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Rob Smith’s latest book was released a couple of weeks ago. It is entitled Through Faith. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

Print copy (sold at cost):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096VKW71V?r ... _397514860

PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Re6O ... LpQf8/view

Audiobook:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/ ... sp=sharing

Rob has also posted the introductory and first three chapters of the book on YouTube. Link to the playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... DvyydUbeeL

This book has been so instructive and edifying! The concepts put forth within its pages have such wonderful potential to bring about the most amazing outcomes through those with ears to hear. I will post some quotes from the book, but I suggest reading the entire thing in order to understand the process of faith, both in its individual parts and as a whole. Everything we do is done through faith, and it is time to make everything we do much better than what it currently is. :)

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An Eye Single wrote: July 4th, 2021, 8:15 am Rob Smith’s latest book was released a couple of weeks ago. It is entitled Through Faith. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

Print copy (sold at cost):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096VKW71V?r ... _397514860

PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Re6O ... LpQf8/view

Audiobook:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/ ... sp=sharing

Rob has also posted the introductory and first three chapters of the book on YouTube. Link to the playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... DvyydUbeeL

This book has been so instructive and edifying! The concepts put forth within its pages have such wonderful potential to bring about the most amazing outcomes through those with ears to hear. I will post some quotes from the book, but I suggest reading the entire thing in order to understand the process of faith, both in its individual parts and as a whole. Everything we do is done through faith, and it is time to make everything we do much better than what it currently is. :)
Look like it'll be a good one👍
What is faith?
Put in the simplest terms, faith is seeking out and living according to a greater understanding of reality. It is consciously desiring, searching for, and acting to obtain specific outcomes.
Faith is the process by which outcomes are obtained. It consists of the mapping of cause (action) to effect (outcome), the reasons we have to believe the mapping, and the desire we have to obtain the expected outcome(see Figure 1).
Faith is a process because eachcomponent of faith is continually updated and improved as we gain understanding through experience.
Faith is not limited to religion. A variety of historical and cultural circumstances mean that the sources we have that describe it are explicitly religious, but this does not limit its application to only religious circumstances. When we read scriptures that describe faith, we ought to
attempt to apply them as broadly as possible, recognizing that they were phrased in religious terms to garner the greatest comprehension of a less-educated populace that had a pre-existing, largely shared understanding of God and the gospel.
There is nothing mystical about faith. It is as tangible as turning a screw or pumping water.
Faith is a mechanism of power. It yields outcomes beyond what would otherwise occur through new or greater belief—new actions based on better-informed desire and superior reason.
Faith is a process. It is not so much something you have, but something you do. Faith is to think in terms of what is possible, to be accurate about where you really are, to design a realistic, detailed path from where you stand to where you want to go, to execute that path, and to revise it as you learn more about reality and about yourself. Faith means daring to dream of outcomes that would otherwise not happen, searching for a path to obtain them, and exercising both sufficient adherence and effort to obtain them.
Excellent stuff...

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One of my favorite quotes:

“Faith is the process by which potential is transformed into existence. It is the means by which the information present in the spirit is discovered and instantiated into physical reality. It is the means by which the image of God is extracted and applied to the world to yield something in greater fidelity to the creator.” (p. 8)

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An Eye Single wrote: July 4th, 2021, 9:16 am One of my favorite quotes:

“Faith is the process by which potential is transformed into existence. It is the means by which the information present in the spirit is discovered and instantiated into physical reality. It is the means by which the image of God is extracted and applied to the world to yield something in greater fidelity to the creator.” (p. 8)
That's 🔥...
Great qoute.

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An Eye Single wrote: July 4th, 2021, 8:15 am Rob Smith’s latest book was released a couple of weeks ago. It is entitled Through Faith. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

Print copy (sold at cost):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096VKW71V?r ... _397514860

PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Re6O ... LpQf8/view

Audiobook:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/ ... sp=sharing

Rob has also posted the introductory and first three chapters of the book on YouTube. Link to the playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... DvyydUbeeL

This book has been so instructive and edifying! The concepts put forth within its pages have such wonderful potential to bring about the most amazing outcomes through those with ears to hear. I will post some quotes from the book, but I suggest reading the entire thing in order to understand the process of faith, both in its individual parts and as a whole. Everything we do is done through faith, and it is time to make everything we do much better than what it currently is. :)
Can you tell me more about Rob Smith?

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An Eye Single wrote: July 4th, 2021, 8:15 am Rob Smith’s latest book was released a couple of weeks ago. It is entitled Through Faith. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

Print copy (sold at cost):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096VKW71V?r ... _397514860

PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Re6O ... LpQf8/view

Audiobook:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/ ... sp=sharing

Rob has also posted the introductory and first three chapters of the book on YouTube. Link to the playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... DvyydUbeeL

This book has been so instructive and edifying! The concepts put forth within its pages have such wonderful potential to bring about the most amazing outcomes through those with ears to hear. I will post some quotes from the book, but I suggest reading the entire thing in order to understand the process of faith, both in its individual parts and as a whole. Everything we do is done through faith, and it is time to make everything we do much better than what it currently is. :)

Listening to the audio version right now on a road trip…

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nightlight wrote: July 4th, 2021, 10:40 am
An Eye Single wrote: July 4th, 2021, 8:15 am Rob Smith’s latest book was released a couple of weeks ago. It is entitled Through Faith. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

Print copy (sold at cost):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096VKW71V?r ... _397514860

PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Re6O ... LpQf8/view

Audiobook:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/ ... sp=sharing

Rob has also posted the introductory and first three chapters of the book on YouTube. Link to the playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... DvyydUbeeL

This book has been so instructive and edifying! The concepts put forth within its pages have such wonderful potential to bring about the most amazing outcomes through those with ears to hear. I will post some quotes from the book, but I suggest reading the entire thing in order to understand the process of faith, both in its individual parts and as a whole. Everything we do is done through faith, and it is time to make everything we do much better than what it currently is. :)
Can you tell me more about Rob Smith?
He has a blog where he has publicized information about himself, so it’s not really difficult to find out more about him. I’d encourage people to read that. He is also the author of several books, which can be accessed from his blog and some of which I have had the opportunity to record into an audiobook format. He has been very pleasant to work with in that regard.

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cab wrote: July 4th, 2021, 11:08 am
An Eye Single wrote: July 4th, 2021, 8:15 am Rob Smith’s latest book was released a couple of weeks ago. It is entitled Through Faith. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

Print copy (sold at cost):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096VKW71V?r ... _397514860

PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Re6O ... LpQf8/view

Audiobook:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/ ... sp=sharing

Rob has also posted the introductory and first three chapters of the book on YouTube. Link to the playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... DvyydUbeeL

This book has been so instructive and edifying! The concepts put forth within its pages have such wonderful potential to bring about the most amazing outcomes through those with ears to hear. I will post some quotes from the book, but I suggest reading the entire thing in order to understand the process of faith, both in its individual parts and as a whole. Everything we do is done through faith, and it is time to make everything we do much better than what it currently is. :)

Listening to the audio version right now on a road trip…
Yay!! :)

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The Book Of Mormon Alma chapter 32 verses 26 to 43 concerning faith.
Powerful, and simple words. One of the most important chapters if not the most important chapter in the book of Mormon.

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I'm going to start with the book that they exed him for.Robert Smith
Teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of Men: Tradition in Modern Mormonism

His blog seems good.

http://upwardthought.blogspot.com/2016/ ... s.html?m=1

"I was asked a few questions after my remarks. Here is my best attempt at recalling the questions and the answers I provided:

Q: Do you believe that Thomas Monson is the sole mouthpiece of the Lord on the earth today, and if the Lord wants to speak to the world, he will do so through President Monson?
A: I believe the Lord can and does speak through whomever he chooses. I do not believe he will only speak through President Monson, and I certainly do not believe that everything President Monson says or does qualifies as God’s word or approved by God. Any who believe that are guilty of idolatry. You would be hard pressed to find a more textbook definition of the word.

Q: Do you believe President Monson is a prophet?
A: What do you mean by prophet? If you mean a title, I think he has the right to adopt any title he wants, whether it be prophet or grand dragon or whatever else, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. If you mean a description, I have yet to see a prophecy spoken by President Monson. I have yet to hear any message from him that he has claimed was spoken to him by God. Therefore, if I were to testify that I knew he was a prophet, I would be bearing false witness, because I have not witnessed him prophesy.

Q: Do you believe that the church possesses a fullness of the priesthood?
A: Let’s look at God’s own word on the subject. Turn with me to JST Gen 14 [only 1 or 2 did]. When it says God swore an oath that EVERY man would do these things, do you think he meant it? [I read the passage.] Of all the men that you know who claim to hold the Melchezidek priesthood, how many have put to flight armies, turned rivers from their course, quenched the violence of fire, stood in the presence of God, etc? As of today you know at least one who has stood in the presence of God. But other than me, who do you know who has experienced even one of these powers, let alone all of them? Obviously we are missing something. God has spoken about the church’s status three times I think in the scriptures. Each of the three times, it is negative, with words like “condemn” and “lost”. God said he took it away. If you think we have it, how do you prove that it has changed since God last spoke about it?

Q: Do you believe the church is run the same way as it would be if Christ himself were here to run it?
A: Absolutely not. I think it is silly to think that any of us as individuals are living our lives exactly the way Christ would live our lives. It is even sillier to think that a task so hard for an individual would somehow be easier when attempted by a larger group of people, whether 15 or 15 million. I don’t know how anyone could honestly think that.

Q: This all seems dark to me. I am fine with helping people come to Christ, but can’t that be done without so much negativity? Can’t we talk of Christ, rejoice of Christ, etc. without criticizing others?
A: Joseph Smith said that the present generation would reject Jesus for being too rough. Helaman 15:7 and the entire canon of scripture is clear: You cannot preach the gospel without teaching against false traditions. There is a reason there is no power in our repetitive lessons to bring about changes in hearts. There is a reason the church is full of porn addicts and child molesters. If all you ever do is talk about the pleasant things that we are already doing—or think we are doing—no one ever actually comes to Christ. You can’t honestly tell me you’ve read the Old Testament, New Testament, or restoration scriptures and not seen that the majority of examples of true messengers preaching God’s word has been “negative”. It is to be expected. It is not an exception. Cognitive dissonance is not God saying what we are hearing is false. It is our conscience saying what we believe disagrees with the evidence we’ve seen.

Q: I know we can know of Christ powerfully through the witness of the Holy Ghost. Don’t you think that a testimony through the Holy Ghost is stronger than an eye witness? Your eyes can be deceived, but a witness of the Holy Ghost is sure. Don’t you think it is possible that you were deceived in your experiences?
A: I absolutely think it is possible that I was deceived. It is very unlikely, and I have enough confidence in my experiences that I would not change course even if I were tortured to death. However, I recognize that anyone who says they are absolutely sure about anything is cutting themselves off from God teaching them something that they don’t already know, and I won’t do that, because I know nothing compared to God, and I want him to keep teaching me. As far as an eye witness versus a witness of the Spirit: I agree with you that one can certainly know of Christ with incredible surety through the Holy Ghost. But you can’t know him. Eternal life is to know Jesus Christ, and you can’t do that without actually meeting him face to face. Anyone who says a witness of the spirit is stronger than an eye witness has never stood in the presence of God, period.

Q: [Quoting from a blog post]: You wrote “So what of the appointed watchmen in the LDS church?
9 All you wild beasts, you animals of the forest,
come and devour!
10 Their watchmen are altogether blind and unaware;all of them are but dumb watchdogs unable to bark,
lolling seers fond of slumber.
11 Gluttonous dogs, and insatiable,
such indeed are insensible shepherds.
They are all diverted to their own way,
every one after his own advantage.
12 Come, they say, let us get wine
and have our fill of liquor.
For tomorrow will be like today, only far better! (Isaiah 56:9-12)
Not only are they not warning, Isaiah reduces them to dogs. It is not only that they choose not to bark, but they are so ignorant of things as they really are, that they are completely blind and unaware of what is actually important, relevant, and timely. Instead, they take their own advice as if it were God's word, they feed on the poor, and keep up their drunken stupor fed by false tradition and hubris. All is well, all is well.” How is this not what the handbook describes as apostasy?
A: What I have written was, is, and will be true. You want a prophecy, here’s a prophecy: Most of you in this room will live to see the interpretation I have provided here fulfilled. You will see what Isaiah predicted, and you will know that you didn’t hear a peep from these men you call prophets warning you of it coming.
OUTCOME:
After deliberation, the stake president informed me that the decision of the council was that I would be excommunicated for apostasy. He asked me not to participate in meetings, and invited me to visit with him to “repent” of my “apostasy”. He determined that a brief prayer and a negative feeling “as close to an audible voice as he ever felt in prayer” was sufficient to convict me without even attempting to refute even one of the 400+ pages of scriptural and historical evidence I provided to support my position, a feat that required thousands of hours of careful preparation.

One exchange that occurred that I thought was of note: I declared that I had not apostatized from Christ or from the gospel. A high councilor said, "none of us think that you have. You are here for apostasy against the church and its leaders." Possibly the most condemnatory thing that occurred last night was that a group of 15 church leaders agreed that one can be cut off, so they suppose, from God's blessings without having done anything to offend him."

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nightlight wrote: July 4th, 2021, 12:08 pm I'm going to start with the book that they exed him for.Robert Smith
Teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of Men: Tradition in Modern Mormonism

His blog seems good.

http://upwardthought.blogspot.com/2016/ ... s.html?m=1

"I was asked a few questions after my remarks. Here is my best attempt at recalling the questions and the answers I provided:

Q: Do you believe that Thomas Monson is the sole mouthpiece of the Lord on the earth today, and if the Lord wants to speak to the world, he will do so through President Monson?
A: I believe the Lord can and does speak through whomever he chooses. I do not believe he will only speak through President Monson, and I certainly do not believe that everything President Monson says or does qualifies as God’s word or approved by God. Any who believe that are guilty of idolatry. You would be hard pressed to find a more textbook definition of the word.

Q: Do you believe President Monson is a prophet?
A: What do you mean by prophet? If you mean a title, I think he has the right to adopt any title he wants, whether it be prophet or grand dragon or whatever else, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. If you mean a description, I have yet to see a prophecy spoken by President Monson. I have yet to hear any message from him that he has claimed was spoken to him by God. Therefore, if I were to testify that I knew he was a prophet, I would be bearing false witness, because I have not witnessed him prophesy.

Q: Do you believe that the church possesses a fullness of the priesthood?
A: Let’s look at God’s own word on the subject. Turn with me to JST Gen 14 [only 1 or 2 did]. When it says God swore an oath that EVERY man would do these things, do you think he meant it? [I read the passage.] Of all the men that you know who claim to hold the Melchezidek priesthood, how many have put to flight armies, turned rivers from their course, quenched the violence of fire, stood in the presence of God, etc? As of today you know at least one who has stood in the presence of God. But other than me, who do you know who has experienced even one of these powers, let alone all of them? Obviously we are missing something. God has spoken about the church’s status three times I think in the scriptures. Each of the three times, it is negative, with words like “condemn” and “lost”. God said he took it away. If you think we have it, how do you prove that it has changed since God last spoke about it?

Q: Do you believe the church is run the same way as it would be if Christ himself were here to run it?
A: Absolutely not. I think it is silly to think that any of us as individuals are living our lives exactly the way Christ would live our lives. It is even sillier to think that a task so hard for an individual would somehow be easier when attempted by a larger group of people, whether 15 or 15 million. I don’t know how anyone could honestly think that.

Q: This all seems dark to me. I am fine with helping people come to Christ, but can’t that be done without so much negativity? Can’t we talk of Christ, rejoice of Christ, etc. without criticizing others?
A: Joseph Smith said that the present generation would reject Jesus for being too rough. Helaman 15:7 and the entire canon of scripture is clear: You cannot preach the gospel without teaching against false traditions. There is a reason there is no power in our repetitive lessons to bring about changes in hearts. There is a reason the church is full of porn addicts and child molesters. If all you ever do is talk about the pleasant things that we are already doing—or think we are doing—no one ever actually comes to Christ. You can’t honestly tell me you’ve read the Old Testament, New Testament, or restoration scriptures and not seen that the majority of examples of true messengers preaching God’s word has been “negative”. It is to be expected. It is not an exception. Cognitive dissonance is not God saying what we are hearing is false. It is our conscience saying what we believe disagrees with the evidence we’ve seen.

Q: I know we can know of Christ powerfully through the witness of the Holy Ghost. Don’t you think that a testimony through the Holy Ghost is stronger than an eye witness? Your eyes can be deceived, but a witness of the Holy Ghost is sure. Don’t you think it is possible that you were deceived in your experiences?
A: I absolutely think it is possible that I was deceived. It is very unlikely, and I have enough confidence in my experiences that I would not change course even if I were tortured to death. However, I recognize that anyone who says they are absolutely sure about anything is cutting themselves off from God teaching them something that they don’t already know, and I won’t do that, because I know nothing compared to God, and I want him to keep teaching me. As far as an eye witness versus a witness of the Spirit: I agree with you that one can certainly know of Christ with incredible surety through the Holy Ghost. But you can’t know him. Eternal life is to know Jesus Christ, and you can’t do that without actually meeting him face to face. Anyone who says a witness of the spirit is stronger than an eye witness has never stood in the presence of God, period.

Q: [Quoting from a blog post]: You wrote “So what of the appointed watchmen in the LDS church?
9 All you wild beasts, you animals of the forest,
come and devour!
10 Their watchmen are altogether blind and unaware;all of them are but dumb watchdogs unable to bark,
lolling seers fond of slumber.
11 Gluttonous dogs, and insatiable,
such indeed are insensible shepherds.
They are all diverted to their own way,
every one after his own advantage.
12 Come, they say, let us get wine
and have our fill of liquor.
For tomorrow will be like today, only far better! (Isaiah 56:9-12)
Not only are they not warning, Isaiah reduces them to dogs. It is not only that they choose not to bark, but they are so ignorant of things as they really are, that they are completely blind and unaware of what is actually important, relevant, and timely. Instead, they take their own advice as if it were God's word, they feed on the poor, and keep up their drunken stupor fed by false tradition and hubris. All is well, all is well.” How is this not what the handbook describes as apostasy?
A: What I have written was, is, and will be true. You want a prophecy, here’s a prophecy: Most of you in this room will live to see the interpretation I have provided here fulfilled. You will see what Isaiah predicted, and you will know that you didn’t hear a peep from these men you call prophets warning you of it coming.
OUTCOME:
After deliberation, the stake president informed me that the decision of the council was that I would be excommunicated for apostasy. He asked me not to participate in meetings, and invited me to visit with him to “repent” of my “apostasy”. He determined that a brief prayer and a negative feeling “as close to an audible voice as he ever felt in prayer” was sufficient to convict me without even attempting to refute even one of the 400+ pages of scriptural and historical evidence I provided to support my position, a feat that required thousands of hours of careful preparation.

One exchange that occurred that I thought was of note: I declared that I had not apostatized from Christ or from the gospel. A high councilor said, "none of us think that you have. You are here for apostasy against the church and its leaders." Possibly the most condemnatory thing that occurred last night was that a group of 15 church leaders agreed that one can be cut off, so they suppose, from God's blessings without having done anything to offend him."
Oh he was exxed too? Like Gileadi, for telling the truth of the scriptures and the prophecies? It's almost like being exxed for that reason will end up being a badge of honor and glory....

"Possibly the most condemnatory thing that occurred last night was that a group of 15 church leaders agreed that one can be cut off, so they suppose, from God's blessings without having done anything to offend him."
Word.

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“Desire is a judgment of value. When the value we perceive in things changes, our desires immediately change. The value we perceive in things is not an innate quality. It is a choice, and to the degree we are honest, it is a choice based on how things really are.
Changing your desire is a process of reason, not a question of willpower. Jesus said: “I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) As long as you are overcome by the world, you are missing something he has to teach you.
Jesus was tempted like we are, but he did not succumb:
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15)
If you have to avoid all sorts of situations in life to avoid succumbing to what you know isn’t right, you aren’t lacking willpower. You are either lacking information, honesty, or both.
The solution to temptation is not a matter of what you want, but why you want it.
You change your desire through using your faculties of reason to better understand the consequences of what it is you desire, to evaluate whether better consequences exist in another desire, and to exercise the honesty to prefer what is truly best for you.” (pp. 20-21)

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Awesome
Faith is a mechanism of power. It yields outcomes beyond what would otherwise occur through new or greater belief—new actions based on better-informed desire and superior reason.

Faith is a process. It is not so much something you have, but something you do. Faith is to think in terms of what is possible, to be accurate about where you really are, to design a realistic, detailed path from where you stand to where you want to go, to execute that path, and to revise it as you learn more about reality and about yourself. Faith means daring to dream of outcomes that would otherwise not happen, searching for a path to obtain them, and exercising both sufficient adherence and effort to obtain them.

Faith is much more than an optional strategy in life. Faith is a principle that drives all situations, whether we classify them as secular or spiritual. All good outcomes in life are obtained through faith, no matter how secular they may seem.

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“Faith gives you the means to deliberately progress along any path, no matter how far away the outcome may be. There is no such thing as a task too big for someone with faith. Before one has power to move mountains by speaking, one must have faith to move mountains one shovel at a time.
Faith chops interminable challenges into discrete, daily, consistent progress. Faith is what enables a person to face infinite challenges while knowing their finite limits. Faith transcends all terminal tasks.
Faith is not only the key to particularly difficult or lengthy paths. Faith is required to bridge the gap between finite action and infinite outcomes. Faith gives you the means to derive finite actions from any outcome, no matter how grand it might seem in scope, timeline, or probability:
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (Hebrews 11:13)
Faith is the only means to keep moving in the face of an unending journey. The gospel is an infinite journey. Following God’s will requires walking in unending paths, as this is what the “eternal” in “eternal life” means.” (pg. 71)

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An Eye Single wrote: July 9th, 2021, 4:44 pm There is no such thing as a task too big for someone with faith.
This is so true! Anything is possible for a man who has solid faith.

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Amen to that!

Whatever a man focuses on becomes his reality, and a man with faith cannot be discouraged no matter what this world brings.

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As long as a man is determined to do something, he'll do just about anything to achieve it.

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I put up a blogpost today that has more of my thoughts on “Through Faith.” Here is the link for anyone who is interested:

https://thewordofthelorduntome.blogspot ... h.html?m=0

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