! Nephi 15:24-25

President Benson The Power of the Word 4 April 1986

President Oaks January 1995, Scripture Reading and Revelation

President Oaks Jan 1995 Ensign Scripture Reading and Revelation

There are 3 voices that a Healthy mind hears. The first an loudest is the voice of your own mind. We hear ourselves think. We ask questions, debate, and doubt. We analyze the events of your lives and make decisions. This voice is almost always unsure. It wonders about everything and questions, "what does that mean?", and " How could I be so dumb?" What does that mean?". This is all our own thinking and reasoning. The easiest way to identify this voice is that it often references,"me" and "I". For example, "I think I'm in trouble," is from your won mind. "I'm hungry or Why is this happening to me?" are similar ruminations of the human psyche.

The next voice we hear is from the Holy Ghost. In its earliest stages, this voice is called our conscience. The most important fact here is that it is revelation, and it is the voice of Christ. Making this realization is the most important thing a soul can do to promote great righteousness.
The easiest way to identify this voice is that it always leads us to do something good and to believe in Christ. It rarely asks questions. It clearly distills a thought of pure concept into our minds or hearts:Don't do that. Put it back, pick it up, Go to church. Help your wife with the dishes. be loving to your husband. Play with your kids."These are all examples of the voice of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has a single purpose in our lives, which is to constantly inform us of what is right and wrong. Any time we must choose between good and evil, or right and wrong, the Holy Spirit will nudge us in the direction of truth and right. (Moroni 7:15-19)
It is important to grasp this concept, which is that everything that invites you to do good-including ideas for good that pop into your head- is inspired of God and is revelation. choosing to be obedient to all such promptings will dramatically increase your spiritual strength and set you upon the ordained path to joy and upward spiritual mobility. Just as we continually hear the voice of temptation, we also continually hear the voice of Christ-unless we shut if off through disobedience.
Such promptings are rarely actual voices. promptings are most often just thoughts or impressions that come into your heart and mind, usually when you least expect it. To some they come as visual images or flashes of pictures or sudden insight. But we can tell with out a doubt that they come from Christ when they lead us to do something good-even if that thing is as mundane and annoying as a though to drive the speed limit. As the scripture says, all good things are inspired of God

The final voice we hear is the voice of evil. We are all quite familiar with temptations. They are most often appealing to the flesh, our pride, or our vanity. They try to get us to go contrary to righteous promptings.
I believe that the evil ones, while not able to hear our thoughts, are keenly aware of when we are receiving promptings from righteous spiritual sources. I believe it because when there is a prompting to do good, the evil ones immediately rant against it, railing with many reasons why we should do otherwise.
As well, the evil ones certainly know the behaviors and weaknesses of mankind. and eventually they com to know and recognize us. They have millennia of experience in discerning the mood, emotions and likely intentions of their human prey. My experiences have led me to believe that these beings are hateful and angry and have very real intent to destroy us. What seems like a vague scuffle to us is an all-out war to them, and they fully intend to win. Their goal is to get us to obey them, thus separating us from the voice of the Holy Spirit.
An example of these three voices operating in our lives probably happened to a lot of us just last Fast Sunday. The voice of the Holy Spirit might have prompted you to bear your testimony. The opposition, keenly aware of what is going on and knowing you and your weakness, would immediately counter with a barrage of clever arguments tailor-made for you: "You won't know what to say. It will be embarrassing. You will just start crying. Leave the time for other people. Nobedy really cares about what you think anyway, " and similar lies. Your mind then says, "oh, my goodness what should I do?"
When we are able to identify these three voices correctly, then we don't need to ask ourselves what we "should" do, because we"should" bear our testimony. This is what Christ desires of us at that moment. The real question is, "Will I be obedient and bear my testimony?"

President Lorenzo Snow quoted by President Nelson April 2018

President Russell M Nelson April 2018, Revelation for the Church, revelation for our lives.

President Nelson April 2018

Webster's 1828
Purity of heart and conformity of heart and life to the divine law. Justice, honesty and virtue.

NOT PERFECTION

Alma 26:12

Alma 26-12

Write what He says to you! You will find how very much he loves you. You will find His Character!