9/11/83 Rev 497
A. When the believer is faced with personal or historic disaster, he must be able to cope with the problems from his own personal inventory of ideas.
1. In disaster you are isolated and cannot depend on the ideas of others.
2. The believer who learns doctrine in normal times will build up an inventory of ideas from which he can draw. He is spiritually self-sustaining, has a personal sense of destiny, maintains control of his life, and continues to make good decisions.
3. A believer with a partial inventory will be unstable in disaster. He will succeed sometime and fail sometime.
4. The believer who is negative to doctrine is overwhelmed completely by disaster.
B. No one solves his problems by relying on the inventory of someone else’s ideas. You gain no strength when you rely on the counsel of others.
C. Therefore, the necessity for maintaining a large personal inventory of doctrinal principles, categories, and rationales, for every situation in life.
D. Only the daily perception of doctrine will accumulate the necessary inventory of ideas to be able to cope with disaster.
E. The winner in disaster can make the right application to his circumstances because in times of prosperity he has been consistent in the accumulation of a large inventory. Therefore he makes good decisions has control of his life, and has a personal sense of destiny.
F. A large inventory of ideas produces flexibility and will make you a winner.
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