CURRENT MONTH
Month 2: Breastplate of Righteousness
Song: #248 Up, Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion
Quote: “The word righteousness is a most interesting and unique word. It is an umbrella word that spreads out and covers all the attributes of God. A person, then, who is righteous is Godly or Godlike…Righteousness is a composite of all that is good. It embraces the principles of heavenly power and law by which all things of God are handled and controlled and governed.” (William R. Bradford, Oct 1999 Righteousness)
Scripture: 1 Nephi 14:14, “And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the power of the Lamb of God, that is descended upon the saints of the church of the Lamb, and upon the covenant people of the Lord, who were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and they were armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory.”
ALL MONTHS FOR THE YEAR
Month 1: Loins Girt with Truth
Song: #256 As Zion’s Youth in Latter Days
Quote: President Joseph F. Smith proclaimed, “The greatest achievement mankind can make in this world is to familiarize themselves with divine truth, so thoroughly, so perfectly, that the example or conduct of no creature living in the world can ever turn them away from the knowledge that they have obtained.” [Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F Smith (1998), 42]
Scripture: “the Spirit speaketh the truth and lieth not. Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they really are, and of things as they really will be; wherefore, these things are manifested unto us plainly, for the salvation of our souls” (Jacob 4:13).
Month 2: Breastplate of Righteousness
Song: #248 Up, Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion
Quote: “The word righteousness is a most interesting and unique word. It is an umbrella word that spreads out and covers all the attributes of God. A person, then, who is righteous is Godly or Godlike…Righteousness is a composite of all that is good. It embraces the principles of heavenly power and law by which all things of God are handled and controlled and governed.” (William R. Bradford, Oct 1999 Righteousness)
Scripture:1 Nephi 14:14, “And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the power of the Lamb of God, that is descended upon the saints of the church of the Lamb, and upon the covenant people of the Lord, who were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and they were armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory.”
Month 3: Feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of Peace
Song: #1023 Standing on the Promises
Quote: “Peacemaking is a Christlike attribute. Peacemakers are sometimes labeled naive or weak—from all sides. Yet, to be a peacemaker is not to be weak but to be strong in a way that the world may not understand. Peacemaking requires courage and compromise but does not require sacrifice of principle. Peacemaking is to lead with an open heart, not a closed mind. It is to approach one another with extended hands, not clenched fists. -Gary E. Stevenson
Scripture: “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7) ((Notes for me: The Greek word translated “keep” (phroureō) is a military term meaning to guard, stand watch over, or garrison a city. Paul deliberately uses military imagery. God’s peace is portrayed as a soldier standing guard over your heart and mind.))
Month 4: Shield of Faith
Song: #1022 Faith in Every Footstep
Quote: “Faith in Jesus Christ is the greatest power available to us in this life. All things are possible to them that believe.”
— Russell M. Nelson
Scripture: And now as I said concerning faith— faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true. Alma 32:21
Month 5: Helmet of Salvation
Song: #250 We Are All Enlisted
Quote: “We will put the helmet of salvation upon our head. Our head or intellect is the controlling member of the body. It must be well protected against the enemy, for “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Salvation means the attainment of eternal life to live in the presence of God the Father and the Son as a reward for a good life in mortality. With the goal of salvation ever in our mind’s eye, as the ultimate to be achieved, our thinking and our decisions, which determine action, will always challenge all that would jeopardize that glorious future state.” Harold B Lee, 1971.
Scripture: Helaman 5:12 “And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.”
Month 6: Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Song: #259 Hope of Israel
Quote: Neal A Maxwell “in a hardening world, the Lord can piece our consciousness by using ‘the sword of the spirit’ which is the word of God. However, hearing must be ‘mixed with faith’… and with Christian service.”
Scripture: Helaman 3:29. “ Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked—“
