Book of Mormon [HELAMAN 7-12] Insights with Maria Eckersley

Our Mothers Knew It with Maria Eckersley
A Creative Study of Come, Follow Me
Book of Mormon [HELAMAN 7-12] Insights
“Remember the Lord”
September 2 - September 8 2024
WEEK 36: SUMMARY
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Lesson Summary:
This week, we see a prophet’s role up close. We’ll follow Nephi as he works diligently to reclaim Nephite hearts for the Lord. We’ll hear him pray for his people from his garden tower and watch as those same people accuse him of conspiracy. Nephi will be weighed down with sorrow at times and lifted up by the Lord at others. His tenacity through it all will inspire you to study the words of our prophet and seek the wisdom God is eager to give you.
1. Helaman 7:11
Nephi has a desperate prayer to offer for the people. He doesn’t go to a private place. He prays on a garden tower near the highway.
Question: Do you think this was deliberately demonstrative? What did he think would happen? Is there a comparison between this experience and Daniel’s prayer with his windows open (see Daniel 6:10)?
Jack N Gerard, Apr 2024, Integrity: A Christlike attribute
2. Helaman 11:23
After a period of peace, contentions well up. Nephi and Lehi and otehrs are able to neutralize those contentions by teaching truth “having many revelations daily”
Question: When have you felt this surge in your life? Do you see this playing out in the lives of prophets and apostles today? We tend to focus on conference. How does daily revelation trickle down into the church now?
3. Helaman 12:5
Mormon is warning about how prosperity tends to harden our hearts and make us forget God’s goodness. He said “they do harden their hearts, and do forget the Lord their God, and do trample under their feet the Holy One-yea, and this because of their ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity.”
Question: What does it mean to trample the Holy One under our feet? Does this have something to do with his posture as a Redeemer Or is this about our own dismissiveness Or could it be about our casualness in expecting and receiving His gift?
CHAPTERS
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00:00:13 INSIGHTS INTRODUCTION
00:02:37 INSIGHTS CHAPTER SUMMARY
00:10:00 SPARK 1: HELAMAN & HANNAH
00:18:40 SPARK 2: THE INVISIBLE BATTLE
00:28:15 SPARK 3: THE RELUCTANT DISCO BALL
00:31:45 QUESTIONS
00:41:21 WRAP UP
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[@stephaniespear7053]

You are such a beautiful and clear testifier of truth!! Thank you!

[@lorigraves7852]

Another beautiful lesson, Maria. Your are a gifted teacher who never, ever disappoints. Thank you for your preparation and for being vulnerable and sharing so much of yourself. Have a wonderful day!❤️

[@benjaminsmith6031]

Thank you for pointing out the word "unwearyingness" in Helaman 10:4 and 5. Where else do we hear that word? You have mentioned on occasion your own inspiring efforts to serve with unwearyingness. I believe the Lord expects us to push ourselves, but that effort does not go unnoticed by our Heavenly Father. The concept of work being its own reward is woven into the fabric of the plan of happiness. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book "Flow" wrote, “The best moments [in our lives] usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” I think Nephi was familiar with this eternal concept.