Monday, March 13, 2023

LDS Leaders Affirming the Church Receiving On-Going Revelation

The following quotes come from:


Duane Boyce and Kimberly White, The Last Safe Place: Seven Principles for Standing with the 

Prophets in Troubled Times (American Fork, Utah: Meridian Publishing, 2022), 187-92

 

“I bear you my solemn witness that it is true, that the Lord is in his heavens; he is closer to us than you have any idea. You ask when the Lord gave the last revelation to this church. The Lord is giving revelations day by day, and you will witness and look back on this period and see some of the mighty revelations the Lord has given in your day and time. To that I bear you my witness.” (Harold B. Lee, “Admonitions for the Priesthood of God,” General conference, October 1972)

 

“The Lord definitely calls prophets today and reveals his secrets unto them as he did yesterday, he does today, and will do tomorrow: that is the way it is.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Revelation: The Word of the Lord to His Prophets,” General Conference, April 1977)

 

“There has been in the life of every [prophet and apostle I have known] an overpowering manifestation of the inspiration of God. Those who have been Presidents have been prophets in a very real way. I have intimately witnessed the spirit of revelation upon them.” (Gordon B. Hinckley, in Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [Salt Lake city: Deseret Book, 1997], 71)

 

“The Lord reveals His will through dreams and visions, visitations, through angels, through His own voice, and through the voice of His servants.” (Boyd K. Packer, “Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise,” General Conference, October 1994)

 

“We testify to the world that revelation continues and that the vaults and files of the Church contain these revelations which come month to month and day to day.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Revelation: The Word of the Lord to His Prophets,” General Conference, April 1977)

 

“many revelations have been received and are found in evidence in the onrolling work of the Lord. Perhaps one day other revelations which have been received and have been recorded will be published, and we stand in expectation that ‘. . . He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God’ (A of F 1:9).” (Boyd K. Packer, “We Believe All that God Has Revealed,” General Conference, April 1974)

 

“[T]he servants of the Lord do receive revelations, and they are as binding upon the people as though they were printed and published throughout all the Stakes of Zion. The oracles of God are here, and He speaks through His servant whom He has chosen to hold the keys.” (George Q. Cannon, in Jerreld L. Newquist, ed., Gospel Truth: Discourses and Writings of President George Q. Cannon [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1987], Kindle location, 5203)

 

“When we convene as a council of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve, our meeting rooms become rooms of revelation. The Spirit is palpably present.” (Russell M. Nelson, “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives,” General Conference, April 2018)

 

“Each Thursday, when we are at home, the First Presidency and the Twelve meet in the temple, in those sacred hallowed precincts, and we pray together and discuss certain matters together, and the spirit of revelation comes upon those present. I know. I have seen it.” (Gordon B. Hinckley, in Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997], 555)

 

“[Members of the presiding councils] are called, sustained, and ordained as prophets, seers, and revelators. It is their right to see as seers see.” (Boyd K. Packer, “The Snow-White Birds,” address at BYU, 29 August 1995)

 

“I have had many revelations; I have seen and heard for myself, and I know these things are true, and nobody on earth can disprove them.” (Brigham Young, “Our Search for Truth and Personal Testimony,” in Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, 320)

 

“I know that the will of God is concerning this people, and if they will take the counsel we give them, all will be well with them.” (Wilford Woodruff, in G. Homer Durham, ed., The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, in Teachings of the Latter-day Prophets [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1998], 55)

 

“In the early years of his newly established dispensation, the Lord set his divine law of succession, and prophets have followed each other and will continue to follow each other in never-ending, divinely appointed succession, and the secrets of the Lord will be revealed without measure.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Revelation: The Word of The Lord to His Prophets,” General Conference, April 1977)

 

“We have been blessed as a people with an abundance of revelation. Some have deceived themselves with the idea that because revelations have not been written and published, therefore there has been a lessening of power in the Church of Christ. This is a very great mistake, as we will find out sooner or later.” (George Q. Cannon, in Jerreld L. Newquist, ed., Gospel Truth: Discourses and Writings of President George Q. Cannon [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1987], Kindle location, 5203)

 

“The spiritual gifts described in the Book of Mormon are present in the church today—promptings, impressions, revelations, dreams, visions, visitations, miracles. You can be sure that the Lord can, and at times does, manifest Himself with power and great glory.” (Boyd K. Packer, “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ—Plain and Precious Things,” General Conference, April 2005)

 

“I can testify that the process of continuous revelation comes to the Church very frequently. It comes daily.” (James E. Faust, “Come Out of the Darkness into the Light,” CES Fireside for Young Adults [8 September, 2002])

 

“I have learned that where there is a prayerful heart, a hungering after righteousness, a forsaking of sins, and obedience to the commandments of God, the Lord pours our more and more light until there is finally power to pierce the heavenly veil and know more than man knows.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Give the Lord Your Loyalty,” Ensign, March 1980)

 

“Today in Christ’s restored church . . . [the Lord] is revealing Himself and His will—from the first prophet of the Restoration, even Joseph Smith, to the present.” (Ezra Taft Benson, A Witness and A Warning [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988], 50)

 

“I bear witness that the Lord Jesus Christ lives. . . . He lives now, directing personally the operations of His Church upon the earth and manifesting Himself personally to His servants.” (Boyd K. Packer, “The Light of Thy Childhood Again,” BYU, December 19, 1962)

 

“Let all men know assuredly that this is the Lord’s Church and he is directing its affairs.” (Joseph Fielding Smith, “The Church and Kingdom of God,” in Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith, 120)

 

“I know that the Lord has contact with his prophets, and that he reveals the truth today to his servants as he did in the days of Adam and Abraham and Moses and Peter and Joseph and the numerous others throughout time. God’s messages of light and truth are as surely given to man today as in any other dispensation.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “A Program for Man,” General Conference, April 1976)

 

“Revelation and inspiration have come to [the prophet] in my presence . . . I am an eyewitness.” (Henry B. Eyring, “The True and Living Church,” General Conference, April 2008)

 

“The Lord is close to us and is revealing Himself to us as the great work of the Restoration moves forward.” (Boyd K. Packer, Mine Errand from the Lord: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Boyd K. Packer [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book 2008], 137)

 

“[President David O. McKay] is a prophet. He does not just occupy a prophet’s chair; he does not just have a title of a prophet, he is a real prophet and he is responsible for . . . more revelations in his fifteen years of leadership than are in all the Doctrine and Covenants. . . . I could take time to tell you of these revelations—temples that have been appointed, people who have been called, apostles who have been chosen, great new movements that have been established, great new eras, great new challenges. . . .They came by revelation.” (Spencer W. Kimball, regarding David O. McKay, in Edward L. Kimball, ed., The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982], 447)

 

“Adam’s revelation did not instruct. Noah to build his ark; not did Noah’s revelation tell Lot to forsake Sodom; nor did either of these speak of the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt. These all had revelations for themselves, and so had Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jesus, peter, Paul, John, and Joseph. And so we must, or we shall make a shipwreck.” (John Taylor, in G. Homer Durham, ed., The Gospel Kingdom [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1943], 34)

 

“Revelation continues with us today. The promptings of the Spirit, the dreams, and the visions and the visitations and the ministering of angels all are with us now.” (Boyd K. Packer, “Revelation in a Changing World,” General Conference, October 1989)

 

“I say, in the deepest of humility, but also by the power and force of a burning testimony in my soul, that form the prophet of the Restoration of the prophet of our own year, the communication line is unbroken, the authority is continuous, and light, brilliant and penetrating continues to shine.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Revelation: The Word of the Lord to His Prophets,” General Conference, April 1977)

 

“Visions do happen. Voices are heard from beyond the veil. I know this.” (Dallin H. Oaks, “Teaching and Learning by the Spirit,” Ensign, March 1997)

 

“Dreams and visions and visitations are not uncommon in the Church and are a part of all that the Lord has revealed in this dispensation. I have come to know that these experiences are personal and are to be kept private.” (Boyd K. Packer, “The Great Plan of Happiness and Personal Revelation,” Young Adult CES Broadcast, 7 November, 1993)

 

“Most of the revelation that comes to leaders and members of the church comes by the still, small voice or by a feeling rather than by a vision or a voice that speaks specific words we can hear. I testify to the reality of that kind of revelation, which I have come to know as a familiar, even daily, experience to guide me in the work of the Lord.” (Dallin H. Oaks, “Teaching and Learning by the Spirit,” Ensign, March 1997)

 

“I testify to you that that Spirit is active daily in the President of the Church . . . I have heard him say frequently, ‘the Lord has spoken.’” (Marion G. Romney, regarding David O. McKay, in Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism [Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2005], Kindle location, 787)

 

“The days of miracles has not ceased, neither have angels ceased to appear and minister unto man! The spiritual gifts are with the Church.” (Boyd K. Packer, Mine Errand from the Lord: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Boyd K. Packer [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2008], 64)

 

“I bear witness that Heavenly Father speaks to those who seek Him in spirit and in truth. I have witnessed with my own eyes and joyfully testify that in our day, God speaks through His prophet, seer, and revelator.” (Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “We are Doing a Great Work and Cannot Comes Down,” General Conference, April 2009)

 

“Of all things, that for which we should be most grateful today is that the heavens are indeed open and that the restored church of Jesus Christ is founded upon the rock of revelation. Continuous revelation is indeed the very lifeblood of the gospel of the living Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Revelation: The Word of the Lord to His Prophets,” General Conference, April 1977)

 

“God isn’t an absentee father. Jesus is the head of this church. He reveals his mind and will by the power of the Holy Ghost to those who preside, as each President of the Church can testify.” (Harold B. Lee, “Be Loyal to the Royal Within You,” BYU Devotional, September 11, 1973)

 

“I know that angels minister unto men. I am a witness to the truth that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Only Begotten of the Father; that He has a body of flesh and bone; that He knows those who are His servants here and that He is known of them.” (Boyd K. Packer, “A Tribute to the Rank and File of the Church,” General Conference, April 1980)

 

“We testify that rather than an end of the revelation of God, they continue to pour forth from God for the welfare and benefit of men. . . . I bear witness to the world today that more than a century and a half ago the iron ceiling was shattered; the heavens were once again opened, and since that time revelations have been continuous.” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Revelation: The Word of the Lord to His Prophets,” General Conference, April 1977)

 

“I have heard one of my brethren declare: ‘I know from experiences, too sacred to relate, that Jesus is the Christ.’ I have heard another testify: ‘I know that God lives; I know that the Lord lives. And more than that, I know the Lord.’” (Boyd K. Packer, “The Spirit Beareth Record,” General Conference, April 1971)