1. Last Week’s Invitation
 Start bringing a notebook/journal to this
class to record personal insights and
inspirations (both in class and during the
week)
 Think about the different relationships you
are involved in. Start envisioning what
those relationships would/could be like if
Christ was more centered in them.

2. BUILDING CHRIST CENTERED
RELATIONSHIPS

3. Today’s Purpose
 To better understand and feel the love that
God has for you.
 To ponder ways you can better accept that
love.
 Discuss improving the way we
communicate with God.

4. A relationship needs good
communication: “Someone has
said that we live in a day in
which God, if there be a God,
chooses to be silent, but The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints proclaims to the
world that neither the Father nor
the Son is silent. They are
vocal…and constantly express a
President willingness, indeed an
Spencer W. Kimball eagerness, to maintain
communication with men”
- Faith Precedes the

5. Why Does God Love Us?

7. What is it about true love that
touches every heart? Why does
the simple phrase “I love you”
evoke such universal joy? Men
give various reasons, but the real
reason is that every person who
comes to earth is a spirit son or
Elder John H. Groberg daughter of God. Since all love
emanates from God, we are born
with the capacity and the desire
to love and to be loved.

8. One of the strongest connections
we have with our pre-mortal life
is how much our Father and Jesus
loved us and how much we loved
Them. Even though a veil was
drawn over our memory,
whenever we sense true love, it
awakens a longing that cannot be
Elder John H. Groberg denied. Responding to true love
is part of our very being. We
innately desire to reconnect here
with the love we felt there. Only
as we feel God’s love and fill our
hearts with His love can we be
truly happy.
“The Power of

9. What examples of God’s Love
Have You Seen in Your Life?

10. Why Should We Love God?

12. The Real Power of Prayer

13. It matters not our circumstance,
be we humble or arrogant, poor
or rich, free or enslaved, learned
or ignorant, loved or forsaken, we
can address Him. We need no
appointment. Our supplication
can be brief or can occupy all the
time needed. It can be an
extended expression of love and
Elder Richard G. Scott gratitude or an urgent plea for
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles help. He has created numberless
cosmos and populated them with
worlds, yet you and I can talk with
Him personally, and He will ever
answer.
“Using the Supernal Gift

14. As soon as we learn the true
relationship in which we stand
toward God (namely, God is our
Father, and we are his children),
then at once prayer becomes
natural and instinctive on our part
(Matt. 7: 7-11). Many of the so-
called difficulties about prayer
arise from forgetting this
relationship.

15. Prayer is the act by which the will
of the Father and the will of the
child are brought into
correspondence with each other.
The object of prayer is not to
change the will of God, but to
secure for ourselves and for
others blessings that God is
already willing to grant, but that
are made conditional on our
asking for them. Blessings require
some work or effort on our part
before we can obtain them. Prayer
is a form of work, and is an
appointed means for obtaining the
highest of all blessings.
– Bible
Dictionary

16. Specifics Yield Specifics
 3 Nephi 14: 9-11
Or what man is there of you, who, if
his son ask bread, will give him a stone? Or
if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children, how much
more shall your Father who is in heaven
give good things to them that ask him?

17. Satan’s Quest
 “Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual
communication by inducing individuals, through
temptation, to violate the laws upon which
spiritual communication is founded. With some, he
is able to convince them that they are not able to
receive such guidance from the Lord.”
“To Acquire Spiritual
Guidance”
-Elder Richard G.
Scott
 Moses 4:4

18. Sister Daisy Ogando
 Pay close attention to what is said, rather
than what is seen
 How did she show her Love to God?
 How did God show His love for Her?

19. Why is Love the Great
Commandment?

21. There is no greater evidence
of the infinite power and
perfection of God’s love than
is declared by the Apostle
John: “For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only
begotten Son” (John 3:16).
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
“Love
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Law”

22. This Week’s Invitation
 Write down in your Journals when you
recognize God’s hand or His love.
 Pick one or two ways to improve the
sincerity of your prayers. Start practicing
those improvements.

23. Resources
 “Opening Our Hearts” Gerald N. Lund
 “The Love of God” President Uchtdorf
 “The Power of God’s Love” Elder John H.
Groberg