Come, Follow Me Daily Study Guide for the week of April 19-25, 2021 covering Doctrine and Covenants 41-44. For personal and/or family study of the scriptures, geared towards families with teenagers.
*This is a suggested outline that coincides with the Come, Follow Me manual. These are my own thoughts and testimony combined with other resources that I have gathered. Everyone should study the scriptures in a way that’s best for them, but I do hope you find these outlines helpful.
*SCRIPTURE JOURNALS – I strongly suggest having a scripture journal. Many times my outlines will suggest writing something down in your scripture journal. These are also great for writing down any impressions or “Aha” moments that you might have as you study the scriptures.
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*SONGS – For a list of suggested songs for each day of the week, be sure and check out the blog called Music for Latter-day Life by clicking HERE. Suggestion for NON-SINGERS: Instead of singing, listen to the song suggested on Music for Latter-day Life and as you listen, write in our scripture journals how you have seen the hand of the Lord in your life or something you are grateful for. A great way to invite the Spirit to your scripture study.
FHE DAY
Start the week off right with a Family Home Evening that is focused around the upcoming week’s Come, Follow Me. Sign up for the Teach Me FHE email group and receive an FHE outline delivered right to your inbox every Sunday morning. Sign up at the bottom of this post.
THE LAW OF CONSECRATION
BACKGROUND
**There are two options you can do.**
FIRST OPTION
Teach the basic concept of the Law of Consecration in only 60 seconds.
OBJECT LESSON: The Law of Consecration, click HERE
OR
SECOND OPTION
Have everyone write down their five most prized possessions.
READ: D&C 104:13-14
ASK: What do we learn from these verses about the true owner of all our possessions? How do you feel about your possessions when you realize that all things on the earth are the Lord’s? Who can explain what the Law of Consecration is?
SCRIPTURE
READ: D&C 42: 30-35 and 38
The practice of living the law of consecration, explained in D&C 42, taught the Saints how they could have “all things common” (Acts 2:44, 4 Nephi 1:3), with “no poor among them” (Moses 7:18). Saints consecrated their property by giving it to the Lord, through the bishop. The bishop returned to them what they needed (D&C 42:32) – usually what they had consecrated and more. Members donated their surplus to help the poor (D&C 42:33-34). This law was a great blessing to the Saints, especially to those who had left everything to come to Ohio. Many Saints were generous in their donations. (CFM manual)
This practice of the law of consecration existed until about 1833. The law of tithing and other offerings is the current institutional method the Church uses to help us live the law of consecration. (Scott Sorensen)
Is money the only thing the Lord has asked us to sacrifice? (If you did the Object Lesson at the beginning, you may point out that two of the cards said “Time” and “Talents” on them.)
MINI LESSON
VIDEO: The Old Shoemaker (3:27), click HERE
The Law of Consecration is more than just the dividing up of property, its point is to share our resources to lift the poor and build the kingdom of God.
- In what ways did the Old Shoemaker lift the poor?
- The people that the Old Shoemaker helped, how do you think they felt after their experience with him?
- Does showing Christ-like love to others help to build the kingdom of God?
PONDER & DISCUSS
VIDEO: Have I Done Any Good in the World Today? (2:28), click HERE
What can we do above and beyond paying our tithing and offerings to help others?
As a family, choose someone you can help and make a plan when/how you will do it.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (optional)
CONFERENCE TALKS: I Was a Stranger by Linda K. Burton
VIDEO: Pass it On (2:17)
PODCAST: Lift Where You Stand
CONFERENCE PARABLE: The Joy of Unselfish Service
SHORT STORY & OBJECT LESSON: Mother Teresa – A Difference in the World
VIDEO: Know Your Why Motivational Video (3:38)
GOD GIVES US REVELATION
BACKGROUND
WHAT IF you had a nonmember friend who came up to you one day and said, “I hear your church believes that God gives you revelations. What does that mean and how does that work exactly?”
How would you answer your friend?
SCRIPTURE
PREPARE AHEAD OF TIME: Print the following image of D&C 42:61 (on cardstock if you can)
Cut the image into puzzle pieces. For a puzzle outline that you can tape to the back and then cut along the lines, click HERE
PUZZLE: Have your family put the puzzle together
Read the verse that is on the puzzle.
Explain how just as the puzzle took time putting it all together, piece by piece, little by little, that is how God reveals His mysteries to us, “revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon knowledge.”
MINI LESSON
Have you ever prayed for something and then later felt like you NEVER got an answer? Elder Bednar explains that it could be because of a faulty assumption on our part.
VIDEO: David A. Bednar “Line Upon Line, Precept Upon Precept” click HERE **Watch from the 22:18 minute mark to the 25:55 minute mark**
PONDER & DISCUSS
How does God answer your prayers?
Have you received an answer that came little by little? (Ask someone to share a personal experience. You may ask this person the day before so they could have time to think about it. Or share a personal experience of your own.)
*Optional: You may want to share the following message from Music and the Spoken Word.
MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD: The Master Teacher, click HERE
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (optional)
CONFERENCE TALK: Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives By President Russell M. Nelson
CONFERENCE TALK: Personal Revelation and Testimony By Barbara Thompson
BYUI DEVOTIONAL: “…Line Upon Line, Precept Upon Precept…” 2 Nephi 28:30 By David A. Bednar
BYU SPEECHES: Receiving Revelation By Kevin J. Worthen
VOICE OF THUNDERINGS & SATAN SHALL BE BOUND
BACKGROUND
**Listen to the following YouTube video WHILE your family reads the following 2 scripture verses.**
VIDEO: Loudest Thunderstorm Ever Recorded, click HERE
READ: D&C 43:25-26
- How is the Lord’s voice a “voice of thunderings”?
- What is he calling us to do? (repent)
- Why? Could it be because we are living in the last days and “time is running out” (as President Nelson puts it)?
SCRIPTURE/LESSON
READ: D&C 43:27-35
What is the Millennium? (Watch the following video to help answer this question.)
VIDEO: What is the Millennium (5:44), click HERE
What are you most excited for when it comes to the Millennium?
(The following is taken from Come Follow Me Through the Doctrine & Covenants)
One of the great promises of the millennial lifestyle is that “Satan shall be bound” (D&C 43:31). But do we need to wait until the Millennium before we start to bind Satan?
CROSS-REFERENCE: D&C 43:30-31 with 1 Nephi 22:25-26
According to these verses, what is it that binds Satan? (because of the righteousness of his people, Satan has no power; 1 Nephi 22:26)
QUOTE BY PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON: “We talk about Satan being bound. Satan will be bound by the power of God; but he will be bound also by the determination of the people of God not to listen to him, not to be governed by him” (Gospel Truth: Discourses and Writings of President George Q. Cannon).
If the power of God and our personal righteousness can bind the devil of hell himself, the question I immediately ask is this: What am I waiting for? We simply do not need to wait until Jesus Christ comes down from heaven for His Second Coming to begin binding Satan in our lives. We can begin to lock him out of our thoughts, our words, our actions, our marriage, our media, our home- and we can do it now. (Scott Sorensen)
PONDER & DISCUSS
In your scripture journals, write down what you will do to better hearken to the thunderings of God’s voice and list one aspect of your life where you want to feel some millennial peace right now.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (optional)
CONFERENCE TALK: The Voice of Warning By Elder D. Todd Christofferson
CONFERENCE TALK: Hearing His Voice By Elder Homer
BYU SPEECHES: When Shall These Things Be? by M. Russell Ballard
GOSPEL TOPICS: Millennium
DOCTRINES OF THE GOSPEL: The Millennium and the Glorification of the Earth
GENERAL CONFERENCE DAY
Study a recent General Conference talk. A great way to study a conference talk is to read along and highlight the parts that stand out to you. Then after the talk, review and discuss what you have highlighted.
THIS WEEK’S TALK: Room in the Inn By Elder Gerrit W. Gong, click HERE
CATCH UP DAYS
Do one of the days that you missed OR any of the additional resources listed.
Yours Truly,
P.S. For more Come, Follow Me resources, check out my post Your Ultimate Guide to Come, Follow Me. It lists over 100 Come, Follow Me resources that are available online starting with the church’s resources at the top. You can find it by clicking HERE.
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