Our Eternal Joy

By Doug Pargeter

Author details his life with remarks from prominent leaders that invite all to come unto Christ.
Have you ever wondered if and how you could walk with the Lord each hour of the day?
And you feel its too hard to do. The Lord wont ask anything of us unless he provides a way to achieve it. He details, his blessings, challenges, adversity and Joy the Lord brought as he was converted.
It includes divorce, his disability, and miracles of healing as the Lord directed and counseled him in his decisions. The chapters are enters pursed with song lyrics, scriptures and stories from his own life and the prophets and prominent leaders meant to inspire and give the energy to do the will of the Lord.
As we honor the Lord thru service he will honor us by giving us his spirit and we will receive his joy and accomplish anything that is right thru our faith in God.

These are the last days and the signs of Jesus Christ returning the second time are even upon us and testify that we should prepare to meet him soon. Stand in holy places and protect America from the destruction that is eminent due to the majority turning from God and forgetting him. Be prepared to pray always and bring about many results to fight Satin through your faith and obedience in small ways which will bring about much success.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, might, mind and strength and in the name of Jesus Christ thou shalt serve him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496919601

Doug Pargeter

The Devil must have known I would be a disturber of his kingdom because of all the opposition I received in my life from nearly dying twenty two times to being stricken with two kinds of schizophrenia of which I have triumphed over due to my faith. My family was discouraged from being part of my life but I kept my self busy in spite of my illness writing books singing and song writing. Going back to my childhood I almost drowned when I was a toddler, when I was eight year old I was almost smothered to death when my underground fort caved in around me and my father saved me. After that there were twenty attempts on my life and God was there to save me he had just each time. I could feel his loving presence many times and hear his voice saying he had just saved my life. Sometime adversity can weaken a spiritual person if they do not have their heart set on the things of God and sometimes he tests us to see if we will prove ourselves if we will do all things he asks of us. Knowing he wanted me to write my experiences soon adversity arose. I had to go thru divorces and being put in a nursing home falsely because the medication was toxic to me. I spent twenty years on a medication which didn’t stop my symptoms and was covered up in favor of the manufacturer and bonuses at the VA because it was widely utilized. This led to divorces due to my paranoia. What Joy I felt as I was given the right medication and also healed from the paranoia thru my faith in Christ. I was born in Seattle WA in 1949 and grew up there in the same home my parents lived in for all their married life unlike myself who moved a lot of times. I was gifted with my hands and learned to build at an early age, I could build a motor bike and a boat and trailer or a house by the time I was in high school because of my creativity. My creativity allowed me to design and build several houses. I developed my education into a Bachelors of Science equivalent and became a Design Engineer and manager for Northrop, Los Angeles CA. My song writing ability took off later in my life and started to develop my own song over 20 years and still want to publish some for the 120 of them to marketable CD’s. I included them in my books though while living in our spacious country home in La Vernia TX. After becoming disabled in 1993 I spent a lot of time attending group at the South Texas VA Health Center for treatment not and found a doctor that finally believed in me and got me the right medication which was aided by the Lord and a miracle no longer suffering from paranoia due to my blessing from the Lord. There was thought to be no cure for schizophrenia and I was so happy that I had paranoia no more. I also contact prostate cancer which the prostate was removed completely with a 30% chance that it would return again. But after the surgery when I was in great pain so much that the morphine wasn’t enough the Lord came to me and touched me and healed me I knew he was there because of his greater overwhelming feeling of love which I felt at the time. The results I have been cancer free with no chance of it returning for 7 years. I had never felt such pure love as strong as I did that day which took away my pain and brought me peace and comfort but it made me feel weak when he was gone. I lost my mother at 91 years old a few years later and he had led a good life a righteous life and went to meat her God and friend I will publish her family History and genealogy work and give it to my children to bring them close to me. I have filled three missions for my church and served in the priesthood for most of my life and later in my life as a High Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. I have baptized my five children, many friends into the church giving me much Joy and happiness. Somehow thru my poor example of anger while my children were living with me caused them to be victims estranged to me later in life. Some things you just can’t take back and undue even with great faith because you can’t take their agency from them to choose for themselves and I repent and I’m greatly sorry and hope my book will reach their hearts some day and they will return to me. My life is full now and the Lord is with me in my decisions as an Author of four books singer and song writer as well as my marriage and being a disabled veteran I also serve in the priesthood.

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Chapter 1

Individual Joy

The Joy of the individual shows in there countenance. Please inform your face and don’t be so serious that you forget to smile. Let your light beam and glorify God. Smiling releases endorphins in your brain that give you well being and in turn those feelings are joyful. It has nothing to do with the amount of money one makes. Instead it is a product of one’s life style and living an honest life. The fruits of the spirit are love joy peace and righteousness. Face life with faith and you will be able to do anything that is right with God’s help. With God all things are possible.

Faith is the substance of things hoped the evidence of things unseen. "Faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true.

And behold, now, I say unto you, and I would that ye would remember that God is merciful unto all who believe on his name; therefore he desireth, in the first place, that you should believe, yea even on his word." Alma 32: 21-22.

When you have faith as significant as a grain of muster seed which is very small you can move mountains. When you have faith you have joy as you work miracles thru Christ according to your faith. I know this from experience as the Lord has worked miracles thru me before.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased because Christ hath ascended into heaven, and has sat down on the right hand of God, to claim of the father his rights of mercy which he hath upon the children of men? For both answered the ends of the law and claimeth all those who have faith in him will cleave unto every good thing; wherefore he advocateth the cause of the children of men; and he dwelleth eternally in the heavens Moroni 7:27-28.

There are many who haven’t had a chance to exercise faith because they were brought up in uneducated countries and there ignorant to the ways and commandment of Christ and they are only kept from the truth because they don’t know of it or where to find it. These innocent ones will accept the gospel when Christ or a representative brings the message in love to them. This is a miracle because there conversion is not intellectual it is spiritual. And then there are the healings of the sick which still happen every day from among the pure in heart. And the miracle of the Lord counseling his saints thru his voice and giving them answer to their prayer which happens in the lives of Latter Day Saints daily.

No man can be saved according to the words of Christ save they shall have faith in his name, Moroni 7:38.

Those with faith In Christ recognize him thru the spirit. It Is not unusual to have someone being about their business and meet the missionaries and feel the Holy Ghost and come into where the missionaries and tell them that they felt it and want to be baptized others it takes time for their faith to grow and understand what they are doing before they make a decision or baptism confirmed by the spirit, however it happens they first have faith beforehand.

No faith has not ceased for it’s by faith that miracles are wright; and it’s by faith that angels appear and minister unto men; wherefore if these things have ceased wo unto the children of men for it is because of unbelief, and all is vain. Moroni 7:37.

Little children have faith and receive the spirit of Christ and are not in need of baptism being because they have no need to repent because they are alive in Christ. Have you ever been to a sacrament meeting where the little children sing you can feel the Joy from those little one who are innocent.

For behold that all little children are alive in Christ and also they that are without the law. For the power of the redemption cometh on all them that have no law; wherefore, he that is not condemned, or he that is under no condemnation, cannot repent and unto such baptism availeth nothing. Moroni 8:22.

Some people that are mentally ill or mentally challenged are also without the law.

Another way that we receive joy is gathering together in our meetings and sacraments and temples; some of us love to go to church and some are just going thru the motions want something to happen for them. They lack in faith and conversion. I was one of those people I didn’t always feel the spirit in our meetings and felt it was wasting my time and found other things to do with the Sabbath but I always had faith in the gathering of Zion.

And it came to pass that the righteous shall be gathered out from the nations and shall come to Zion with song s of everlasting joy. D&C45:71

That kept my interest until I could understand the full gospel. The song Come Come ye Saints when sang always gave me a good feeling. Joy is eternal and everlasting but not without opposition there are trials to come on this promise land as the saints have gathered to Zion and now are going through the world as the pure in heart, a new frontier with new problems. The trials came first to the saints as they moved west to the being driven from their home to end up in Salt Lake City Utah many lost their lives and still were determined in the service of the Lord because of the great Joy they felt in his service. It was about the civil war broke out and then the other wars in foreign lands. And more wars are about to happen to happen to America due to our corrupt government allowing us to become weak as a nation economically and militarily.

Ye hear of wars in foreign lands; but behold, I say unto you, they are nigh, even at your doors and not many years hence ye shall hear of wars in your own lands. Where fore I, the Lord, have said, gather ye out from the eastern lands. D&C 45: 63-64.

The saints went to the western countries directed by the Lord and gathered together keeping the saying of the Lord. Keep these sayings for they are true and faithful; and thou shall magnify thy office, and push many people to Zion with song of everlasting joy upon their heads. D&C 66:11.

The saints were very happy to be doing the will of the Lord and gathering even under much tribulation many gave their lives in the service of the Lord due to hardships unforeseen. It was the pure in heart that obtained their inheritance in Zion and in heaven with no toil or labor did they fear, all was well with them regardless of their circumstances for most of the saints many were to walking with hand carts 1,000 miles only to be trapped be in the snows of winter and not make it.

They that remain are pure in heart, shall return and come to their inheritance, and their children shall come with songs of everlasting joy, to build up the waste place of Zion. D&C101: 18.

And they shall be filled with song of everlasting joy. D&C 133: 33.

When the Lord comes the second time the world will be in commotion and the saints will be saved by Christ coming and fighting their battles for them by dividing the mountains in half to protect the saints from their enemies. Also the face of the earth will be changed by his coming.

The Lord shall stand on mount Zion, the land continents shall become one land and the Lost Tribes of Israel shall return. D&C 133: 17-35.

Next the Lord shall come down in vengeance upon the wicked. D&C 133:57-75.

This is in retaliation to the rejection of the gospel and killing the profit Joseph Smith that he restored by the hand of the Lord as found in the Book of Merman.

The gospel was restored thru the profit Joseph Smith by the Lord to preach to the entire world. D&C 133: 36-40.

The signs of the second coming of Jesus Christ are ever present and increasing in number that the wonders in heaven and earth might testify of him and save some. Just look at the earth quakes, seunomies, floods, tornadoes landslides, hurricanes, wildfires that have happened recently testifying of his coming as prophesied by the Lord. But he will come in a time of his own choosing and come quickly to save the righteous to himself.

How do we stand in holy places until that glorious day when the Lord save the righteous. For years I was turned off with the difficulty I perceived in being fully active and attending church because of my disability. There was a year I was unable to get out of the nursing home and got in the way of visiting to church this complicated things even more. I would think people were plotting against me when I did go to church and didn’t stay due to my paranoia. I could not do the will of the Lord in all things like I did before. Home teaching was not done and I used the excuse that they didn’t visit and teach me for years so why should I do it. I now know this was wrong. I rationalized that my paranoia would be rejected as I visited. I often felt persecuted from the brethren because of my special circumstances and just wanted to be treated like everyone else and that need wasn’t being met. So I faded away into inactivity. Now I know I wasn’t doing all I could do and it’s the same with everyone my all you could was less than could be expected. The Lord made up the difference that I lacked thru his loving kindness. As I proved myfself in keeping the Sabbath day holy and praying continually with sincere desire to do his will a change came over me. My heart was