Conclusion

My dear brethren, may we diligently seek to learn the doctrine of the holy priesthood, may we strengthen our testimonies line upon line by receiving the revelations of the Spirit, and may we find true joy in daily priesthood service. As we do these things, we will begin to live up to our potential and privileges as priesthood holders, and we will be able to "do all things through Christ which strengtheneth [us]."19 Of this I bear testimony as an Apostle of the Lord and leave you my blessing in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Notes

 

1.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 104.

 

2.

Doctrine and Covenants 84:19.

 

3.

Doctrine and Covenants 84:20.

 

4.

Doctrine and Covenants 84:34.

 

5.

Doctrine and Covenants 84:33.

 

6.

Doctrine and Covenants 84:38.

 

7.

1 Nephi 19:24.

 

8.

See James 1:22.

 

9.

Teachings: Joseph Smith, 108–9.

 

10.

2 Nephi 28:30.

 

11.

Doctrine and Covenants 88:40.

 

12.

Doctrine and Covenants 50:24.

 

13.

Doctrine and Covenants 93:19.

 

14.

John Gillespie Magee Jr., "High Flight," in Diane Ravitch, ed., The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation (1990), 486.

 

15.

Richard Bach, Stranger to the Ground (1963), 9.

 

16.

Magee, "High Flight," 486.

 

17.

Alma 26:13, 15–16.

 

18.

Psalm 89:15.

 

19.

Philippians 4:13.

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