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The Role of a Prophet [message #35]

Mon, 14 June 2010 12:22

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Please use this topic to discuss thoughts, questions and comments relating the chapter, "The Role of a Prophet".

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Re: The Role of a Prophet [message #78 is a reply to message #35]

Tue, 29 June 2010 20:26

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We believe we have many inspired desires of what we should do with our lives. We have been working towards these and find the path is made clear and our lives improving month by month. Some people call these dreams or fantasies. We find when a dream or fantasy is actually an inspired desire, we must exercise faith that God will provide us a way to fulfill this calling. One such inspired desire we have been called to fulfill in our personal lives is to pay off all our debt before the start of 2015. From what we have seen and felt through the Spirit, this will give us enough time and means to prepare for the difficulties ahead. How are we to pay off over 250,000 in debt in 5 years? We don't know, but we believe God does.

- Fairy and Dragon

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Re: The Role of a Prophet [message #86 is a reply to message #35]

Wed, 30 June 2010 17:17

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I really liked this quote from Amos:
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"Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel." - Amos 7:14-15, (See also Hel. 10:3, 11 & 12)

It speaks to me. Amos being the same one that said,
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Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. - Amos 3:7

I always took this to mean that god wouldn't do anything without telling the Prophet and President of the Church, (Monson). Now I realize that Amos wasn't a prophet until the Lord called him from the field, by His own voice.

I can relate to Amos.

Another thought is that if that is how the Lord reveals his secrets to his servants the prophets, and we are all prophets, then it seems that the word "nothing" would mean literally "nothing". Like the lord will do Nothing at all without a prophet on the earth to tell the plan. Maybe this is why the Lord did nothing during the dark ages when there were no prophets on the earth. Then he started to move quickly when Joseph Smith became a prophet. (Not sure about this, just rambling my thoughts.)

~ Seeker

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