I Can Be Filled with the Spirit as I Take the Sacrament

The initial background informational input and query can be found after the Lesson Plan. 

This is a lesson plan from a section of Come, Follow Me, lesson 41: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/come-follow-me-for-home-and-church-book-of-mormon-2024/41?lang=eng 


Response from ChatGPT:

10-Minute Lesson Plan: "I Can Be Filled with the Spirit as I Take the Sacrament"

1. Introduction (1-2 minutes)

  • Opening Hymn: "As Now We Take the Sacrament" (Hymn 169)
  • Opening Prayer
  • Briefly introduce the topic: The importance of the sacrament as a sacred ordinance where we can be filled with the Spirit and receive the blessings of the Savior’s Atonement.

2. The Scriptural Foundation (3-4 minutes)

  • Read 3 Nephi 18:1-12: Discuss how Jesus administered the sacrament to the Nephites and the significance of being spiritually filled.
  • Key Points:
    • The multitude was spiritually filled, not by the physical act of eating and drinking, but through their faith in Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost.
    • Emphasize the importance of taking the sacrament with "full purpose of heart" and avoiding routine.

3. The Importance of Preparation (3 minutes)

  • Analogy: Compare preparing for the sacrament to preparing for a feast. Just as a feast requires effort, so does our preparation for the sacrament.
  • Discussion:
    • How do we prepare ourselves spiritually for the sacrament?
    • What can we do during the week to ensure we approach the sacrament with a heart ready to be filled?

4. Application: How the Sacrament Fills Us (3 minutes)

  • Quote from President Henry B. Eyring: Share his three suggestions on what to remember during the sacrament:
    1. Remember Jesus. How the Savior’s sacrifice influences our daily life.
    2. Remember the Progress You are Making. What we are doing well as His disciple.
    3. Remember What You Need to Do Better. Areas for improvement.
  • Reflective Question: Are we allowing the sacrament to accomplish its purpose in our lives, bringing the gift of the Atonement into our hearts each week?

5. Conclusion and Testimony (1 minute)

  • Summarize the importance of the sacrament in drawing closer to Christ and being filled with His Spirit.
  • Invitation: Encourage class members to reflect on their sacrament experience and how they can improve their preparation and focus.
  • Closing Prayer

30-Minute Discussion Prompts

1. Personal Reflection on the Sacrament (10 minutes)

  • Prompt: Share a personal experience or feeling about how the sacrament has impacted your life.
  • Follow-up: How does the sacrament help you feel closer to the Savior? In what ways do you feel filled by the Spirit during the sacrament?

2. The Role of Preparation (10 minutes)

  • Prompt: Discuss ways you prepare for the sacrament. What specific actions or thoughts help you approach the sacrament with the right spirit?
  • Follow-up: How can we avoid letting the sacrament become a routine? What changes can we make in our lives to enhance our sacrament experience?

3. Applying President Eyring’s Suggestions (10 minutes)

  • Prompt: Consider President Eyring's three suggestions. How do these questions help you during the sacrament?
  • Follow-up: What improvements can you make in your life to more fully benefit from the sacrament each week? How does this ordinance influence your actions and decisions throughout the week?

This lesson plan and discussion format should help foster meaningful reflection and conversation about the sacrament and its power to spiritually fill us.

Query: Wonderful. Thanks. What is President Eyring's quote?

Response: The quote from President Henry B. Eyring comes from his talk "Always Remember Him," where he provides three suggestions on what to remember each week as we partake of the sacrament. He said:

"Here are three suggestions about what you could remember each week when you partake of the sacred emblems of the sacrament:

1.     First, you could remember the Savior’s sacrifice for all mankind.

2.     Second, you could remember the Savior’s sacrifice for you personally.

3.     Third, you could remember that you can always have His Spirit to be with you as you worthily partake of the sacrament and keep your covenants."

These points help focus our thoughts during the sacrament on the Savior and the Atonement, fostering a deeper spiritual connection and filling us with the Spirit.


Background information input: Please refer to the section entitled "I can be filled with the Spirit as I take the sacrament" found in this lesson: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/come-follow-me-for-home-and-church-book-of-mormon-2024/41?lang=eng. Also refer to my following notes:

I can be filled with the Spirit as I take the sacrament.

3 Nephi 18:1–12

What can you do to ensure that you take the sacrament with full purpose of heart, and not allow it to just be a casual routine?

3 Nephi 18:1–12 How can you be spiritually filled each time you take the sacrament? The multitude that were with Jesus were given the sacrament by the leaders whom He had chosen. They took first and then gave to the multitude. Every ate and drank, and they were filled.

Certainly a piece of bread and a sip of water will not satisfy your physical hunger. How were they filled? They were filled through their faith in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Ghost. They were filled with hope and a determination to continue to follow Jesus and keep His commandments. They were filled with a newness of life and a resolve to serve others and become like Jesus. They were determined to live the two great commandments.

They were forgiven, with guilt swept away and with room for growth, power, and improvement.

Feasts take preparation. It is no different with the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. How we prepare will determine whether we are filled, or with it was a holy experience for us. These people had the Lord with them. They had felt the prints of the nails in his hands and his feet and the hollow in His side from the sword. They felt His love and adored Him. They were humbled by His mercy and His grace, and they were prepared to covenant with Him and follow Him. This bread and water (wine) was life to them.

verses 5–7, 11 The sacrament should always be given to members of Christ’s Church who believe in Him. We should take the bread in remembrance of His body and the water in remembrance of His blood, as a testimony to the Father that we always do remember Jesus. The leaders of the Church who’ve been given authority should always provide the sacrament to those who repent and are baptized in Jesus’s name.

3 Nephi 20:1–9 Even though the disciples had not brought bread or wine, Jesus again gave them the sacrament. He is the sacred memory. The emblems we take are in remembrance of Him.

Are you allowing the sacrament to accomplish its purpose in your life? Are you receiving fully the gift of the Savior’s atonement for you? Why is the sacrament sacred to you?

Always Remember Him President Henry B. Eyring gave “three suggestions about what you could remember each week when you partake of the sacred emblems of the sacrament.”

“How is the Savior’s sacrifice influencing my daily life?” “What am I doing well as His disciple, and what can I improve?”

Matthew 26:26–28 26 ¶ And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Behold the Lamb of God

As Now We Take the Sacrament

Video: Sacrament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sky4Mf0izn8

Query: Now, please create a 10 minute lesson plan, followed by discussion prompts that would allow for 30 minutes of class discussion. Thanks.


 

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