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Our own personal spiritual Liahonas


Patriarchal Blessing

“The same Lord who provided a Liahona for Lehi provides for you and me today a rare and valuable gift to give direction to our lives, to mark the  hazards to our safety, and to chart the way, even safe passage–not to a promised land, but to our heavenly home.  The gift to which I refer is known as your patriarchal blessing.  Every worthy member of the Church is entitles to receive such a precious and priceless personal treasure.”  President Thomas S. Monson

Holy Ghost

“You must realize that you have something like the compass, like the Liahona, in your own system.  Every child is given it.  When he is eight years of age, he knows good from evil, if his parents have been teaching him well.  If he ignores the Liahona that he has in his own makeup, he eventually may not have it whispering to him.  But if we will remember that every one of us has the thing that will direct him aright, our ship will not get on the wrong course …if we listen to the dictates of our own Liahona.”  President Spencer W. Kimball

Holy Ghost

“As we strive to align our attitudes and actions with righteousness, then the Holy Ghost becomes for us today what  the Liahona was for Lehi and his family in their day.  The very factors that caused the Liahona to work for Lehi will likewise invite the Holy Ghost into our lives.  And the very factors that caused the Liahona not to work anciently will likewise cause us to withdraw ourselves from the Holy Ghost today.”   Elder David A. Bednar

Scriptures

“The words of Christ can be a personal Liahona for each of us, showing us the way. Let us not be slothful because of the easiness of the way.  Let us in faith take the words of Christ into our minds and into our hearts as they are recorded in scared scripture and as they are uttered by living  prophets, seers, and revelators.  Let us with faith and diligence feast upon the words of Christ, for the words of Christ will be our spiritual Liahona telling us all things what we should do.”  Elder W. Rolfe Kerr

**  A wonderful idea for a talk would be to mention all of the characteristics of the Liahona given to Lehi and his family, and compare those characteristics with our modern-day scriptures, highlighting the similarities.


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