This document outlines steps for spiritual survival and staying close to God, including making and keeping spiritual covenants, clinging to truth, prayer, scripture study, and obedience. It warns of spiritual and physical dangers when straying from God and encourages awakening each day through personal worship to remain protected by staying by the tree of life.

1. STAY BY
THE TREE
BY ELDER KEVIN W. PEARSON
JESSICA KASTANIS

2. Prayer
• Escape
• Darkness
• Loneliness
• “What more would
You have me do?

3. Be Perfected in Him
• Christ= Manifestation of
Gods love
• Return to live with Him
• Make covenants
• Keep covenants

4. Press Forward
with Faith
• Stay on straight and
narrow path
• Commandments are
protection
• Spiritual danger
• Physical danger

5. Key to Spiritual
Survival
• Cling to truth
• Understanding will
come
• Continually hold fast
• Without, we are
spiritually lost

6. Don’t be
Distracted or
Deceived
• Know your sources
of information
• “Politically correct,
but they are
spiritually lost”

7. Stay by the
Tree
• Awaken unto God
each day
• Personal prayer
• Scripture study
• Obedience
• Selfless service

8. “Wherefore, I … did
exhort them … that
they would give heed
to the word of God
and remember to keep
his commandments
always in all things.”