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  1. The Atonement Strengthens Us. “The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.”. Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality,” Ensign, Apr. 2012, 42–43.

    • The Journey of Life
    • Grace and The Enabling Power of The Atonement
    • Illustrations and Implications

    The framework for my message today is a statement by President David O. McKay. He summarized the overarching purpose of the gospel of the Savior in these terms: “The purpose of the gospel is . . . to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature” (from the film Every Member a Missionary, as acknowledged by Franklin D. Richards, ...

    I now want to describe in greater detail the enabling power of the Atonement. Brothers and sisters, please notice the use of the word grace in the verse from 2 Nephi to which we just referred. In the Bible Dictionary in our scriptures we learn that the word grace frequently is used in the scriptures to connote enabling power. On page 697, under the...

    The journey of a lifetime, as described by President McKay, is to go from bad to good to better and to have our very natures changed. And the Book of Mormon is replete with examples of disciples and prophets who knew and understood and were transformed by the enabling power of the Atonement in making that journey. May I suggest, brothers and sister...

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  2. The enabling power of the Atonement of Christ strengthens us to do things we could never do on our own. Sometimes I wonder if in our latter-day world of ease—in our world of microwave ovens and cell phones and air-conditioned cars and comfortable homes—we ever learn to acknowledge our daily dependence upon the enabling power of the Atonement.

  3. Oct 19, 2021 · In other words, the fact that we are forgiven and on our way to heaven should fill us with a gratefulness that surpasses all the miracles that we will ever see. For us, atonement is the difference between true life, and death; between peace, and misery; between guilt, and forgiveness. Atonement means everything.

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  4. Mar 4, 2022 · David A. BednarFrom a BYU-Idaho devotional address delivered on January 8, 2002The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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  5. Mar 8, 2022 · Elder Bednar, among many others, has taught us about the enabling power of the Atonement. When you are facing difficulty, whether it be to overcome sin or to rise to the responsibilities you carry, meet emotional challenges, whenever you are tempted to give up, please remember that you are not alone.

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