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The Still Small Voice

• Khinckley1_at_yahoo.com

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Nothing Changes
Mt. Carmel, above Haifa Site of Elijah and the
Priests Of Baal
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Elder Eyring

• My Father was suffering through the end
  of a long struggle with bone cancer. He still
  weighed enough and was in such pain that it
  was hard work to move him from a chair to his
  bed. Others far more heroic than I spent the
  months and the days caring for him. But I took
  some turns on the midnight to dawn shift.
• The effects of disease had removed the powers of
  reason he'd used to make a mark that is still
  visible in science. He seemed to me almost like a
  child as we talked through the night. Most of his
  memories were of riding across the range together
  with his father in Old Mexico. But sometimes even
  those happy pictures could not crowd from his
  mind the terrible pain.

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Elder Eyring Cont.

• One night when I was not with him and
  the pain seemed more than he could bear, he
  somehow got out of bed and on his knees
  beside it--I know not how. He pled with God to
  know why he was suffering so. And the next
  morning he said, with quiet firmness, "I know why
  now. God needs brave sons."
• Now, when someone tells you the questions that
  matter yield only to some rational analysis,
  remember that the stunning achievements of reason
  over the past three hundred years have sprung
  from what is called the "scientific method."
• I hope you'll also remember, as I always will,
  the scientist Henry Eyring on his knees, when the
  questions that really mattered yielded to the
  method for finding truth he'd learned as a little
  boy at his mother's knee in Old Mexico. This was
  long before he took the train to Tucson, and
  Berkeley, and Madison, and then on to Berlin and
  Princeton to use the scientific method to create
  theories that changed the scientific world. What
  he learned on his knees brought him peace and
  changed my life

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President Hinckley

• "I think the best way I could describe
  the process of receiving revelation is to
  liken it to the experience of Elijah as set forth
  in the book of First Kings. Elijah spoke to the
  Lord, and there was a wind, a great wind, and the
  Lord was not in the wind. And there was an
  earthquake, and the Lord was not in the
  earthquake. And there was a fire, and the Lord
  was not in the fire. And after the fire a still,
  small voice, which I describe as the whisperings
  of the Spirit."

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Question

• Why does the Lord use a still small voice when
  a louder voice would be heard better?

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How the spirit communicates
Still Small Voice

• The Voice of the spirit may be experienced
  differently because
• Our own personality
• Our spiritual maturity
• Our past experiences
• Our gifts of the spirit

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Elijah and the Widow

• 10 And when he came to the gate of
  the city, behold, the widow woman was there
  gathering of sticks and he called to her,
  and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little
  water in a vessel, that I may drink.
• 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to
  her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of
  bread in thine hand.
• 12 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I
  have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a
  barrel, and a little oil in a cruse and, behold,
  I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and
  dress if for me and my son, that we may eat it,
  and die.

Question If you are Elijah, how do you respond
to a this widow and her son- so destitute they
are about to die?
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Elijah and the Widow

• 10 And when he came to the gate of the city,
  behold, the widow woman was there gathering of
  sticks and he called to her, and said, Fetch me,
  I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I
  may drink.
• 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to
  her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of
  bread in thine hand.
• 12 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I
  have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a
  barrel, and a little oil in a cruse and, behold,
  I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and
  dress if for me and my son, that we may eat it,
  and die.
• 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not go and do
  as thou hast said but make me thereof a little
  cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make
  for thee and for thy son.
• 14 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The
  barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the
  cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord
  sendeth rain upon the earth.
• 15 And she went and did according to the saying
  of Elijah and she, and he, and her house, did
  eat many days.

Yes, great blessings were about to occur,
including the Saving of her son from the dead-
but she needed to take one last step
So, the Lord answers her prayer, through the
Prophet, by requiring even more of her?
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Joseph Smith

• You have all kinds of trials to pass through, and
  it is quite as necessary for you to be tried even
  as Abraham, and other men of God,
• God will feel after you, he will take hold of you
  and wrench your very heartstrings, and if you
  cannot stand it you will not be fit for an
  inheritance in the Kingdom of God."

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Elder McConkie

• Shortly after the landmark revelation on
  the Priesthood in 1978, Bruce R. McConkie
  spoke to all the religion teachers at BYU. In
  describing the experience he said, in effect,
  President Kimball first heard the voice,
  then all of us in turn heard the voice.
• Elder David B. Haight cornered Elder McConkie the
  next day. Bruce, he said, I need to talk to you
  about what you said! I was there, there was no
  voice, just a power manifestation of the Spirit!
• Elder McConkie said, David, you heard the
  Voice!
• Bruce, Elder Haight repeated, there was no
  Voice!

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Elder McConkie

• Elder McConkie then opened the Scriptures to
  DC 88 63,66
• Draw near unto me and I will draw near unto
  you
• Behold, that which you hear is the as the voice
  of one crying in the wilderness- in the
  wilderness, because you cannot see him- my voice,
  because my voice is Spirit
• David, Elder McConkie said, you felt the
  spirit like I did you heard the voice!

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President Hinckley

• I draw strength from a simple statement made
  concerning the Prophet Elijah, who warned King
  Ahab of drought and famine to come upon the land.
  And Ahab scoffed. And the Lord told Elijah to go
  and hide himself by the brook Cherith, that there
  he should drink of the brook, and he would be fed
  by the ravens. And the scripture records a simple
  and powerful statement 'So he went and did
  according unto the word of the Lord.'  
• "There was no arguing. There was no excusing.
  There was no equivocating. Elijah 'went and did
  according unto the word of the Lord.' And he was
  saved from the terrible calamities that befell
  those who scoffed and argued and questioned."