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Have you ever wondered about angels?
Are they active in our lives? And do they ever include our own family members who have died?
Today we’re discussing Jacob’s ladder and my own thoughts on angelic family help. Listen in to find out more!
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Listen to Big Picture to get the quick context for this week’s reading, Genesis 28-33!
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Sometimes I’m guilty of thinking that a Christian life has to be a hard life– that if we’re not suffering, we’re not doing it right. That is why I love scriptural reminders that life with God is actually a whole lot easier than life without Him. Isaac was facing one of those hard times in life. There was a famine in the land, and he needed to find food for his family. Likely planning to go to Egypt where there was food, the Lord came to him and said, “Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee off.” God then directed him to a much closer place than Egypt, making Isaac’s life a whole lot easier through this revelation.
And that, I think, is one of the greatest ways life with God is easier than life without Him– because of revelation. I recently heard the story of a woman who spent almost $100,000 paying psychics to help her figure out what to do with her life before she realized it was all a hoax. As I listened to this story I kept thinking, “What this girl needs is the Holy Ghost!”
Think of how much easier your life is because you know you can turn to God for guidance because you know what His voice sounds like and can be assured He’ll stop you if you’re going in the wrong direction. That is the blessed life of being a Christian, and oh how blessed we are to be living it!
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As a woman, and especially as a pregnant woman, I absolutely love that I get to learn straight from Rebekah this week. What lessons have you learned?
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Today I want to talk about camels. They drink a lot of water to help them get through the long hours (and possible days) without a water source in the desert. In fact, the average camel can drink about twenty gallons of water at a time. Which brings us to our friend Rebekah. When Abraham’s thirsty servant asked Rebekah for a drink of water, she said “yes.” And then, without being prompted she “ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.” Yes, all TEN of them!! Ten camels that could drink twenty gallons of water each? Yep, that’s 200 gallons of water! Talk about going above and beyond to help a stranger!
Have you ever had someone who offered you “200-gallon” service: a friend who went way above and beyond in helping you during difficult times?
I have! I think of the people who–after my dad died when I was young– would secretly leave money in our family’s mailbox, or bought us a fresh Christmas tree, or mowed our lawn, or even the man who took our whole family to Disneyland. None of them had to do those things, but they did, and oh how I loved them for it! And I know the Lord loved them for it too!
We can do the same thing for those around us. We can see a need, and without being asked, we can fill it. God loves it when we go above and beyond in serving His children.
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Did you know that Abraham’s big covenant with the Lord isn’t really about Abraham at all? And hey, don’t skip this episode just because we are talking about the covenant!
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Abraham knew it was time for Isaac to find a wife, but he wanted to make sure Isaac married a worthy woman in the covenant. Unfortunately for him, there weren’t any nearby. So he asked his eldest servant to return to Abraham’s homeland and find a wife for Isaac. Now honestly, when someone asks me to pick up a rental car for them I get so nervous– what if I do something wrong? What if I get into an accident? Now imagine the weight of finding someone an eternal companion!! Yikes!
Luckily Abraham’s servant took this responsibility seriously and, as he traveled, he seems to have come up with a plan which he then presented to the lord. He prayed, “Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let this same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac. . . “ In other words, the servant shared his own detailed plan with the Lord that whichever woman offered both him AND his camels water would be the woman Isaac should marry.
Now, what does this teach us? To come to the Lord with an answer to our problems! Repeatedly in the scriptures, from the brother of Jared to Joseph Smith, we find that answers to questions can come more readily when we have already thought through the problem on our own and come up with the best solution possible! So the next time you have a question for the Lord, do your homework first! Figure out what you think is the correct answer, and THEN present it to the Lord for His approval.
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I recently moved into a new ward. I don’t know how it happened, but I ended up on the top of everyone’s substitute teacher list. Even though I’m not called to teach in the Primary, I spent almost two months straight in there this summer. My favorite part of Primary is the singing time. I love singing along with the kids and usually challenge the class I’m subbing to try to sing louder than I am. No class has ever beat me!
One of the songs I love to sing is “My Own Sacred Grove,” which is new to me. In it, it discusses how we can each find a sacred place to connect with God like Joseph Smith did.
Along with the sweet kids in Primary I have sung the words, “I will find my own sacred grove, far away from all of the noise of the world.” I believe that is so important and Abraham did too!
In Genesis 21:33 after Abraham had settled in the land of Canaan, the scriptures say, “And Abraham planted a grove. . . and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.”
I love that! Abraham couldn’t find a sacred grove so he made one!
And we can do the same. If we don’t have a place we would call our personal sacred grove we can create one for ourselves– in a closet, in a car, in a park– we can make our own sacred grove.
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Graduating college, moving to a new state, and finding a job right away proved to be much more difficult than I thought. Let’s chat about one of the most powerful testimonies Abraham gives to his son Isaac about God. Get our 365-day Old Testament daily devotional book: https://amzn.to/3nYC821
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