In preparation for General Conference, Sister N. shared some thoughts with us from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's talk entitled An Ensign To The Nations. What a blessing it is to be guided by prophets and apostles!
Here are a few choice thoughts from his message:
"Perhaps you already know (but if you don’t you should) that with rare exception, no man or woman who speaks here is assigned a topic. Each is to fast and pray, study and seek, start and stop and start again until he or she is confident that for this conference, at this time, his or hers is the topic the Lord wishes that speaker to present regardless of personal wishes or private preferences. Every man and woman you have heard during the past 10 hours of general conference has tried to be true to that prompting. Each has wept, worried, and earnestly sought the Lord’s direction to guide his or her thoughts and expression."
"Consider the variety of the messages that you hear—all the more miraculous with no coordination except the direction of heaven... In the wide variety of sermons given is the assumption that there will be something for everyone. In this regard, I guess President Harold B. Lee put it best years ago when he said that the gospel is “to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the [comfortable].”9
"If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you."
Want more? Watch the entire message by clicking here.
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