The Power of One

For the past three years, I've taught an EFY class about The Power of One, and I thought it would be helpful if I recorded the scriptures I'd previously found that talk about how one person has the power to do what the Lord would have them do.

Lehi had the power to take his family away from Jerusalem:   (1 Nephi 2:2) And it came to pass that the Lord ^acommanded my father, even in a ^bdream, that he should ^ctake his family and depart into the wilderness.

Nephi knows he can do all the Lord has commanded:   (1 Nephi 3:7) And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I ^awill go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no ^bcommandments unto the children of men, save he shall ^cprepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.


Nephi, again being directed:  (1 Nephi 4:6) And I was ^aled by the Spirit, not ^bknowing beforehand the things which I should do.

Three united, but each one mattered:  (1 Nephi 7:19) And it came to pass that they were angry with me again, and sought to lay hands upon me; but behold, one of the ^adaughters of Ishmael, yea, and also her mother, and one of the sons of Ishmael, did plead with my brethren, insomuch that they did soften their hearts; and they did cease striving to take away my life

The Lord is The One: (1 Nephi 10:8) there standeth one among you whom ye know not; and he is mightier than I, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose. And much spake my father concerning this thing.

One person who desires, believes, and ponders:  (1 Nephi 11:1) For it came to pass after I had desired to know the things that my father had seen, and believing that the Lord was able to make them known unto me, as I sat ^apondering in mine heart I was ^bcaught away in the Spirit of the Lord, yea, into an exceedingly high ^cmountain, which I never had before seen, and upon which I never had before set my foot. 

  

Sometimes the Lord commands one person to do a great work (I think He would like to command a great work for each of His children--but not everyone listens): (1 Nephi 17:26)  Now ye know that ^aMoses was commanded of the Lord to do that great work; and ye know that by his ^bword the waters of the Red Sea were divided hither and thither, and they passed through on dry ground. 

 

Each of us have been given an assignment.  (1 Nephi 21:1) the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. 

 

(I'll need to come back to put in the rest, but that's what I particularly noticed in 1 Nephi.)