November 14-20
Amos; Obadiah
"Seek the Lord, and ye shall live"
Materials: Paper, writing/coloring utensils, President Nelson's October 2022 Conference Talk, coloring page
Opening Song: "We Thank Thee Oh God For a Prophet" (Hymns, 19)
Opening Prayer:
Attention Activity: Have your family color this coloring page and have them tell you one thing they know about President Nelson.
Lesson:
Amos was a shepherd from the Southern Kingdom of Judah who went North to preach to the people of Israel who had gone astray. He tried to worn all the Israelites of the coming calamities and urged them to repent.
Amos foresaw the troubles ahead for his people as one of the Lord's prophets. Take turns reading Amos 3: 4-8. Amos uses common analogies to try to get Israel to understand that he is prophesying for a reason. A lion roars when he finds prey. A bird is caught when it takes the bate in a trap. A city should be afraid when it hears a warning trumpet.
When there are dangerous times ahead, the Lord always warns His people by providing a prophet. The prophet, like Amos, encourages people to repent and make their relationship right with God.
President N. Eldon Tanner said: “There are many scriptures which assure us that God is as interested in us today as he has been in all his children from the beginning, and thus we believe in continuous revelation from God through his prophets to guide us in these latter days" (In Conference Report, Apr. 1975, p. 52.).
Who is our prophet today? Can you think of any warnings the prophet has given to us recently? What has he urged us to do?
Activity: Give each family member a paper and writing utensil. Listen to President Nelson's talk from October 2022 General Conference. Everyone should write or draw a picture of one thing President Nelson asked us to do. What are you doing or what will you do to follow this counsel?
Prophets today still give us warnings and encourage us to repent just like the prophets of old. They clarify doctrine and receive revelation that helps the church as a whole and the entire world. In the last 30 years alone, we have seen a clear pattern of divine guidance before troubling times ahead. The Family Proclamation was read in Conference in the 90's and now the family is attacked on every front. Prophets encouraged us to get out of debt during times of economic ease and then the economy floundered shortly after. President Nelson instituted a new program to study the gospel more at home before a global pandemic stuck which closed churches and temples.
The words of President Nelson are just as prophetic as Amos or Abinidi or Nephi or Peter. He leads our church today and He sees what we cannot see. He receives revelation to guide us through the turbulent times of the latter-days.
Bear your testimony of the prophet.
Closing Song: "Latter-Day Prophets" (Children's Songbook, 134)
Closing Prayer:
Refreshment: brown sugar peach crumble pie recipe here
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