This question relates to what actions one should choose to do.
A couple of days ago I was working out at a outdoor gym. Today I felt a pleasant satisfaction in my body which I felt was a result from working out. I felt an urge to go to the gym again, sensing that I would feel satisfaction while working out.
This urge for satisfaction in the body, is that something that is proper to use as the motivator for going to the gym to do a work out? Or should I not do that but ask the Holy Spirit for guidance what actions to do today?
I speculate that missionaries (in a missionary program) should only act on the motivation by the Holy Spirit. And thus should not as in this example go to do physical fitness because of the satisfaction in the body that one speculate the work-out would bring. Is this true? I am not a missionary in a program, but perhaps a "member missionary".
Is this covered in the Book of Mormon or the Bible? Where?
Motivated by satisfaction in the body
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Re: Motivated by satisfaction in the body
You think the Holy Ghost is telling you to go pump some iron?
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Re: Motivated by satisfaction in the body
I think even a cursory commitment to Faith would have you realize that taking care of your physical health does not require a prompting from or an inquiry to the HG.
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the previous commenter wrote:I think even a cursory commitment to Faith would have you realize that taking care of your physical health does not require a prompting from or an inquiry to the HG.
In my acquaintanceship there is a woman --- a Mormon one, needless to say --- who prays for help of HG for every activity. Her lunch for tomorrow is affirmed by HG.
by the way my wife do it a little better - she asks me first... (for the dinner only, I have to confess)
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Re: Motivated by satisfaction in the body
ludwigm wrote:the previous commenter wrote:I think even a cursory commitment to Faith would have you realize that taking care of your physical health does not require a prompting from or an inquiry to the HG.
In my acquaintanceship there is a woman --- a Mormon one, needless to say --- who prays for help of HG for every activity. Her lunch for tomorrow is affirmed by HG.
by the way my wife do it a little better - she asks me first... (for the dinner only, I have to confess)
And yet here we have begging for the acceptance of anecdotal evidence by discounting anecdotal evidence.
Otherwise i am sure there was an actual point to the trivial exposition.
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Re: Motivated by satisfaction in the body
Working out is good for my health. My reason for wanting to work out was satisfaction in the flesh. I felt like the "natural man", wanting bodily satisfaction. If my purpose to work out was this bodily satisfaction, would it because it would be good for my physical health therefore be righteous?
Is it so that righteous persons only does things that are motivated by the Holy Spirit?
I thought that this example of my work-out is also applicable to sexual intercourse. The corresponding question is, I think, if one could be righteous to have sex with your wife if the only motivation for that was sexual excitement.
Because this is a parallell case, the answer about this can be applied to the question about working out. Is having sex because of a bodily urge righteous, if within the marriage ?
If I understood one question right, yes, I think that the Holy Ghost can help me with every decision. He has unlimited capacity, I feel, so it would not be a waste of his resources to help me when I ask him.
Is it so that righteous persons only does things that are motivated by the Holy Spirit?
I thought that this example of my work-out is also applicable to sexual intercourse. The corresponding question is, I think, if one could be righteous to have sex with your wife if the only motivation for that was sexual excitement.
Because this is a parallell case, the answer about this can be applied to the question about working out. Is having sex because of a bodily urge righteous, if within the marriage ?
If I understood one question right, yes, I think that the Holy Ghost can help me with every decision. He has unlimited capacity, I feel, so it would not be a waste of his resources to help me when I ask him.
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Re: Motivated by satisfaction in the body
four seasons wrote:If I understood one question right, yes, I think that the Holy Ghost can help me with every decision. He has unlimited capacity, I feel, so it would not be a waste of his resources to help me when I ask him.
So yes, you think the Holy Ghost prompts you to pump iron and tells you...well...when it's okay to pump your wife?
Seriously?
"Sorry dear, not tonight. Holy Ghost says No...."
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Re: Motivated by satisfaction in the body
Bodily satisfaction is the reason why our weekly Satanic Fertility Orgy is so popular with the local christians.
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AVE SATANAS!
HAIL SATAN!
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Re: Motivated by satisfaction in the body
four seasons wrote:If I understood one question right, yes, I think that the Holy Ghost can help me with every decision. He has unlimited capacity, I feel, so it would not be a waste of his resources to help me when I ask him.
You ask the Holy Ghost?
Did you mean to say you ask God to instruct the Holy Ghost to help you?
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Re: Motivated by satisfaction in the body
Bazooka wrote:four seasons wrote:If I understood one question right, yes, I think that the Holy Ghost can help me with every decision. He has unlimited capacity, I feel, so it would not be a waste of his resources to help me when I ask him.
You ask the Holy Ghost?
Did you mean to say you ask God to instruct the Holy Ghost to help you?
Yes I ask God, not the Holy Ghost.