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Waking Up Zion — The Book

Waking Up Zion --- The Book

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INTRODUCTION Not a Faith Crisis — A Truth Awakening This isn’t a book about walking away. It’s a book about walking deeper. Deeper into Jesus. Deeper into His voice, His light, and His truth. For years, I loved my faith. I still do. The Church gave me structure. It gave me good people. It taught me to honor prophets and scriptures. To seek the Holy Ghost. To follow Christ. But somewhere along the way, I started asking quiet questions— Not to tear down, but to understand more. Where is the power of the Book of Mormon? Where is the fire of the early Saints? Where is the Jesus who speaks face to face? This book isn’t here to fight the Church. It’s here to reach the hearts of those in it — Especially those who feel something is missing, but don’t yet have words for it. I believe God is still working. But I also believe He is calling many of His children out of comfort and into courage. Out of tradition and into truth. Out of a system and into a personal walk with His Son. If you love the C...
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🕊️ THE ONE THING THAT MATTERS MOST

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🕊️   THE ONE THING THAT MATTERS MOST Hearing Him in the Quiet Places 🌅   INTRODUCTION — THE QUESTION OF A LIFETIME Every religion has rules. Every church has handbooks. Every era builds its own traditions. But at some point, a man finally stops and asks the real question: “What is the ONE thing God actually wants from me in this life?” I’ve spent decades trying to keep commandments, check boxes, fulfill expectations, and stay on the right path… But in my late years, the Lord is making it very simple: 🕊️ “Hear Me. Walk with Me. Let Me lead you.” This is the most important work of mortality. Everything else is scaffolding. Let me explain. ⭐   1. WHAT THE BOOK OF MORMON SAYS 📖   “The Holy Ghost will show you ALL things what ye should do.” — 2 Nephi 32:5 Not some things. Not 50%. Not what the handbook says. ALL things. The commandment is not: follow a system obey a culture perform a program keep the institution going The commandment is: Hear Him. Christ Himself said:...
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🌿 VIDEO 6 BLOG POST “How to Keep Your Heart Soft When Life Gets Hard”

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  🌿  VIDEO 6 BLOG POST “How to Keep Your Heart Soft When Life Gets Hard” (Based on Video #6 — “Talk With Jesus Daily” Series) Hello friends. It’s me again… just a quiet voice from somewhere out in the sagebrush… a man who’s lived long enough to know that life can harden you if you’re not careful — and that only Jesus can keep a heart soft in a world gone sharp. 🕊️ Today we’re walking through  Video 6 , and this one might be the most needed message yet: How to keep your heart soft… so you can keep hearing the Savior. Because a hard heart blocks the whisper. A proud heart deafens the Spirit. And a wounded heart — if left untended — can turn to stone without even noticing. This one matters. So let’s walk slow. Let’s walk honest. Let’s walk with Him. 💔 1)  Pain Hardens — Unless You Hand It to Jesus Everybody hurts. We lose people. We get betrayed. We get disappointed. We see the flaws in people we once trusted. We get crushed by our own choices. And pain has one goal:...
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🌿 THE COVENANT STILL STANDS — BLESSINGS OR CURSES, OUR CHOICE

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  🌿 THE COVENANT STILL STANDS — BLESSINGS OR CURSES, OUR CHOICE 🎥  Watch Nick’s heartfelt message here: Leviticus 26 & Deuteronomy 28 – Blessings and Curses Explained (YouTube) 📜 THE ANCIENT TERMS STILL APPLY Nick walks through the covenant God made with Israel: “If ye walk in my statutes … I will give you rain in due season.” But if we turn away— “I will set my face against you.” He reminds us this wasn’t just history. It’s the same covenant rhythm pulsing through time: obedience brings peace, rebellion brings famine of both bread  and  spirit. 🔥 BLESSINGS THROUGH OBEDIENCE Leviticus 26:3-12  – God promises fruit, safety, and His dwelling among us. Deuteronomy 28:1-14  – “Blessed shalt thou be in the city … and in the field.” Book of Mormon echo:   Mosiah 2:22  – “If ye keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you in the land.” Nemenhah reflection:   Book of Tsihohnayah Ahkehkthihm 14  teaches that Zion’s peace endure...
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🌿 VIDEO 5 BLOG POST “Why Jesus Sometimes Feels Silent — And How to Break Through”

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  🌿  VIDEO 5 BLOG POST “Why Jesus Sometimes Feels Silent — And How to Break Through” (Based on Video #5 — “Talk With Jesus Daily” Series) Hello friends. Just an old voice from the sticks again… someone who’s had long nights, dry prayers, and seasons when heaven felt a mile away — and yet somehow, every time, Jesus showed up again. 🕊️ Today we’re talking about something sacred: Why the Savior sometimes feels silent… and how you can break through and hear Him again. Because Video 5 is tender. It’s honest. It’s raw. And it’s something every disciple experiences, even the strongest ones. Let’s walk it out together. 🌑 1)  The Silence of God Is Not the Absence of God There are moments when you pray… and nothing. You listen… nothing. You open the scriptures… still nothing. But here’s the truth the scriptures shout from every page: Silence is a classroom, not a punishment. David cried: “Why standest Thou afar off, O Lord?” —  Psalm 10:1 Nephi cried: “O Lord, wilt Thou not...
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🌿 WHEN MOTHERS LEAD, ZION LIVES A Thanksgiving Tribute to the Women Heaven Honors Most

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🌿  WHEN MOTHERS LEAD, ZION LIVES A Thanksgiving Tribute to the Women Heaven Honors Most 🕊️  A Day to Give Thanks for the Hearts That Hold Us Up Today — on this quiet Thanksgiving morning — I want to offer gratitude where Heaven places it first: to the women who carry life, guard life, nurture life, and lead us back to Christ with gentleness and strength. If Zion is ever to rise again, it will rise on the foundation of  righteous women whose hearts burn with the love of the Savior. And the ancient Nemenhah understood this better than almost any people on earth. 🌺  The Forgotten Foundation — Mothers as the Heart of Zion When I first read the Nemenhah Records, I kept stumbling on one simple, beautiful truth: The Mothers led. The Mothers nominated the councils. The Mothers guarded the peace. The Mothers held inherent priesthood power from Heavenly Parents. Not as an exception… but as the divine pattern. Among the Nemenhah: • the women chose the leaders • the women bal...
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🌿 VIDEO 4 BLOG POST “How to Hear the Savior in the Middle of Your Storm”

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🌿  VIDEO 4 BLOG POST “How to Hear the Savior in the Middle of Your Storm” (Based on Video #4 — “Talk With Jesus Daily” Series) Hello friends. It’s just me again… an old man from the sticks… sitting at a little wooden desk with a Bible open, a Book of Mormon on the side, and a heart that’s been broken a few too many times — but healed by the Savior every single time. 🕊️ Today I want to talk with you about something real… something every one of us faces… how to hear Jesus when life turns dark. When the wind rises. When the waves are bigger than your faith feels. Because Video 4 in this series — the one we’re walking through today — is all about  hearing the Savior in the storm. And brother… sister… we’re all in a storm right now. As a nation, as a church, as families. As disciples. So let’s walk through this together. 🌩️  1) The Storm Always Comes Before the Revelation You remember the story: “And straightway Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship…” —  M...
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🌾 WHEN ZION DOESN’T NEED FIXING

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🌾 WHEN ZION DOESN’T NEED FIXING Learning from the Nemenhah and the Peace They Found You know, a buddy of mine wrote me the other day. He said,  “The Nemenhah were living in such a peaceful society that there was no need to call upon them for intervention.” At first, I didn’t really get it. What does that even mean — “no need to call upon them”? But the more I sat with it, the more it started to make sense. And it might just be one of the simplest, truest things I’ve heard in a long time. 🕊️ What He Meant When he said the Nemenhah didn’t need to be called upon, he meant  there was nothing broken that needed fixing. You only call a mechanic when your truck’s broke down. You only call the doctor when you’re sick. You only call Heaven when your world’s coming apart. But the Nemenhah had their lives so tuned to God’s peace that they didn’t  need  rescuing. They weren’t waiting for angels, or prophets, or armies to fix anything. They had already learned to live the way H...
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