1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Hey there everybody welcome out to another episode of Redeemed Through His Blood. 2 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Scott and David Durfey here as always. 3 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,000 How's it going Dave? 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Good. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Good brother. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Well with you. 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Yeah, as well. 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 I know you've noticed but there's a little nip in the air. 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Yeah, and that awesome. 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Well actually I know that you've noticed you're wearing a sweater. 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Yeah, it's cold down here. 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 I wish you'd get heat down here. 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 I bet you do. 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000 I bet you do. 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Yes, snow on top of the mountains. 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I know, I took a picture. 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Bring it on. 18 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Brought a picture of a Tempononga yesterday and sent it to my friends that I work with 19 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 one in Dallas, one in Seattle and I said here it comes. 20 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Bring it on. 21 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,000 I'm going to go out and buy my funds on its way. 22 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 I'm going to go out and buy my ski pass this week. 23 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Well you're excited for it. 24 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Yeah. 25 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 But for me it shortens my golf season. 26 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,000 I'm going to have to go start taking trips to... 27 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,000 St. George. 28 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Yeah, St. George. 29 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Las Vegas. 30 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Right. 31 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Yeah. 32 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Okay, well how's the mission stuff coming? 33 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Oh, it's coming great. 34 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 If you'd rather not talk about it. 35 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Man, it's been an ordeal because you know, blessings really. 36 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,000 I mean an ordeal, I think annoying blessings, you know, the things that we go through and 37 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:40,000 it's really, I think, important, Scott, that we continually remember that God's in control 38 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:48,000 because sometimes you can begin to think that, you know, what is wrong with me or you can 39 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 begin to...the accuser can put all kinds of negative thoughts in your mind. 40 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Why isn't this working out? 41 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Or why isn't this going as planned or whatever? 42 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:05,000 You know, the joke that you want to make God laugh, tell him you're planned. 43 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Exactly. 44 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:13,400 And it's just nice to know that he has a plan and that he's in control and that things are 45 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:14,400 going to work out. 46 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:23,240 And why ever is taking this long with our health issues and other things. 47 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:30,600 Who knows, but it is really comforting to have the faith know that he's in control. 48 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,720 So I don't know, I know all of our listeners are going through stuff. 49 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:43,000 I got my own, but when you think of it in that perspective, that God's in control, it 50 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,560 changes how you see it. 51 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:54,720 You know, it changes your heart, changes your mind, changes your perspective, your view. 52 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,960 So it's going great. 53 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:00,960 Since you asked, right? 54 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:01,960 So it's going great. 55 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,160 Yeah, yeah, that's great. 56 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,160 Well, good. 57 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,160 Family's great. 58 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Everything's great. 59 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:12,920 I think it's a time that we move right into, Dave, we got through, I think it was number 60 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:13,920 five. 61 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:18,840 And in the middle of this, I wouldn't really call it a course, but maybe a series of podcasts 62 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,920 here, maybe it is a course where we're talking about receiving personal revelation. 63 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:26,240 The importance of some call it a workshop. 64 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:31,880 I wish people kind of see it as a workshop because that puts some responsibility on them. 65 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,240 And receiving revelation is work. 66 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:35,240 It is work. 67 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:36,240 Prayer is work, right? 68 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,720 Answers to prayer is work. 69 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:44,480 And I think people should see it as a workshop on revelation. 70 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:52,720 So I hope that it's people aren't just listening and interested, but that they'll actually 71 00:03:52,720 --> 00:04:00,960 kind of again, experiment with these things and learn how they apply in their own life. 72 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,240 We had talked about, you know, last week we talked about music. 73 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:05,760 We talked about art. 74 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,360 And I mentioned the picture that I have hanging in our living room upstairs. 75 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:14,400 And you know, that's kind of renewed my love for that painting. 76 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:15,800 It was our discussion there. 77 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,280 And when I come in to the house now, and I see that, if you're wondering what I'm talking 78 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:24,280 about, we're not going to belabor it here, but go back and listen to last week's podcast. 79 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:25,280 But that's important. 80 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:28,040 And you know, the other thing is, Dave, is I had a really rotten day. 81 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,680 I'm not going to get into it, but I had a really terrible day this week. 82 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,120 And I got on my motorcycles because I sold my horses, that used to be my outlet. 83 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,240 But that was a rotten day too. 84 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:39,240 Yeah, it was. 85 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:40,240 When you sold your horses. 86 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,360 I probably have more rotten day for my dad, even than it was for me. 87 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,000 But it was a tough day. 88 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,280 But I still have my motorcycle, my iron horse, right? 89 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:55,000 And so that's what I use now for my therapy, wind therapy, I get on that and I drive carefully 90 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,760 and I promise Deb that I will. 91 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,960 And you know, and all that. 92 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:03,680 And you know, you think here I am, I got my leather, my leather shaps on and my helmet, 93 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,280 you know, and my vest in. 94 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:10,560 And you know, if you saw me driving down the road and you had to guess what music I was 95 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,200 listening to, I guess I can almost guarantee that 99% of people would have been wrong because 96 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:20,480 I was listening to that sacred music that we had talked about last week. 97 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:21,960 And David, and it made a difference. 98 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:22,960 It changed. 99 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:23,960 Totally makes a difference. 100 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:24,960 It changed things for me. 101 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:25,960 Totally. 102 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,920 And we affirm, you know, the things that we talk about here, they're not just so we can 103 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:32,440 have something fun to talk about. 104 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,440 If we will, and you mentioned the word workshop a few minutes ago, if we'll actually make 105 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,800 this a workshop where we look for takeaways, where we have action items. 106 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,720 And so maybe that'll be our first invitation this morning is if, or the today is as you're 107 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:51,360 hearing these, when the spirit prompts you, write it down, write it down and hold yourself 108 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:56,080 accountable and start taking action on the promptings of the spirit. 109 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,960 And that way this can become a workshop where in we see differences in our lives. 110 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:05,480 We keep using this word, but it's so important is you have to be intentional. 111 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:11,920 It's just so easy to just go with the flow and listen to the same playlist or the same 112 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,720 channels or the same, whatever that we listen to that we watch. 113 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:23,320 And we just have to be more intentional, Scott, in what we, what we choose to watch, what 114 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,120 we choose to read, what we choose to listen to. 115 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:31,960 And it does make a difference. 116 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:39,720 If you don't have a sacred playlist, that should be a workshop is prepare a sacred playlist. 117 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,080 Get that so that it's easier to do. 118 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,400 We're not affiliated with Deseret book or anything like that, but I, and I may be wrong, 119 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:51,520 is either a Deseret book or LDS living magazine came out recently and there was a little QR 120 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,960 code on there that you could scan. 121 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,280 And it was actually called Sunday music. 122 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:59,720 And so if you don't have one, look for that and you know, just scan that QR. 123 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:01,720 A lot of sources to get that playlist. 124 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:02,720 Absolutely. 125 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,720 I use the churches app. 126 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:05,720 Yeah. 127 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:06,720 Primary songs. 128 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:07,720 Yeah. 129 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:08,720 You can download. 130 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,680 I use Apple music. 131 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:16,120 Anyway, and, and it's not, I can't stand listening to sacred music all the time. 132 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:24,800 I mean, there is a time to listen to a horse with no name or the Tin Man or a little America 133 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:29,360 or Eagles or hotel California or Beatles or yeah, yeah, yeah. 134 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,960 I don't know about hotel California. 135 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,640 I don't think I'd listen to that, but I would. 136 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:40,040 So there, there is a time and place, you know, to listen to bread. 137 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,280 You ever listen to bread bread? 138 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,360 You are really dating yourself. 139 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:47,360 I love bread. 140 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,040 I remember the song diary from bread. 141 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,920 I found it underneath the tree and started reading about me. 142 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:53,920 Yeah. 143 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,160 I'm pretty familiar with my sweet art. 144 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:56,160 Hates, hates bread. 145 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:57,160 I do too. 146 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,160 I went to a concert and took another girl in. 147 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:06,000 Oh, so every time, every time that comes up on my playlist, this is before you were married 148 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 with me. 149 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 I fast forward it. 150 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Do you? 151 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Yeah. 152 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Oh yeah. 153 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 This is when we were nice. 154 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 We were ready to clarify here. 155 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:19,960 When we were in high school and I don't know why I did that, but anyway. 156 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:25,160 So there's a time and a place, you know, I like to sometimes just hit the road and turn 157 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,920 up a horse with no name as loud as I can. 158 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,600 And I have no idea what that song's about. 159 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,880 I just like the, the vibe. 160 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,920 And there's a time and place for that. 161 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:42,200 And, but, oh, it's got, we just have to be more intentional. 162 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,960 I, I mentioned last week, you know, the, the new habit I have of this turning on a general 163 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:48,960 conference talk. 164 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:49,960 Right. 165 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:55,280 Every night when I go to bed, let the brother and put me to sleep. 166 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,640 But there's something, there's something about that. 167 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:06,280 That is inspiring to me that, that softens my heart that just whenever we can hear the 168 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:13,800 word of the Lord, if I am awake or asleep, you know, is inspiring. 169 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,200 There's certain, you know, there's certain songs that will invoke certain feelings. 170 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,040 And so there's certain artists that can be associated with those songs. 171 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,400 And I've found that's also true with some of the general authorities. 172 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,040 Now I got to be careful here because I love them all. 173 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:34,200 But, but, but for example, you know, there's been a reason for me lately to really be looking 174 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:35,760 at the things that we talk about. 175 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:40,600 I really have wanted to be experiencing the effects of the instruments of grace in my 176 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:41,600 life. 177 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,640 But Elder Ciaran's last couple of talks for me have been that solace that you're talking 178 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:47,640 about when you go. 179 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,400 So I've been listening to a couple of his same ones over and over the last couple of 180 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:52,400 nights. 181 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:53,400 Yeah. 182 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,840 Since you made that suggestion, it's, and it's making a difference for me for sure. 183 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:58,440 It, it, it does. 184 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:05,280 I anyway, if so, we all have to just be more intentional. 185 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,280 Yeah. 186 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,360 Step number six today is a really important one, Scott. 187 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:14,760 And it's one that I have not mastered. 188 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,400 It's one that I want to work on more. 189 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:25,000 It's one that requires a intense amount of faith. 190 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,480 And I'll give you this little background to it. 191 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:37,280 You know, I had a friend who was area 70 and he was telling me about the general authority 192 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,560 training he received when he was a new area 70. 193 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:49,440 Elder Bednar was training the, these new area and general authorities in April before 194 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:56,680 conference that week before conference and Elder Bednar's training was called. 195 00:10:56,680 --> 00:11:02,920 He, he entitled it inspired inquiry, revelatory response. 196 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:09,680 I think I've referred to that before, but anyway, as Elder Bednar likes to do, he's, 197 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:15,360 he's, he's trying to get them involved and he calls on a few of them. 198 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,880 And I think he, if I remember, he called on my friend. 199 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:27,000 These were former, a lot of the general area authorities in that meeting were former state 200 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:32,640 presidents and leaders and other, other places, other positions. 201 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:40,280 And he asked my friend, so give me a problem that you face as a state president. 202 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,840 Maybe your most difficult challenge or problem that you can remember facing. 203 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:50,840 I'm sure it was hard to come up with one and they all have several, but, but he, he kind 204 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:59,200 of shared without, without disclosing any names, a real challenge that he had with his 205 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,160 stake, members in his stake. 206 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:09,400 And Elder Bednar said, so how did you, how did you deal with that? 207 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,360 And he proceeded to tell him how he dealt with it. 208 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,000 And he said, so what questions did you take to God about that? 209 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 What questions would you ask God about that? 210 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,360 What did you do to help God solve that problem? 211 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:29,600 And he couldn't come up with anything that he had asked God about that problem. 212 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,200 I mean, I'm sure he had prayed, generally speaking. 213 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:34,320 He'd read the scriptures. 214 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,760 I'm sure you can get revelation, solving problems, reading scriptures. 215 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,640 I'm sure he went to the temple. 216 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:45,040 I'm sure he did all those things, used all the instruments of revelation. 217 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:51,160 But Elder Bednar's point was, well, what question would you like asked Heavenly Father in order 218 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,360 to solve that problem? 219 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,800 And my friend said it was so hard to come up with an inspired question. 220 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,080 It just wasn't new to him. 221 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,360 It wasn't a habit of his. 222 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,720 And it was really, I think, frustrating for him. 223 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,560 And he kind of worked on this. 224 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:13,680 And Elder Bednar did that with several others. 225 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:20,800 And the point of all of that was that we need to be careful about it. 226 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,080 It takes preparation. 227 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:28,800 It's a craft to be able to ask inspired questions. 228 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,760 It's not something, and I know the Spirit can help us. 229 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:36,600 In fact, the Spirit has to help us do that if it's going to be an inspired question. 230 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:44,400 But it takes some pondering and some work to go to the Lord with a problem and not just 231 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:50,040 tell him about the problem and ask him to fix the problem, but to actually go before 232 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:56,080 the Lord and to ask him an inspired question. 233 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,440 My friend telling me this story, his wife was with him. 234 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,640 We were at lunch together. 235 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:10,680 And I turned to his wife and I said, So does he pray differently now? 236 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:17,120 And his sweetheart said, kind of looked at him out of the corner where I actually, and 237 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,200 he kind of nodded, yes. 238 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:24,600 And she said, Well, he prays with a notebook now. 239 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:30,240 So when we go before the Lord, if we really want revelation, and we've prepared an inspired 240 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:36,800 question prepared by the Spirit, again, this takes work and it takes faith. 241 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,720 And ask that inspired question. 242 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:47,960 With faith, we pause, we listen, and we write down any impressions. 243 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,560 Now, maybe impressions will come, maybe not. 244 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:57,240 Maybe we'll have to have that inspired questions for days or weeks or months. 245 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:06,160 But I trust that answers will come and that when they come, that they better not fall 246 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:14,320 to the ground or disappear into the air unheeded, that when we receive revelation, it should 247 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,560 be recorded. 248 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:21,000 And that's one of the final steps in this workshop is to record the revelations. 249 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:27,440 But I just think this is, if we're really serious about getting personal individual 250 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:37,440 revelation, hearing the voice of the Lord to help us in our problems and with our questions, 251 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:38,960 we have to learn this skill. 252 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,400 And I think it's a skill, you know, Julie Bang and her back many years ago, and she 253 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,280 was General Relief Site President. 254 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,440 And it's, you know, I went to school with her. 255 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:57,640 She's a classmate, and I love Julie and the Bang and her family, but she taught, right, 256 00:15:57,640 --> 00:15:59,640 in general conference. 257 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:00,920 Revelation is a skill. 258 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,080 It's probably the most important skill. 259 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,400 It's something that must be cultivated. 260 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,640 Question, inspired questions have to be crafted. 261 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:18,000 And I, Prophet Joseph Smith did not take revelation lightly. 262 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:23,720 And most of the revelations he received in the Doctrine and Covenants, two thirds of 263 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:30,280 them really, are answers to inspired questions, Scott. 264 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:36,760 And that's how we, that's how the Prophet Joseph Smith was able to help Heavenly Father 265 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,080 reestablish his kingdom. 266 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:47,520 That's how we can kind of establish our own kingdoms is by learning to ask inspired questions. 267 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,080 So what's your thoughts on that? 268 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:52,400 And I'll share the better story. 269 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,440 Well, yeah, so inspired questions. 270 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,000 This has been on my mind, you know, we know what we're going to talk about a little bit 271 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,720 in advance each week. 272 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:05,280 And so this week I've been thinking about this topic, inspired questions. 273 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:10,200 And you know, I need, I need to develop some inspired questions in my own life. 274 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,640 There's some things that I need to develop, because I need to receive some personal revelation 275 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:15,640 around. 276 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,840 And I want to hear what you have to say about this, Dave, but if this has been the case 277 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,360 for me, maybe it'll be the case for some of our other listeners too. 278 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:28,240 It's easy to get stumped up a little bit on what should that inspired question be. 279 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:32,200 So even sometimes, you know, we think that, well, I'll come up with the inspired question 280 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:33,960 then I'll ask the inspired question. 281 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:39,680 What has occurred to me is that maybe I even pray for direction in the questions that I 282 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,680 should be asking. 283 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,680 Absolutely. 284 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:44,680 That's the preparation. 285 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:45,680 Right. 286 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,280 Part of the preparation is to actually pray for the, for what should I ask. 287 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:50,280 Yeah. 288 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,920 And that's Dr. Incumbent section 46. 289 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:58,680 You know, we've read that before, Scott, but Dr. Incumbent section 46, after describing 290 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:06,200 these gifts of the Spirit, this is how the revelation ends in verse, why don't you just 291 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,400 read verse 28, verse 30, Scott? 292 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,400 Yeah. 293 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:10,880 Dr. Incumbent 46 verse 28. 294 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:18,400 So this is 28, and it shall come to pass that he that Ascoth in spirit shall receive in 295 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,240 spirit and then I'll skip to 30. 296 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:26,560 He that Ascoth in spirit, Ascoth according to the will of God, wherefore it is done even 297 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,000 as he Ascoth. 298 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:34,360 And again, as I say unto you, all things must be done in the name of Christ whatsoever you 299 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:37,440 do in the spirit. 300 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,160 He that Ascoth in the spirit will receive by the spirit. 301 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:47,320 So these inspired questions are driven really by the spirit. 302 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:52,040 It's really what I call praying in the spirit. 303 00:18:52,040 --> 00:19:02,240 And sometimes the questions Scott are prepared, written down, maybe even read in a prayer, 304 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:10,200 looking at a piece of paper, reading it, or Scott, so many times, just in praying, being 305 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:16,160 overcome by the spirit, I, words have been given to me what to pray. 306 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:24,800 And those are really precious inspired questions that may be given to you to ask, that to not 307 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:32,800 only words be given to what I, how I express my gratitude, but words can be given as to 308 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,320 what I ask. 309 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:39,320 You know, I love the phrase, ask not amiss. 310 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:45,120 That's in 2 Nephi chapter 4 verse 35. 311 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:53,600 This is kind of the where Nephi has been lamenting his, you know, his sins and he's, he's in 312 00:19:53,600 --> 00:20:01,280 the, I know in whom I've trusted and, and yet he kind of a self deprecating and this 313 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,000 is the lamentations of Nephi. 314 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:09,880 But notice how he ends this, this whole chapter in 35. 315 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:15,720 Yeah, I know that God will give liberally unto him that asketh, yeah, my God will give 316 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:21,120 me, if I ask not amiss, therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee. 317 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:27,360 Yeah, I will cry unto thee, my God, that rock of my righteousness, behold my voice shall 318 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:33,440 forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. 319 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:34,440 Amen. 320 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:35,840 That's a powerful verse. 321 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,080 Yeah, it's beautiful. 322 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,200 And what do you think it means to ask not amiss? 323 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,400 I will, if I ask not amiss. 324 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,120 That means the question will be the right question. 325 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:45,120 Yeah. 326 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:46,120 Yeah. 327 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:54,240 The right question, see prayer, prayer itself, Scott, should not just be a, now I know, I 328 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,520 know it is and there's no wrong prayer. 329 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,560 There's never a bad prayer. 330 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:06,400 Whatever one, when anyone in any level of faith is expressing their desires, their needs, 331 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:11,800 their love, their gratitude to God, that's never wrong. 332 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:23,120 However, prayer that invokes revelation takes a lot of work and some preparation usually 333 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:25,800 is my experience. 334 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:32,880 And I love how Brother Matthews in the Bible dictionary, when he wrote the Bible dictionary, 335 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,840 expressed this. 336 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:42,040 And I just want, I just one of my favorite parts of the Bible dictionary is the little 337 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:47,600 art, little caption that he's written on prayer. 338 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:54,120 As soon as we learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God, namely God is 339 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,080 our father and we are his children. 340 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,320 Then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part. 341 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,680 Well, I love that, you know, that we're, we're just talking to our Heavenly Father. 342 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:12,400 As a child and we're asking our father a questions, we're thanking him, we're expressing our love 343 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,080 to him. 344 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:19,280 Then Brother Matthews continues in the Bible dictionary in this page 707. 345 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:26,040 Many of the so-called difficulties about prayer arise from forgetting this relationship, meaning 346 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,920 father to child. 347 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:36,640 Prayer is the act by which the Will of the Father and the Will of the Child are brought 348 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,380 in to correspondence with each other. 349 00:22:39,380 --> 00:22:41,880 I love that. 350 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:48,720 Prayer is the act by which the Will of the Father and the Will of the Child are brought 351 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,600 in to correspondence with each other. 352 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:59,860 The object of prayer is not to change the will of God, but to secure for ourselves and 353 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:08,100 for others blessings that God is already willing to grant, but that are made conditional on 354 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:12,360 our asking for them. 355 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:18,660 Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. 356 00:23:18,660 --> 00:23:26,060 In the last sentence in the Bible dictionary, prayer is a form of work and is an appointed 357 00:23:26,060 --> 00:23:32,140 means for obtaining the highest of all blessings. 358 00:23:32,140 --> 00:23:39,320 And I think one of the highest of all blessings is to hear the voice of the Lord, to receive 359 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,920 the will of the Lord and to receive revelation. 360 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:51,300 So I just really love how do you, how do our listeners, I'm asking each of you who are 361 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:54,720 listening, how do you see prayer? 362 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:00,500 Do you see it's a high form of worship for sure. 363 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:09,260 It's a daily act upon which we humble ourselves and it can be kneeling, it can be standing, 364 00:24:09,260 --> 00:24:15,220 it can be sitting, it can be driving, it could be like Amulet says, we should pray in our 365 00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:20,780 fields, we should pray in our closets, we should pray morning, noon and night. 366 00:24:20,780 --> 00:24:26,340 We've been commanded to pray always, which I think is so interesting to picture what 367 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:30,300 that looks like, to be able to pray always. 368 00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:32,420 How do you see prayer? 369 00:24:32,420 --> 00:24:40,460 Well I love this idea that prayer is the object of prayer is not to change the will of God 370 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:44,260 but to secure for ourselves and for others. 371 00:24:44,260 --> 00:24:47,940 I think about my children and grandchildren and others. 372 00:24:47,940 --> 00:24:53,020 To secure for others blessings that God is already willing to grant but that are made 373 00:24:53,020 --> 00:24:56,500 conditional on our asking for them. 374 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:06,380 So I think one of the real important parts of prayer that I and probably most of us neglect 375 00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:15,940 is to really be able to ask according to the will of God, to ask not a miss and to be able 376 00:25:15,940 --> 00:25:23,460 to ask for the inspired questions in order to receive the blessings that are according 377 00:25:23,460 --> 00:25:26,220 to the will of God. 378 00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:35,340 It is not pleasing, I don't think to God, that we ask for things according to just my 379 00:25:35,340 --> 00:25:36,340 will. 380 00:25:36,340 --> 00:25:44,980 I don't think he's angry about that, he's not capricious about that, he's not judging 381 00:25:44,980 --> 00:25:49,220 or condemning us in any way when we do. 382 00:25:49,220 --> 00:25:53,060 But I think sometimes he probably just shakes his head and he says, if you can only see 383 00:25:53,060 --> 00:25:58,420 what I see, why would you ask for that? 384 00:25:58,420 --> 00:26:06,300 Ask for those things that are according to my will, the Father's will. 385 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:07,860 Ask for that. 386 00:26:07,860 --> 00:26:15,060 And that takes revelation, work even before we pray. 387 00:26:15,060 --> 00:26:21,980 I mean sometimes we think of revelations coming as the result of prayer, but if some revelation 388 00:26:21,980 --> 00:26:30,140 would precede prayer, our prayers would be so much more effective. 389 00:26:30,140 --> 00:26:39,660 So I think about that a lot when I pray that I'm praying to bring into alignment, I think 390 00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:46,300 one of the real purposes of prayer is to bring into alignment my will with the Father's will 391 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:52,540 and to ask for blessings that he's already willing to grant that are conditional upon 392 00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:53,540 me asking for. 393 00:26:53,540 --> 00:26:55,820 I love that. 394 00:26:55,820 --> 00:27:03,900 I love what your friend in the Bible dictionary has written that you just read. 395 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:06,620 And I'm just going to re-read some of this. 396 00:27:06,620 --> 00:27:09,660 I just think it's that important. 397 00:27:09,660 --> 00:27:14,540 Because it really is through prayer that this relationship is not just established, I mean 398 00:27:14,540 --> 00:27:19,180 it's established outside of prayer too, but this is where really the codification of it 399 00:27:19,180 --> 00:27:20,180 takes place. 400 00:27:20,180 --> 00:27:21,180 Yeah, the Father-child relationship. 401 00:27:21,180 --> 00:27:23,540 Yeah, that's just so cool to me. 402 00:27:23,540 --> 00:27:28,460 And as soon as, so I'm reading, again this is from 707 in the Bible dictionary, Brother 403 00:27:28,460 --> 00:27:34,900 Matthews, as soon as we learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God, namely God is 404 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:40,980 our Father and we are His children, I mean that doctrine right there is enough. 405 00:27:40,980 --> 00:27:47,100 That doctrine alone stands, that doctrine stands alone enough in our relationship or describing 406 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:50,860 our relationship with Heavenly Father that it should open our hearts and our minds to 407 00:27:50,860 --> 00:27:54,060 this concept fully. 408 00:27:54,060 --> 00:27:59,260 And so on it goes, namely God is our Father and we are His children. 409 00:27:59,260 --> 00:28:03,940 Then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part. 410 00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:06,100 Well, of course it does, right? 411 00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:07,900 I mean you think about the relationship. 412 00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:14,340 When you have a friend, a father, a mother, a loving, familial or even a parent-child 413 00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:20,140 relationship, you know where you feel safe, where you feel loved, where you feel warm, 414 00:28:20,140 --> 00:28:23,220 that's where you will retreat for your direction. 415 00:28:23,220 --> 00:28:26,100 You can't wait to talk to Him. 416 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:27,100 Exactly. 417 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:33,740 And you know in each of our days, every day some of us, most of us, we will become aware 418 00:28:33,740 --> 00:28:37,500 of the effects of the fall of Adam and Eve in our lives. 419 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:43,740 And you know as we pray to put into correspondence our will and His will. 420 00:28:43,740 --> 00:28:52,580 Oh man, holy cow, to me, you know this prayer is where my will and God's will come into 421 00:28:52,580 --> 00:28:54,700 correspondence with each other. 422 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:58,180 So if that's really true- Our will swallowed up in the will of the Father. 423 00:28:58,180 --> 00:29:03,340 That's really true and I say I want to know God's will for me, then inspired questions 424 00:29:03,340 --> 00:29:06,740 will come around what is your will for me. 425 00:29:06,740 --> 00:29:07,740 Yeah. 426 00:29:07,740 --> 00:29:11,580 And again that may take some time. 427 00:29:11,580 --> 00:29:12,860 And it probably will. 428 00:29:12,860 --> 00:29:14,220 And some effort. 429 00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:20,860 And some faith, some great faith to be able to ask those inspired questions. 430 00:29:20,860 --> 00:29:27,820 I know it's just been too easy for me throughout my life and probably most others to just say 431 00:29:27,820 --> 00:29:29,780 fix it. 432 00:29:29,780 --> 00:29:32,180 You know to say change it. 433 00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:34,740 To say help me. 434 00:29:34,740 --> 00:29:37,300 And nothing's wrong with that. 435 00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:44,580 There's nothing wrong with any prayer, anything that comes from the heart and the sincere 436 00:29:44,580 --> 00:29:45,580 desire. 437 00:29:45,580 --> 00:29:51,020 But it makes revelation difficult. 438 00:29:51,020 --> 00:29:56,940 And I think Heavenly Father is not going to do anything for us that we cannot do for 439 00:29:56,940 --> 00:29:58,620 ourselves. 440 00:29:58,620 --> 00:30:05,900 And that we kind of need to change, just kind of tweak the perspective that okay, so Heavenly 441 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:10,260 Father isn't just going to fix this problem without my effort. 442 00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:14,700 My whole goal here should not be that he just fix it. 443 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:23,420 My goal here should be what can I do as an in his instrument, as his child, to help bring 444 00:30:23,420 --> 00:30:30,220 about the changes here that I desire or that my children or others that I love, changes 445 00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:34,020 that maybe they need that they need in their life. 446 00:30:34,020 --> 00:30:39,180 And the greatest example of that, Scott, that where I learned this was for years. 447 00:30:39,180 --> 00:30:41,860 And I, it wasn't just one child. 448 00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:45,660 There, you know, all of our children have challenges. 449 00:30:45,660 --> 00:30:49,140 And I can remember praying for all of my children. 450 00:30:49,140 --> 00:30:50,900 Please change them. 451 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:52,700 Please fix them. 452 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:54,500 Please heal them. 453 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:56,500 Please whatever. 454 00:30:56,500 --> 00:31:07,940 You know, praying that God somehow just make my children whole and protect them from the 455 00:31:07,940 --> 00:31:11,860 fall of Adam and Eve. 456 00:31:11,860 --> 00:31:16,260 You know, I laugh, but wow. 457 00:31:16,260 --> 00:31:17,540 It's just right. 458 00:31:17,540 --> 00:31:23,060 That's part of the plan that we experienced the fall and Heavenly Father knew that they 459 00:31:23,060 --> 00:31:25,460 would anyway. 460 00:31:25,460 --> 00:31:29,820 There's been so many times where in essence, I don't think I necessarily just use those 461 00:31:29,820 --> 00:31:35,060 words, but that's what I'm really praying for is fix them, change them. 462 00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:44,300 And I was saying that prayer one day as I was driving down I-35 in Minnesota with my children 463 00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:52,180 in their teenage years and then me praying that God would, would fix him or fix her. 464 00:31:52,180 --> 00:31:58,460 And I remember feeling the spirit come over me and really chastise me. 465 00:31:58,460 --> 00:32:06,620 And I mean, it was a revelation and I'm, and I'm really grateful that Heavenly Father would 466 00:32:06,620 --> 00:32:10,100 through his spirit to chastise me. 467 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:16,780 And he, it got my attention and the strong thought, which I knew was coming not from 468 00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:25,180 me, but from an inspired source was will you stop praying that I fix him or her? 469 00:32:25,180 --> 00:32:34,220 And will you start praying that I, that I change you, start praying for you and how you can 470 00:32:34,220 --> 00:32:36,220 be a better dad. 471 00:32:36,220 --> 00:32:43,380 Man, I thought about that, Scott, I drove for several miles thinking about that. 472 00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:54,740 And, and before I got out of the car, I remember praying Heavenly Father, help me to know how 473 00:32:54,740 --> 00:33:03,380 I can be a better dad for this child. 474 00:33:03,380 --> 00:33:08,540 That's an inspired question because he can answer that by revelation. 475 00:33:08,540 --> 00:33:13,140 And that's, that's how really the economy of heaven works, Scott. 476 00:33:13,140 --> 00:33:20,900 The economy of heaven is, let me help you to, to change. 477 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:25,540 And quit praying for me to change others. 478 00:33:25,540 --> 00:33:31,900 Now I know it's not wrong to pray for a child like Alma did for, to protect, you know, his 479 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:38,340 son Alma, to get that assurance, you know, from the Lord that his child would be protected. 480 00:33:38,340 --> 00:33:43,700 And, and I know it's not wrong to ever pray to Heavenly Father to do things for our children 481 00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:46,100 that we cannot do for ourselves. 482 00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:49,220 And there are so many examples of that. 483 00:33:49,220 --> 00:33:55,540 But I think it's just sometimes too easy on our part and a little bit of a lack of faith 484 00:33:55,540 --> 00:34:03,140 and maybe sometimes desperation that we, that we just pray for God to fix it. 485 00:34:03,140 --> 00:34:09,820 And it would be so much more effective and inspiring. 486 00:34:09,820 --> 00:34:17,620 And there'd be so much more growth and progression in the process of prayer and receiving revelation. 487 00:34:17,620 --> 00:34:27,260 If we would pray with inspired questions as to how, what can I do, what, how can I act, 488 00:34:27,260 --> 00:34:35,940 what should I think, how should I feel, you know, ask for questions that won't affect 489 00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:45,740 the agency of others, but take it upon myself to receive help and guidance through the Holy 490 00:34:45,740 --> 00:34:50,860 Spirit and allow the voice of the Lord to speak to me how I can be an instrument in 491 00:34:50,860 --> 00:34:53,020 his hands. 492 00:34:53,020 --> 00:34:55,380 Those are more the inspired questions. 493 00:34:55,380 --> 00:35:03,300 When Deb and I, and we run into this because we have kids, and it's not because our kids 494 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:09,020 are of any persuasion or another or anything like that, it's just because they are also, 495 00:35:09,020 --> 00:35:16,380 like we subjected to the effects of the fall and their response to that, those effects 496 00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:20,660 are sometimes different than we'd want them to be. 497 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:26,740 And you know, I know that early on, Deb and I have been married for 22 years. 498 00:35:26,740 --> 00:35:34,020 We combined a family, our two oldest are the same age, pushing 40, I don't know how old 499 00:35:34,020 --> 00:35:35,780 they are, 37 or 38. 500 00:35:35,780 --> 00:35:40,220 Our youngest is 31, I think, Kirby. 501 00:35:40,220 --> 00:35:43,060 And so we have seven kids all jammed in there. 502 00:35:43,060 --> 00:35:47,020 And you know, in fact, Trevor and Jessica, they share the same birthday, born on the 503 00:35:47,020 --> 00:35:48,020 same day. 504 00:35:48,020 --> 00:35:53,140 Lexi and Casey are the same age, different birthdays, you know, months apart, Dakota's 505 00:35:53,140 --> 00:35:55,860 right in the middle and then Bowen and Kirby are about the same age. 506 00:35:55,860 --> 00:36:01,260 And so we have, you know, 16 grandchildren also under the age of 12 years old now. 507 00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:02,260 And so that's it. 508 00:36:02,260 --> 00:36:03,260 I mean, it just comes. 509 00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:07,700 It's just, boom, concentration and with that concentration and, you know, some of the 510 00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:13,180 decisions and choices that life that I've made in my life and just because of the free 511 00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:17,820 agency of some of our kids, too, there's just some way there's just some of our kids are 512 00:36:17,820 --> 00:36:21,740 just living their ways and ways that I probably wouldn't choose for them. 513 00:36:21,740 --> 00:36:25,820 And it's really, it was really difficult for Deb and I in the very beginning, because 514 00:36:25,820 --> 00:36:27,540 we would pray, you know, please fix them. 515 00:36:27,540 --> 00:36:30,020 Oh, please, Heavenly Father, fix and fix and fix me. 516 00:36:30,020 --> 00:36:31,460 And I believe that's a good prayer. 517 00:36:31,460 --> 00:36:32,980 Change them, protect them from this. 518 00:36:32,980 --> 00:36:33,980 Protect them from that. 519 00:36:33,980 --> 00:36:34,980 Yeah. 520 00:36:34,980 --> 00:36:35,980 Yeah. 521 00:36:35,980 --> 00:36:38,540 You know, don't let my sins affect their lives, those kinds of things. 522 00:36:38,540 --> 00:36:44,420 And you know, and obviously that's not even a possibility or even in God's plan. 523 00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:47,740 But that's, you know, that's what we sometimes as parents want for our kids. 524 00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:48,740 And I don't know. 525 00:36:48,740 --> 00:36:49,740 And I think it was you. 526 00:36:49,740 --> 00:36:53,740 I think that if, I don't know if you remember this, but we were, I called you one day and 527 00:36:53,740 --> 00:36:55,020 I was beside myself. 528 00:36:55,020 --> 00:36:59,500 We were trying to put this thing together and we met at the Italian place in Orem and 529 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:03,580 you, and you helped me to kind of see some things. 530 00:37:03,580 --> 00:37:05,740 And that's where Deb and I changed. 531 00:37:05,740 --> 00:37:10,980 You know, I came home after that conversation and I said to Deb, or maybe she said to me, 532 00:37:10,980 --> 00:37:16,580 I don't want to take credit if I, if I shouldn't be, but either way, together we came up with. 533 00:37:16,580 --> 00:37:20,500 When we pray for our children, we just need to acknowledge that they are His. 534 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:25,500 Remember the first part of the series that we teach in this class of divine gift of forgiveness 535 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:27,300 is who we are. 536 00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:31,380 And who's even more importantly than that, who's we are. 537 00:37:31,380 --> 00:37:36,220 And as parents, if we remember that not just for ourselves, but for our children that they 538 00:37:36,220 --> 00:37:38,540 were His, they are His. 539 00:37:38,540 --> 00:37:41,540 They have been purchased by Christ's blood. 540 00:37:41,540 --> 00:37:43,060 They are His. 541 00:37:43,060 --> 00:37:47,980 And so there, and even recently there's times when Deb and I, as we know by our bed, we'll 542 00:37:47,980 --> 00:37:50,540 just say, haven't we fathered their ears? 543 00:37:50,540 --> 00:37:53,020 And we're doing our best we can with them. 544 00:37:53,020 --> 00:37:54,300 But we don't know. 545 00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:59,460 And we have now began to pray for those questions that we should be asking rather than we just 546 00:37:59,460 --> 00:38:00,460 fix them. 547 00:38:00,460 --> 00:38:04,780 Our prayer, my prayer today is, Heavenly Father, will you please just show me how to be a better 548 00:38:04,780 --> 00:38:05,780 dad? 549 00:38:05,780 --> 00:38:11,660 Yeah, show me a few things this week that I can work on to be a better dad and then be 550 00:38:11,660 --> 00:38:12,660 open to it. 551 00:38:12,660 --> 00:38:13,660 Right. 552 00:38:13,660 --> 00:38:14,660 Right. 553 00:38:14,660 --> 00:38:17,020 And as I do that, you know, when we talked about this, I'm going to just talk about this 554 00:38:17,020 --> 00:38:18,020 for a second. 555 00:38:18,020 --> 00:38:23,420 But as we, as we do this, remember, go back to a notebook might be important for me in 556 00:38:23,420 --> 00:38:27,620 a situation like this, because I have a lot of experiences. 557 00:38:27,620 --> 00:38:32,140 You know, I had one yesterday as I attended the couple as I attended the temple yesterday, 558 00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:35,900 and I wanted to really remember not just the feeling that I had, because I'll remember 559 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:36,900 that. 560 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:41,260 But the way that it came to me, the verbiage that I received, whether it was through the 561 00:38:41,260 --> 00:38:44,780 Spirit or the Spirit using my own intellect, doesn't matter. 562 00:38:44,780 --> 00:38:49,380 But I received some verbiage that, you know, that type of verbiage would be important for 563 00:38:49,380 --> 00:38:55,300 me to know and to carry forth into my life, to carry out into my life, not just what was 564 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:57,260 said, but how it was said. 565 00:38:57,260 --> 00:39:02,300 Because sometimes for me, the how it was said, and you know, reminds me that's not me, that's 566 00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:04,340 coming from Heavenly Father. 567 00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:08,980 And so if I can write those things down and read, you know, and again, we'll get to that 568 00:39:08,980 --> 00:39:10,140 as we get to that step. 569 00:39:10,140 --> 00:39:11,980 But this is where it becomes super important. 570 00:39:11,980 --> 00:39:16,060 And then, and I think we move into the next step with it to David, because, you know, 571 00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:21,140 the prayer, we begin, we have that prayer and we put ourselves out there and we begin 572 00:39:21,140 --> 00:39:28,020 this communion, this correspondence, as Brother Matthews puts it, this correspondence of our 573 00:39:28,020 --> 00:39:30,780 wills, our will with his will. 574 00:39:30,780 --> 00:39:34,060 The next step in that whole process is to listen. 575 00:39:34,060 --> 00:39:35,060 Yeah. 576 00:39:35,060 --> 00:39:37,300 Yeah, absolutely. 577 00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:40,900 And that's actually the next step. 578 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:48,340 But before we before we leave step six and move to seven, let's just end on the experience 579 00:39:48,340 --> 00:39:51,580 of Nephi in Helaman chapter 10, Scott. 580 00:39:51,580 --> 00:39:56,420 I just let's just discuss these two verses for a minute. 581 00:39:56,420 --> 00:40:00,540 Again, let me just remind the listeners, there's there's no prayer that's wrong and 582 00:40:00,540 --> 00:40:02,620 there's no words that are wrong. 583 00:40:02,620 --> 00:40:09,380 And I hope that I'm not being at all critical of any prayer, any prayer, however you ask 584 00:40:09,380 --> 00:40:17,820 it, well, whatever your your intent is, as long as it's sincere and humble is a great 585 00:40:17,820 --> 00:40:21,140 prayer and I know Heavenly Father loves it. 586 00:40:21,140 --> 00:40:24,100 But some prayers are more effective than others. 587 00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:32,140 And if you want to receive revelation, it's a skill that must be developed, that must 588 00:40:32,140 --> 00:40:36,740 be cultivated in order to receive revelation. 589 00:40:36,740 --> 00:40:43,980 It seems Joseph Smith had really developed early on in his life, that skill. 590 00:40:43,980 --> 00:40:49,620 For example, Elder Elder Bednar points out, you know, the inspired question of the Prophet 591 00:40:49,620 --> 00:40:51,060 Joseph Smith. 592 00:40:51,060 --> 00:40:57,020 He didn't ask, you know, which church, you know, is true. 593 00:40:57,020 --> 00:40:59,060 That's not what he asked. 594 00:40:59,060 --> 00:41:02,220 He didn't say show me which church is true. 595 00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:07,540 He said, just just think of this for a minute, the tweak here, he doesn't say which one's 596 00:41:07,540 --> 00:41:09,060 true. 597 00:41:09,060 --> 00:41:14,020 He said, which one should I join? 598 00:41:14,020 --> 00:41:20,500 Now that's more inspired, because he's taking some responsibility in that question. 599 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:22,460 He's saying I'll act. 600 00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:25,220 You tell me which one to join, I'll join it. 601 00:41:25,220 --> 00:41:30,420 There's there's action, there's some responsibility on his part. 602 00:41:30,420 --> 00:41:38,260 I think I think that's really significant that when we pray that we accept some responsibility 603 00:41:38,260 --> 00:41:49,220 with a desire to act as an instrument in the hand of God to be his instrument. 604 00:41:49,220 --> 00:41:59,020 Anyway, I that's all I'm saying is that the words matter and how we feel about certain 605 00:41:59,020 --> 00:42:03,260 things in our prayers, I think it's way too easy in our prayers just to feel like I'm 606 00:42:03,260 --> 00:42:11,820 just going to relegate all of my responsibility to God and that just turn this problem over 607 00:42:11,820 --> 00:42:14,060 to him and I'm not saying that's wrong. 608 00:42:14,060 --> 00:42:17,020 I'm not saying that's bad. 609 00:42:17,020 --> 00:42:21,060 It just may not be as effective. 610 00:42:21,060 --> 00:42:28,260 And we may not receive as much revelation by being by praying in generalities and not 611 00:42:28,260 --> 00:42:40,180 taking responsibilities for what we pray, how we pray, what we say and what we ask for. 612 00:42:40,180 --> 00:42:46,420 You take for example, you know, this great example, this amazing prophet, one of the 613 00:42:46,420 --> 00:42:52,260 greatest missionaries in the Book of Mormon, this Nephi and Helaman chapter 10, when to 614 00:42:52,260 --> 00:42:54,740 read verses four and five, Scott. 615 00:42:54,740 --> 00:42:59,140 Blessed art thou, Nephi, for those things which thou hast done, for I have beheld how thou 616 00:42:59,140 --> 00:43:04,780 hast with unwaringness declared the word which I have given unto thee unto this people, and 617 00:43:04,780 --> 00:43:09,660 thou hast not feared them, and hast not sought thine own life, but hast sought my will and 618 00:43:09,660 --> 00:43:11,660 to keep my commandments. 619 00:43:11,660 --> 00:43:18,940 And now, because thou hast done this with such unwaring ingness, behold, I will bless thee 620 00:43:18,940 --> 00:43:24,900 forever, and I will make thee mighty in word and indeed in faith and in work, yea, even 621 00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:31,540 all things shall be done unto thee according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask that which 622 00:43:31,540 --> 00:43:33,340 is contrary to my will. 623 00:43:33,340 --> 00:43:36,020 That's an amazing passage, John. 624 00:43:36,020 --> 00:43:37,020 Prayer. 625 00:43:37,020 --> 00:43:44,940 What would it take to be in such revelation, in such specific alignment with Heavenly Father 626 00:43:44,940 --> 00:43:47,020 that he could tell me that? 627 00:43:47,020 --> 00:43:48,020 You know. 628 00:43:48,020 --> 00:43:53,260 That which is, let's see. 629 00:43:53,260 --> 00:43:54,260 Anything you ask, you'll receive. 630 00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:55,260 Yea, yea, yea. 631 00:43:55,260 --> 00:43:56,260 Because you will ask. 632 00:43:56,260 --> 00:44:00,620 All things shall be done unto thee according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask that which 633 00:44:00,620 --> 00:44:03,340 is contrary to my will. 634 00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:05,500 That amazing. 635 00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:07,700 I would love to get to that level of prayer. 636 00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:12,180 You know, that's when we talk about putting on the Atonement of Jesus Christ, you know, 637 00:44:12,180 --> 00:44:18,660 part of that process, and when we get to that kind of, not the end, but as that process 638 00:44:18,660 --> 00:44:22,860 is coming into completion, let's put it that way, that's one of the things that we benefit 639 00:44:22,860 --> 00:44:30,380 from, and having done that, is we get a sense that our life is acceptable to God. 640 00:44:30,380 --> 00:44:31,380 Yea. 641 00:44:31,380 --> 00:44:35,940 Well, that's that third step in faith, right? 642 00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:37,780 That's the faith of power. 643 00:44:37,780 --> 00:44:42,300 And you know that your life is in accordance with the will of God. 644 00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:43,860 And that's what it would take. 645 00:44:43,860 --> 00:44:51,100 You would be there at this point, because that thou shalt not ask that which is contrary 646 00:44:51,100 --> 00:44:55,940 to my will, you must be in complete alignment. 647 00:44:55,940 --> 00:45:00,580 You're living by the Spirit, you're walking by the Spirit, you're thinking by the Spirit, 648 00:45:00,580 --> 00:45:03,220 you're asking in the Spirit. 649 00:45:03,220 --> 00:45:09,820 And again, that takes an intentional, diligent life. 650 00:45:09,820 --> 00:45:12,300 That takes preparation. 651 00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:13,620 We should live a prayer. 652 00:45:13,620 --> 00:45:14,900 Yea, we really should. 653 00:45:14,900 --> 00:45:15,900 You're right. 654 00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:17,180 We should live our prayers. 655 00:45:17,180 --> 00:45:19,380 I think that's what it means to pray always. 656 00:45:19,380 --> 00:45:20,380 Live your prayer. 657 00:45:20,380 --> 00:45:21,380 Yea. 658 00:45:21,380 --> 00:45:22,380 Yea. 659 00:45:22,380 --> 00:45:23,380 Constant contact. 660 00:45:23,380 --> 00:45:27,940 You know, that's what we say in Alcoholics Anonymous, is step 11, sought through prayer 661 00:45:27,940 --> 00:45:31,460 and meditation to maintain conscious contact with God. 662 00:45:31,460 --> 00:45:32,620 There you go. 663 00:45:32,620 --> 00:45:33,620 Praying only. 664 00:45:33,620 --> 00:45:34,620 Constant, what? 665 00:45:34,620 --> 00:45:38,380 Constant contact with God. 666 00:45:38,380 --> 00:45:42,100 Conscious, constant conscious contact with God. 667 00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:46,540 So not only are we in conscious contact, but we're aware of it. 668 00:45:46,540 --> 00:45:49,700 Not only are we aware of it, we're living in it. 669 00:45:49,700 --> 00:45:55,540 And then it ends by saying, praying only for a knowledge of his will for us. 670 00:45:55,540 --> 00:45:58,060 And the power to carry it out. 671 00:45:58,060 --> 00:45:59,060 Yea. 672 00:45:59,060 --> 00:46:00,060 Well. 673 00:46:00,060 --> 00:46:08,220 And again, Scott, in the morning when I pray, you know, I might pray in the morning and 674 00:46:08,220 --> 00:46:12,300 say, help me Heavenly Father to be an instrument in thy hands. 675 00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:16,940 I would say probably most mornings I might pray something to that effect. 676 00:46:16,940 --> 00:46:24,740 Help me to be an instrument in thy hands and doing good and helping others. 677 00:46:24,740 --> 00:46:28,980 You know, and I can think about ways to do that. 678 00:46:28,980 --> 00:46:35,740 But it's different if you ask Heavenly Father, who can I help today? 679 00:46:35,740 --> 00:46:36,740 Yea. 680 00:46:36,740 --> 00:46:41,220 Heavenly Father, I desire to be an instrument in your hands today. 681 00:46:41,220 --> 00:46:44,100 Can you please show me who and how that can happen? 682 00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:46,380 Have your pen and notebook ready. 683 00:46:46,380 --> 00:46:47,380 Yea. 684 00:46:47,380 --> 00:46:48,820 And carry it with you. 685 00:46:48,820 --> 00:46:52,180 Because this is the thing, and this is what I meant to say about my experience in the 686 00:46:52,180 --> 00:46:53,980 temple yesterday, is I had this great experience. 687 00:46:53,980 --> 00:47:00,260 I couldn't write it down, and I get into my car and I pray for the inspiration to come 688 00:47:00,260 --> 00:47:02,860 again, and it did enough that I was able to get it. 689 00:47:02,860 --> 00:47:06,340 But throughout the day yesterday, things continued to come to me. 690 00:47:06,340 --> 00:47:07,340 Yea, good. 691 00:47:07,340 --> 00:47:13,580 And as they do, it helps for me to have an instrument by which I can record those. 692 00:47:13,580 --> 00:47:17,620 You know, whether I put it in notes on my phone or write it down, I tend to write things 693 00:47:17,620 --> 00:47:18,620 down. 694 00:47:18,620 --> 00:47:21,340 I'm kind of moving away from that more, getting more electronic. 695 00:47:21,340 --> 00:47:24,940 But whatever the case, dev text, she devils text things to herself. 696 00:47:24,940 --> 00:47:25,940 You know? 697 00:47:25,940 --> 00:47:30,900 Oh, Jenny, my little sister, you know, we were in Lake Powell two weeks ago, and she 698 00:47:30,900 --> 00:47:32,900 had a thought come to her while we were on the boat. 699 00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:38,300 A spiritual thought, something that she wouldn't need to remember for her role in her ward, 700 00:47:38,300 --> 00:47:43,540 and she just spoke it into a text and texted it to herself so she would have it. 701 00:47:43,540 --> 00:47:46,820 So we can get creative, but these are the kinds of things. 702 00:47:46,820 --> 00:47:51,300 We live in a day and age where it's pretty easy for us to get distracted. 703 00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:55,540 We acknowledge that, but it's also pretty easy for us when we are receiving revelation 704 00:47:55,540 --> 00:47:58,100 to make it a part of our life. 705 00:47:58,100 --> 00:48:02,740 If, and this gets back to one of the very first things that we said today, if we're 706 00:48:02,740 --> 00:48:03,740 intentional. 707 00:48:03,740 --> 00:48:09,100 It's so easy with our technology. 708 00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:16,100 And I haven't done as much lately as I have in the past for different reasons, but we 709 00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:17,980 all have a recorder on our phone. 710 00:48:17,980 --> 00:48:25,940 And oftentimes when I was driving back and forth to work, pondering, seeking revelation, 711 00:48:25,940 --> 00:48:33,620 seeking to solve problems or issues at home or at work or wherever, I would often, I mean, 712 00:48:33,620 --> 00:48:40,100 I use my recorder on my phone a lot to capture thoughts and feelings. 713 00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:42,020 I think that's really critical. 714 00:48:42,020 --> 00:48:43,740 That's a great idea. 715 00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:45,420 I wonder how our listeners do it. 716 00:48:45,420 --> 00:48:49,220 Let's invite them to, you know, if you're recording your thoughts, if you're not, then 717 00:48:49,220 --> 00:48:54,300 start and if you are, maybe just kind of shoot us an email. 718 00:48:54,300 --> 00:48:59,340 He redeems us at gmail.com and let us know what your experience has been around that, 719 00:48:59,340 --> 00:49:04,900 how that's helped you, how you seek to improve and maybe even ask any questions, questions 720 00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:06,300 around that that you may have. 721 00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:09,380 Anyway, how to throw it out to Dave. 722 00:49:09,380 --> 00:49:18,140 So an inspired question is one in which God will give us some specific information, a 723 00:49:18,140 --> 00:49:29,980 question that will enhance and allow him to give us specific information. 724 00:49:29,980 --> 00:49:39,340 Asking who can I bless today instead of just help me to bless others today. 725 00:49:39,340 --> 00:49:48,220 Questions that put some more responsibility upon me to act and not just to be acted upon 726 00:49:48,220 --> 00:49:51,580 or leave all things up to him. 727 00:49:51,580 --> 00:49:55,260 Again, nothing's wrong with that. 728 00:49:55,260 --> 00:50:01,180 But if we want to hear the voice of the Lord more in our life, if we want to receive more 729 00:50:01,180 --> 00:50:06,860 revelation, which I think we all should do, I think this is one of the major themes of 730 00:50:06,860 --> 00:50:09,700 President Nelson is revelation. 731 00:50:09,700 --> 00:50:16,260 The first talk that he gave, the very first talk he gave as President Church Scott was 732 00:50:16,260 --> 00:50:19,980 revelation for the church and for individuals. 733 00:50:19,980 --> 00:50:26,420 And then he gave, he followed that up a year, year and a half later with amazing talk, the 734 00:50:26,420 --> 00:50:28,060 voice of the Lord. 735 00:50:28,060 --> 00:50:37,100 And I think one of the major missions or purposes, callings that President Nelson feels that 736 00:50:37,100 --> 00:50:47,020 he has is to help us as individuals and as a church to receive more revelation. 737 00:50:47,020 --> 00:50:54,460 I think that's going to be required of us to prepare for the second coming of Jesus 738 00:50:54,460 --> 00:50:56,420 Christ. 739 00:50:56,420 --> 00:51:00,020 We need to hear the voice of the Lord. 740 00:51:00,020 --> 00:51:04,500 And we didn't really get so much to the next step today. 741 00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:06,020 We'll do that next week. 742 00:51:06,020 --> 00:51:12,380 But the next step is to, I'll just read it and this will talk about it next time. 743 00:51:12,380 --> 00:51:13,380 Be mindful. 744 00:51:13,380 --> 00:51:14,500 This is step seven. 745 00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:21,380 Be mindful, meditative and learn to listen. 746 00:51:21,380 --> 00:51:24,420 Learn to listen. 747 00:51:24,420 --> 00:51:27,140 It's easier said than done. 748 00:51:27,140 --> 00:51:32,140 Eliminate distractions and distortions from your life. 749 00:51:32,140 --> 00:51:35,500 We can talk about distractions and distortions next week. 750 00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:45,220 And do not become over programmed by technology, social media and virtual reality. 751 00:51:45,220 --> 00:51:47,860 I need to add to that in AI. 752 00:51:47,860 --> 00:51:49,580 And anything like unto it. 753 00:51:49,580 --> 00:51:51,940 Yeah, Dave says AI and looks right at me. 754 00:51:51,940 --> 00:51:55,300 No, those are great tools. 755 00:51:55,300 --> 00:52:04,660 But if you're over programmed and the spirit is absent from those, you can get information. 756 00:52:04,660 --> 00:52:11,220 You can get a ton of information without revelation. 757 00:52:11,220 --> 00:52:20,220 But if you can learn to use those tools and be contemplative, meditative and intentional, 758 00:52:20,220 --> 00:52:27,380 those tools could actually be instruments of revelation for us if the spirit accompanies 759 00:52:27,380 --> 00:52:29,220 the information. 760 00:52:29,220 --> 00:52:35,140 But just to receive information, I think leads to frustration and confusion. 761 00:52:35,140 --> 00:52:39,180 So we can talk about that next time. 762 00:52:39,180 --> 00:52:40,260 Got it. 763 00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:42,100 So thanks, Scott. 764 00:52:42,100 --> 00:52:43,100 Yeah. 765 00:52:43,100 --> 00:52:52,740 I think our main takeaway today is to just create a way to make a note or to record. 766 00:52:52,740 --> 00:52:54,820 And again, we're going to get into this. 767 00:52:54,820 --> 00:52:56,540 This is a step in and of itself. 768 00:52:56,540 --> 00:53:02,060 But because we're asking the right questions, inspired inquiry leads to revelatory response 769 00:53:02,060 --> 00:53:05,180 and remembering how and why that's so important. 770 00:53:05,180 --> 00:53:09,060 And then learning and remembering to pray for things that are expedient that God desires 771 00:53:09,060 --> 00:53:10,540 to bless us with. 772 00:53:10,540 --> 00:53:13,340 That's going to require some effort on our part. 773 00:53:13,340 --> 00:53:17,380 And so, you know, just encourage you to come up with those ways that you can record and 774 00:53:17,380 --> 00:53:24,780 remember and hold yourself accountable to and respond to those types of revelatory responses 775 00:53:24,780 --> 00:53:27,900 that we anticipate receiving from the Lord. 776 00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:34,020 So, Scott, one thing, I just wanted to end with this quote from the prophet Joseph Smith. 777 00:53:34,020 --> 00:53:39,700 When we ask inspired questions, how do you know if you're receiving revelation? 778 00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:46,780 You know, how do I know what to write down as being the voice or the will of the Lord? 779 00:53:46,780 --> 00:53:51,980 And I just want to remind everybody of this quote, which Elder Raspin gave a whole talk 780 00:53:51,980 --> 00:53:55,540 on this quote a few years ago. 781 00:53:55,540 --> 00:53:59,940 This from the teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith, page 151. 782 00:53:59,940 --> 00:54:06,140 When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas 783 00:54:06,140 --> 00:54:11,500 so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon. 784 00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:16,060 Those things that were presented under your minds by the Spirit of God will come to pass. 785 00:54:16,060 --> 00:54:23,020 And thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle 786 00:54:23,020 --> 00:54:28,020 of revelation until you become perfect in Christ Jesus. 787 00:54:28,020 --> 00:54:33,100 You can grow in the principle of revelation. 788 00:54:33,100 --> 00:54:34,100 It's a growth experience. 789 00:54:34,100 --> 00:54:35,100 Yeah. 790 00:54:35,100 --> 00:54:36,100 It's really good. 791 00:54:36,100 --> 00:54:43,140 So pay attention to those sudden strokes of ideas or that pure intelligence that pours 792 00:54:43,140 --> 00:54:47,420 into your mind. 793 00:54:47,420 --> 00:54:53,220 It's a skill and it takes time to develop that skill to be able to recognize which of 794 00:54:53,220 --> 00:54:59,060 these sudden strokes of ideas or thoughts are pure intelligence and which ones are maybe 795 00:54:59,060 --> 00:55:02,500 my own or coming from other sources. 796 00:55:02,500 --> 00:55:07,020 Let's not be afraid to experience that. 797 00:55:07,020 --> 00:55:08,780 Thanks everybody for being with us. 798 00:55:08,780 --> 00:55:10,820 We look forward to being with you again next week. 799 00:55:10,820 --> 00:55:26,940 And until then, be well.