2.144 All the Study...was to Deliver Themselves Out
Show Notes
Allen Roberds explores Mosiah 21:36, emphasizing the powerful principle of focusing all one's 'study' and energy on deliverance from spiritual bondage or self-created "peaceful prisons." This episode encourages listeners to concentrate their efforts on a righteous goal, allowing the Lord to reveal a path forward, much like King Limhi and Ammon's people.
Key Points
- Mosiah 21:36 reveals the strength found when individuals and groups unify their focus on a singular goal, such as deliverance.
- The episode contrasts the scattered, unfocused lives of King Noah's people with the purposeful, unified 'study' of King Limhi and Ammon's people.
- When we intentionally focus our energy and 'study' on God's plan, we create an opening for the Lord to intervene and provide revelation for our deliverance.
- This spiritual tool helps reduce distractions, clarifies spiritual promptings, and enables powerful personal revelation in our daily lives.
- Listeners are encouraged to introspectively identify areas where they need to apply all their 'study' to achieve liberation from personal 'Lamanites,' bondage, or self-imposed limitations.
May you and I take all of our study on delivering ourselves out of our Lamanites, out of our bondage, and out of our peaceful prisons.
Episode Resources
Full Transcript
In Matthew 5:13, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth, a bold reminder that our lives are meant to carry his flavor, his truth, and his love to the world. Join me each day to explore one verse of scripture and one thought, striving to stay full of savor and truly live as savory salt. Hello, my friends, great to have you with me.
Today, let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. We have been working on getting out of our peaceful prisons a little bit. Whether it was episode 138 or yesterday's episode, I have links to them so that you can kind of reference those in case you have missed one or the other.
We're going to continue our thoughts on that because there's another tool the Lord gives us in the Bible. And I think it's insightful for each one of us. We have been reading this week Doctrine and Covenants 49 and 50, as well as Mosiah chapters 21 through 25.
We're going to do one more verse for today in Mosiah chapter 21, and it's right at the tail end of the chapter. You see Limhi, after they have struggled, after they tried to fight their way out. And then they turned to the Lord, and they started to prosper by degrees, as we talked about yesterday.
He gets assistance, he gets help from outside source, that Ammon. As they come and meet together, and they find out all the things about all the different peoples, and they get excited that they're together. And so he gets assistance as well.
I think there's another blessing inside of there we could spend time meditating on. And then we get to verse 36 in Mosiah chapter 21. That's our verse for today here.
Let's see what other tool we can use to get out of our peaceful prisons we create for ourselves. 36 says this: "And now all the study of Ammon and his people, and King Limhi and his people, was to deliver themselves out of the hands of the Lamanites and from bondage." Now, if you will take this reference and think about what the people of Limhi were focused on with King Noah, where was their focus? It was so scattered. Their focus was on riches and abundant living and riotous living.
And they were, they were all over the place. They were after gold and silver. They were living the, the winebibber life, right?
They were living the high life. They had no focus on any specific direction in life. Now, fast forward to the situation with Limhi and his people here.
Ammon has come in to help them. They're trying to get out of their peaceful prison. And did you notice what it said in the verse there?
It said, "and now all the study of Ammon and his people and King Limhi and his people was to deliver themselves out of the hands of the Lamanites." All their study. Where did their focus go? It went from the distractions of life over here, and the distractions of the world over there, and the distractions of the peaceful prisons and the sinful living here and there.
And the focus went specifically to delivering themselves out. They were going to focus on one plan. That's what allows the Lord to step in.
When we are focused on his plan, we are allowing him to come into our lives. My friends, this is such a powerful tool. This isn't just a spiritual tool.
This is a tool for each one of us to apply in our lives. The more we're going a hundred different directions, the more distracted we are. The more distracted we are, the less we can feel the promptings of the Spirit in our lives.
What do you and I need to throw all of our study at in our lives currently? That is an introspective question for each one of us, but that is worth our meditation and our prayer and our study. When we throw all of our energy in that direction, we then come before the Lord and we say, "Lord, this is where I'm inspired to go.
Help me go where you want me to go." I now want to focus my study on that. That then becomes quite powerful because the Lord's able to reveal for them a path forward of deliverance. I think there's a gold nugget right here in 36 that we tend to just kind of read and skip over.
May you and I take all of our study on delivering ourselves out of our Lamanites, out of our bondage, and out of our peaceful prisons. That is my hope and prayer for each one of us today. That's all for today, my friends.
Lift up your hearts and rejoice. Cleave unto the covenants you have made, and together we will be savory salt.
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