Episode 33 Doctrine and Covenants 88 Part 2 and 89–92 “A Principle with Promise”
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I continue with Doctrine & Covenants 88 and move into sections 89–92, “A Principle with a Promise.” I share the wrestle I had over releasing this episode that talks about the vaccine, why I ultimately felt impressed to publish it, and how it ties into following the prophet and learning by faith. We’ll look at what it means to submit our will to God, seek answers in the scriptures, and embrace the Word of Wisdom as both temporal counsel and spiritual promise.
“… the submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we “give,” brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God’s will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!”
“Swallowed Up in the Will of the Father”
Swallowed up in the Will of the Father
Alan Jackson - Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
"Seek Learning By Faith," Elder David A. Bednar
The Power of Sustaining Faith - Elder Eyring
Synonyms for Sustain
- assist
- defend
- help
- aid
- approve
- back
- comfort
- confirm
- endorse
- support
- uphold
- validate
- verify
- lend a hand
- stand by
- stick up for
- Antonyms of sustain
- hinder
- obstruct
- condemn
- contradict
- deny
- disagree
- disapprove
- discourage
- disprove
- ignore
- invalidate
- oppose
- refuse
- reject
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast where we feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host, Melanie Straub. |
| 0:10.4 | This is part two of Doctor in Covenants 88 and this week's lesson, Doctor in Covenants 89 through 92, a principal with a promise. |
| 0:20.5 | Okay, when I got on to edit this podcast from four years ago, it was all about the vaccine, |
| 0:28.1 | and it was about the profit statement, and it was about a video I made on YouTube, |
| 0:33.3 | and I thought, there is no way that I'm publishing this. I am not touching this again. No. So I went through it. I was trying to take this stuff out and leave in what was relevant and worked on it for about 45 minutes. And when I got done, all the stuff I had taken out, all of my hard work had erased. And I think that at that moment, I felt like Heavenly |
| 0:58.8 | Father was just saying, you know what, just publish it as it is. And I would love to say that I |
| 1:07.6 | was just excited about that. But I wasn't because there was such a firestorm back then that I, |
| 1:16.4 | I just want to bury all of this and not talk about it again. |
| 1:20.6 | But I also want to do choose the right. |
| 1:25.5 | No, that's not the song. |
| 1:27.2 | What's the choose the right? Let the consequence follow. |
| 1:30.0 | Anyway, that's what I'm thinking in my mind. And so if talking about the vaccine is a trigger for you, |
| 1:36.7 | if it still pushes you to a bad place, if it makes you feel angry, if you want to write to me and tell me all the ways that the vaccine |
| 1:47.9 | has ruined everybody's lives. |
| 1:50.5 | Please don't. |
| 1:51.6 | And please just don't listen. |
| 1:53.0 | I don't want this to cause more contention. |
| 1:56.2 | But as I've been thinking about it and as I've had some spiritual experiences that |
| 2:00.6 | have helped me |
| 2:01.3 | see that this needs to go out, all I'm going to say is maybe there's something else coming |
| 2:08.4 | that we need to learn to listen to the prophet and do what he says. |
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