Lindsey taught a great lesson today on Elder Scott's talk from the October 2009 General Conference.
During the lesson, we focused on three questions:
- What can you do to enhance your capacity to be led to correct decisions in your life?
- What are the principles upon which spiritual communication depends?
- What are the potential barriers to such communication that you need to avoid?
We talked about how our spiritual communication depends on how well we can listen to the Spirit, and how willing we are to obey the things the Spirit tells us.
As we listen to the Spirit and obey what we learn from the Spirit, we will be more in-tune with the Spirit. We will then receive more and more personal revelation.
Lots of sisters shared personal experiences about things they learned from the Spirit.
We read the following quote:
President John Taylor wrote: “Joseph Smith, upwards of forty years ago, said to me: ‘Brother Taylor, you have received the Holy Ghost. Now follow the influence of that Spirit, and it will lead you into all truth, until by and by, it will become in you a principle of revelation.’ Then he told me never to arise in the morning without bowing before the Lord, and dedicating myself to him during that day.”
We brainstormed ideas of how to dedicate ourselves to the Lord so we can receive more revelation. Simple things like reading our scriptures, doing our visiting teaching, praying regularly, serving others, and listening to the Lord are what bring us closer to Him.
We decided that one of the best ways to receive more revelation is to write down what we do receive to ponder and pray about it after we receive the revelation.
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