Becoming a covenant woman in partnership with God is how great and good daughters of God have always mothered, led, and ministered.
Every daughter of God listening to my voice has received a call from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Your call began when you were placed into mortality, in a place and time chosen for you by a God who knows you perfectly and loves you as His daughter. In the spirit world,
He knew you and taught you and placed you where you would have the opportunity, rare in the history of the world, to be invited into a baptismal font.
You covenanted with God to take upon yourself the name of Jesus Christ, to keep His commandments, and to serve Him.
For each one who makes these covenants, the service that the Lord calls him or her to do will be suited perfectly to that person.
The covenant daughters and sons of God, however, all share one important and joyful call. It is to serve others for Him.
His devoted daughter-disciple may truly say, ‘My work and my glory is to help my loved ones reach that heavenly goal.’
“To help another human being reach one’s celestial potential is part of the divine mission of woman.
As mother, teacher, or nurturing Saint, she molds living clay to the shape of her hopes. In partnership with God, her divine mission is to help spirits live and souls be lifted. This is the measure of her creation. It is ennobling, edifying, and exalting.”
You cannot know when, or for what length of time, your personal mission will be focused on service in calls such as mother, leader, or ministering sister. The Lord, out of love, does not leave us the choice of the timing, duration, or sequence of our assignments.
You will be wise to bend every effort to prepare now with the end in mind.
They all require the preparation of a powerful, loving heart, a fearless faith that the Lord gives no command save He prepares a way, and a desire to go and do for Him.
In the same way that you prepare to minister, you can and must prepare for your call to be a leader for the Lord when it comes. It will require faith in Jesus Christ, rooted in your deep love of the scriptures, to lead people and to teach His word without fear.
She did not force. She molded. And she had a template for her hopes, and to which she tried to mold those she loved and mothered. Her template was the gospel of Jesus Christ—as I could see through prayerful observation over the years.
Becoming a covenant woman in partnership with God is how great and good daughters of God have always mothered, led, and ministered, serving in whatever way and place He has prepared for them.
I promise that you will find joy in your journey to your heavenly home as you return to Him as a covenant-keeping daughter of God.
Here is the full talk:https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2019/10/34eyring?lang=eng
-Sherri Jorgensen
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