2.295 Want to be Chosen? Learn This One Lesson

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth, a bold reminder that our lives are meant to carry his flavor, his truth, and his love to the world. Join me each day to explore one verse of scripture and one thought, striving to stay full of savor and truly live as savory salt. Hello, my friends.

It's great to have you with me. Today let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. If the Lord could give us just one lesson on the power of the priesthood, what would it be?

I think we're going to see it today. We're reading this week Doctrine and Covenants sections 121 through 123 as well as 3 Nephi chapters 15 through 19. Doctrine and Covenants section 121 starts with Joseph's frustration and sadness at looking for the Lord.

And we get a response from the Lord and we get kind of an explanation about what the dispensation of the fullness of times is going to include. We're not going to get into those verses, but they are quite telling. I hope you enjoy them.

And then we get to the tail end of 121, and the Lord kind of shifts gears here. And he's like, 'So, I'm going to let you spend time inside of those verses.' We're going to look at this one lesson that the Lord wants us to understand when it comes to the power of the priesthood. It's in Doctrine and Covenants section 121, verse 36.

And I hope this helps for those of you perhaps facing adversity in your lives as well. It says this one lesson. It says this in 36: 'That the rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only upon the principles of righteousness.' My friends, I got a feeling that that's the secret right there.

Now it's not a secret because it's public, right? It's right here in front of us. So, maybe 'secret' isn't the right word.

The key—the key to unlocking the rights and the power of the priesthood—it is through principles of righteousness. The very powers of heaven reside in the priesthood power today, if we will just use it through the principles of righteousness. I know that I've had times in my life where the priesthood power has been so clearly instituted in my life that it is as real as the microphone I'm talking into right now.

It's as real as the technology you're using right now to listen to this. I know the power of the priesthood is legitimate power from our Heavenly Father. I can testify to that.

I have been healed through it. I have healed others through it. I have experienced miracles in my life, not just through prayer, but through the express authority and power of the Priesthood of God.

What does that mean for us? It means that our access, our ability to call upon the powers of heaven is directly associated upon the principles of righteousness. My friends, living righteously isn't just about doing the things the Lord asked us to do.

Living righteously is about opening the powers of heaven to each one of he has the power of the priesthood in our lives. I am grateful that the Lord reminds Joseph Smith in his darkest times that he has the powers of heaven in his life. We too, with a restored Priesthood of God on the earth today, have the very powers of heaven in our lives.

We too have the ability to call upon them to ask the Lord for his hand and his help. And that is very powering indeed in our times of challenge and adversity. That's all for today, my friends.

Lift up your hearts and rejoice. Cleave unto the covenants you have made and together we will be savory salt.