Guiding, Protecting Power

Guiding, Protecting Power

Guiding, Protecting Power
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"Power in the priesthood comes from doing your duty in ordinary things: attending meetings, accepting assignments, reading the scriptures, keeping the Word of Wisdom."President Woodruff said: 'I traveled thousands of miles and preached the Gospel as a Priest, and, as I have said to congregations before, the Lord sustained me and made manifest His power in the defense of my life as much while I held that office as He has done while I have held the office of an Apostle. The Lord sustains any man that holds a portion of the Priesthood, whether he is a Priest, an Elder, a Seventy, or an Apostle, if he magnifies his calling and does his duty.' (Millennial Star, 28 Sept. 1905, p. 610.)"John the Baptist restored the Aaronic Priesthood with these words:" 'Upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah I confer the Priesthood of Aaron, which holds the keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins.' (D&C 13.)"You?our deacons, teachers, and priests?have been given sacred authority. May the angels minister unto you. May the power of the priesthood be upon you, our beloved young brethren, and upon your sons throughout the generations ahead. I bear witness that the gospel is true, that the priesthood holds great power, a guiding, protecting power for those who hold the Aaronic Priesthood."
-- Boyd K. Packer, "The Aaronic Priesthood," Ensign, Nov. 1981, 33