Come and Take Your Place as Covenant Women
2024 BYU Women’s Conference
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Sister Kristin M. Yee
I love serving with these dear women, and I love being with you. Dear sisters and young women, what a blessing it is to be with you this evening. We’ve been thinking about you, praying for you, and pondering about what the Lord would have us say to you so that you may be blessed in the way that He intends to bless you. I know that They love you, and the depth and dimension of that love is beyond our earthly comprehension. I think we will continue to learn for a very long time about the eternal and immense individual love that our Father in Heaven has for each and every one of His children.
Tonight, I would like to learn with you about two things: first, the promised blessing of covenant rest and second, how trusting in God and following His Spirit will help us take our place in His plan.
The Blessing of Covenant Rest
Dear sisters, we know you have many important demands and priorities to balance in your lives. It may seem ever elusive to find the time you want to do all the things that you desire to do.
As covenant women, we can seek the Lord’s wisdom and counsel to know what would be most beneficial in our lives and what can be set aside. What needs to be done today and what can be done another time.
While in Relief Society a few weeks ago, a dear sister shared that the term “anxiously engaged” makes her already-anxious soul even more anxious. I understand. She is an incredible sister who is already going about doing so much good and cares for so many.
Her feelings echo in the hearts of many good sisters, who wonder if they are doing enough and if their offering is acceptable. I know that the Lord sees you and all the good that you do, both seen and unseen. He loves your good hearts and desires you to be at peace.
I have been pondering for some time about the urgency of being anxiously engaged in the Lord’s work and the blessing of finding rest in our covenants and how they can coexist.
I don’t think that anxiously engaged means that we add an insurmountable number of good works to our ever-growing to-do list. Nor do I think it means we frantically go about trying to solve the world’s problems, or even all the problems within our own sphere.
President Russell M. Nelson pronounced these special blessings upon us recently in the worldwide Relief Society devotional: “I bless you with increased spiritual discernment and the ability to find joy in offering relief to others. I bless you with the wisdom to discern what is needful and not to run faster than you are able.”
As covenant women, we have the blessing of God’s priesthood power that comes through honoring our covenants. His power can help us receive expanded capacity and wisdom to know what is needful and to learn how to “not run faster than [we] are able.”
It is easy to be busy without trying, to run, run, run. I know. In the first grade I ran the 50-yard dash and won first for my entire grade! Something I’ve been proud about my whole life. I have been learning to slow down ever since.
I’ve thought about what “anxiously engaged” looks like in my life. For me, it looks like striving to love God and consciously developing my covenant relationship with Him. It looks like seeking His wisdom to know where to put my time, energy, and affections and listening and looking for the “one” whom He would have me minister to and bring His relief. It also looks like filling my “well” with meaningful relationships and rejuvenating experiences so I have something to draw from as I strive to do His work. It looks like being still and knowing God.
A thoughtful friend came by one day to check in and minister to me. She said, “There are so many people that need help that I know I’m missing.” I responded, “But today you made a difference for me. You are not missing everyone; you are finding the ‘one.’”
The Lord invites us to go about His work in His way, which is different from the world’s way—different from the frenetic pace that often receives the praise of an overstimulated, over-productive, and exhaustive world.
In 3 Nephi and Isaiah, the Lord describes the gathering of Israel, and then He wisely instructs on how this work is to be done. He says, “For ye shall not go out with haste [or rashness], nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.”
Not going out in haste teaches us that the Savior’s gospel is meant to bring peace, calmness to our hearts, even a covenantal rest that comes through keeping the higher laws of Jesus Christ, as President Nelson has taught. This rest and peace come to us as we trust that this is the Lord’s work, that He is aware of us, that He loves us and will help us. We are never alone in what He asks us to do and become.
As I’ve been seeking to understand this promised rest, I have learned that it doesn’t necessarily look like three extra hours of sleep a night, though that is always welcome.
President Nelson encourages us and teaches us about this covenant rest. He has said:
“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. …
“… Despite the distractions and distortions that swirl around us, you can find true rest—meaning relief and peace—even amid your most vexing problems.”
I know that this special kind of rest comes when we don’t do this work alone. It comes as we purposefully partner with Jesus Christ and access His power through honoring our covenants.
Rest comes when we let Him take our burdens and when we choose to sincerely repent. Rest comes when we trust Him with our needs and our concerns and when we choose a higher and holier perspective. Rest comes when we choose to judge each other less and love each other more.
Rest comes when we know that God knows us and loves us. His rest comes when we find joy in bringing the Savior’s relief to others and let others bring His relief to us. Rest comes when we worship in the house of the Lord. Rest comes when we remember and reflect upon the beautiful blessings God mercifully grants us each day.
This covenantal rest described provides refresh and relief, like “Gatorade stands” mercifully placed along the marathon of life.
President Nelson has invited us to make “the temple [our] place of refuge and recalibration.” A place where we find rest.
Going to the house of the Lord helps us to think differently. I usually come congested with challenges and concerns and leave with peace, clarity, and hope. Life feels livable. Things of less importance recede, and I know better where to put my time and energy. We leave His house armed with His power and perspective and with “angels round about [us], to bear [us] up.”
The covenant rest we seek comes from Jesus Christ. He invites you and me:
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; … and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”
Sisters, I know God keeps His promises. And I know He desires you to have His promised rest, His “peace and relief.” He wants you to be happy now and not just down the road when you’ve accomplished a task or made it to a milestone. Sometimes I forget that, but I have been reminded time and again that we can find happiness and rest in the present by partnering with Jesus Christ and developing our covenant relationship with God, one day at a time.
We Take Our Place as We Learn to Trust in God and Follow His Spirit
Young women, that covenant relationship applies to you as well. When I was your age, I had dreams of becoming an artist for Disney. I would often draw and paint as a way to serve others. Here’s a painting I did with the Lord’s help for New Beginnings. I remember thinking, when I miraculously finished this painting in a day, that perhaps the Lord could really work through me to do His will. Maybe He really did have a place for me in His plan.
I didn’t feel like I really fit in in junior high and high school. I felt like I needed to be somewhere else, so I graduated early at the end of my sophomore year and began to work and attend a local college while I saved up for art school on the West Coast. As I was 16 turning 17, I moved to San Francisco and began art school. It’s a wonder my parents let me go and that I’m still alive today. Bless my parents.
I lived in a mansion that was considered on-campus housing, which housed 49 other young women my age from around the world. It was exciting and challenging. But after a couple weeks of classes and being surrounded by various lifestyles, things felt dark. I knew I needed His light. I went to my scriptures, and they fell open to Joshua 1:9:
“Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.”
I knew that my Heavenly Father and Savior knew me and that They knew where I was and what I needed.
I then looked in the yellow pages for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There were no cell phones then (and if you don’t know what the yellow pages are, please ask your leaders). I found two listings in all of San Francisco, and one of the church buildings happened to be just a couple blocks from where I lived.
That Sunday, I put on my dress and shoes and headed to church. My roommates asked me if I was going to a party. I said it was a different kind of party; I was going to church. Some of those young women ended up taking the discussions.
I made my way down the hill to a white church building surrounded by palm trees. I stepped inside the lobby and heard a familiar hymn playing softly in the background, “I Know That My Redeemer Lives.” I was home. In that moment, I knew that I wanted my Heavenly Father and my Savior in my life more than anyone or anything else. From that point on, I invited Them into my life more fully. I wanted Their counsel on where I should go and what I should do. And after long, tearful nights of prayer, I knew I wasn’t supposed to stay in San Francisco.
I had come to this city for a much different purpose than I had thought—a much more important purpose. Beyond an education and exciting career, it was a deeper knowledge of who I was as a daughter of a loving and attentive Father in Heaven. That Jesus Christ was my personal Savior and Redeemer and that He lived. And that my life would work out if I put my trust in God.
Well, what was I to do next? I had just given up my dreams. I felt impressed to attend BYU–Idaho, which was the first place my mother told me to go and the last place I wanted to be. And I loved it, to her credit. I then attended BYU–Provo, where I received my bachelor’s degree in illustration.
A few months before my graduation, I received an art internship and later a job at a studio that was eventually purchased by Disney. This opportunity came at a time when I had Christ at the center of my life, so gratefully it fell into its proper place.
After 13 years as an artist and producer, I again felt the familiar feeling that I needed to be somewhere else. And after a series of other soul-searching and soul-stretching choices to follow His will, I have been mercifully led to this very place, serving the Lord in the Relief Society General Presidency during this season on the earth.
I testify that as we put our trust in God and put our covenant relationship with Him first, all opportunities and challenges that come our way will work together for our good.
Even if you feel like your life is all over the place right now and you can’t necessarily see where you are going, if you turn your life over to the Lord, it will turn out beautifully. He has a specific plan for you.
We come to take our place as we come to trust God, choose Him, and love Him with all our hearts.
Young women, you have the opportunity to choose Jesus Christ every day, to trust Him and His will, to make Him the center of your lives and let God prevail. To prioritize spiritual habits that will bring us closer to Him, to serve and minister to others, to pray and study, to be still, to worship in the house of the Lord often, and to be His disciple in all that you do.
My Young Women friends and nieces shared with me that regularly going to the temple is “a break from the world. It makes my week more peaceful, and it helps me feel closer to our Savior.” “I feel happier.” It “helps me keep an eternal perspective.”
These are some of the covenant blessings of God’s power that come as we keep our covenants and worship in the house of the Lord.
President Nelson described another covenant blessing that we have: “As a covenant daughter of God, you have receptivity to the Spirit and an enhanced moral compass that give you the capacity to receive personal revelation and to discern truth from error.”
The Holy Ghost can help you and me be intentional about what we put into our hearts and minds. The prophet Jacob described the feelings and natures of the daughters of God as being tender, chaste, and delicate, “which thing is pleasing unto God.”
Media has a tremendous effect on your receptive spirits and affects your thoughts, which affect your actions, which affect who you are becoming. I invite you to watch, listen to, and read that which will help you to become more like Jesus Christ.
Pay attention to how you feel and what the Spirit tells you as you listen to certain music, tune in to certain podcasts, watch certain series, or read certain posts or texts. Even when there is good and uplifting material, there may be times when the Spirit directs your focus elsewhere, or perhaps just prompts you to be still.
I recently seeded some bare spots of ground in my yard with grass seed. It’s been exciting for me to see little blades of green grass make their way up through the soil as I’ve watered.
As simple as it sounds, I intentionally planted grass seed to grow grass. And what we plant is what we will grow. Are you and I intentionally seeding our minds and hearts with things that will help us grow and become more like the Savior?
Seeding our minds and hearts with the word of God, from scripture and the teachings of His prophets, will help sprout forth much-needed personal revelation, peace, and protection into our lives. The scriptures, the words of the prophets, and the Spirit are sources of pure truth and are not meant to be supplemental. They will anchor our testimonies firmly to Jesus Christ and His gospel. They will help us see through the world’s deceptions and see “things as they really are.” They will help us clearly mark when the adversary attempts to “call evil good, and good evil.”
Dear sisters, dear young women, I testify that our Heavenly Father and Savior know you and that They love you. You have entered into a covenant relationship with Them, and They have given you the covenant blessings of Their priesthood power and the Holy Spirit to lead you to fulfill your important purpose here on earth and to bring you safely home. I testify that Jesus Christ lives, that He is the Redeemer of all mankind. He is the Son of God, and through His atoning sacrifice we will be resurrected and can be redeemed, if we repent. He lives and directs His Church through His prophet, President Nelson, and I testify of this and do so in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Sister J. Anette Dennis
Dear sisters, come take your place as covenant daughters of God and as disciples of Jesus Christ. Because of our knowledge of Heavenly Father’s great plan of happiness, we should really be the most loving and compassionate and the least judgmental of all our heavenly parents’ daughters.
We can be safe places for each other no matter our background, our race, what language we speak, or what accent we have; no matter what infirmities or disabilities we have; and no matter where we are in our journeys of faith or the life experiences we are having now or have had in the past.
All of us want to feel that we have a place and that we belong and are needed in the restored Church of Jesus Christ. And we can help each of our sisters and brothers, no matter what age or circumstance, feel that they have a place and belong and are needed as well. We are all children of heavenly parents and thus spiritual sisters and brothers. Those connections to each other are vitally important.
When we enter into a covenant relationship with God, it not only deepens and enhances our relationship with Him, but it also affects our relationship with His other children—our spiritual siblings. Inherent in the covenants we make with God, beginning with baptism, is our responsibility to love and care for each other.
Last May, the United States surgeon general said this: “Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation has been an underappreciated public health crisis that has harmed individual and societal health. Our relationships are a source of healing and well-being hiding in plain sight. … Given the significant health consequences of loneliness and isolation, we must prioritize building social connection the same way we have prioritized other … public health issues. … Together, we can build a country that’s healthier, more resilient, less lonely, and more connected.”
Sisters, together we can help build a worldwide sisterhood of all ages that is healthier, more resilient, less lonely, and more connected because of our covenant relationship with God and our responsibility to one another as disciples of Christ.
I love this quote from Mother Teresa: “We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.”
Our experience at church is meant to provide those vital connections with the Lord and with each other that are so needed for our overall physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. We hope that all will feel welcomed and embraced in our congregations, but we know there are some who don’t have that experience.
Let’s watch what Elder D. Todd Christofferson said about this:
[Video: “Is There a Place for Me?”]
Sisters, there is great strength in unity and beauty in diversity; all are needed in the body of Christ. Just as giant redwood trees interlock their roots and are able to withstand the forces of nature because they stand together, we need to link arms, stand together, and strengthen each other through the storms of life.
Our church buildings are houses of worship dedicated to the Lord. Every person should feel welcome there—members, returning members, and friends of other faiths alike. There are no worthiness requirements to enter our houses of worship. All who want to join with us to worship the Lord should feel welcome. And we can create a safe and welcoming atmosphere without the need to compromise our doctrine or our beliefs.
We can help slow the epidemic of loneliness by creating welcoming and safe spaces within our congregations and especially within our Relief Societies, where all can feel the Lord’s love because they are surrounded by our love.
Elder Marvin J. Ashton once taught, “The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.” And as our Savior has said, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
Let’s watch what Elder Patrick Kearon had to say about this:
[Video: “To Love Them All”]
When we take the time to truly get to know those who we feel are different from us, we may realize we have much more in common than we thought. Each person has so much to contribute, so many beautiful and diverse life experiences that can bless all of our lives. Listening to others’ stories and seeking to understand them will change our hearts, and the judgment and fear we may have had toward some can be replaced by feelings of gratitude to have them in our lives.
In her book Silent Souls Weeping, Sister Jane Clayson Johnson tells the story of two biological sisters: “The first sister has struggled with mental illness throughout her life and was recently hospitalized again for major depression. The second sister had just been diagnosed with stage-four cancer. The reactions of others to each sister were vastly different.”
For the sister with cancer, there has been an outpouring of love and support in so many ways for her and for her family. But for her sister hospitalized with depression, there has not been an outpouring of love and support but instead feelings of judgment and frustration toward her.
The sister with depression confided that she wished she had terminal cancer instead of mental illness because then people wouldn’t judge her and would reach out to her and her family in kindness and love, as they were doing for her sister’s family.
This story is heartbreaking, but it happens more than we would like to think to those with mental illness and others with challenging life experiences. As covenant daughters of God and disciples of Jesus Christ, we are called to reach out to all with love and support, just as our Savior would.
Sister Reyna I. Aburto said, “As we share our struggles with others, we realize that we are not alone. The things that we go through can give us that strength and that compassion and that empathy that will allow us to help each other in our journey.”
Sisters, we need each other. We don’t know what burdens others may be carrying, and rarely can we fully understand those burdens even if we do know about them. It’s difficult to understand the devastating effects of major depression and other mental illnesses unless we have experienced that ourselves. It’s difficult to understand the experience of those living with same-sex attraction or gender identity differences unless we have experienced that ourselves. It’s difficult to understand the pain experienced by someone going through a crisis of faith or what it feels like to have a child or spouse leave the Church unless we have gone through that ourselves. But as we take the time to be with and listen to others, our lives will be blessed, and we will better understand their lived experiences. The Lord can help us see other people as He sees them, and He can fill our hearts with love, enabling us to lift, comfort, laugh with, cry with, and foster belonging in those around us. He’ll help us know what is needful and how to be a blessing to others on their journey.
Of course, there is only One who can fully understand and perfectly empathize—He who went “forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; … [taking] upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people” as part of His atoning sacrifice so that we could be assured we are never truly alone. Each of us is called to love and minister to our Heavenly Father’s children as the Savior would and partner with Him in blessing others so that both they and we can more fully feel the love of our Savior.
My dear sisters, young and old, come and take your place as covenant daughters of God and disciples of Christ. Because we all belong with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, we all belong together. Let us link arms and joyfully walk each other home. I testify that this is a sacred work we are all called to do. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
President Camille N. Johnson
Sisters, please recall with me President Russell M. Nelson’s prophetic direction concerning our identity. He said first, we are daughters of God. Second, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we are children of the covenant. And third, we are disciples of Jesus Christ.
The first, and President Nelson said the most important, identifier is one possessed by all people. We are all daughters and sons of heavenly parents.
The second and third identifiers are ones we choose.
We choose to make covenants with God at baptism and in the house of the Lord and become covenant women.
We choose to be disciples of Jesus Christ in following the Savior’s example. His disciples stand in holy places and are not moved.
Let’s spend our time together this evening focused on what it means to be a child of the covenant. What does it look like? How does it feel? And importantly, what are the blessings associated with being a covenant daughter of God?
Sisters, come take your place as covenant women!
Like Eve, we entered the covenant path at baptism.
Of course, a covenant is a promise with God.
But it is not a transactional promise—“I’ll pay you $50 if you give me a haircut.” My hair will grow out.
Instead, think of our covenant promises as transformational. At baptism, we witness our willingness to take the Savior’s name upon us, and we promise to serve God and keep His commandments. And in return, He promises His Spirit will always be with us.
The promised blessing is not of short duration or limited; it is everlasting. His Spirit will always be with us; it will transform us.
President Nelson has explained:
“Once we make a covenant with God, we leave neutral ground forever. God will not abandon His relationship with those who have forged such a bond with Him. …
“Once you and I have made a covenant with God, our relationship with Him becomes much closer than before our covenant. 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. …
“Every man and every woman who participates in priesthood ordinances and who makes and keeps covenants with God has direct access to the power of God.”
Sisters, this direct access to the power of God is a gift which He generously shares with His children. His divine power flows to all those who make and keep priesthood covenants.
We move forward on the covenant path, strengthening and deepening our relationship with God, when we make covenants in the house of the Lord—an essential and glorious part of our journey back home.
President Nelson has declared:
“Those who are endowed in the house of the Lord receive a gift of God’s priesthood power by virtue of their covenant. …
“The heavens are just as open to women who are endowed with God’s power flowing from their priesthood covenants as they are to men who bear the priesthood.”
The blessings of keeping our temple covenants include love and merciful patience; learning “how to ask for God’s angels to attend [us];” learning how to “better … receive direction from heaven;” “power that strengthens us to withstand our trials, temptations, and heartaches better;” and “power [that] eases our way.”
Sisters, that is precisely what we need!
Remember, we must never disconnect the power from its source. This priesthood power is God’s power. God blesses those who keep priesthood covenants with extra strength and guidance as promised in their covenant.
It is not about me having power. It is about Him having power. I am a redeemed soul whom the Savior is changing and working through.
I am ordinary Camille Johnson. But when I keep my covenants, God blesses me. My spiritual gifts and attributes are amplified, and I am strengthened to fulfill my responsibilities as wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter, friend, and Relief Society General President.
Sisters, each of us has the opportunity to make sacred covenants with the very God of heaven. We make these covenants as we participate in priesthood ordinances. And as we keep these covenants, He blesses us with His power.
What does this power, which flows from keeping the covenants we make through priesthood ordinances, look like in your day-to-day life?
How does a covenant woman draw upon this divine power?
I hope a personal example will be of help to you as you do the spiritually invigorating work to learn for yourself what it means to be endowed with God’s power.
On April 3 I received a text message from my daughter-in-law Amy: “Say a prayer for Dot.”
Dorothy, named after my mom and affectionately known as Dot or Dottie, hadn’t slept the night before. Amy had been up all night with her. And my son Connor was traveling for work and not scheduled to be home with them for another two days. Amy said Dottie was feverish. She had taken the pajamas off of her in the night and given her ibuprofen, but she was hot and restless.
When the light of morning finally arrived, Amy found Dottie’s lips blue. Her hands were likewise blue and cold to the touch. Amy immediately had the impression “Get Dottie straight to the pediatrician.” Without hesitation, she heeded that prompting and loaded Dottie and four-year-old Goldie into the car. She called the pediatrician’s office and was assured they would get Dottie right in.
The pediatrician’s office is only five minutes from their home and across the street from my mom’s house. Amy felt impressed to just pull down the lane and found my mom working in her yard and happy to take Goldie while Amy took Dottie to the pediatrician. It was an answer to Amy’s concern about having to keep track of Goldie and attending to Dottie at the same time.
The pediatrician promptly excused himself from seeing other patients and attended to Dottie, who had pneumonia, likely from aspirating bath water a few days earlier. Dottie was treated with antibiotics and spent the rest of the day in her mother’s arms, elevated to open her airways and ease her breathing, avoiding emergency hospitalization.
I was little help that day as I was involved in preparation for meetings around general conference. My mom, Amy’s mom, my daughter-in-law Lexi—they all helped with Goldie during the day so that Amy could attend to sick little Dottie.
I offered to pick up some dinner on my way home. And Amy let me, for which I was grateful. I wondered how Amy had managed—a sleepless night, the stress of a very sick toddler, the worry as she held her elevated all day, the need to attend to Goldie.
I walked into their home with the sack of take-out food and found Amy and the girls peaceful. There was a spring in Amy’s step and light in her countenance. She was calm, even facing another night alone with sick Dottie. She wasn’t afraid. She was confident. It was a peace that defied understanding. I really just wanted to sit in the moment and soak it in.
Amy strives to keep her covenants with God and is blessed by His strengthening power. The Spirit had prompted her to take the action she did to care for Dottie and attend to Goldie. And the Lord’s power enhanced her capacity to address her family’s needs in patience and love and with a calm reassurance that all would be well. Even her response to Connor’s text, “I feel terrible I’m gone,” was composed and confident. Amy wrote back, “Don’t feel bad! Because of your work we are able to get the proper care [Dottie] needs.”
Sisters, this is the blessing of God’s covenant power. It sits with us. It transforms us. It strengthens us. It calms us, gives us confidence, brings us peace, and increases our capacity to fulfill our divinely appointed responsibilities as women.
Being covenant women is liberating, not limiting.
My dear young women and women, I invite you to keep the baptismal covenants you have made. Let the covenant relationship transform you as you are blessed by receptivity to the Spirit and the capacity to receive personal revelation.
I invite you to prepare to make additional covenants in the house of the Lord, being endowed with His power. If you have already made covenants there, be diligent in keeping them, and stay recommended to the Lord with a current temple recommend.
Worship in the temple, performing baptisms and initiatory and endowment ordinances. Time in the temple will help us catch a vision of what it means to be covenant women.
In His counsel to Emma Smith, and all of us, the Lord said, “Lift up thy heart and rejoice, and cleave unto the covenants which thou hast made.” When we cleave to our covenants, we hold fast to the promises we have made, and we remain faithful to God, who always keeps His promises.
I love you, dear sisters. I know that the blessings of a covenant relationship are available to us because of the Savior’s atoning sacrifice. It is because of Jesus Christ and His infinite Atonement that our Heavenly Father can fulfill His promises to each of us—His covenant daughters and sons. I testify that Jesus is the Christ in His sacred name, amen.