Follow to Lead Preston Unck & Kris Koerper

Enos went to the forest to hunt beasts, but he ended up staying there to pray “all the day long … and when the night came” (Enos 1:3–4). Because his soul was truly hungry to receive a remission of his sins, Enos was willing to pray as long as necessary and even to “wrestle” before God (Enos 1:2). 

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That’s what sincere prayer is: not so much asking for anything we want but a sincere effort to commune with God and align our will to His. When you pray in this way, when your voice has “reached the heavens,” you discover as Enos did that God hears you, and He truly cares about you, your loved ones, and even your enemies (see Enos 1:4–17). 

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In those moments, God can make His will known to you, and you’ll be more willing and able to do His will because you are in harmony with Him. Like Mormon, you may “not know all things; but the Lord knoweth all things … [and] he worketh in [you] to do according to his will” (Words of Mormon 1:7).

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Kristoffer Koerper & Preston Unck

The Nephites considered Nephi their “great protector” (Jacob 1:10). He had defended them against attacks from their enemies, and he had warned them about spiritual dangers. Now he was gone, and the task of leading the Nephites spiritually fell to Jacob, whom Nephi had consecrated to be a priest and teacher of the people (see Jacob 1:18). 

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By inspiration, Jacob perceived that his people needed to be taught with “much boldness,” for they were “beginning to labor in sin” (Jacob 2:7, 5). These sins were much like what people struggle with today: love of riches and sexual immorality. And yet while Jacob felt that he had to condemn this wickedness, his heart also ached for its victims, whose hearts had been “pierced with deep wounds” (Jacob 2:35). 

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Jacob testified that healing for both groups—the sinner and the spiritually wounded—comes from the Savior Jesus Christ. Jacob’s message, like the message of Nephi before him, was a call to “be reconciled unto [God] through the atonement of Christ” (Jacob 4:11).

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Kristoffer Koerper & Preston Unck

An introduction to the podcast and discussion based on insights from 2 Nephi 31-33. 

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Among Nephi's last recorded words, we find this declaration: "The Lord commanded me, and I must obey." This seems like a fitting summary of Nephi's life. He sought the will of the Lord and courageously strived to obey it, whether that meant risking his life to get the brass plates from Laban, building a boat and crossing the sea, or faithfully teaching the doctrine of Christ with plainness and power.

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Nephi could speak persuasively of the need to "press forward with a steadfastness in Christ," of following the "strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life," because that is the path he followed. He knew by experience that this path, through demanding at times, is also joyful, and that "there is none other way nor name given under heaven where by man can be saved in the kingdom of God."

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Kristoffer Koerper & Preston Unck