Day 320

• Principle: God is your loving Heavenly Father

• Book of Mormon Reading: 4 Nephi 1:23 - 1:49

  • The peaceful world of the Nephites is coming to an end.  What are the main triggers of this ending listed in these verses?  What did the disciples do to hold to their faith?

• As you approach the end of your year of study you will return to the basics.  The final days study guides will focus on the principles of the gospel.  It is upon these principals that faith is built and nurtured through Jesus Christ.  If doubts enter your life return to these principals and you will find strength to continue to hold to the rod and progress towards God.

• What have you seen in your life that testify that there is a God?

• Alma taught “All things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator” (Alma 30:44)

• Some other verses that teach of God and His actions are

  • D&C 20:17

  • 3 Nephi 9:15

  • Moses 2:1

  • Genesis 1:26–27

  • Moses 2:26; 6:9

  • D&C 130:22

  • Moses 1:39

• A simple four steps to know God

  • Mosiah 4:9 - Believe that God is real and that He loves you

  • 2 Timothy 3:14–17 - Read and ponder the scriptures

  • James 1:5 - Pray to God

  • John 14:21–23 - Obey His Commandments and follow His teachings

• Additional Study:

  • M. Russell Ballard, “God Is at the Helm”, October 2015

  • God, Our Father, Hear Us Pray, Hymns No. 170

  • I Know My Father Lives, Children’s Songbook No. 5