FULFILLING OUR LIFES COVENANT AND PURPOSE (to carry out/ to realize)

The message that I’m going to share to you today mostly from one of the talks of Pres. Henry B.
Eyring.
Pres. Eyring said “ All of us can remember times in our lives when we felt a pull to be better than
we were, to rise higher. Sadly, there are also times when we felt like giving up. (TRANSLATE
VISAYA)
In this life, Heavenly father not only provided a Saviour and a gospel but he also provided
covenants. These covenants makes us in keeping with the ways of God. He gave us this NEW
and EVERLASTING COVENANT. New and everlasting covenant is the sum total of all gospel
covenants and obligations necessary for the salvation and exaltation of mankind.
However, Pres. Eyring expresses concern that by looking only at the promises we make (referring
to our covenants we are about to make), the magnitude of them could overwhelm us and perhaps
even discourage. Maybe because of the attached promise or obligation to live up on it. (ma
member ka cg nka simba kada dominggo)

Pres. Eyring said aside from we must be willing to make those covenants, we must love to make
covenants with God.
To fulfil or carry out our covenants is not like a business deal. You do this for God and God will
do this for you, but it is an opportunity for us to become like him, to become God’s people. Our
covenant with God is an opportunity to draw closer to him.
For men, the Melchizedek Priesthood is offered with an oath and covenant. You can hear words
describing both promised blessings and the assurance of drawing closer to God to become more
like him.
When we honour that priesthood, we have heavenly hosts and angels who are watching over
us. Some of us know how literally that is true. There are some returned missionaries who know
that they have walked down some streets and been in some places and faced some anger and
opposition where they have felt protection and being watched over by more than human power.
For couples, In marriage, the covenant God offers us contains the crowning promise. To be
sealed in the temple of God by the sealing power that God has restored to the earth allows God
to promise us that we may have all that he has, to live the life that he lives, and to be with him,
the Savior, and our faithful family members forever in perfect love and harmony.
All of us need to increase our desire to make covenants with God. A place to begin is to recognize
some things that have already happened to each of us.
I remember my own endowment, The ordinance I made has changed my life. It elevated my
understanding of the priesthood that I held. It guided me as a full-time missionary. It provided
perspective of the life I desired. Keeping the covenants I made that day, more than eight years
ago, has made all the difference in my life now.
In closing, the premier example of a covenant life is the Savior. When Heavenly Father’s glorious
plan was presented, Jehovah’s covenant-making response was, “Here am I, send me.
As a model, Jesus was baptized and then taught us the importance of ordinances (see Matthew
3:13–17). The Atonement, the Savior’s most exemplary act, required Him to descend “below all
things” (D&C 88:6) and suffer “the pains of all men” (2 Nephi 9:21). During this
incomprehensible experience, He pleaded that the Father might “remove this cup” (Luke 22:42).
However, honoring His covenant with the Father motivated Him to make a profound statement:
“Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42).
For some of us, what does the Lord ask of us? “Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing
mind; and the willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land of Zion in these last days” (D&C
64:34).
We are here to prove to God, if we can do all things whatsoever he commands us;
After all, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God, isn’t it?
Because of what we do, we can look forward to the peace and the hope that can come from
keeping the baptismal covenant, from receiving those who honor the oath and covenant of the
priesthood, and from associating in a home where people are living so that they might be sealed
to live forever in the presence of our Heavenly Father and his Son Jesus Christ.
I know this is how we fulfil our life covenants and purpose here on earth. As the Savior Jesus
Christ said in ancient time, “Be ye therefore perfect even as I or your Father in Heaven is perfect.
If this is the kind of invitation the Lords wants us in order for us to be like him or like our Father
in Heaven in the next life, I would be happy to accept the challenge. I know that the ordinances
and obligations given by God is meant for our eternal progression. We are the express image of
Our Father in Heaven, we are his children, He loves us. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen…