Feb 14- 2 Nephi 2:13-16
What does it mean to have our "souls delight in the scriptures?" and how can we get there in our studies?
What does it mean to have our "souls delight in the scriptures?" and how can we get there in our studies?
Today we learn from the diligent and humble example of Sam.
The hope we find in the gospel for the sheep who have wandered.
Today Lehi teaches his youngest son about prophecy from Joseph of Egypt. But how can this prophecy teach us about the restoration of the gospel through the prophet Joseph Smith? More info on the Messiah Ben Joseph prophecy: https://rsc-legacy.byu.edu/archived/selections-2007-religious-education-student-symposium/ancient-studies/messiah-ben-joseph https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1972/12/the-old-testament-speaks-today?lang=eng...
Thinking Celestial helps us choose the good part.
Learning to chase JOY in mortality, not merely happiness.
Today we talk opposition and agency.
Today we talk about trials that result from the choices of others, and how the fall and the atonement fit together in God's plan.
Today we look at the word redeemed in a new way, and learn that the atonement is literally an embrace.
Today we talk about having the strength to shake off the chains which bind.
Today we begin Lehi's final testimony.
The Savior invites us to remember Him as He always remembers US!
Nephi's instructions to build the boat teach us an important principle about seeking revelation.
Where do you go to commune with the Lord?
More cool evidences of the Book of Mormon. Plus (and more importantly) we see the power of faith to act and not be acted upon. https://evidencecentral.org/recency/evidence/ishmaels-burial
Our modern day Liahona
The guilty taketh the truth to be hard!
If we focus on God and His love we can block out the filthiness of the world.
God's whole work and glory centers around your eternal joy, peace and happiness.
After everything that Nephi sees that were lost, we can rejoice that we worship a God who restores.
As Nephi is seeing events of the world in his vision. I don't think it is a coincidence that he is show events that were central to the restoration of the gospel.
Today we talk about the Savior's earthy ministry and our responsibility to use His Atonement.
Do we truly understand what it meant that Christ descended below all things to become our Savior and our Advocate with the Father?
In order to show Nephi the meaning of the tree, in order to show him how the tree represented the Love of God, the angel showed Nephi the life of Christ. Jesus Christ is the greatest evidence that God loves His children!
What does it mean to RELY on Christ? What does that look like in our every day lives?
If God can prepare a way 2,400 years before Martin Harris lost the 116 pages of manuscript. What can He design in your life?
Today we talk about the 4 different groups of people in Lehi's vision, and what we can learn about each of them.
Today we learn that righteous living doesn't make us immune to hard things. In fact, sometimes the mist of darkness is directly over the iron rod.
Nephi teaches us about trusting in the arm of the Lord and not the arm of flesh, he also shows us what forgiveness really looks like.
Remembering gives us strength to obey God and power to draw nearer to Him.