How the Priesthood Blesses Youth
Open talk in Gospel LibraryContents
Before Reading
Before reading or listening to the talk, consider the following questions:
- What is the role of the priesthood in the lives of the youth?
- How can the priesthood help us face the challenges of youth?
- What does it mean to worthily exercise the priesthood authority?
- How can we invite the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost?
- What can we learn from the lives of great priesthood holders like Joseph Smith and President Nelson?
Topics
Understanding the Power and Role of the Priesthood
The priesthood is the authority to administer the Savior’s gospel through ordinances and covenants to those who are worthy. This helps us achieve our divine destiny. The youth are reminded that they are beloved sons of God with a work to do in bringing about the immortality and eternal life of man.
The priesthood is the authority to administer the ordinances and covenants of the Savior’s gospel to those who are worthy to receive them.
As the young men of the Church, we are also reminded that we are “beloved [sons] of God, and He has a work for [us] to do,” and we assist in His work “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39).
- What is the priesthood and what is its role?
- How does the priesthood assist in God's work of bringing about the immortality and eternal life of man?
- How can you prepare to receive and worthily exercise the priesthood?
- How can you assist in God's work through the priesthood?
Exercising the Priesthood Worthily
To serve effectively, we must worthily qualify to use the Lord's priesthood power. This involves placing ourselves in situations and places where the Holy Ghost will want to be present. It also requires us to make our homes holy places through personal and family scripture study and prayer.
To effectively serve like Joseph did, we must worthily qualify to use the Lord’s priesthood power.
But in order to invite His constant companionship, we must place ourselves in situations and places where He will want to be present.
- What does it mean to worthily qualify to use the Lord's priesthood power?
- How can we invite the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost?
- What steps can you take to worthily exercise the priesthood?
- How can you make your home a holy place where the Holy Ghost will want to be present?
Learning from Great Priesthood Holders
Great priesthood holders like Joseph Smith and President Nelson serve as examples for us. Studying their lives can help us improve ourselves and prepare to meet our Maker.
I know that Joseph Smith was the prophet of the Restoration and that President Nelson is our living prophet today.
I invite all of us to study the lives of these great priesthood holders and seek to improve ourselves daily so we can be ready to meet our Maker.
- What can we learn from the lives of great priesthood holders like Joseph Smith and President Nelson?
- How can studying their lives help us improve ourselves?
- What specific lessons can you learn from the lives of Joseph Smith and President Nelson?
- How can you apply these lessons in your life?
Facing the Challenges of Youth
The challenges of youth can be difficult, but the priesthood can help us face these challenges. By uniting with fellow servants of the Lord, we can strengthen ourselves against the adversary's temptations and deceptions.
Our service in and with His priesthood brings together those who are dedicated to following and living the Lord’s teachings with exactness, which I personally know can be difficult as we face the challenges of youth.
But uniting with these fellow servants of the Lord in accomplishing His work will help to strengthen us against the adversary’s temptations and deceptions.
- How can the priesthood help us face the challenges of youth?
- How does uniting with fellow servants of the Lord strengthen us against the adversary's temptations and deceptions?
- How have you experienced the strengthening power of the priesthood in facing the challenges of youth?
- How can you unite with fellow servants of the Lord in accomplishing His work?
Blessing Others through the Priesthood
The priesthood gives us the opportunity to bless others. This can be through ministering like angels, preaching the gospel, helping souls come unto Christ, or performing ordinances like baptism. This requires us to be more careful and less casual in our gospel living.
We are given the opportunity to minister like angels, to preach the gospel on all the continents of the earth, and to help souls come unto Christ.
This opportunity to exercise the priesthood required me to be more careful and less casual in my gospel living.
- How does the priesthood give us the opportunity to bless others?
- What does it mean to be more careful and less casual in our gospel living?
- How can you use the priesthood to bless others?
- How can you be more careful and less casual in your gospel living?
