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1 Nephi 7:1 Lord spake into him again saying that it was not meet for him,lehi, that he should take his family into the wilderness alone, but his son's should take daughters to wife, that they might raise sees up to the Lord in the land of promise. How would it be to have the sons of Lehi come to your door saying to your father come follow us. My father requests that you come follow so we can marry your daughters. We will also be taken to a land of promise and it's not meant just for our family alone but for yours as will. Now your faced with leaving everything behind but also following God's commandment. Ishmael happened to be a righteous friend of Lehi. Who happened to be an Ephriamite from Jerusalem. As we see his son's leave to go get Ishmael family we see a fulfillment in fulfilling God's commandment. They were willing to follow their father and trust in walking blindly to their new life. Taking the trip in the wilderness to become Lehi's sons wives. The...

I've been thinking on Sariah and how to best sum her faith her trials all up. Can't really go any further than the trials she faced raising a family up and following a husband she seen as a visionary man. The thing that I can mainly tell though from Sariah She loves her family. She tried to read her children up into god. Sariah gained a personal testimony in God's work and will that even raising her family up towards God sometimes seemed impossible. As mothers when there are other siblings we face just like Sariah rebellion one towards another. We see each direction of our children go towards God or even away from God and find ourselves torn. Sariah has to of home through different emotions with her children. Nephi portrayed his mom very will. He must have loved his mom a lot to include her sufferings i to his story of travel. The sons love of his mom leaving a big impact on hi a life and upbringing. What it took for his mom to raise them through all their trials. Sariah ...

Sariah and her husband must be had a great inheritance in Jerusalem. She makes the comment to Lehi that they left their inheritance behind when talking about her boys when she became frustrated about Lehi sending them off. Makes me wonder what might have been growing through her mind? What type of life they actually possessed in the land? What strength she must of had to leave it all behind and follow into the wilderness with her children. To follow a visionary man her own husband that he was really do the Lord's will. Then to have faith to trust God that this was the right thing to do. The past couple of days I have been thinking on Sariah leaving her inheritance that she had in Jerusalem behind. Then I started thinking of the trials she would be gone through the wilderness. Then the last thing I thought about is getting to the new world hitting land finally and receiving the new inheritance. So I started to ponder on the lessons that she could teach me. When the thought crossed ...

We all have fears as a mother of what each one of our children are capable of doing to the other. Or we might fear who our child could possibly do in their life? The next thing we see with Rebekah is her telling Isaac that he didn't want Jacob to marry one of the locals and to send him off to the land were their ancestors were from to find  a wife. A lot of her decision was that she also feared for Jacobs life from his brother Esau. She also asks Isaac to send Jacob away to find a wife because she did not want him to marry one of the locals. Rebekah wanted the best that she could provide to her children. Especially for Jacob after his brother became angry. No matter the age of seems as a parent we are always looking out for those we love. We as mothers of woman seem to have fears that can not be explained. Our hearts love so deeply that it breaks when our own children do not get along and go after each other. Some children feel the favoritism of another and jealousy consu...

Sariah Comforted By Lehi 1 Nephi 5:1-9 And it came to pass that after we had come down into the wilderness into our father,behold, he was filled with joy, and also my mother,Sariah was exceedingly glad, for she truly mourned because of us. For she had supposed that we had perished in the wilderness, and she also had complained against my father, telling him that he was a visionary man,saying: behold thou hast led us forth from the land of our inheritance, and my son's are no more, and we perish in the wilderness. And after this manner had my mother complained against my father. And it came to pass that my father spake into her saying: I know that I am a visionary man; for if I have not seen the things of God in vision i should not have known the goodness of god, but had carried at Jerusalem and had perished with my brethren. And after this manner of language did my father comfort my mother Sariah, concerning us, while we journeyed in the wilderness up to the land of Jerusalem ...

Rebekah a Mothers Guidance Rebekah we know when she inquired of the lord with the twins received divine inspiration in guidance of her children. We learn as her story goes along that she loved Jacob more and Isaac loved esau more. Each parent giving the child they loved most their absolute attention. How would that be to know that you were the favorite of one parent?How would it also be to know one child would be blessed over the other and as a parent you help along the blessings for the one you favor? We also learn that the twins take different paths in their life. Easy being a cunning hunter and a man of the field and Jacob was a plain mg who dwelt in tents.   What was rebekahs revelation about the twins? We learn in he said 25:23 and the lord said into her, Two nations are in your womb, and two manner of people shall be segregated from the bowels: and the one people shall be stronger than the other people: and the elder shall serve the younger. Would this have an effect on...

Rebekah History Repeats In Rebekah's story we see the same steps repeat itself like her mother in law Sarah and Abraham. You know that saying " those that don't know the past are doomed to repeat it! " the same story but a different time and different a different couple. In Rebekahs story we see her and Isaac go to Palestine with king abimelech telling him the same story as Isaacs parents did. That they were brother and sister. Abimelech sees them being flirtatious with each other and realized that they are married. In our lives sometimes we have things that happen to repeat over and over again. Making us feel like we are stuck and not growing. Here in Rebekahs situation we see a repeat of history. How many times in our life have we ever read an ancestors story and realize we are going through a situation similar as theirs. Is there a hint in their story that can help us learn from their mistakes or situation that can help us even get through our mistake or situa...

Sariah Murmurs Sariah here in the Book of Mormon gets mad at her husband for sending her boys off to gather their records. Scared for her son's lives. We can look at it from the point of view was she trying to stop what Lehi was being told or from a mother's point of view who sends her son's off scared? What point do you take it as? I think I'm life no matter the age of our children we are scared to send them off to grow. Mothers we rationalize everything. Here in this moment and time period i see a woman who is scared for the safety of her son's and gets so upset that she murmurs against her husband. The fact that she does what any of us would do we want to be the mama bear and protect them from any type of danger. Sariah love her son's and knowing the danger of the mission that the lord wants her son's to do she still inside is asking that question all of us mothers do why? Why would you risk my child's life to complete the work that needs to be ...

Rebekah Seeks out Answers (Prayer and Personal Revelations) We see in Rebekahs life that she felt troubled about her pregnancy. She then seeks out an answer and goes to the lord with her problem. The Lord then answers her prayers and let's Rebekah know that she is carrying two nations within her womb. That is why she felt that her stomach was being torn apart because they were fighting amongst themselves. if anyone has ever carried twins that's exactly how it feels like your being torn one way to another inside your stomach.The other thing she was told is that one will be more blessed than the other. How many times in our life do we seek out the lord in prayer for answers to our personal problems? Do you ever feel like you get the answers that you were looking for? Do you think that the lord have you any personal revelation to the problem? How do you react to the answer and also help your personal revelation along? Many times in our life we have set backs. We become un...