Know Your Protection Strategy — Alma 43–52
Come, Follow Me: Book of Mormon 2024 (August 12–18)
When faced with daunting Lamanite armies, Moroni demonstrated a brilliant ability to strategize–plan in detail how he to protect and defend Nephite cities and families.
We’re living in war chapters today. Attacked by the prioritization of power, possessions, popularity, and pleasures, along with pride and an “eat, drink and be merry” mindset, faith, freedoms, and families are again at risk of destruction.
Moroni prepared his people with breastplates, arm-shields, thick clothing, and helmets. He fortified the walls of cities and gathered his people together for strength and support. Today, President Nelson has provided similar strategies for our safety:
“Let God be the most important influence in your life.”
“Do whatever it takes to increase your spiritual capacity to receive personal revelation.”
“Nothing is more liberating, more ennobling, or more crucial to our individual progression than is a regular, daily focus on repentance.”
“Making and keeping covenants actually makes life easier!”
“I am asking us to interact with others in a higher, holier way. Please listen carefully. ‘If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy’ that we can say about another person—whether to his face or behind her back—that should be our standard of communication.”
“Whatever questions or problems you have, the answer is always found in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.”
“Nothing will help you more to hold fast to the iron rod than worshipping in the temple as regularly as your circumstances permit. Nothing will protect you more as you encounter the world’s mists of darkness.”
“Think Celestial!”
What is your current strategy to defend your faith, freedom, home, and family? What plans do you consistently implement to protect your heart, might, mind and strength from the growing darkness around us?
Write your strategy down. Share it. Do it.
Do Hard Divinely Better Lesson #32: Know your strategy for defending and protecting yourself and your family from the armies of wickedness.