Before You Get to Heaven: 8 Mighty Changes God Wants for You
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Some people would call this a self-help kind of book. The author prefers to identify it, in a sense, as a Divine-help book. The secret of change, he says, can never be completely found in the positive-mental-attitude approach. The fact is, if your relationship with Heavenly Father is good, you feel fine about yourself. So how do we enter into and strengthen that relationship? In Before You Get to Heaven, author D. Kelly Ogden focuses on eight areas of the gospel where we can enjoy a mighty change: scripture study, prayer, faith, repentance, spirituality, obedience, humility, and love. By incorporating those eight mighty changes into our lives, we will discover the power to change from who we are into who we want and need to be. Right here and now, before we get to heaven, we all need to learn how to achieve mighty scripture study and mighty prayer, to exercise mighty faith and mighty repentance. We all must learn how to obtain and keep the Spirit, how to be exactly obedient, how to get rid of pride, and how to get the love of God in us, writes Ogden. Studying and desiring to live all these things will produce mighty changes in us, which changes will likewise influence the lives of many others of Heavenly Father s children. The Father and the Savior have provided the necessary instruction and have shown us the way, now it s our choice to learn it, love it, and live it. This book will help us understand how to receive God s help to make the mighty changes that will prepare us for heaven and even bring a touch of heaven into our lives today. Biography About the Author D. Kelly Ogden earned a master s degree in Hebrew language and historical geography of the Bible at the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem and his Ph.D. in Middle East studies from the University of Utah. He is a professor of ancient scripture and coordinator of graduate studies in Religious Education at Brigham Young University and the author of numerous books and papers on the Holy Land, where he and his family lived for more than a decade. Brother Ogden served as the first associate director of the BYU Jerusalem Center and was twice president of the Jerusalem Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint. He ahs served in a BYU stake presidency and as president o the Chile Santiago East Mission. He is married to Marcia Hammond Ogden, and they are the parents of four children.
Introduction How to Have Mighty Scripture Study How to Have Mighty Prayer How to Have mighty Faith How to Enjoy Mighty Repentance How to Get and Keep the Spirit How to Be Exactly Obedient How to Get Rid of Pride How to Obtain the Love of Christ It s Your Choice Appendix 1: What the Lord Says About Prayer Appendix 2: What the Lord Says About Repentance Appendix 3: What the Lord Says About How to Get the Spirit Notes Index
