"We can pray to our Heavenly Father and receive guidance and direction, be warned about dangers and distractions, and be enabled to accomplish things we simply could not do on our own."
Sacrament Service
1 Nephi 17:13
13 And I will also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led.
The Book of Mormon amplifies the Bible.
Sunday School
1 Nephi 16-17
Doctrines are like points on a geometric plane. Principles are like lines that connect then.
There were two spindles on the Liahona. One is described in the Book of Mormon as leading them the direction they should travel. Joseph Smith senior is recorded as having said that the second spindle told them where to get food. The book of Mormon does say that Nephi went to his father to tell him where to get food. His father had the Liahona.
Definition of Diligence from Webster's Dictionary 1828
"Steady application in business of any kind; constant effort to accomplish what is undertaken; exertion of body or mind without unnecessary delay or sloth; due attention; industry; assiduity."
“Diligence is steady, consistent, earnest, and energetic effort in doing the Lord’s work” (Preach My Gospel [2004], 121).
Doctrine and Covenants 4:6-7
6 Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence.
7 Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Amen.
Doctrine and Covenants 30:8
8 Wherefore, give heed unto these things and be diligent in keeping my commandments, and you shall be blessed unto eternal life. Amen.
2 Peter 1:5
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
“As we strive to align our attitudes and actions with righteousness, then the Holy Ghost becomes for us today what the Liahona was for Lehi and his family in their day. The very factors that caused the Liahona to work for Lehi will likewise invite the Holy Ghost into our lives. And the very factors that caused the Liahona not to work anciently will likewise cause us to withdraw ourselves from the Holy Ghost today.” (Elder David A Bednar, That We May Always Have His Spirit to Be with Us, April 2006 General Conference)
“The Lord gave to every boy, every man, every person, a conscience which tells him everytime he starts to go on the wrong path. He is always told if he is listening; but people can, of course, become so used to hearing the messages that they ignore them until finally they do not register anymore.” (President Spencer W Kimball, Our Own Liahona, October 1976 General Conference)
“Elder David A. Bednar described this principle in a BYU Women’s Conference: ‘We can learn much about the nature and importance of this spiritual pattern from the technique of … dripping water onto the soil at very low rates,’ in contrast to flooding or spraying large quantities of water where it may not be needed.”
1 Nephi 17:3
3 And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness.
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