Weekly Training Meeting
February 3, 2015
Announcements:
- Missionaries need help getting to class on pick up. Floating teacher and ZRs should help out.
- Model of the new MTC rooms at west campus.. we will be taking a district down there.
Follow up:
How have you seen your prayers, church, or BOM change since focusing on quality instead of quantity?
Revelation Through Prayer
How it connects to the Missionary Purpose
Without your blue book, what do you believe the objective is for Revelation Through Prayer?
Open your blue book and see what the objective it, compare.
Objective: Help missionaries learn that prayer is essential for conversion and how to invite others to pray early and often so that they may receive personal revelation.
What are key phrases that investigators use?
Read:
See if you can find evidences of the DOC in this prayer. That it is leading towards conversion or evidence of it.
Ether 2:18-22
18 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared cried unto the Lord, saying: O Lord, I have performed the work which thou hast commanded me, and I have made the barges according as thou hast directed me.
19 And behold, O Lord, in them there is no light; whither shall we steer? And also we shall perish, for in them we cannot breathe, save it is the air which is in them; therefore we shall perish.
20 And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: Behold, thou shalt make a hole in the top, and also in the bottom; and when thou shalt suffer for air thou shalt unstop the hole and receive air. And if it be so that the water come in upon thee, behold, ye shall stop the hole, that ye may not perish in the flood.
21 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did so, according as the Lord had commanded.
22 And he cried again unto the Lord saying: O Lord, behold I have done even as thou hast commanded me; and I have prepared the vessels for my people, and behold there is no light in them. Behold, O Lord, wilt thou suffer that we shall cross this great water in darkness?
Ether 3:2-5
2 O Lord, thou hast said that we must be encompassed about by the floods. Now behold, O Lord, and do not be angry with thy servant because of his weakness before thee; for we know that thou art holy and dwellest in the heavens, and that we are unworthy before thee; because of the fall our natures have become evil continually; nevertheless, O Lord, thou hast given us a commandment that we must call upon thee, that from thee we may receive according to our desires.
3 Behold, O Lord, thou hast smitten us because of our iniquity, and hast driven us forth, and for these many years we have been in the wilderness; nevertheless, thou hast been merciful unto us. O Lord, look upon me in pity, and turn away thine anger from this thy people, and suffer not that they shall go forth across this raging deep in darkness; but behold these things which I have molten out of the rock.
4 And I know, O Lord, that thou hast all power, and can do whatsoever thou wilt for the benefit of man; therefore touch these stones, O Lord, with thy finger, and prepare them that they may shine forth in darkness; and they shall shine forth unto us in the vessels which we have prepared, that we may have light while we shall cross the sea.
5 Behold, O Lord, thou canst do this. We know that thou art able to show forth great power, which looks small unto the understanding of men.
What are we learning about prayer from the Brother of Jared?
Define will- align your thoughts with God
What kind of phrases do we say every day that are part of mormon culture?
We need prayers that are not habit forming but faith promoting.
Invitation:
Find an opportunity or help someone else benefit from how you learned to pray/what you learned about prayer today?
We will talk about your experiences next week
