The Holy Ghost speaks with a voice that you feel more than you hear. Such promptings are personal and strictly private! 13 Still Small Voice It is more like a warm light shining within your being.ĭescribing the promptings from the Holy Ghost to one who has not had them is very difficult. This burning in the bosom is not purely a physical sensation. “But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you therefore, you shall feel that it is right.” 12 “You have not understood you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me.
To one who thought that revelation would flow without effort, the Lord said: Pray, even if you are like the prophet Alma when he was young and wayward, or if you are like Amulek, of the closed mind, who “knew concerning these things, yet … would not know.” 10 Prayer is so essential a part of revelation that without it the veil may remain closed to you.
No message in scripture is repeated more often than the invitation, even the command, to pray-to ask. You have your agency, and inspiration does not-perhaps cannot-flow unless you ask for it, or someone asks for you. We are told that “angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost.” 8 We are even told that when we speak by the power of the Holy Ghost, we “speak with the tongue of angels.” 9 Prayer While the Holy Ghost may inspire all mankind, the gift carries the right to have it as a “constant companion.” 6 It is “by the power of the Holy Ghost may know the truth of all things.” 7 The gift of the Holy Ghostįollowing baptism, in the ordinance of confirmation, you received the gift of the Holy Ghost. I will use the words see, hear, and feel to teach about revelation, but I will use them as they are used in the scriptures. Your spirit learns in a different way than does your intellect.įor “there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding,” 4 and the Spirit of Christ “giveth light to every man that cometh into the world.” 5 The scriptures teach that “great men are not always wise.” 2 Spiritually you may “know not, and know not that you know not,” and be “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 3 Through your intellect, you learn most of what you know about the world in which we live.īut if you learn by reason only, you will never understand the Spirit and how it works-regardless of how much you learn about other things. Physically you can see with eyes and hear with ears and touch and feel and learn. There are two parts to your nature-your temporal body born of mortal parents, and your immortal spirit within. In order to prepare you, and protect you, I will tell you, as plainly as I can, what I have learned about personal revelation. I speak to the youth of the Church who now face “perilous times,” as the Apostle Paul prophesied would come in the last days. God bless him for the course that he has already set and the direction that he will yet give us. His physical limitations actually enhance his capacity as prophet and seer. Thousands of people expressed love for him, a spontaneous outpouring of love-all of which is now transferred to President Howard W. Farmers left their equipment to stand in the field, and families dressed in their Sunday best paid their respects. There were the elderly in camp chairs, even wheelchairs. There were along the way Scouts in uniform with flags. When the funeral cortege traveled with the body of our beloved President Ezra Taft Benson to his final resting place at home in Idaho, every overpass was lined with people.
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