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Why Women in the Church building Should Follow President Nelson's Invitation to Report nearly the Priesthood

Contributed Past Aubrey Eyre, Church building News staff author

Article Highlights

• Take up the prophet'due south charge to acquire and understand what the priesthood means to you as a woman.
• Agreement will requite you more vision, insight, and purpose in your life and every bit you help others.

"How I yearn for you to understand that the restoration of the priesthood is just as relevant to you as a woman every bit it is to whatever homo. … I entreat you to report prayerfully all the truths you lot tin can find near priesthood ability." —President Russell M. Nelson

Directly addressing the women of the Church during general conference in October 2019, President Russell G. Nelson invited women to "study prayerfully" and "detect what the Holy Ghost volition teach y'all" well-nigh the restoration of the priesthood and how to depict upon that power—the ability of God—in their individual lives.

"How I yearn for you to understand that the restoration of the priesthood is just as relevant to you as a woman as information technology is to any human being," President Nelson said. "Every adult female and every homo who makes covenants with God and keeps those covenants, and who participates worthily in priesthood ordinances, has direct access to the power of God. … I entreat you lot to study prayerfully all the truths you lot tin find about priesthood ability."

The Relief Club General Presidency—President Jean B. Bingham; Sister Sharon Eubank, Starting time Counselor; and Sister Reyna I. Aburto, Second Counselor—have reiterated that invitation, encouraging the Relief Society'southward 7.five million women worldwide to take upwards the prophet's charge of learning and understanding what the priesthood means to them.

In a recent interview with the Church News, President Bingham explained President Nelson'southward management will help women in the Church to focus on what is nigh of import for them and the Relief Guild today.

"One of the beautiful things about President Nelson'south invitation is that he encourages u.s.a. to learn to receive revelation individually, because what the Holy Ghost will teach me may be a trivial different than it is for yous," President Bingham said. "Women take much in common, but nosotros also have unique circumstances, so we invite the women of the Church building to follow the counsel of the prophet and really study about what the priesthood means for them."

An Invitation and a Blessing

Priesthood power for an individual comes from a covenantal connectedness to Jesus Christ, Sister Eubank said. "The more carefully we keep our promises with Him, the more ability and blessing we can phone call downwards on the people we love."

President Jean B. Bingham, General President of the Relief Lodge, centre, with her counselors, Sis Sharon Eubank, First Counselor, left, and Sister Reyna I. Aburto, Second Counselor, right, in Salt Lake Urban center on Mon, Apr 3, 2017. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News.

There are many tough problems in the globe right now, Sister Eubank continued. "The prophet is giving us the central to something important. If you demand a specific blessing for yourself or someone you love, my invitation is to take upwardly President Nelson'southward challenge and report more than most priesthood ability."

The prophet's invitation is an outpouring of love from Heavenly Father and the Savior to all the women of the Church, Sister Aburto said, adding that it shouldn't feel like a burden or one more addition to a long list of things to do. Rather, Relief Gild sisters should look at it as "an invitation from God through His prophet to expand our agreement of a beautiful and basic doctrine of the gospel." This invitation from the Lord is an opportunity for every person to be blessed with a deeper noesis, vision and insight about the ability of God in their lives, she said.

When Sis Aburto heard President Nelson's invitation last October "the spirit immediately testified to me that if—as women of the Church—we study the sections in Doctrine and Covenants that he pointed out, and other revelations regarding the priesthood, our understanding of the power God has given to His children will expand."

Learning by Private Study

Through her ain personal study, President Bingham said she has come to a better understanding of "what the priesthood means to me as a woman." And she has learned so much more she understood when she was younger.

The power of God is much more than simply a single entity known as "the priesthood," President Bingham explained. It is the literal power of God and, every bit such, it is multifaceted.

President Jean B. Bingham, General President of the Relief Club, is interviewed in her office in the Relief Society Building in Table salt Lake City on Wednesday, February 19, 2020. Photo by Laura Seitz, Deseret News.

There is a difference between priesthood keys, priesthood offices, priesthood authority, and priesthood power, she said. And reading and studying the sections of the Doctrine and Covenants suggested by President Nelson, President Bingham said, has increased her understanding of those differences and how they function in the abode and in the Church.

"The more I've learned and studied, the more I sympathise how the priesthood is relevant to me in my life," she said. "I can await dorsum and encounter experiences I've had with the power of the priesthood in my life and priesthood authority in callings I've had that I may not take realized before."

For Sister Eubank, studying sections 84 and 107 in the Doctrine and Covenants has increased her understanding of the importance of temple ordinances in relation to the priesthood.

"Ane thing I learned is that an 'endowment' ways a gift so large that just the interest alone can be used to pay all the expenses and even so non touch the original gift," she said. "If we are endowed with priesthood ability, then information technology'south a source that constantly renews and can never be exhausted."

Recognizing there isn't a question of whether or not she has priesthood power, Sister Eubank said her focus shifted to better questions. She began asking herself: "What am I doing with that endowment of priesthood power? How does it affect my calling? What does information technology mean for my nearly important relationships? And how might I use it to help someone else?"

Asking those deeper questions changed her, Sis Eubank said. "I realized I was unconsciously living below my priesthood privileges, and I want to exist better."

Having read Doctrine and Covenants sections 25, 84, and 107 many times earlier, Sis Aburto said reading them again post-obit President Nelson's invitation helped her gain new insights and feel the Spirit in a different manner.

"I can meet more conspicuously now that God'southward priesthood has no end and that it has the power to bless all generations of humanity," she said. "This new insight helps me as I reverberate on how I can be part of making that promise a reality in my life and in the life of people in my sphere of influence."

President Jean B. Bingham, Full general President of the Relief Society, reads scriptures in her part in the Relief Society Edifice in Salt Lake City on Midweek, Feb 19, 2020. Photo by Laura Seitz, Deseret News.

Understanding Priesthood Power

In many ways, covenant women and men in the Church are already cartoon upon the power with which they take been endowed, Sister Aburto said. They are probably using it in means they don't even realize.

The Church building of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has progressed over nearly 200 years in function because of the women and men who accept accessed that power to share the gospel throughout the earth and connect families for eternity. However, Sis Aburto said, by being more conscious of that power and what information technology means, "we would be able to describe upon information technology even more."

The Church and its members are receiving more revelation regarding priesthood power because "the Lord is accelerating His work on this earth and He needs all of us to truly understand that nosotros are His 'covenant people' and that through our covenants and our faithfulness nosotros tin 'be armed with righteousness and with the power of God'" (ane Nephi 14:14), she said.

Women will receive more vision and purpose in their personal lives, as ministering sisters, and as leaders in the Church when they follow the prophet'south invitation, Sis Aburto promised.

The women of the Church don't demand to look, Sister Eubank added. They can deed at present, they can seek for God to bless their homes, the people in them, and others within their spheres of influence.

In a concluding idea, President Bingham said, "When, as women, nosotros come up to truly understand the privileges and power we have because of the priesthood, nosotros volition rejoice."

President Jean B. Bingham, Full general President of the Relief Society, reads scriptures in her function in the Relief Guild Building in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb xix, 2020. Photo by Laura Seitz, Deseret News.

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