Episode 35 - Doctrine and Covenants 94–97, "For the Salvation of Zion"
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
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🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode covering Doctrine and Covenants 94–97, I talk about how the Lord gives us patterns—whether in building temples or in building our lives—and how following His plan brings blessings we can't find in the world's way of doing things. I share a listener's touching review about the power of the Book of Mormon, insights on the Lord being in the details, and lessons from Joseph Smith's insistence on building the Lord's house His way. We discuss chastening as a sign of God's love, Hyrum Smith's eagerness to begin the Lord's work, and how temples and Zion invite us to become pure in heart. Most of all, this episode reminds us that the Lord wants to refine, bless, and multiply us when we humbly follow Him.
See Saints, 1:169–70; "A House for Our God," Revelations in Context, 165–73.
Below is the talk I referenced, The Lord's Strange Act by Rex C Reeve.
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/rex-c-reeve-sr/lords-strange-act/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast where we feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm your host, Melanie Straub. |
| 0:10.3 | This is Doctor in Covenants 94 through 97 for the Salvation of Zion. |
| 0:15.7 | I want to get started by reading one review this week. |
| 0:18.3 | It was written by a woman who was having kind of a rough time, |
| 0:21.8 | and she said this, hearing your testimony of the Savior and the Book of Mormon strengthens me. |
| 0:27.4 | There has been multiple nights when I have gone home and said in my prayers, Melanie said that |
| 0:32.5 | there is power in the Book of Mormon, and I know that if Melanie knows it, I can know it too. I do know it. |
| 0:39.3 | The Book of Mormon softened my heart and turn me to the Savior. I feel healed and renewed. |
| 0:44.7 | That is what the power of Christ's atonement can do for each of us. Amen, lady. Thank you so much for |
| 0:51.6 | writing these things, because if you don't try it, you'll never know. |
| 0:56.0 | And maybe that's all you have right now is Melanie says it works. |
| 0:59.6 | So I'm going to go on a little bit of faith that if Melanie says it work, that it can work. |
| 1:04.8 | Because if we read in Alma 32, it talks about just applying a little teeny tiny faith and taking an experiment on the word. |
| 1:16.0 | And that's what it is. Heavenly Father, I need direction and guidance in my life. I love you. I want to |
| 1:21.5 | follow you. Please help me to know what to do. And then open your scriptures. Ponder, think, |
| 1:27.4 | pray. It's a miracle. It really is. It's so great. So thank |
| 1:30.3 | you for writing that to me. And I encourage you guys to keep writing me your testimonies about how |
| 1:36.2 | the Book of Mormon and studying it and the scriptures has changed your life because it's a big deal. |
| 1:42.3 | All right. Let's get started. In the manual, it says, when the Lord commanded |
| 1:46.0 | Moses to build a tabernacle, he told Moses to make all things according to the pattern |
| 1:51.1 | shewed to him in the mount. The tabernacle was to be the center of Israel's wilderness camp. |
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