April 2020 World Conference of the Zion Project in Brazil, Sister Sônia Cardoso Machado discourse

TRANSFORM AND RENEW BY FAITH, TO SANCTIFY ZION.

Dear brothers and sisters, all the glory is from the Father. It is a pleasure to be together in this conference in the name of the Lord Jesus. May grace be in your life and may love come to flood your home and make your faith renew your mind. Helaman 5:12 teaches us that we must build our foundations (our life, our faith and our transformation) on the rock (which is Jesus Christ), only in this way will we not fall.

We are taught to love God. Today, with His mercy in granting us the knowledge of good and evil, we exercise the right to our choices. We have in our hands the cannon of Scripture, the records of ancient prophets. To transform our faith is to renew our mind and our heart. It is asking God for a beautiful mind. In Ephesians 4:23 it says, ” And be renewed in the mind of the Sprit.”

Matthew: 24:42 KJV | Matthew 24:49 JST or IV: “Watch, therefore, for ye know not at what hour your Lord doth come.”

Acts of the 3 Nephites 1: 1 in the Sealed Book teaches us: “When we try to understand God’s proceedings from a human perspective, the rest of the story told to us looks a fable, unless God gives the children of men, according to their attention and diligence, to know its mysteries”. When we recognize the mysteries of God in our feelings, we understand that we need to change direction, in a similar way as Lehi led his family to the most fertile places in the desert, after allowing himself to be guided by the Spirit of the Lord (which would be the compass, moved for his family’s faith and diligence). We can say that the Sealed Book teaches us to transform our faith and renew our hearts, and in this way guide us to the holy places. In Ephesians 4: 2 he says: “With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love”.

It is the word of faith that transforms us, we can reprogram our mind and heart, replacing bad feelings with the sum of good feelings from God. For we are capable, the word of God is powerful! Trust! God did not create us to remain fearful in our existence, but He did create us to return to Him transformed and renewed by love. Fear is weakness, power is boldness, moderation is balance, transforming and renewing is changing. What will we choose?

When we seek transformation through God, we hear the Spirit. Let us not let our feelings from the enemy take our focus away.

The commandments were summarized in 2. As you seek spiritual renewal, seek the way that strengthens you the most with the Father. He gave you spiritual gifts, use them as the most effective tools to return to His presence. They are usually simple to use. And because they are simple, sometimes we doubt, and doubt keeps us out of the way. May we have the simplicity of Mary when she sat at the feet of the Savior, and chose the good part that will not be taken away from her. Ana’s faith in giving Elias the last bite of bread. The balance of Enos who prayed for his people, but who did not forget his enemies and prayed for them too. The testimony of Paul, who left us one of the greatest examples of renewal and transformation, after discovering the mysteries of God.

Seek Him, but seek with faith, (“which is the sum of all the feelings of trust that exist in your hearts, which cancel out the feelings of fear and doubt about my performance among those who are my elect”) in no doubt – James 1: 6 says “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed”- because it is He who calms our souls, and calms our hearts and confirms our renewal in this earthly life.

Romans 5: 1-5 ´´Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope; And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.´

Today is the day to believe in this transformation, in this renewal. For a new attitude is required of the people of God, an attitude of consecrating our lives to His Work. And this leads to a real conversion.

Because of His grace, the living word will bring us light and renewal in our lives. Amen!

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