Come Follow Me with Sam

  True worship i'd like to focus on the strange events that happen after Moses gets called.  You would think that if God calls someone to do something, He would just bulldoze all the obstacles away but that is not what happens. It is the same experience with Nephi and with Joseph smith as well. Its like every opportunity is a growth opportunity for God's servants. Here Moses goes down to Egypt, and all the Israelites recognize him and worship God and everything is going just great, and then he goes to Pharaoh and tells him what's what... And then Pharaoh basically says 'scram, and you know what, I'm going to make the Israelite work harder just because you thought you could do this before pharaoh'. So what's up with that? God's ways are not man's ways. Even (especially) on God's mission, we are given the refinement worthy of Godliness. The wickeder the world, the more glorious the mission. Ten plagues as the creation backwards The ten plagues have...

 Today, I'm going to keep it short and on a traditional topic. The Miracle of Forgiveness This week unfolds possibly the most touching story of the old testament where brothers who thought they destroyed their brother and saved by him, where they defend their youngest brother against any such fate, where Joseph shows the hand of God in all their actions, and where they all frankly forgive each other and find temporal and spiritual deliverance. Joseph is the last of the patriarchs, ending the middle period between the flood and the house of Israel. In him, the old mysteries of the ante-diluvian period and the current mysteries of the astronomy of Abraham and the science (or alchemy, as it may be) of the egyptians is closed up as far as the biblical history is concerned. The more traditional Israelites that we are familiar with (more discussion on this though, stay tuned) are about to emerge. We don't have the prophecies of Joseph publicly available, except the scant record we wi...

Prepared in all things. The story of Joseph is a well known narrative from Genesis. There are many lessons That can be taught including trust in the lord, the promises of Israel, archtypes of Christ, etc. I'd like to focus on Joseph as a way of fulfilling these passages of scripture from Zenos, taken from Alma's teachings 3  Do ye remember to have read what  a Zenos , the prophet of old, has said concerning prayer or  b worship ? 4  For he said: Thou art merciful, O God, for thou hast heard my prayer, even when I was  a in  the wilderness; yea, thou wast merciful when I prayed concerning those who were mine  b enemies , and thou didst turn them to me. 5  Yea, O God, and thou wast merciful unto me when I did cry unto thee in my  a field ; when I did cry unto thee in my prayer, and thou didst hear me. 6  And again, O God, when I did turn to my house thou didst hear me in my prayer. 7  And when I did turn unto my  a closet , O Lor...