Personal Revelation

1. “The more closely you follow divine guidance, the greater will be your happiness here and for eternity.” 

   (Richard G Scott, How to obtain Revelation and Inspiration for your Personal Life, April 2012,  
    http://www.lds.org/)

2. “Experiences of prompting and prayer are not uncommon in the Church. They are part of 

    the revelation our Heavenly Father has provided for us.”
    (Boyd K.Packer, Prayer and Promptings, October 2009, http://www.lds.org/)

3. “Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of evils and designs which do and will 

    exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I have warned you, and forewarn you, by giving 

    unto you this word of wisdom by revelation.” [D&C 89:4] 
    (L. Aldin Porter,  The Revelations of Heaven, October 1994, http://www.lds.org/)


4. "Prayer is so essential a part of revelation that without it the veil may remain closed to you. Learn to 

    pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees."
    (Boyd K Packer,  Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
    http://www.lds.org/)

5. "Following baptism, in the ordinance of confirmation, you received the giftof the Holy Ghost.

    While the Holy Ghost may inspire all mankind, the gift carries the right to have it as a “constant  

    companion.”  It is “by the power of the Holy Ghost [that you] may know the truth of all things.” ⁷

    We are told that “angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost.”  We are even told that when we 

    speak by the power of the Holy Ghost, we “speak with the tongue [or in the same language] of 

    angels.”  
   (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
    http://www.lds.org/)

6. "You must begin where you are. 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.” 
    (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994)

7. "Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil."
    (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
     http://www.lds.org/)

8. “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. “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.”  This burning in the bosom is not purely a physical 
     sensation. It is more like a warm light shining within your being."
    (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
     http://www.lds.org/)

9. "The Holy Ghost speaks with a voice that you feel more than you hear. It is described as a “still 

     small voice.”  And while we speak of “listening” to the whisperings of the Spirit, most often one 

     describes a spiritual prompting by saying, “I had a feeling …”
     

     The Prophet Joseph Smith explained: “A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the 

     spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you 

     sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; … 

     those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by 

     learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until 

     you become perfect in Christ Jesus.” 

     Revelation comes as words we feel more than hear. Nephi told his wayward brothers, who were 

     visited by an angel, “Ye were past feeling,that ye could not feel his words.”  
     (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
     http://www.lds.org/)

10. "The flow of revelation depends on your faith. You exercise faith by causing, or by making, your 

      mind accept or believe as truth that which you cannot, by reason alone, prove for certainty."
     (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
     http://www.lds.org/)

11. "Prelude music, reverently played, is nourishment for the spirit. It invites inspiration."
      (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
      http://www.lds.org/)

12. "The Lord reveals His will through dreams and visions, visitations, through angels, through His 
      own voice, and through the voice of His servants. “Whether by mine own voice,” He said, “or by 
      the voice of my servants, it is the same.” 

     (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
     http://www.lds.org/)

13. "You may receive revelation individually, as a parent for your family, or for those for whom you 
      are responsible as a leader or teacher, having been properly called and set apart.

      If one becomes critical and harbors negative feelings, the Spirit will withdraw. Only when

      they repent will the Spirit return. My experience is that the channels of inspiration always follow 

      that order.  You are safe following your leaders."
      (Boyd K Packer, Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise, October 1994, 
      http://www.lds.org/)