Importance of Prophets and Apostles

Amos 3:7  Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.   
     My husband sends out a text every week to the members of the gospel doctrine class so we can prepare for his Sunday lesson. This week the message was "Study Acts 18:23-Acts 20. Consider the importance then and now of having apostles and prophets to clarify and apply the true Gospel for us."

     It is amazing that this is our lesson this week because of an announcement that came from the LDS Church Leadership.

Women Leaders Called to Executive Councils

     I have been blessed to have been alive during some amazing, historical revelations given by the living prophet. Some have been welcome and others have been hard to accept but I have a testimony that every one has been just exactly what was needed for the time it was given. 

   

 
In the Teaching of the Presidents, Ezra Taft Benson Manual, we are instructed in Lesson 11 we are taught: 

"A revealing characteristic of a true prophet is that he declares a message from God. He makes no apology for the message, nor does he fear for any social repercussions which may lead to derision and persecution.
Sometimes there are those who feel their earthly knowledge on a certain subject is superior to the heavenly knowledge which God gives to his prophet on the same subject. They feel the prophet must have the same earthly credentials or training which they have had before they will accept anything the prophet has to say that might contradict their earthly schooling. How much earthly schooling did Joseph Smith have? Yet he gave revelations on all kinds of subjects. … We encourage earthly knowledge in many areas, but remember if there is ever a conflict between earthly knowledge and the words of the prophet, you stand with the prophet and you’ll be blessed and time will show you have done the right thing."

     I am so grateful for the prophets I have been blessed to love and follow; David O. McKay, Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B Lee, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson, Howard W Hunter, Gordon B Hinckley and Thomas S Monson.