Since Heavenly Father knows your very thoughts and feelings all the time, the Holy Spirit would be with Joseph before he prayed. In the experience with the deceiver he would fight towards the light. It seems what you do. There is not a feeling of wrongness about going forward. This is my understanding. Hope this helps. Many blessings. ab
I think you are right. I guess sometimes I have a tendency to struggle with trusting myself or the feelings I have. Probably because I am not always as devoted as Joseph was in this moment. I agree that since Joseph was on a genuine quest to discover the truth, the Holy Ghost would definitely be able to influence him as the Holy Ghost can influence anyone in the world. However, I wonder how it works since he would not have had the full fledged 'Gift of the Holy Ghost' quite yet. That would be a later event. I like the direction your thought encourages me to go. It makes me want to devote some more effort to investigating the differences between the influence of the Holy Ghost vs the Gift of the Holy Ghost. You remind me that sometimes when I feel the promptings of the Spirit it is quite a gentle thing, almost imperceptible. Other times, its more powerful. I am working on a theory that maybe the promptings of the Spirit are gaged in a similar way as warnings. For example, if my little daughter carried a glass of milk onto the carpet, I might warn her to avoid a mess. However if she had a fork and was headed to a wall outlet, the warning would be more 'powerful'. Do you think the Spirit works like this? If so, then the prompting for Joseph at that moment would have been truly wonderful and powerful. Considering the importance of what he was doing. I would like your thoughts on this.
I do think The Holy Spirit works that way and an infinite amount of ways based on our need and our worthiness at the time. I have not always been a member of The Church so I perhaps have an understanding of how The Holy Spirit worked with me to lead me there. An interesting process to say the least! But compared to now at a much lower level and for me took so long. It was like it was coming and going. I think this feeling is one of the reasons we love our missionaries because they bring it with them and then it goes.
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Since Heavenly Father knows your very thoughts and feelings all the time, the Holy Spirit would be with Joseph before he prayed. In the experience with the deceiver he would fight towards the light. It seems what you do. There is not a feeling of wrongness about going forward. This is my understanding. Hope this helps. Many blessings. ab
I think you are right. I guess sometimes I have a tendency to struggle with trusting myself or the feelings I have. Probably because I am not always as devoted as Joseph was in this moment. I agree that since Joseph was on a genuine quest to discover the truth, the Holy Ghost would definitely be able to influence him as the Holy Ghost can influence anyone in the world. However, I wonder how it works since he would not have had the full fledged 'Gift of the Holy Ghost' quite yet. That would be a later event. I like the direction your thought encourages me to go. It makes me want to devote some more effort to investigating the differences between the influence of the Holy Ghost vs the Gift of the Holy Ghost.
You remind me that sometimes when I feel the promptings of the Spirit it is quite a gentle thing, almost imperceptible. Other times, its more powerful. I am working on a theory that maybe the promptings of the Spirit are gaged in a similar way as warnings. For example, if my little daughter carried a glass of milk onto the carpet, I might warn her to avoid a mess. However if she had a fork and was headed to a wall outlet, the warning would be more 'powerful'. Do you think the Spirit works like this? If so, then the prompting for Joseph at that moment would have been truly wonderful and powerful. Considering the importance of what he was doing. I would like your thoughts on this.
I do think The Holy Spirit works that way and an infinite amount of ways based on our need and our worthiness at the time. I have not always been a member of The Church so I perhaps have an understanding of how The Holy Spirit worked with me to lead me there. An interesting process to say the least! But compared to now at a much lower level and for me took so long. It was like it was coming and going. I think this feeling is one of the reasons we love our missionaries because they bring it with them and then it goes.
@@alisonbock8527 I love that. Thank you!