An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.
People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.'
Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.