Week 20: I Feel My Savior's Love

I Feel My Savior's Love

Children's Song Book #78

 1-I feel my Savior’s love,
In all the world around me
His Spirit warms my soul
Through everything I see
 
2-I feel my Savior’s love
Its gentleness enfolds me
And when I kneel to pray
My heart is filled with peace

3-I feel my Savior’s love
And know that He will bless me
I offer Him my heart;
My shepherd He will be
He knows I will follow Him,

4-I’ll share my Savior’s love
By serving others freely,
In serving I am blessed,
In giving I receive

Chorus:

He knows I will follow Him,
Give all my life to Him
I feel my Savior's love
The love He freely gives me.

~On the night that my mother died I read by scriptures, filled with grief, I was hoping to feel peace. I opened up to Nephi's psalm. 

2 Nephi 4:20-21

20My God hath been my ^asupport; he hath led me through mine ^bafflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.

 21He hath filled me with his ^alove, even unto the ^bconsuming of my flesh.

~The words of these verses strengthened me, they lifted me.

These words filled my soul with HIS love. I knew he loved me, though my heart was heavy.

For a moment and many moments after this, the words of Nephi carried me through the night, the weeks and the months I had to face ahead.

I still read those words often while serving my Mission, shortly after my Mother's passing.

Indeed "He hath filled me with his love, even to the consuming of my flesh."

~There are many moments in my life, even today, that I recall that moment when those words pierced my soul and gave me strength. Though, there have been other events where the spirit has touched me, this one was life changing revelation of the Savior's love for me.

After searching for the right talk I felt this talk was the right one. I hope that you feel the same way. 

                                     Encircled in His Love

BY ELDER W. CRAIG ZWICK

of the Seventy

                          

"The Lord spoke in plainness, “Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God, and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love” (D&C 6:20).

We all want to feel the comfort of the Savior’s embrace.

During His ministry, the Savior, with great compassion, saw beyond the imperfections of body and mind and looked upon the heart. As His disciples, we have the sacred responsibility to follow His example of reaching out (and loving those with disabilities). Valiant disciples seek meaningful ways to stretch their souls in service and love to others.

Elder Richard G. Scott’s counsel is precise: “You become an instrument through which the Lord can bless another. The Spirit will let you feel the Savior’s concern and interest, then the warmth and strength of His love” (Ensign, May 1994, p. 9)."

"Ponder in your hearts the feelings of the Savior as He expresses His love for each child of God. “They were in tears, and did look steadfastly upon him as if they would ask him to tarry a little longer with them.

“And he said unto them: Behold, my bowels are filled with compassion towards you.

“Have ye any that are … afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will heal them, for I have compassion upon you.

“… I see that your faith is sufficient that I should heal you” (3 Ne. 17:5–8).

I know that our Savior lives, that He intimately knows each of us, and I pray that our faith may be sufficient for each of us to feel encircled in the arms of our Savior’s love."

~I hope you feel His Love for you this week and all the week's that follow!