I Believe in doing things that invite the Spirit

I Believe in doing things that invite the Spirit

I believe in doing things that invite the Spirit and not doing things that drive the Spirit away.  First of all I love the Spirit. I love feeling the Spirit.  I love the feelings of peace, joy, comfort, and love that always accompany the Spirit.  I believe it is what it will feel like to live with our Father in Heaven, but maybe only a glimpse of what it will feel like, it might be much more intense.  I believe that we need to learn how to recognize and follow the promptings of the Spirit in order to know what we must do and also to learn what we need to know in order to be prepared to live in the presence of God.  That is the plan, return to live with Him.  Therefore I believe we should do the things that invite the Spirit into our lives.  I want to share with you seven ways to immediately invite the Spirit, as suggested during the October 1988 general conference by Elder Gene R. Cook, then of the Seventy and now an emeritus General Authority. The seven tips include:
Pray; Use the scriptures; Bear and hear testimony; Use worthy music; Express love and gratitude to God and man; Share spiritual experiences; Perform and partake in priesthood ordinances.
I believe we can do most of these things every day.  We can all pray, read the scriptures, listen to worthy music, express love and gratitude to God and man, and read the testimony of our leaders by reading a conference talk each day.  As we do these things we can write our Spiritual impressions down.  This act of recording our Spiritual experiences shows God that they are sacred to us and He will bless us with more light and knowledge, line upon line, precept upon precept.  We can share these experiences with our family in FHE or with our spouse.  The last one is the toughest to do each day.  For me it is pretty easy.  I get to go to the temple almost every day and perform priesthood ordinances.  Some days I get to participate in them.  On Sunday we can partake of the sacrament, but the temple is the place that we can most often go to, to perform and partake in priesthood ordinances.  We should go there as often as possible.  I believe we should do as many of these things as we can each day.  I believe that they, as said by Elder Cook, immediately invite the Spirit into our lives.  I believe in doing things that invite the Spirit.