Come Follow Me- Daily Dose

Today we talk about our motivations with a little help from Pres. Monson and Henry VanDyke. 

Be ye therefore PERFECT?!? That feels daunting and overwhelming! Until you cross reference it to Moroni 10:32. We can be perfect in some things in this life...but infinite perfection doesn't happen by our own willpower. It happens as we allow ourselves to be PERFECTED.

The Savior teaches us a way that we can better approach the sacrament each week.

Today we talk about the Telestial, Terrestrial and Celestial laws! 

Today we talk about Christ's mandate for us to preserve the covenant and reflect His light in our lives for all to see. 

Today we learn about purity over perfection and disagreeing better instead of disagreeing less. 

Today we continue talking about the Beatitudes and what we can learn from them as we approach them from a foundation of faith in Jesus Christ. 

The Savior starts His great sermon by helping us understand that all faith should be centered on Him to help us gain power and strength sufficient to follow Him. 

Water is critical to our lives, without it we can't survive. We need a consistent source of water and we need to drink it everyday. Christ teaches the woman at the well that He is the Living Water. Without Him, we cannot survive spiritually. We need to find consistent ways to infuse our lives with His spirit. 

Are there people in our lives that we look at as Samaritans? Whether consciously or subconsciously? What can we learn from Christ about meeting people where they are and loving them for who they are? 

Today we talk about Jesus Christ being the greatest evidence we have of the absolute love that our Father in Heaven has for us. 

Today we talk about the command to be born again, and how it is more of a lifetime process rather than a one and done event.  Christofferson- https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2008/04/born-again?lang=eng

When Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple, what can we learn about controlling anger from that situation?

Christ didn't just take the water and transform it into the same quality of wine that there was before, he made it better. He can do the same thing for us through His enabling power. He doesn't just take us and return us sinless, through the enabling power he sanctifies us and makes us higher and holier. 

Because Mary KNEW her son and had total faith in Him, she had power to say, "Whatsoever He saith unto you, DO IT."  Do we know and trust the Savior enough to do anything that is asked of us?

What does it mean to you that the Savior wants to make you clean? And where do you go when you want to reconnect with your Heavenly Father?

As we learn about Christ beginning to call His disciples, what can we learn from their willingness to immediately leave behind all that they knew in order to follow Him. 

Christ was anointed to heal, bless and strengthen the weak, the broken, the bruised, the poor in spirit. He can do all that for us, and more. But we have to be willing to let Him in.  

Christ left His experience and time of temptation with power of the Spirit. What did He do to obtain that kind of power? And what can we do to receive it as well?

Today we learn about the specific temptations of Christ and what we learn about overcoming the adversary from the Savior's example. 

Here we get the chance to see one of the most common attacks of the adversary. He comes to the Savior and says, "IF thou be the Son of God..." IF??? He is trying to attack the Savior's identity, and he does the same thing to us. Because he knows that if he can get us to forget who we really are, he can get us to forget our purpose here on this Earth. But all we need in order to overcome his attack...

As we begin this week's study, we get the opportunity to see the Savior of the world come face to face with temptation, but we also get the chance to se how He overcomes it. Learning how Christ overcame temptation can give us strength and power to overcome as well. 

Today we talk about Christ's complete obedience and why that matters, as well as what we can learn from Luke's detail that Christ was the last to be baptized. 

Today we see Christ's humility and submissiveness as He shows us by example to follow ALL of God's commands.

Today we use the analogy that John teaches about wheat and chaff to help us learn about separating what matters most from the fluff that sometimes fills our lives.