A Teenage Guide to Personal Revelation

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Darren Schmidt Especially For Youth Summer 2011


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Revelation is not about

pushing buttons. It is about

pushing ourselves

(Brigham Young as quoted by Elder Neil A. Maxwell,First Worldwide Training Broadcast)


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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act onpersonal revelation is the single most importantskill that can be acquired in this life

(Sister Julie Beck And Upon My Handmaids in

those Days willI Pour out MySpiritApril

General Conference 2010)


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"There is no doubt, if a person lives accordingto the revelations given to God's people, hemay have the Spirit of God to signify to himHis will, and to guide him and direct him in

the discharge of his duties, in his temporal aswell as his spiritual exercises. I am satisfiedhowever, that in this respect, we live farbeneath our privileges"

(Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 75).


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Personal Revelation

How to Feel It

How to Receive It

A Few Cautions

The Blessings of It


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A Few Descriptions

But the fruit of the spirit is Love, JoyPeace, Longsuffering Gentleness,Goodness, Faith (Galatians 5:22)

Did I not speak peace unto your mindconcerning the matter what greater witnesscan you have then from God (D&C 6:23)

Behold I will tell you in your mind and inyour heart (D&C 8:2-3)


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The Holy Ghost VS.


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You will feel humbled. You will feelpeace. You will feel confidence. Youwill feel repentant. You will feel and

increase in your faith, an increase intrust in him, an increase of hope and inlove, and increase of light or

enlightenment


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You will feel uplifted. You will feel thetruth. You will have a desire to share.And lastly, you will have a resolve that I

will go and do. (Quorum of the Seventy Elder GeneR. Cook Teaching by the Spirit pg. 200)


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How Do You Receive It?

Jessica Sue

Becky Anne

Snoop Doggie Cutems

Martha Marie

Henrietta Googempie

D&C 9:8-9


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To Aquire Spiritual Guidance

Address Given by Elder Richard G.ScottOctober 2009 General Conference


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Jack H. Goaslind, Ensign, May, 1991, pp.45-47


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Caution

I get concerned when it appears thatstrong emotion or free-flowing tears areequated with the presence of the Spirit.

Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bringstrong emotional feelings, including tears,but that outward manifestation ought not tobe confused with the presence of the Spirititself.

(President Howard W. Hunter Address to CESReligious Educators, 10 February 1989)


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Caution

Always expecting the spectacular, many

will miss entirely the constant flow ofreveled communication

(President of the Church, Spencer W. Kimball in ConferenceReport, Munich Germany Area Conference 1973,77)
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Caution

Always expecting the spectacular, many

will miss entirely the constant flow ofreveled communication

(President of the Church, Spencer W. Kimball in ConferenceReport, Munich Germany Area Conference 1973,77)
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Caution

The Spirit does not get our attention by

shouting or shaking us with a heavyhand. Rather it whispers. If we arepreoccupied we may not feel it at all

( President Boyd K. Packer The Candle of the Lord,

Ensign Jan, 1983, 53)
http://lds.org/church/leader/boyd-k-packer?lang=eng


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So What are theBlessings? Comforts, Teaches, Reminds (John

14:26

Helps Me Recognize Truth (Moroni 10:5)

Helps Cleanse Us from Sin (3 Nephi

27:20)


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The Holy Ghost quickens all the intellectualfaculties, increases, enlarges, expands andpurifies all the natural passions and

affections, and adapts them, by the gift ofwisdom, to their lawful use.


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It inspires, develops, cultivates andmatures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys,tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of

our nature


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It inspires virture, kindness, goodness,tenderness, gentleness, and charity. Itdevelops beauty of person, form and features.


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It tends to health, vigor, animation, andsocial feeling. It invigorates all the facultiesof the physical and intellectual man.


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It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves.In short it is, as it were, marrow to the bone,joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the

ears, and life to the whole being.

(Apostle Parley P. Pratt, Key to the Science of Theology,

101)


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Revelation is not about

pushing buttons. It is about

pushing ourselves

(Brigham Young as quoted by Elder Neil A. Maxwell,

First Worldwide Training Broadcast)


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Our Perfect Example

It is Finished Thy Will is Done

Into thy hands I commend my spirit(John 19:30, Mathew 27:50 JST)


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The spirit of God speaking to the spirit

of man has power to impart truth withgreater effect and understanding than

the truth can be imparted by personalcontact with heavenly beings. Throughthe Holy Ghost the truth is woven intothe very fiber and sinews of the body sothat it cannot be forgotten (President

Joseph Fielding Smith DS 1:47-48)

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