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Ezekiel 1–3; 33–34; 36–37; 47 “A New Spirit Will I Put within You” November 2–8, 2026 “And ye shall know that I am the Lord.” Variations of this remarkable phrase appear approximately 77 times throughout the book of Ezekiel! Why does God repeat this message so frequently, and how can we come to know Him personally? This week, we'll explore three gifts Heavenly Father has given us to help us know Him better: living prophets who guide and warn us, the Bible and Book of Mormon that testify of Jesus Christ, and His holy temple, where we can experience His healing and strengthening power. We'll discover the meaning behind Ezekiel's watchman, the two sticks, and the remarkable river flowing from the temple that brings life wherever it goes. And we'll finish with the Lord's beautiful promise to give us a new heart and a new spirit. The more we come to know God, the more He can help us become like Him. Thank you for supporting Come Follow Me for Teens through your early-access subscription!

Teaching Tips | Ezekiel 1–3; 33–34; 36–37; 47 “A New Spirit Will I Put within You” November 2–8, 2026 How can we help teenagers move beyond simply knowing about God to developing a personal relationship with Him? In this week's Teaching Tips, we'll explore practical ways to bring Ezekiel's remarkable visions and teachings to life. We'll consider how to help youth appreciate living prophets as watchmen, discover what the Bible and Book of Mormon teach us about Jesus Christ, and understand the healing and strengthening blessings that flow from His holy temple. We'll also look at meaningful questions and teaching approaches that encourage teenagers to reflect on their own experiences with God. The goal is to help youth discover that Heavenly Father wants them to know Him—and that coming to know Him can change their lives. An exclusive bonus for Come Follow Me for Teens Apple Podcasts subscribers.

This week on Come Follow Me for Teens, we study Jeremiah 31–39 and Lamentations with the theme “I Will Turn Their Mourning into Joy.” We'll explore how Jesus Christ can change our hearts, give us courage to do what's right, and renew our hope when life doesn't go as planned. HELP TEENS GET MORE OUT OF COME, FOLLOW ME Get weekly Study & Teaching Guides, Teach This in 25 Minutes lessons, teen devotionals, and ready-to-use resources for meaningful gospel conversations at home or in class. Join the membership: https://joshdowns.com/cfm-membership Get this week's Study & Teaching Guide: https://joshdowns.com/cfm-resources/p/jeremiah-31-39-lamentations-study-teaching-guide IN THIS WEEK'S EPISODE Written in Our Hearts — Jeremiah 31 teaches why knowing the gospel isn't the same as allowing it to change us. Courage to Do What's Right — The contrasting examples of Zedekiah and Ebed-melech show why knowing what's right and having the courage to do it aren't always the same thing. New Every Morning — Lamentations 3 reminds us that God's compassion never fails, and through Jesus Christ, every day offers the opportunity to begin again. Three principles. One powerful invitation: Let Christ change your heart. Trust Him enough to act with courage. And never lose hope in what He can help you become. His mercies are new every morning.

TEACHING TIPS | Jeremiah 31–39; Lamentations “I Will Turn Their Mourning into Joy” How can we help teenagers move beyond simply knowing the gospel to allowing it to change their hearts? How do we encourage them to stand for what's right when they're afraid of what others might think? And how can we help them find hope when they've made mistakes or feel discouraged? In this subscriber-exclusive Teaching Tips episode, we'll explore practical ways to bring three powerful principles from Jeremiah and Lamentations to life: 1. Written in Our Hearts — Helping teens recognize the difference between going through the motions and experiencing genuine conversion. 2. Courage to Do What's Right — Using the contrasting examples of Zedekiah and Ebed-melech to inspire courage in everyday situations. 3. New Every Morning — Helping teens discover the Savior's mercy and the hope of beginning again. You'll find engaging teaching ideas, natural conversation starters, meaningful discussion questions, and simple applications you can use at home or in the classroom. Because the best gospel lessons don't just help teenagers understand the scriptures. They help them live them.

Jeremiah 1–20 | “Before I Formed Thee in the Belly I Knew Thee” This week on Come Follow Me for Teens, we study Jeremiah 1–20 and three connected truths about who we are and who God is helping us become. Teaching Jeremiah 1–20 this week?Get the complete Study & Teaching Guide, including discussion questions, object lessons, application ideas, and Teach This in 25 Minutes: Jeremiah 1–20 Study & Teaching Guide:https://joshdowns.com/cfm-resources/p/jeremiah-1-20-study-teaching-guide “I Knew Thee” Jeremiah feels young and unprepared, but God reminds him that He knew him before birth and had already been preparing him for a purpose. Sometimes God sees capacities in us that we cannot yet see in ourselves. “I Formed Thee” We slow down over a part of Jeremiah 1:5 that is often overlooked and talk honestly about body image, comparison, and learning to see our bodies through God’s eyes. Your body does not have to be perfect to be sacred. Physical perfection is a resurrection promise—not a mortal requirement. “As the Clay Is in the Potter’s Hand” In Jeremiah 18, God compares His people to clay in the hands of a potter. We’ll talk about why a life that needs reshaping is not a ruined life, and how staying close to Jesus Christ—the Living Water—can help keep our hearts soft enough for God to continue shaping us. Through all three principles runs one central truth: God knew you. He formed you. And He is still forming you. This week’s For the Strength of Youth Discussion Guide:https://joshdowns.com/fsy-discussion-guides/p/october-week-4-covenant-daughter-or-son-of-god Join Come Follow Me for Teens for full access to weekly Study & Teaching Guides, Teaching Tips, FSY Discussion Guides, devotionals, and more:https://joshdowns.com/cfm-membership

Subscriber bonus episode: Teaching Tips for Jeremiah 1–20. This week’s Teaching Tips is focused on helping you teach the lesson rather than simply repeating the main episode. We’ll look at practical ways to help youth discover what God may see in them that they cannot yet see in themselves, talk about body image and the truth that “your body does not have to be perfect to be sacred,” and use Jeremiah’s potter-and-clay imagery to help youth think about what keeps a heart soft enough for God to shape. We’ll also walk through simple object lessons, board activities, follow-up questions, and discussion approaches you can use in a 25-minute class—including the soft and hardened clay illustration, the “soak the pan” living-water analogy, and questions that help youth move from hearing the doctrine to applying it to their own insecurities, pressures, and relationship with Jesus Christ. The goal this week is simple: teach less, ask better questions, and give youth more room to discover what Jeremiah is trying to help them see for themselves.

This week on Come Follow Me for Teens, we study Isaiah 58–66 and the theme “The Redeemer Shall Come to Zion.” Isaiah gives us one of the clearest descriptions anywhere in scripture of what the Savior came to do: bind up the brokenhearted, free captives, comfort those who mourn, and give “beauty for ashes.” Teaching Isaiah 58–66 this week? The complete Study & Teaching Guide gives you three ready-to-use teaching paths, scripture discovery questions, meaningful discussion and application ideas, and a Teach This in 25 Minutes option—so you can spend less time building the lesson and more time helping teens actually engage with it. Get this week’s Isaiah 58–66 Study & Teaching Guide:https://joshdowns.com/cfm-resources/p/isaiah-58-66-study-teaching-guide Beauty for Ashes Centuries after Isaiah wrote his prophecy, Christ stood in the synagogue at Nazareth, read those very words, and declared: “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” We’ll explore what it means for the Redeemer to create beauty from experiences that feel broken, painful, or beyond repair. The fire may be part of your history, but it doesn’t get to write the ending. “Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?” Isaiah connects fasting with remarkable promises of light, healing, guidance, answered prayer, and the breaking of spiritual yokes. We’ll look at how fasting teaches self-mastery, how Satan often tempts us with shortcuts to legitimate desires, and why the Savior taught that some difficult battles require “prayer and fasting.” Self-mastery teaches us that we don’t have to obey every appetite. The Savior teaches us that we don’t have to fight every appetite alone. “Call the Sabbath a Delight” The Savior taught that “the sabbath was made for man.” Instead of asking only, “What am I allowed to do on Sunday?” we’ll ask a better question: “What did God design the Sabbath to do for me?” The Sabbath can become a weekly opportunity to reconnect with God, partake of the sacrament, and carry more of His influence into the days ahead. Sometimes the clearest evidence of a meaningful Sabbath is simply this: Sunday changes Monday. Through all three principles runs one central truth: The practices are not the power. The Savior is. If you’re teaching this week, the complete Isaiah 58–66 Study & Teaching Guide is ready to help you turn these ideas into a meaningful discussion with teens. Get this week’s Isaiah 58–66 Study & Teaching Guide:https://joshdowns.com/cfm-resources/p/isaiah-58-66-study-teaching-guide Get this week’s FSY Discussion Guide: Oct. Week 3 | The Law of Chastity:https://joshdowns.com/fsy-discussion-guides/p/october-week-3-the-law-of-chastity Join Come Follow Me for Teens for full access to weekly Study & Teaching Guides, Teaching Tips, FSY Discussion Guides, devotionals, and more:https://joshdowns.com/cfm-membership

This week’s Teaching Tips episode focuses on how to teach Isaiah 58–66 in a way that gets teens talking, discovering, and applying the doctrine for themselves—without trying to cover everything in 25 minutes. We’ll walk through three possible teaching paths: helping youth discover what the Savior means by “beauty for ashes,” teaching fasting as more than simply going without food, and reframing the Sabbath from “What can’t I do?” to “What did God design this day to do for me?” You’ll also get practical discussion questions, teaching cautions for more personal topics, ideas for helping students uncover Isaiah’s promises on their own, and suggestions for knowing which principle may be most useful for the teens in your class. Most importantly, we’ll talk about how to bring each discussion back to Christ—because fasting, the Sabbath, and even healing itself are not the ultimate point. The Savior is.

This week’s episode studies Isaiah 50–57 and the theme “He Hath Borne Our Griefs, and Carried Our Sorrows.” We begin with one of the clearest prophecies of Jesus Christ’s Atonement in the Old Testament: “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.” Isaiah shows us that the Savior carries more than the burden of sin. He also understands grief, sorrow, pain, weakness, fear, and the heavy things that simply come with mortality. We’ll talk about why some burdens become almost unbearable—not because they were enormous when we first picked them up, but because we have been trying to carry them alone for too long. We’ll also look at Adam and Eve hiding from God after their transgression and what the Lord’s question “Adam, where art thou?” can teach us about repentance. Sometimes repentance is an invitation to stop hiding and let Jesus Christ carry what we cannot. Next, Isaiah gives another powerful promise: “With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee.” We’ll talk about what happens when we sincerely repent, try again, and still find ourselves struggling with weakness. The Lord promises: “As often as my people repent will I forgive them.” That does not mean sin does not matter. It means our repeated need for repentance does not exhaust the Savior’s mercy. Through Alma the Younger’s story and Isaiah’s words “I have seen his ways, and will heal him,” we’ll explore why God may be far more patient with us than we are with ourselves. Finally, Isaiah asks: “Wherefore do ye spend … for that which satisfieth not?” We’ll talk about the things we genuinely thirst for—love, belonging, peace, relief, identity, forgiveness, and purpose—and the many imitations the world offers to satisfy those needs. Using Moses’ experience with God, the Savior’s conversation with the woman at the well, and a familiar Captain Crunch story, we’ll explore why the best defense against spiritual counterfeits is becoming deeply familiar with what is real. This week’s invitation: Come with the burden. Come again when you fall. Come thirsty. Jesus Christ carries our griefs and sorrows. His kindness is everlasting. And He offers the living water that can actually satisfy the soul. • Get this week’s Isaiah 50–57 Study & Teaching Guide:https://joshdowns.com/cfm-resources/p/isaiah-50-57-he-hath-borne-our-griefs-and-carried-our-sorrows Get this week’s FSY Discussion Guide: Oct. Week 2 | The Word of Wisdom https://joshdowns.com/fsy-discussion-guides/p/october-week-2-word-of-wisdom • Join the Come Follow Me for Teens membership for full access to weekly lessons, early episodes, Teaching Tips, FSY Discussion Guides, devotionals, and more: https://joshdowns.com/cfm-membership

Subscriber-only Teaching Tips for Isaiah 50–57. If you’re teaching teenagers this week, this episode walks through how I would actually teach the three main principles from Isaiah 50–57 in a discussion-centered way. We’ll look at how to use the water bottle object lesson to teach Isaiah 53 and the burdens Christ carries, how to talk about repeated repentance without creating guilt or shame, and how to help youth recognize spiritual counterfeits by becoming more familiar with the real peace Jesus Christ offers. I’ll also share the questions I would ask, the places I would slow down and let youth talk, and which principle I would choose if I only had 25 minutes. The goal is simple: fewer notes, better questions, and more room for young people to discover, share, and testify for themselves.

This week’s episode studies Isaiah 40–49 and the theme “Comfort Ye My People.” We begin with one of the Lord’s most repeated promises in these chapters: “Fear thou not; for I am with thee.” Isaiah does not promise that we will avoid every difficult circumstance. Instead, the Lord says, “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee.” We’ll talk about why fear can make us forget what we already know about God and why faith sometimes means rehearsing His promises instead of continually rehearsing the problem. Next, Isaiah describes being “chosen… in the furnace of affliction.” We’ll explore the difference between simply going through something difficult and allowing Jesus Christ to refine us through it. Not every painful experience is caused by God, but through Christ, adversity can still develop courage, patience, compassion, humility, and trust. Drawing on Elder Neal A. Maxwell’s teachings about “soul-stretching experiences” and the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, we’ll talk about why sometimes Christ delivers us from the furnace—and sometimes He meets us in it. Finally, Isaiah gives one of scripture’s most personal assurances: “Yet will I not forget thee.” “Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.” We’ll talk about what it means to feel forgotten by God and why that feeling is not the same as actually being forgotten. When circumstances make us wonder whether heaven still sees us, Isaiah gives us somewhere to look: His hands. This week’s message: When I’m afraid, He is with me. When I’m in the furnace, He can refine me. When I feel forgotten, He remembers me. • Get this week’s Isaiah 40-49 Study & Teaching Guide: https://joshdowns.com/cfm-resources/p/isaiah-40-49-comfort-ye-my-people • Join the Come Follow Me for Teens membership for full access to weekly lessons, early episodes, Teaching Tips, FSY Discussion Guides, devotionals, and more: https://joshdowns.com/cfm-membership

Teaching Isaiah 40–49 this week? In this subscriber-only Teaching Tips episode, I walk through how I would teach three of the strongest principles in these chapters: “Fear thou not; for I am with thee.” “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” “I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.” We’ll look at practical ways to help youth connect these verses to real life through strong discussion questions, simple analogies, personal reflection, and experience-based application. I’ll share ways to help teenagers talk about fear without making them feel guilty for being afraid, how to teach adversity without implying that God causes every painful experience, and how to help youth recognize that feeling forgotten by God is not the same thing as actually being forgotten by Him. We’ll also look at a few simple teaching moves you can use right away, including questions like: What does fear make us forget? What is the difference between going through something and being refined through it? What difference would it make to know that something continually before you is also continually before God? If you’re a parent, teacher, or youth leader preparing to teach this week, this episode is designed to help you walk into that conversation with a clearer plan, better questions, and a stronger focus on helping youth discover Jesus Christ in their own experiences.

This week’s episode studies Isaiah 13–35 and the theme “A Marvellous Work and a Wonder.” We begin with Isaiah’s warning about Babylon, which he describes as “the glory of kingdoms.” Babylon looked powerful, beautiful, and secure, but Isaiah makes one thing clear: anything built on pride and worldliness will eventually fall. We’ll talk about why that matters for teenagers living in a world that constantly invites them to measure their worth by appearance, possessions, popularity, success, and the opinions of other people. There is nothing wrong with enjoying nice things, but the danger begins when those things start answering the question: Who am I, and how much am I worth? The world keeps moving the measuring stick. God does not. Next, we turn to Isaiah 29 and his prophecy of “the words of a book.” Isaiah says that through those words, the deaf will hear, the blind will see out of darkness, and “the meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord.” We’ll explore how these verses point toward the coming forth of the Book of Mormon and, even more importantly, what the Book of Mormon is meant to do in our lives. It is meant to help us see more clearly, hear God more fully, come out of confusion, and draw our hearts closer to Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon has already come forth into the world. The question is: Will we allow its words to come forth in us? Finally, Isaiah declares: “I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder.” In Isaiah 35, that marvelous work reaches people with weak hands, feeble knees, and fearful hearts with this promise: “Be strong, fear not … your God will come … he will come and save you.” Drawing on Elder Brook P. Hales’s message “Mortality Works!”, Elder Patrick Kearon’s teaching that God’s plan is designed to bring His children home, and Elder J. Devn Cornish’s message “Am I Good Enough? Will I Make It?”, we’ll talk about why struggle does not mean God has stopped working. Being unfinished is not the same as being hopeless. Sometimes our hands feel weak. Sometimes our hearts feel fearful. Sometimes we cannot yet see what God is doing. But Isaiah’s message is full of hope: Babylon falls. God’s word helps us see. And God is still doing a marvelous work in us. • Get this week’s Isaiah 13–35 Study & Teaching Guide:https://joshdowns.com/cfm-resources/p/isaiah-13-35-study-teaching-guide • Join the Come Follow Me for Teens membership for full access to weekly lessons, early episodes, Teaching Tips, FSY Discussion Guides, devotionals, and more: https://joshdowns.com/cfm-membership

This week’s Teaching Tips focuses on helping youth move beyond simply understanding Isaiah’s teachings and connect them to real life. We’ll look at ways to discuss the world’s shifting measures of worth, help youth experience the Book of Mormon as a source of clarity and spiritual direction, and teach the hopeful truth that being unfinished does not mean they are failing. You’ll also find practical questions, relatable scenarios, and discussion approaches designed to help youth recognize how Jesus Christ is already working in their lives.

Teaching Isaiah does not have to feel intimidating. In this week’s **Teaching Tips** episode, I share practical ways to help teenagers discover the most meaningful truths in Isaiah 1–12 without turning the lesson into a lecture. We’ll look at simple ways to teach Isaiah’s promise that sins “as scarlet” can become “white as snow,” help youth explore what the Savior’s names—**Immanuel, Counsellor, Mighty God, and Prince of Peace**—can mean in their own lives, and use Isaiah 11 to begin a meaningful conversation about becoming peacemakers. You’ll also hear discussion questions, object lesson ideas, teen-life scenarios, and simple applications you can use in a classroom or at home. The goal is not to explain everything Isaiah wrote. It is to help youth discover what Isaiah teaches about Jesus Christ—and give them room to talk about what that means in their own lives.