How Does Being Poor in Spirit or Meek Apply to Me?

How Does Being Poor in Spirit or Meek Apply to Me?In today’s episode we launch into a discussion on the first 5 verses of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:1-5.Key Talking Points·     Being poor in spirit means you feel like you are lacking·     Being poor in spirit means being humble and acknowledging you need the Savior·     Blessed meaning valuable in God’s eyes and as we follow Him and keep His commandments he will then reward us.·     Blessed means happy.·     Sometimes we don’t feel very blessed—we feel heavy and downtrodden.·     Good news is Jesus can comfort us when we feel down and discouraged. He weeps with us when we are sad.·     Being meek means having a sword and knowing when to sheath it.·     Being meek means great power under complete control, like a tamed animal.·     Jesus was meek.Main Takeaways·     From Tiffany, “I want to do to be more meek to be more willing to come to the Savior and put away the things that are keeping me from him.”·     From Bonnie, “How much I need the Savior and His grace. And that when we combine the atonement, and all that he did for us, with therapy. . .we have lasting peace, we have lasting change, we have lasting healing. If we ignore His piece of the pie, we will find ourselves in that cycle over and over and over again. In order to truly find the kingdom of heaven. And to find all these blessings that he's promising us, we need Him. He is the key here is the linchpin. The secret ingredient, if you will, to all happiness and joy.·     From Tamara, “Blessed means happy. If you want to be happy, find Jesus.”TranscriptTamara Anderson 0:00 Have you ever wondered how the Sermon on the Mount applies to you as a woman in these latter days? If so, we're going to start diving into it today. We're going to talk just about the first five verses. So join us in Matthew five and we'll figure this out together.Tamara Anderson 0:19 Welcome to Bible, Women & Bathrobes the podcast where faith meets comfort. Join us Tuesday and Thursday morning. As the gals from Women Warriors of Light and their guests, don bathrobes and dive into the inspiring stories of women in the Bible, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. From Esther's bravery to the Sermon on the Mount. We explore it all with warmth, laughter, sisterhood, and maybe even a few sleepy eyed moments. Tune in live or at your leisure as we learn lessons from scripture which empower women today.Tamara Anderson 1:01 Welcome to Bible women in bathrobes. I'm Tamara K Anderson. And I have Bonnie Randall with me. And Tiffany Fletcher. And Bonnie and I were kind of introduced on the trailer episode. So I'm going to just quickly introduce you to Tiffany Fletcher.Tamara Anderson 1:17 Tiffany is a member of our Women Warriors of Light advisory board. She's an author and an example of faith and courage. Through her life experiences, she shares hope and coming from a place of darkness to light and love. So thanks for joining us, Tiffany. And, oh, we are so happy to have you.Tamara Anderson 1:38 We are going to start by just kind of setting the stage we're talking about the Sermon on the Mount, or we're going to start talking about the Sermon on the Mount. There's no way we're going to cover it all in one episode. So we'll probably get through about five verses is all and then we'll pick up next week on Tuesday. And we'll keep going until we're done with the Sermon on the Mount and then we'll pick another thing that we can talk about from the lessons of the words of Jesus Christ.Tamara Anderson 2:05 So the Sermon on the Mount was one of the Savior's first kind of big speeches, I have no other word for it, for His disciples, He had just been baptized and called his disciples. And so they're kind of he's he's starting his ministry. And this is these are his first words to His disciples to people who are following him.Tamara Anderson 2:35 And so I just imagine maybe even being a passerby and seeing a big group gathered and going, Oh, what's this about? You know, what I mean, and how?Tamara Anderson 2:44 Well, we use the word blessed. And we're going to talk about that a lot on this. This, as we talked this morning, but how blessed they were to have been there, when the Savior began his ministry, I just think it would have been wonderful to sit at his feet and learn from him. So indeed, they were blessed just to be there. Any thoughts Tiffany, as we get going,Tiffany Fletcher 3:12 I think it's also important to recognize that this is a time where he had just been tempted. He went and fasted and just been tempted. And, and he was now really coming down and recognizing, okay, this is who I am. And now I'm going to be bold, and I'm going to start testifying and telling other people because I know who I am now. And now it's time for me to tell other people who I am. So this is really his first time going out there and saying, Okay, it's time for me to be about my Father's business.Tiffany Fletcher 3:42 And, and for me, I think that you know, that first testimony is one of the most important testimonies of all, because that's when we really understand who he is and what his lessons are. And, and those lessons are powerful because of the experience. He just had in in the temptations that he had with adversary. So I love this part of the Bible, because it really does help us to to see who he is, and what who he wants us to be in reality.Tamara Anderson 4:10 Love it. Bonnie, any thoughts?Bonnie Randall 4:14 I really liked that you brought that up, Tiffany, because the first couple of scriptures are all about being humble. And it's a interesting thing to think that he's recognized who he is, who is, you know, the Son of God, He is the Savior of the world. And yet, he's the example of all of these things that he's asking us to be. And so it's interesting because when he declares himself as the Son of God, or the Son of Man and all these different titles that he gives himself, right, the I Am and all these things. When he does that, you would think that that would be almost the opposite of what he's saying here, right? He's saying poor in spirit, the meek, and then goes on to talk about those that mourn and all these things in a lot of those first few scriptures, all point back to be humble, and recognizing that you need a Savior. And he's saying, recognizing that you need me.Bonnie Randall 5:19 And one of my favorite things about humble and what it means one of the things that has kind of come to me over the last few weeks, as I've been studying this, is that if he is the great example of all of these things, in which ways did he show up as humble, or poor and spirit or meek, and we can talk about that more, I'd love to hear your guys's thoughts. But one thing that stood out to me was that he didn't put himself down, which is almost what you would think when you when we think about being humble as a society. A lot of times we think it's well acknowledging our faults, right? It's maybe not condemning ourselves, but putting ourselves down and just saying, oh, man, I am not worthy. I'm, I'm this I'm that, like, I can't believe I'm whatever, right I did it.Bonnie Randall 6:18 When I was thinking about coming on this podcast, like, holy cow, I can move on doing this. I'm not a scholar, I have not a scriptorian and like, I'm not an author, like there's so many things that make me very disqualified, to be in this role as a co-host. For for podcast that's a Bible study. But I can acknowledge who I am just like the Savior did. And who I am is a daughter of God, who I am is someone who is striving to be a disciple who is striving to follow Him in all things. And in that regard, I am qualified because I do recognize that I need him and all things. And that's really what he's saying in these first few scriptures is recognize me as your Savior. And here I am, to give you these blessings.Tamara Anderson 7:20 Yeah, I think that is a great transition into that first verse, the blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. First of all, blessed any thoughts on blessed? That you guys want to comment on? Or I can do blessed if you guys don't want to? All right.Tiffany Fletcher 7:45 I can say something real fast. I, I feel like blessed is something that that a lot of us feel like, I'm not, I'm not blessed, I've got so many struggles about all these things that are happening, but but here's the thing he is telling each one of us that we are blessed, we are important, were valuable in his sight. When we do the things that he is inviting us to do. Blessed means that we receive those things that God wants us to receive, that we are His children, and we we receive His blessings.Tiffany Fletcher 8:21 And and I love in the Sermon on the Mount. Blessed is, is spoken so many times, it's it's the one word that is repeated over and over and over again. And I and I feel that that...