How the Lord answers us

Doctrine and Covenants 8:2-3 is today's scripture mastery.  In it, we learn how the Lord often gives us our answers, and reveals new things to us:

 2 Yea, behold, I will tell you in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart.

 3 Now, behold, this is the spirit of revelation; behold, this is the spirit by which Moses brought the children of Israel through the Red Sea on dry ground.

It is possible to receive grand revelations, such as Moses' burning bush experience, or when the brother of Jared saw the finger of the Lord.  Or even when Joseph Smith saw God the Father and His Son, and talked with them.

However, in most cases the revelations of God are much less dramatic.  They come as these two verses say: "in your mind and your heart, by the Holy Ghost"

That goes hand in hand with receiving answers from God for things that we would like to know.  I have previously commented on Moroni 10:3-5, which tells us how to seek after an answer from the Lord.  Well, today's scripture mastery shows how that answer comes.  Doctrine and Covenants 9:8-9 is another verse that tells us how the answer most often comes from the Lord:

 8 But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right.

 9 But if it be not right you shall have no such feelings, but you shall have a stupor of thought that shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong; therefore, you cannot write that which is sacred save it be given you from me.

Simple, isn't it?  To get our own revelation/answer from God, we must simply follow the following pattern:

1. study it out on our own, and make our own decision
2. Go to God in prayer, asking if the decision you have made is correct
3. Firmly believe, with faith in Christ, that you will receive an answer
4. Listen with your heart and your mind

When you do that, you will receive an answer to your prayers.  You can then know, by the power of the Holy Ghost if what you have prayed about is true or not.