Lynne's Scripture Journal D&C

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—...

June 27, 2017 Section 46:11-33 Spiritual Gifts, Holy Ghost, Missionary Gifts, Wisdom, Knowledge, Testimony, Discernment of Spirit, Gift of Tongues, Section 46 is one of the places I look when I want to know about spiritual gifts. P 100 has a great quote from Elder Orson Pratt: “ whenever the Holy Ghost takes up its residence in a person, it not only cleanses, sanctifies, and purifies him, in proportion as he yields himself to its influence, but also imparts to him some gift, intended for the benefit of himself and others. No one who has been born of the spirit, and who remains sufficiently faithful, is left destitute of a spiritual gift….for all Saints who constitute the Church of Christ, are baptized into the same Spirit; and each one, without any exception, is made a partaker of some spiritual gift….Each member does not receive all these gifts; but they are distributed through the whole body [of the Church], according to the will and wisdom of the Spirit….Some may have all t...

May 27, 2017 Section 32:1-4 Missionary Goals, Missionary How To’s, Missionary Difficult Times, Missionary Power Give Heed, Satan’s Compliments, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Strengths, P 66 has the formal covenant Oliver Cowdery wrote at the time of his being called as a missionary to the Lamanites (and others along the way i.e. Sidney Rigdon): “ I, Oliver, being commanded by the Lord God, to go forth unto the Lamanites, to proclaim glad tidings of great joy unto them, by presenting unto them the fullness of the Gospel, of the only begotten Son of God; and also, to rear up a pillar as a witness where the temple of God shall be built, in the glorious New Jerusalem; and having certain brothers with me, who are called of God to assist me, whose names are Parley, and Peter, and Ziba, do therefore most solemnly covenant with God that I will walk humbly before him and do this business, and this glorious work according as he shall direct me by the Holy Ghost; ever praying for mine and t...