President Nelson Describes Revelatory Process on CNN

CNN recently featured an article about President Russell M. Nelson’s call for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to emphasize its revealed name and get away from the “Mormon” moniker. President Nelson did an inspired job of focusing the interview on the reality and process of revelation.  

The amazing part of this story was the mention of President Nelson’s yellow notebook which he places at his bedside night-table. President Nelson described the process of receiving thoughts, ideas, and inspiration in the middle of the night. What is intriguing, is that while only the President of the Church receives revelation for the Church, the process of revelation decribed by President Nelson is accessible to anyone. Revelation, in the way President Nelson described, didn’t require any special religious artifact, relic, instrument, chemical substance, or location. In addition to a bedside notebook and pen, the only other secret was virtue and moral purity. President Nelson advised that revelation requires that our souls be "as pure and clean as a piece of blank paper that lies upon the desk."

Numbers 11:29 “And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!”

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/us/mormon-lds-name-change-revelation/index.html