When You Have The Spirit

When You Have The Spirit
1. You feel happy, calm, and clear-minded.
2. You Feel Generous.
3. Nobody can offend you.
4. You wouldn't mind everybody seeing what you are doing.
5. You are eager to be with people and want to make them happy.
6. You are glad when others succeed.
7. You are glad to attend you meetings and participate in church activities.
8. You feel like praying.
9. You wish you could keep all the Lord's commandments.
10. You feel in control - you don't overeat oversleep too much; you don't feel uncontrollable passions or desires or lose your temper.
11. You think about the Savior often and you want to know him better.

When You Don't Have The Spirit
1. You feel unhappy, depressed, confused and frustrated.
2. You're positive, self centered, or resent demands made on you.
3. You are easily offended.
4. You become sensitive and evasive.
5. You avoid people, especially members of your family; and you are critical of family members and church authorities.
6. You envy or resent the success of others.
7. You don't want to go to Church, go home teaching, or take the sacrament; you wish you had another church job or no job at all.
8. You don't want to pray.
9. You find the commandments bothersome, restricting, or senseless.
10. You feel emotions and appetites sos trongly, that you fear you cannot control them - hate, jealousy, anger, lust, hunger, fatigue.
11. You hardly ever think of the Savior, he seems irrelevant to your life, or worse part of a confusing system that seems to work against you.
12. You get discouraged easily and wonder if life is really worth it.

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