Tag: Alma
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The promise of desire
We are promised many times that we will be granted what we desire whether to our benefit of detriment. Elder Maxwell clarifies that this is true on the macro level (ie. we will receive what we consistently desire over time, not necessarily everything that we fleetingly desire). The key is to remember that we can…
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Exercising agency in my desires
The restored gospel teaches much about the critical role that individual agent plays in the plan of exaltation. I think I have an opportunity to use my agency now to cultivate my desire for Laura not based on external stimuli but based entirely on my choice.
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Prayer plants the seed of faith
When the people ask Alma how to plant the seed of faith he instructed them to pray. When Amulek follows Alma in assisting he tells them again to pray. When Nephi teaches concerning Christ and writes of the path to salvation through the gate of baptism he follows that up by inviting any who wish…
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Courage of Amulek
What kind of courage did it require for Amulek to stand and peach after Alma when the people were already in a mood to lay their hands on Alma and remove him?
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The song of redeeming love
Alma asks the people of they have felt to seeing the song of redeeming love and of so he asks them to consider if they can feel so now. I have felt that song before but at present it is absent or very weak. I need to strive to hear that song again.
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Of Fathers and Sons
Helaman says that his stripling warriors “were worthy to be called sons” and that as he had ever called them his sons they also called him father. I wonder if it’s even possible for someone to be “worthy to be called son” if they don’t see the person on the other side of the relationship…
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One step at a time
When Helaman admonished the people of Ammon to not abandon their covenant and take up arms he likely had no idea that it would lead to him leading an army of their sons against the Lamanites for the next few years. He only knew that abandoning their covenant want likely to have a positive outcome.
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My title of liberty
In a time of national crisis Moroni wrote a reminder of what he was fighting for and invited the people to join him in defending the things he memorialized: In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children. I’d like to do something similar for my family…
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Becoming a man like unto Moroni
We are told that “if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.” It’s time for me to become “a man like unto Moroni”…
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Retaining full vision
Once Moroni had cleansed the inner vessel with Pahoran he didn’t just turn everything back over to Pahoran. He stayed to ensure that reinforcements were sent to both Helaman and Lehi, then he opened a new front against the Lamanites on his way back to Lehi.