Hold Fast to the Iron Rod by Worshipping in the Temple

 President Nelson gave us this remarkable promise: “My dear brothers and sisters, here is my promise. Nothing will help you more to hold fast to the iron rod than worshipping in the temple as regularly as your circumstances permit. Nothing will protect you more as you encounter the world’s mists of darkness. Nothing will bolster your testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement or help you understand God’s magnificent plan more. Nothing will soothe your spirit more during times of pain. Nothing will open the heavens more. Nothing!”

Russell M. Nelson, “Rejoice in the Gift of Priesthood Keys,” Liahona, May 2024, 122.

Rejoice in the Gift of Priesthood Keys

April 2024 general conference

Pay More Attention to the Whisperings of the Spirit than Social Media Feeds

 President Nelson taught, “If you are paying more attention to feeds from social media than you are to the whisperings of the Spirit, then you are putting yourself at spiritual risk.”

Russell M. Nelson and Wendy W. Nelson, “Hope of Israel” (worldwide youth devotional, June 3, 2018), Gospel Library.

Hope of Israel

Worldwide Devotional with President and Sister Nelson

How We Naturally Learn to Better Hear His Voice

 

Heavenly Father Wants to Speak to You

By Elder Neil L. Andersen

Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

As we have faith in Him and keep His commandments, we naturally learn to better hear His voice....

Answers and impressions cannot be forced. We pray and we wait with a believing heart. Some answers will not come in this life, but to the righteous, the Lord will always send His peace (see John 14:27). Answers often come when we are praying to help those around us. At times, they come “line upon line, precept upon precept” (Doctrine and Covenants 98:12).

The voice of heaven can come to us at unexpected times and in unexpected places, but we find our most notable opportunities in quiet spaces and sacred places. In the stillness of my early morning prayers and ponderings, I find unusual blessings. A daily, personal, uninterrupted reading of the scriptures, while routine at times, brings the voice of the Spirit into our hearts like fire at other times.

At times, the impressions are specifically from what we are reading, and at other times, what we are pondering brings an answer to a very different concern....