Inner Strength Insights with Jamie Knapp: Scriptural Insights for Latter-Day Life

Simplify for Sanity Challenge Scholarship: https://www.innerstrength.me/win This year I ordered Christmas online. Scroll, click, on my doorstep. It's hard to believe it's that easy. I remember waking up at 3 or 4am on Black Friday to go stand in line and freeze to death outside a store to get a deal on Christmas gifts. This year I ordered half of the gifts from my bed. Wow. This week one question...

Simplify for Sanity Challenge Scholarship: https://www.innerstrength.me/win You've seen the timelines, worried about disasters and rumors of wars.   Why do the signs actually matter?   There is a really important reason I had never thought about.   Will the Savior come in 5 years?   I don't know.   I hope.   But there is something so much more important you need to know about why those signs exist...

Simplify for Sanity Challenge Scholarships: https://www.innerstrength.me/win If Heavenly Father came to your gift exchange, what would He give YOU? I think that looking under the Christmas tree and finding a gift from Heavenly Father would be the coolest thing! In this week's podcast, I talk about the gifts of God. What gifts does He actually give? Moroni talks about the gifts of God, how to get t...

Newsletter: https://www.innerstrength.me/faith I can check off things on my to-do list... but there's always more to do. It feels that way with spiritual things, too. I need to call that neighbor... and spend more time with my daughter... and call my grandma... and do family history... and, and, and. It seems I always fall short. Moroni asked, "How is it possible that ye can lay hold of every good...

Inner Strength Email Boost opt-in: https://www.innerstrength.me/faith I did not plan to stay up until 2am. I also didn't plan to be a cranky momma by 4pm the next day. 😩 But there I was. Sometimes life takes an unexpected turn. Then what? Did you fail? The scriptures say that if all men had been like Moroni, the very powers of Hell would tremble and shake. Sounds like he's anything but a failure....

 Get a weekly email boost of strength and insight to help you love your life, live your mission, and raise kids who do the same here: ⁠https://www.innerstrength.me/faith⁠ My teenager fell out of the car when she tried to get out.   She had just had surgery- and no amount of effort was enough to steady her legs.   So,   we had to catch her.   Some days I feel like that's the story of my life.   I t...

There are times in life when you're on top of the world. You've totally got this! And then... there are times when life is so demanding that you're barely keeping your head above water. You just start to solve one problem and find out there's three more things you need to take care of too. It can feel exhausting after day 1. and day 4 and day 344. But there is one truth, when remembered, that make...

Ever wonder what it says in the sealed portion of the plates?   When will we get them?   They were written for us.   Moroni was commanded to copy them and to keep them- and he told us what we needed to do in order to get them.   So... no, they aren't just going to stay sealed up.   We will get them.   We're just not ready yet.   Neither was the Brother of Jared at first.   But the Lord sent confus...

Moroni watched his entire civilization be destroyed. He lost everyone he loved. It wasn't that there was a lot of wickedness around him; it was that there was only wickedness. Moroni was the only person left who believed in Christ. It brought new meaning to feeling alone. Still, he didn't doubt the Lord. How did he stay so strong? While I hope we will never see what Moroni saw, we have been told o...

Sometimes the wisest people are the ones who have been through the most.   Mormon is no exception.   At age 10, he was called to record the eventual destruction of his entire civilization.   No thank you.   And yet, he let God prevail.   He did what he was called to do.   And he saw things so horrible he couldn't bear to write them.   But during it all... he also knew the Lord.   He spoke with Him...

You're praying in your bedroom. All of the sudden, the Savior appears next to you and sits on the bed. He says, "What do you desire?"   What would you say?   The disciples in the Americas had plenty on their minds that was stressing them out.   Everyone was arguing about what the church should be called, and it was causing chaos.   Hmmm.   I know what it's like to feel stressed out by uncertainty...

Access more resources, videos, and classes here: https://www.innerstrength.me/free Are you ready for what will happen between now and when Christ comes again? We've been told this will be a decade never to be forgotten. I think it will be incredibly wonderful and also hard. Are you ready? Are your kids? When the Savior appeared to the people in the America's, he told them he would come again. He a...

How do you get the faith to be healed?   The faith to call down miracles?   I think heaven is leading me to learn this now in my life. I know an abnormally high number of people who are going through life-or-death heath challenges right now.   I have cried.   And my heart has wanted to ask for the miracles that I'm afraid might not be God's will.   Today, I asked Heavenly Father for something diff...

Access more videos, classes, and resources here: https://www.innerstrengthparenting.com/free What is your definition of perfect?   I heard my little boy chew himself out this morning for messing up.   My heart sunk.   He's not old enough to feel "not enough," is he?   The truth is, we all feel "not enough" from the time we are young.   Why?   Because we want other people to...

Is the second coming on your calendar? It would be so awesome to know the day! I do often wonder when that day will be. What will it be like to actually see Him? To watch my kids see Him? There's a lot of attention given to the signs that will come before the second coming. It's easy to feel fearful. The people of Nephi experienced storms, earthquakes, and fire. They also felt doubt, confu...

Everyone has doubts about themselves, their abilities, other people, and yes... faith. "I was sure when I prayed, but maybe it was just my own thoughts." or "I've done what heaven asked, but the promise didn't come. Maybe..." When doubts come, it means you're human. But those doubts feel so heavy. Why do they come? How can you keep strong? How do you help someone el...

Ever feel like no one is listening to you? Samuel did too. He did what God asked him to do. He said what God put into his heart. And yet- it seemed that no one cared. Although no one has shot arrows at you this week, sometimes it can still feel like you're saying things that are true and important- but nobody gets it.   But, what if things are going better than you think? What if the message I...

I always wanted enough faith to move a mountain.   Why?   I don't know.   I didn't need a mountain to move... I just thought it would be so cool to be able to do it!   But, there are symbolic mountains in life that I really DID want to move.   I wanted sickness to go away.   I wanted people not to die.   I wanted relationships to heal.   I wanted weaknesses to disappear. I wanted people to...

Free class on your brain and worry: https://innerstrengthparenting.com/freeclass My house almost burned down this week. My husband looked out the back window and saw the neighbor's barn on fire. The flames were bigger than any fire I had ever seen. Between that barn and my house stood a road and a small, dry pasture. The wind was blowing furiously in the direction of my house. I knew it could...

Free Anxiety Class: https://www.innerstrengthparenting.com/freeclass Wish you could delete anxiety?   Anxiety is everywhere these days.   Why is it so prevalent?   Because anxiety comes when the future is unknown or unsafe.   It comes when we aren't sure what the future will look like   or when we aren't sure WE are strong enough, smart enough, good enough to do what that future will deman...

Sometimes evil wins the battle. It makes me really mad sometimes. Especially when Satan gets me to doubt myself or get irritated or say things I wish I hadn't AGAIN. How does he do that? Because he's smart and cunning and a crazy-good liar. And because he knows WHERE and HOW to attack ME. He knows where I am most likely to fail. And, just like in battle, he attacks my weakest point. Ever b...

Access free class on avoiding parenting and mom burnout and exhaustion here: https://www.innerstrengthparenting.com/freeclass I remember thinking as a teenager that "enduring to end" sounding really awful. Who wants to do that? Its sounds miserable! And then I became a mom...and there was more "enduring" involved than I had bargained for. I endured not having any sleep. I endur...

Weeds don't give up. They can grow anywhere. Sometimes they take over. There are also weeds in life. Those things that cause problems but are really hard to get rid of. Things that keep us from growing within ourselves the attributes we want to have. Things that make life harder than it seems it should be. What do you do when life gets weedy? You bring in some power and till up those weeds! Th...

Remember those cartoons where the main character had an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other? Turns out there's some truth to that. When an answer doesn't come from the angel on our shoulder (but we think it does), we can end up feeling alone and confused when our path doesn't turn out. In this episode, I talk about 5 reasons we can get a false answer to prayers - and what we...

Sometimes I feel rebellious.   Like when there's a rule that doesn't make sense. Why should I follow it?   Or when something isn't fair. I deserve what is mine, right?   Rebellion gets a pretty bad rap. Really, though, we all feel it at times. It's normal.   So, why does God condemn it? Because rebellion against HIM hurts us, and His job is to save us.   Yep. That's why. He can...