TheChurchNews.com Conference Talk Summaries PDF “Being even more effective in priesthood service comes by understanding why individuals are given the priesthood. The purpose for receiving the priesthood is to allow them to bless people for the Lord, doing so in His name. Priesthood service is given out of love, and the Lord blesses service given in His name.
The key to serving and blessing others in His name is praying that the people feel the Lord’s love through one’s loving service. When giving a priesthood blessing, pray to know what blessing the Lord has in store. Ask to know how He wants to bless that person, not what others want.
“My experience is that even when the blessing is not what the others desire for themselves or their loved one, the Spirit touches hearts to experience acceptance and comfort rather than disappointment.” Magnifying priesthood service depends on one’s diligence in seeking the Lord’s will and voice. That magnification may come slowly, but it will come.” — Henry Eyring
Hebrews 1:1-3 “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”.
Hebrews 7:27 “Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.”
Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
Hebrews 10:12 “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God”.
The scenario Mr. Eyring described sounds a lot like the works of a psychic and reminded me of something I noticed in the next town over from where I live.
About 15 miles east of Seattle there used to be a psychic who had a flashing neon sign hanging on the outside of her small building. Oddly enough, the parking lot was always empty and I couldn’t help but wonder why she’d bother opening the office when no one ever showed up. After several years the flashing sign offering promises she couldn’t keep stopped flashing and the windows of the small building were boarded up.
Mr. Eyring’s ill-advised counsel to their priesthood holders is much like the false offerings of hope from the Seattle psychic. You may not like what the priesthood holder said but if you think about it long enough, you’ll grow to accept it. The end result in both scenarios is the same.
Sadly, this is also a picture of how the Church grooms its young male members. They start them out with performing small tasks of serving the sacrament before sending them out to fulfill the duties of a psychic. They’d know all this if only they’d read what God has to say…
There are literally dozens of verses in the Bible telling us why there’s no need for a priesthood like that in Mormonism. Jesus alone is our Priest who intervened by having His precious blood spilt on the cross at Calvary.
The entire Jewish system of temple sacrifices ended when the veil was torn in two and Jesus declared ‘It is Finished’ in John 19:30.
Matthew 27:51 “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent”.
Furthermore, anyone can pray for the Lord to bless someone, and you don’t have to worry whether or not it’s what they ‘wanted to hear’.
Be sure to share this news with a Mormon and show how the Lord denounces witchcraft of any kind – Leviticus 19:31.
“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”
To read Mr. Eyring’s talk in full, see General Conference, ‘Bless in His Name’, April 2021.
With Love in Christ —
Michelle
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Praying, praying, praying for those blind and lost believers in the celestial baloney sandwich for my eyes are now open.