All Apostles Wrestle with the Devil 

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Brother Merrill, I love your authenticity in sharing these faith promoting stories. I found the church when I was 20 after a somewhat wild life and a NDE. Here is a brief version of that story. Enjoy! I was raised a Lutheran by a Catholic father and Lutheran mother who rarely attended any church. They however made sure my brother, sister and I were sent to church. I'm forever grateful for parents who cared enough to see that I got some religious training in my youth. I'm grateful to the Lutheran church for introducing me to Jesus Christ the Son of God. By the prayer of faith and the witness of the Holy Ghost I learned as a child that Jesus is the true Son of God who lives today as a resurrected being in heaven with God the Father. I know that he atoned for the sins of all mankind on the cross and opened the way for the resurrection and salvation of all men. In my early teens I questioned my parents, church and leaders on their authority and knowledge. I rebelled against society and became a hippie looking for love in all the wrong places and doing all the wrong things. However, God in his great mercy chose to chasen and awaken me to the error of my ways. This happened at Woodstock 1969(when I was 19) during a near death experience while I was abusing my body with those bad things of the day. I found myself in hell tormented by all my sins and then reflected upon my childhood belief in Jesus Christ and called upon his name to save me. He heard my voice and delivered me back to life. I was born again and made a promise that day to change my life and go and do what the Lord wanted me to do. He led me by the Bible and the Holy Spirit over the next nine months to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where I was baptized in the Atlantic Ocean at Smith Point Fire Island, NY on June 27th 1970. I know by personal revelation and the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Savior of all mankind and He has led me to the prophet Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon and the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which I know to be true by the power of the Holy Ghost. Please seek, read, ponder and pray concerning these things and you too can know they are true by the power of the Holy Ghost I pray in name of Jesus Christ, amen!

Thank you Brother Merrill for your stories and testimony 😁

Brother Merrill you really helped me at the end with what you said at the end through the Spirit of the Lord. As I can barely see my words to write this through the tears I am crying. I really appreciate what you said it was an answer to the prayer my dear brother! I am so serious. God bless you!

Thank you brother Merrill. I look forward to hearing you every week. You are surly sunshine to my soul.

When I was a child of about eight years old my father was a stake missionary in the old St. Joseph Stake of Arizona ( he was a Seventy at the time). Dad took me with him to a meeting that was held in the small branch in San Carlos, AZ (about 70 miles away) on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Brother Hugh B. Brown was the speaker at that night time meeting. I never forgot the experience of listening to him talk to the natives in that meeting. He talked about a bush being cut down and almost destroyed, but with water and care the bush came back to life. Of course he was talking about the Lamanites being cut off from the Lord, but now they were coming back to life, just like the bush. I know I have forgotten much of the content of his talk, but I did remember the part about the bush. I am grateful for the experience and consequently Brother Brown has always been special to me.

WOW! That IS inspirational!!! I’m so glad you made it! God bless!

Thank you. Very much enjoy your stories.

This is one of my favorite channels on RU-vid!

This video has been my favorite so far. Thank you, Brother Merrill.

Thanks again for enlightening me. I'd heard a couple of these stories previously but not all of them by any means. And it's good to be reminded of how the Lord works in our lives.

Thank you Brother Merrill for another set of wonderfully inspiring stories. You do good work here! 😇

thank you for sharing these stories! I will be watching more!

So beautiful, thank you for inspirational stories ❤

Thank you for sharing your [near-death] experience. ❤

Inspirational

That's some good stuff.

Thank you love your history

I love J Golden Kimball. During his mission, my husband bought the book about him and we have enjoyed many of the stories. But I think our favorite is this one: during elder Kimball's mission he served in the Southern States Mission. One Sunday morning he and his companion were walking to church. They meet a Catholic priest and as he passes them he says: Good morning sons of Satan. The elders being polite answers: Good morning Father.😅

When Jesus took me Home to God the first time, all my relatives who were in Christ were there, but most of my favorite and near relatives were not. They put their trust in other things, some in good works and in being a good person, NOT ONE of those relatives were there. But every single one who had put their trust in the Lord were young, beautiful, glowing, and full of peace and joy. So strange to see those elderly relatives as children. Yesterday, a troubled young man who looked like he was full of hate and anger came to the Temple Lot and prayed. I figured that I would talk to him, if God gave me an opportunity, but He didn't. As I was going home, our paths crossed. The young man tore me up one side and down the other, which was expected -- and he really didn't like my cross. So I asked him, because of his complaints, "Are you LDS?" That set him off again, and he complained about the 11 churches in the area, especially about them sharing the Gospel of Christ. So I asked him, "Do you really think it is wise to judge everyone, condemning them for sharing the holy gospel?" Again he ranted, but I calmly rephrased the question and asked him again, adding, "and by what right do you think you have to judge them?" That calmed him down. I told him the gospel of Christ, but he wouldn't listen, complaining as the LDS does about the cross. But I said to him (summarizing), "No one has a God like we do, a God who is willing to come to us as a man, live a perfect life for us in our stead, and die in agony on the cross, becoming sin for us so that we might live." He tried fussing again, but I said again, "Think about it, no one has a God like our God, one who is willing to die on the cross for us and take away our sins because He loves us, not even the LDS has a God like that." This calmed him down a lot. We talked a while, and I got to tell him of the things God has done for us, and for me personally, and we ended up crying. He could literally see what God had done. His anger and hate gone, he offered to buy me lunch (which I politely declined). He left a changed young man, perhaps I'll see him again.

They wrestle with God & cast out the devil, a wrestle is a very close personal contact sport and connection something I think the Apostles do not engage in with the adversary

I hope that I am not being irreverent, but does then clock that is behind you, does it work? It is a nice looking clock. P.S. I do enjoy these wonderful stories.