President Russell M. Nelson
Making and keeping covenants actually makes life easier! Each person who makes covenants in baptismal fonts and in temples—and keeps them—has increased access to the power of Jesus Christ. Please ponder that stunning truth!
The reward for keeping covenants with God is heavenly power—power that strengthens us to withstand our trials, temptations, and heartaches better. This power eases our way. Those who live the higher laws of Jesus Christ have access to His higher power. Thus, covenant keepers are entitled to a special kind of rest that comes to them through their covenantal relationship with God. (Russell M. Nelson, “Overcome the World and Find Rest,” Liahona, Nov. 2022, 96)
All those who have made a covenant with God have access to a special kind of love and mercy. …
Once you and I have made a covenant with God, our relationship with Him becomes much closer than before our covenant. Now we are bound together. Because of our covenant with God, He will never tire in His efforts to help us, and we will never exhaust His merciful patience with us. Each of us has a special place in God’s heart. He has high hopes for us. …
Do you see the significance of this? Those who keep their covenants with God will become a strain of sin-resistant souls! Those who keep their covenants will have the strength to resist the constant influence of the world. (Russell M. Nelson, “The Everlasting Covenant,” Liahona, Oct. 2022, 5–6, 8)
Elder David A. Bednar
Covenant promises and blessings would not be possible without our Savior, Jesus Christ. He invites us to look to Him [see Doctrine and Covenants 6:36], come unto Him [see 3 Nephi 12:20; Moroni 10:32–33], learn of Him [see Matthew 11:29; Doctrine and Covenants 19:23], and bind ourselves to Him [see Doctrine and Covenants 43:9] through the covenants and ordinances of His restored gospel.
Covenants and ordinances are the building blocks that enable us to build our lives upon the “rock of our Redeemer” [Helaman 5:12] and His Atonement. Precisely because faithfully honoring sacred covenants binds us securely to the Savior, He becomes the ultimate source of spiritual direction and strength in our lives. (David A. Bednar, “Bound to the Savior through Covenants,” For the Strength of Youth, Feb. 2022, 5)
