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Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? [message #2706 is a reply to message #2140] Mon, 26 August 2013 21:50 Go to previous message
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In this month's Ensign article, "In His Own Time, in His Own Way," Elder Dallin H. Oaks wrote:

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William E. Berrett, one of our finest gospel teachers, who served as an administrator at BYU and for the Church Educational System, said this about the matter of constant or continuous revelation: "Those who pray that the Spirit might give them immediate guidance in every little thing throw themselves open to false spirits that seem ever ready to answer our pleas and confuse us. . . . The people I have found most confused in this Church are those who seek personal revelations on everything. They want the personal assurance from the Spirit from daylight to dark on everything they do. I say they are the most confused people I know because it appears sometimes that the answer comes from the wrong source."

The Prophet Joseph Smith said something similar. When the Saints "supplicate at the throne of grace," he counseled, they shouldn't do so over trivial matters but rather should "pray earnestly for the best gifts." That is an important principle. We pray continuously for guidance, but we shouldn't expect continuous revelation. We expect continuing revelation, which is the continuing assurance of revelation whenever we seek guidance and our circumstances are such that a wise and loving Lord chooses to give it to us.
 
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