There are nine key points to remember when it comes to receiving personal revelation.

They are as follows:

(1) Small and simple things
(2) Line upon line
(3) Need to start, and often times it doesn’t matter where. Once started, the Holy Ghost will lead one to where they need to be.
(4) The Lord’s timing is critical
(5) The Lord will give us a pattern in all things
(6) The Lord speaks to us in our own language and to our own understanding
(7) There is order and wisdom to the way in which God operates
(8) We must be willing to accept the Lord’s offering (we must also recognize it when offered)
(9) Sometimes the Lord allows us to make mistakes so that we can learn from our own experiences.

We will now tackle each one of these in more detail.

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Whether testimony or revelation, sometimes we deceive ourselves into thinking unless we receive a Heavenly visitation or experience lightening and thunder, we have not experienced the Divine.

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Two other quick notes about revelation and how God interacts in our lives:

First, often times when God gives us direction … it is for another purpose entirely. That is OK. He knows He can’t force us … and sometimes the way to get us to do x is to have us think we are doing y.

Second, sometimes God also impresses us to do an action and we extrapolate it out to think He wants us to do more than He wants us to do (for example, we might feel imspired to date a certain person and we mistakingly interpret it to mean that God wants us to marry this certain individual, when in reality, God might have a purpose in dating this person so that we can learn a certain lesson).

NOTES:

(1) Discerning direction from Heavenly Father and deceptions from Satan are key to our eternal progression. All nine of these keys are important to discerning what is real and what is fake.

(2) It is wise to realize that we not is some way “special.” Lucifer would attempt to convince us that we are somehow “special” and that the Lord’s commandments or the true process of revelation does not somehow apply to us (in other words, we are entitled to break certain commandments or that somehow we are privileged to receive some spectacular revelation outside of our stewardship, or even for ourselves personally). Humility is critical.

(3) For all of us, we will always be the “rule” … we will never be the “exception.” Thinking we are the “exception” only plays to our ego. Satan loves to play that card if we allow ourselves to be susceptible.

(4) During the Cold War, the KGB would always try the following four methods of compromising others to their side, which make up the acronym M.I.C.E. These four methods involve “money,” “ideology,” “compromise,” and “ego.” Lucifer will use these same four methods to compromise us, or to place wedges between us and the Lord or His Church, so that he can draw us away after him. He will accomplish these designs through his own whisperings or deceptive spiritual revelation (as Satan exists as a spirit). See “Satan’s Lies & Temptations” and “Satan’s Methods.”