Continue on Your Path to Self-Reliance

Read:Congratulations! During the past 12 weeks you have established new habits and become more self-reliant. The Lord wants you to continue building on these abilities and developing new ones. As we pray and listen, the Holy Ghost can help us know what things in our life we need to improve.

Discuss:What can we do to continue along our path to self-reliance? How can we continue to help one another?

Commit:Commit to do the following actions during the next 12 weeks. Check the box when you complete each action:

• Review and continue to live all 12 principles and habits of self-reliance.

• Share what you have learned about self-reliance with others. Continue helping members of your group or offer to facilitate a new self-reliance group.

• Build on your abilities by participating in another self-reliance group.

• Study the doctrinal principles of self-reliance below.

Doctrinal Principles of Self-Reliance

Self-reliance is a commandment.	The Lord’s purpose is to provide for His Saints, and He has all power to do so.	The temporal and the spiritual are one.
Doctrine and Covenants 78:13–14; Moses 2:27–28	Doctrine and Covenants 104:15; John 10:10; Matthew 28:18; Colossians 2:6–10	Doctrine and Covenants 29:34; Alma 34:20–25

“And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this … path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save. … Ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ.”

2 Nephi 31:19–20

“The Lord cares enough about us to give us direction for serving and the opportunity for developing self-reliance. His principles are consistent and never changing.”

Marvin J. Ashton, “Give with Wisdom That They May Receive with Dignity,” Ensign, Nov. 1981, 91