Lynne's Scripture Journal D&C

May 15, 2018 Section 97:1-9 Saints Quality Of, Gifts of the Spirit, Callings and How to Go About, Obedience, Progression, Humility Meekness Seekers, In v 1the Lord tells us how he can speak to us directly: “ Verily ( truly )I say unto you my friends ( and that is how he sees us ), I speak unto you with my voice, even the voice of my Spirit, that I may show unto you my will….” And so, as I read this, I realize that I need to continue to work to be able to recognize the voice of his spirit…and recognize it quickly, in order that I may act on it quickly. He also praises many of the saints who “ are truly humble and are seeking diligently to learn wisdom and to find truth.” This, to me, is simply reinforcement to pray—at the very least in the morning when I wake to talk about my plans and hopes for that day, and at the end of my day to report on my success, or lack thereof, and my plans for changing what needs to be changed, for continuing in that which is good. ...

July 7, 2017 Section 46 follow-up Gifts of the Spirit, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Gifts How to Obtain, Ask Seek Knock, Progress, Perfection Road To, Sometimes, in my scripture studies, I find when I finish reading and pondering and writing my thoughts about the scriptures I have read that day, that my time is up and I have to close my scriptures and my study guide and get on with my day’s demands. That is what happened at the end of section 46. We were moving to our second house in Bend and there was much demanding work to be done. We are now mostly settled, and I realized I didn’t complete the study manual on section 46. There is a section in that manual on page 101 that is too good to leave behind:   “ The gifts of the Spirit are available to all who pay the price, which includes entering into a covenant relationship with the Lord [ our first covenant was baptism ], obeying the commandments, and seeking perfection with all one’s heart. [ Note that is seeking perfection—...

March 23, 2017 Section 5:1-10 Repentance Effect Of, Judge Not, Gifts of the Spirit, Martin Harris, Gift of Discernment, Charity Tolerance Love Insight, Conversion Process Of, Goals My , Martin Harris’ behavior surprises me. After breaking his covenant with Joseph Smith, showing the 116 pages to more people than the ones he had promised he would, thus loosing the pages—that he would come to Joseph with the request that he be allowed to see the gold plates. But upon my looking farther into this, I find that I am judging too harshly and am not forgiving. (For when I read v 1 and learned of Martin’s request to see the plates, I wanted to say, “No way, Martin! Not with your track record!” This is what I learned: John Widtsoe wrote: “Martin Harris was a religious minded, prosperous farmer. He appears to have been a rather willful but honest man, who wanted to be sure of everything he undertook.” From my difficult experiences with (1) Sister Evelyn on our mission in Japan and (2)...