Show Notes for Episode 11 of Teach Me to Walk in the Light Podcast. Are you all the way in? Learn what it means to be all the way in and taking the Savior’s yoke upon you that your burdens may be light. Includes an FHE suggestion along with a teaching tip on simple ways to involve your family in member missionary work. This episode goes along with the Come, Follow Me – for Individuals and Families for the week of March 11-17, 2019.
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**This Episode goes along with the Come, Follow Me – For Individuals and Families for the week of March 11-17, 2019.
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PERSONAL STUDY [1:50]
1.BYU Devotional Are You All the Way In? by Carolyn Billings, click HERE
“When I was about four years old, I fell out of my bed. My father heard me crying and came into my room to check on me. As he helped me get back into my bed, he asked, with all of the compassion of a loving father, why I had fallen out of bed.
He always loved to tell me how I had looked up at him and said, with the eye roll of a rational four-year-old, “Obviously I wasn’t in far enough!”
As a result, that statement became the question that my father would ask me every time I encountered a struggle, trial, or difficult problem. To this day I continue to ask myself, “Am I in far enough?”
2. The Nephites were taught the scriptures and they believed in the story of Moses and how God parted the Red Sea. But in 1 Nephi when Nephi and his brothers are trying to get the plates from Laban, after two failed attempts, Laman and Lemuel began to question:
1 Nephi 3:31
How is it possible that the Lord will deliver Laban into our hands? Behold, he is a mighty man, and he can command fifty, yea, even he can slay fifty; then why not us?
Are we ever like that? Are we ever like Laman and Lemuel? Laman and Lemuel who didn’t have a problem believing that God could part the Red Sea for Moses but who couldn’t believe that God was powerful enough to help them get the plates from the mighty Laban?
3. Trust in You by Lauren Daigle
Being all in is trusting that even though you don’t have all the answers and the Lord isn’t moving the mountain that you’re needing Him to move, or when He doesn’t part the water, you still trust in Him.
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4. Matthew 11:28-30
5. BYU Devotional His Burden is Light by Sterling C. Hilton, click HERE
6. A yoke is the wooden beam used to pair up oxen or other animals together to enable them to pull a heavy load. It allows the strength of one animal to be linked with another animal. The result being that two animals sharing the load reduces the heavy labor to where the burden isn’t so overwhelming or perhaps even impossible for just one to bear – but can easily and comfortably be borne by the two animals bound together with a common yoke.
7. “Salvation is not a cheap experience.” (Jeffrey R. Holland, Created for Greater Things)
8. Story of Alma and his followers found in Mosiah 24
9. There was a time when my husband’s contract at work was up and it was looking like it was not going to be renewed. We had this feeling almost a year before his contract was up and so my husband had already been applying for job after job, going to interview after interview but nothing was panning out. We weren’t quite sure why. I remember it was just weeks before his contract was up and someone was asking me about my husband’s job and I really was quite calm in explaining to them what was going on and that I knew that no matter what, it was going to be ok, that something was going to work out. They commented how impressed they were with my calmness and how if it was happening to them, they’d probably be stressing out. Up until that point, I hadn’t really thought about the calmness and peace I had been feeling over the whole situation until they had said something to me. It made me stop and express my complete gratitude to my Father in Heaven for lifting this burden from my shoulders and giving me the peace and surety that I needed at that time. My husband did start a new job just one week before his contract was up and everything worked out perfectly. I know that burden was lifted because we were doing all that we could to follow the Savior and we trusted Him. The Lord had been there before in our time of need and we knew He would be there again.
10.Matthew 11:29 it says, “learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart.” Christ is telling us quite plainly that we will be learning. And also He reminds us of something He said in John 5:30 that “I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me” Christ’s path is a path of meekness and submission. We too must learn to submit our wills to the will of the Father’s.
11.Christ had His own will. We can see Christ’s will when He obeyed the Father’s commandment to bring about the Atonement. We see it in the words Christ prayed: Luke 22:42 “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” Here we clearly see Christ’s will, which is separate from the Father’s. We also clearly see His perfect and complete submission. He accepted His burden and His suffering.
12. Even when the Father withdrew His Spirit and left Christ alone, Christ still committed himself to God’s will to bring about the Atonement. The Father did send an angel from heaven to strengthen Him and I believe it was because of Christ’s complete yielding to the Father’s will, that allowed the Father to send his heavenly support.
13. President Monson taught:
“When we keep the commandments, our lives will be happier, more fulfilling, and less complicated. Our challenges and problems will be easier to bear, and we will receive [God’s] promised blessings.” (“Keep the Commandments,” Ensign, Nov. 2015, 83.)
“The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord’s commandments.” (“Obedience Brings Blessings,” Ensign, May 2013, 90, 92.)
14. D&C 101:4 we are told that we “must needs be chastened and tried, even as Abraham,” no that does not mean we will be commanded to sacrifice our only son, but it does mean we will all be tried as Abraham was – pushed beyond our limits in order to expand those limits.
15. Sterling C. Hilton said:
The purpose of our tribulation is not to experience crushing, hopeless despair…Remaining steadfast in Christ through our afflictions and adversity increases our capacity to see our promised end more clearly. Like a powerful spotlight that shines more brightly in complete darkness, our suffering reveals Christ to us. We see His promise of salvation, resurrection, and eternal life more clearly in our mind’s eye, and we look forward with a bright hope to that perfect day, seeing it afar off but knowing that it lies ahead (see Hebrews 11:13).
16. Isaiah 40:31 “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
FHE [17:51]
Links from Melanie’s Library used in FHE:
1. Chain Reaction – How Will You React? Click HERE
2. How to Make Your Burdens Light object lesson, Click HERE
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TEACHING TIP [24:10]
1.16 Painless Ways to be a Member Missionary, Click HERE
For more great information on how to be a member missionary, check out my post Member Missionary Work Not Out of Your Comfort Zone by clicking HERE.
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#taketimeforfamily [26:21]
When was the last time you helped your children create a fort in your living room out of blankets or cardboard boxes? The art of building a fort is pretty simple, basically, just leave it up to your kids’ imaginations and amazing things will happen. All you have to do is supply some pillows, sheets, a few light-weight blankets, a few boxes if you have any and maybe some clothespins and then let them take charge and tell you what to do.
Your kids will think you’re awesome! You will make some fun memories. Inside the fort, you can play a board game, watch TV or do it at night and turn off all the lights except for a flashlight. Have fun with it!
Don’t forget to take some pictures and use the #taketimeforfamily and post them on your favorite social media site. Let’s show the world how important it is that we take time for those who matter the most to us.
If you have any fun family activities or dinner conversation starters that you’d like to share, I’d love to hear them. Simply email me at melanie@melanieslibrary.com.
Yours Truly,
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