This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to listen to President Eyring in Devo. I was within maybe 100 ft of this great man.
May I add that I know that this man is called of God, he is one of the elect of our Father in Heaven. I also know that the Prophet that he serves with is the Prophet of this church and if we heed what he says we will not be found wanting in the last day's.
One thing that I would like to know how to do is make that feeling you have when you are basically in the same room with an authority of the church stay with you. I swear to you the feeling that I had while listening to Pres Eyring was amazing, but the sad thing is that feeling was easily replaced by something of less importance. So here is the question that I would like to pose to all of you. What can we do to make these feelings of "do better" stay longer? Is my focus skewed? I know that when I was listening to him speak I was full of love, compassion, etc...I want these things to last longer, but for some reason I know that they can't. I think that would be to easy of a way for us to become better. Do I have to work harder at achieving these feel goods? After this devotional something inside me did change, and it was for the better. So maybe it did the job and all I have to do is remember that it did make me want to change something.
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I have found the feeling of "do better" lasts the longest when I lose myself in serving others. If I stop and take the time to figure out what another person is in need of and then try to help them, I feel closer to our Heavenly Father. I am going to recommit myself to doing this- Thank you for the reminder in what is important. Love you.
What I know without a doubt is that when you feel the Spirit strongly like you did during the devotional you should pay close attention to the promptings you receive. You may think of things you need to do or people you need to help. You may feel strongly about a change you need to make in your life. That is the Spirit speaking directly to you. As you do those things or help those people you are living according to the Spirit. The more you do that, the more the Spirit is with you and you are able to feel those things more often and to a greater extent. When you think of people who just seem to live by the Spirit all the time, it is my opinion that they took these steps to get to where they are.
Today at church a guy speaking talked about the feelings we have at church. He said that church is not a place to come to feel good, or see our friends, it is a place where, if we get ourselves in the right mind frame, the Lord teaches us. He prompts and shows us the way to make ourselves happier and closer to Him.
His advice was that we write these promptings for change down each week. Keep them where you can see them through out the week. When you go home, go to work. Make it a priority to sit down and make a plan based on the feelings, before you do anything else, even change your clothes or get a snack. Then focus on those things throughout the week.
I had been thinking about the exact thing that you were talking about. I was grateful today for this advice and then grateful again when I checked your blog so I could share what I learned with you and remind myself!
I love Ty.
Okay girl here now you have a link to our blog! Woohoo! And bytheway I had that Tuesday off and TOTALLY FORGOT to get tickets to listen to him speak! I was mad at myself after that... :)
Hey friends, I got a new cell phone and lost all my numbers. Can you text me so I have your digits...
Thanks
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