the ones we were assigned which were about past prophets and how they demonstrated their faith in certain situations. We talked about Abraham and Sarah, Daniel and the lion's den, Joshua and Jericho, etc. etc. We then read Hebrews 11 which also references the same and many other stories of prophets and people demonstrating faith, and were taught even deeper the principle of faith. I was deeply touched by what we read in Lectures on Faith by Joseph Smith:

"We here understand, that the sacred writers say that all these things were done by faith. It was by faith that the worlds were framed. God spake, chaos heard, and worlds came into order by reason of the faith there was in Him. So with man also; he spake by faith in the name of God, and the sun stood still, the moon obeyed, mountains removed, prisons fell, lions' mouths were closed, the human heart lost its enmity, fire its violence, armies their power, the sword its terror, and death its dominion; and all this by reason of the faith which was in him. Had it not been for the faith which was in men, they might have spoken to the sun, the moon, the mountains, prisons, the human heart, fire, armies, the sword, or to death in vain! Faith, then, is the first great governing principle which has power, dominion, and authority over all things; by it they exist, by it they are upheld, by it they are changed, or by it they remain, agreeable to the will of God. Without it there is not power, and without power there could be no creation nor existence!"