Our Relief Society and Priesthood lessons for this last week were taken from our modern day apostles and prophets, and the lesson we studied in our ward was the talk given by Robert D. Hales in the November 2007 issue of the Liahona, entitled “Personal Revelation.” In this talk, we learn how we can qualify to attain personal revelation, how we obtain it, how to recognize it, and then how to act once we have received it.
We qualify to receive personal revelation as we seek in faith. We are entitled to revelation about our own lives and those in our stewardship. We obtain revelation by prayerfully asking and being prepared to wait as long as necessary for an answer. When it comes, it will bring peace to our souls, and we should act on it promptly and with gratitude.
Elder Hales delivered this talk right after Elder Eyring was called into the First Presidency, and he speaks about the selection process that is used whenever a new calling is issued. He speaks of the opportunities he has had to travel with apostles as they set up new callings for stake presidents and other local assignments, and saw how they went about selecting those new leaders. They went into the situations carefully and with much prayer. They focused on the feelings of the Spirit, and they knew without question who should be called. The same procedure is followed whether it is an apostle, a stake president, or a new counselor in the First Presidency that is being called – those in authority seek revelation, and it is given. We can use the same process to gain a testimony of the rightness of the callings when they are extended. This lesson is particularly applicable to us right now as we have just received a new prophet and will soon welcome a new apostle.
The Lord will speak comfort to our minds and hearts whenever we are troubled, and He has given us the means whereby we can know that we are doing the things we ought to do. He never lets us wander alone.
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