Revelation

Taken from a journal entry from when I was a missionary in Romania...

Avenues of Revelation:

1. 1 Nephi 1:8 – visions
2. 1 Nephi 2:1 – Audible voices
3. 1 Nephi 2:1 – Dreams
4. 1 Nephi 4:6 – Voice of the Spirit
5. 1 Nephi 3:29 – Angels
6. 1 Nephi 16:26-29 – Instruments
7. 1 Nephi 4:1-3 – Scriptures

The Formula for Receiving Revelation:

1. Search the scriptures (study)
2. Keep the commandments (obey)
3. Ask in faith (pray)
4. Pay attention to different ways the revelation could come (listen)

Principles that Govern Revelation:

1. It comes in many different ways
2. It has its own time frame
3. It cannot be forced
4. It is often incremental
5. It comes according to our stewardship
6. It is not given for trifling & non-expedient issues
7. It may not come if the answer is already revealed
8. It is given only after “the price” has been paid

How to Recognize the Spirit:

1. Doctrine & Covenants 6:23-24 -- Feelings of peace
2. Doctrine & Covenants 9:8 – Feelings of warmth
3. Doctrine & Covenants 11:13 – Feelings of joy
4. Doctrine & Covenants 128:1 – Feelings of preoccupation
5. Alma 14:11 – Feelings of constraint
6. Ether 4:11 -- Persuasions to do good
7. Doctrine & Covenants 8:2 – Thoughts to the mind
8. Alma 32:28 – Enlightened mind (a new thought or idea)
9. John 14:26 -- Brings things to memory
10. Doctrine & Covenants 8:9 – Stupor of thought
11. Enos 1:5 – Audible voices

References:

1. More scriptural references
2. Definition, talks, etc.