Day 359 The Holy Ghost in Worship and Learning

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth, and in the same sentence offers a warning that savorless salt is good for nothing. Join me in an attempt to be savory salt as I share each day one verse of scripture and one small thought. Perhaps this small daily emphasis can lead to greater savor in your life and ultimately you and I can be savory salt.

Hello, my friends and family, wherever you're listening from, thank you for joining me and know that I'm cheering for your every success. How vital is the Holy Ghost when it comes to our worship and learning? Welcome to day 359 on our 365 day journey through the Book of Mormon together.

Today, we're going to be reading Moroni chapter 6:5-9 and Moroni chapter 7:1-9. And as you get into some more words from Moroni's father, Mormon, I think you're starting to see that Mormon had a pretty heavy impact on his son, Moroni, which is awesome in and of itself. And it's a whole other story we might get into in Moroni 7 a little bit as Moroni takes so many of his father's words to heart and the lessons that he teaches him.

And yet our verse for today actually comes from Moroni chapter 6 and it's inside verse 9 here as we see the importance that the Holy Ghost played in the lives of the members. Let's take a look and see what it says. Moroni 6:9: Whether to preach, or to exhort, or to pray, or to supplicate, or to sing, even so it was done.

Now I have one challenge for you here before we get into the thought for the day. That challenge is to spend some time looking at the Holy Ghost leading them to preach. What do you suppose that looks like?

Exhort. What is that? Pray, supplicate, or sing.

You see, it's interesting because the role that the Holy Spirit plays in our lives, especially when it comes to our worship and our learning, basically our church activities, should be centered entirely around that desire to have the Holy Ghost with us. As I was looking into this a little bit and kind of researching, I actually went down a little bit of a rabbit hole, I'll admit, as I've done earlier before. But I came across a talk by Elder Jeffrey R.

Holland from the October 1998 General Conference, entitled "Teaching, Preaching, Healing." He says something that I absolutely love inside of this concept of the role the Spirit plays. He says: "In all of this we must remember that the Lord has never given more emphatic counsel to the Church than that we are to teach the gospel by the Spirit—even the Comforter, which was sent forth to teach the truth. Do we teach the gospel by the Spirit of truth, or do we teach it some other way?

And if it be by some other way, He warns, it is not of God." In language echoing other commandments, he has said, "If ye receive not the Spirit, ye shall not teach." And then he says this piece here, and I love this piece right here: "No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven." So parents, teachers, and leaders, we must face our tasks the way Moses faced the promised land. Knowing that he could not succeed any other way, Moses said to Jehovah, "If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." And then he continues teaching there. I love this idea and this truth inside reminder for Moroni to seek the Spirit.

I hope that that's an opportunity for you and I both to do a little check up from the neck up as we've talked before about how much we invite the Spirit into our lives when we prepare lessons for teaching in family or church scenarios. That's all for today, my friends. Remember that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.

Keep it small, keep it simple, and always seek to be savory salt. I'll be here tomorrow and I hope you are too.