Scripture Power

On Sunday we watched a restoration video in our class that got me thinking about the scriptures a lot when Joseph says:

 "While I was laboring under the extreme difficulties caused by the contests of these parties of religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

  Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible." 

The more I thought about what he said, the more I wanted to have my kids be like him to understand that the scriptures have power. That they can at any age feel the power of the scriptures  just as Joseph did when he read that verse. 

So for Family night I showed them the video and talked to them about why we read the scriptures. And how sometimes the stories or teachings help us to feel the Holy Ghost, make us happy and at times we will keep thinking about them the next day; and when that happens it is important that we can share those feelings we have. 

 We are going to hang up a scripture power board when we can post the scripture or in my kids case draw a picture of the story or of how we feel so we can share with each other how the scriptures are important to us and what we are learning from them.

I want them to know the scriptures have the power to make us better people and to guide us each day, they can be that rock to lean on when life gets rough; but most of all I want them to be better than their mother when it comes to bearing testimony to others. I want it to come natural to them and not be as hard as it is for me to do. 

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2008-06-01-the-restoration


Up Dated

This has been so great I love seeing how much the girls really know their stories and which ones they like and why. They draw the best pictures to go along with it, they have fun retelling the scripture stories and it is fun to hear how they remember them even if they are not 100% right every time. It has made family home evening more fun and gets the girls involved more than when we just give a lesson and ask questions.