Reach for Joy

Scripture citations

1. Psalms 30:5

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   Good can come from trouble.

   Alludes to High confidence

2. Ether 12:6

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   But first the testing—the bitter so that we can appreciate the sweet.

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3. Abraham 3:25

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   It is our understanding that in the world before this one we all heard the plan of life presented by the gods.

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4. Doctrine and Covenants 130:21

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   It is a matter of the lemon and the lemonade, after all.

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5. Job 2:9

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   For thirty years and more, Sister Louise Lake, who has now passed away, lived alone trapped in a wheelchair.

   Alludes to High confidence

6. Psalms 27:1

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   A fourteen-year-old girl I know has survived a serious bout with cancer.

   Alludes to High confidence

7. Doctrine and Covenants 88:63

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   A special friend of mine was left with the burden of being a single parent, not by her choice.

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8. Mosiah 24:13

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   Life may not always be exactly what we had in mind, but we are not alone.

   Alludes to High confidence

9. Mosiah 24:14

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   ease the burdens upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions.”

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1. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 17: The Sermon on the Mount

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   • Abraham 3:25

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     Open paragraph (Abr. 3:25)

     In Jesus the Christ:

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     “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”: The first part of this petition has occasioned comment and question.

2. Jesus the Christ

   Chapter 3: The Need of a Redeemer

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   • Abraham 3:25

     In this talk:

     Open paragraph (Abr. 3:25)

     In Jesus the Christ:

     Open paragraph (a)

     We have heretofore shown that the entire human race existed as spirit-beings in the primeval world, and that for the purpose of making possible to them the experiences of mortality this earth was created.