The Holy Ghost is my companion. The Holy Ghost breathes to me God's will in the still silence of a voice, but so strong the feeling is that it encapsulates me. I am promised it's companionship if I am worthy.
I know what it's like to live with it and to live away from it. It's like a testament and reminder of a truthfulness of God's true gospel through song and hymns of praise, through my testimony and the testimony of others. It beacons me to choose the right and warns me when I'm about to falter.
But when I do falter, I can take my step back and turn it into 3 steps forward with a gentle whisper and reminder that my Father in Heaven loves me and Jesus is my Savior and through Him I can repent of my wrong doings and be forgiven.
In a blessing I am given the gift of discernment. I have it with me strong when I am staying on the path God needs me to be on. I can discern the Spirit in others. Since returning to the church I have felt it stronger than ever. I can feel when there is a brother or sister striving to do what's right because I can feel it in them. It can sometimes overwhelm me, this gift. But it is a true blessing. It is that discernment that helped me feel it in the people responsible to bring me back to the truth, through a song and through a testimony.
And it is the same spirit that testifies to me of His divinity, of our Savior's love, of the truthfulness of His gospel through the Bible and Book of Mormon.
Even Moroni at the end of the Book of Mormon tells us of the importance of prayer and asking God if the things that are read in the book are true. With his personal testimony that God will manifest the truthfulness of it through the Holy Ghost.
Moroni 10:
3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
6 And whatsoever thing is good is just and true; wherefore, nothing that is good denieth the Christ, but acknowledgeth that he is.
7 And ye may know that he is, by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore I would exhort you that ye deny not the power of God; for he worketh by power, according to the faith of the children of men, the same today and tomorrow, and forever.
I am a proud member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I know this church contains the true gospel, the Priesthood authority from God and saving ordinances for all. I know God lives, I know Jesus is the Christ and He is my Savior. I have a testimony of the Holy Ghost in my life. I know it is real and there for me.
In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
