Day 45 - Alma 49-51

Spiritual Thought:
"I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages. I have a vision of home teachers and visiting teachers, ward and branch officers, and stake and mission leaders counseling our people out of the most correct of any book on earth-the Book of Mormon. I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. I have a vision of thousands of missionaries going into the mission field with hundreds of passages memorized from the Book of Mormon so that they might feed the needs of a spiritually famished world. I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon. Indeed, I have a vision of flooding the earth with the Book of Mormon."
                             (Pres. Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, Nov. 1988, page 6)

Focus Scripture Table to study: (double click to make larger - or email me for original)


For Kids:
Click here to watch and listen to the video of "Kingsmen vs. Freeman"

Food for Thought:  Spiritual Lessons from the War Chapters
(Excerpts taken from “Righteous Warriors” by John Bytheway)

Alma 49 – If Ye Are PREPARED – Ye shall not fear!

1. Be prepared!  Total reliance on God does not mean total inaction on our part.
2. Prophets prepare us in unconventional ways.  The Lord’s ways are not the world’s ways.
3. The sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, is our weapon to see us through our spiritual battles.

Alma 50 – Fortifications and Watchmen on the Towers

• Heaps of earth                                   Prayers
• Work of Timber on heaps                 FHE
• Frame of Pickets on Timbers            Personal Scripture study
• Towers on Pickets                            Service
• Watchman in Tower on pickets        Prophets

“There is not one great and grand thing we can do to arm ourselves spiritually.  True spiritual power lies in numerous smaller acts woven together in a fabric of spiritual fortification.” -- M. Russell Ballard

            1.  Spiritual fortification comes from doing many things.

2.  Watchmen (SEE-ERS) on the towers see things we cannot.

3.  Faith and works bring assurance.

Alma 51 – Pride – Thinking You’re Strong, Makes You Weak

1. People of God have a duty to defend their country.
2. United we stand, divided we fall! Conflict from within is deadly!                              

BOMING Picture:  The King-men versus the Freemen