Notes From a Loving Father in Heaven

​We speak to God, our Father, through prayer. Our loving Father in Heaven also speaks to us. When we learn to recognize how God speaks to us personally, we feel His love as a child feels loved by her father.

​Notes from our Heavenly Father can be called revelation, blessings, tender mercies, and more. Sometimes they are received as inspiration through thoughts and feelings within. Sometimes through the service of others. And sometimes through the written word. This past week my Father in Heaven sent me a written note of love.

Based on the recommendation of a friend, I watched a video called Spiritual Whirlwinds created from a talk by Elder Neil L. Andersen, an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. I was touched by the message of the video and especially by my very favorite scripture quoted within the video, Helaman 5:12, which teaches that "it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation." When you watch the video, pay attention to the image in the light behind the young man. Jesus Christ is our "sure foundation."

I planned to show my family the video after our evening family scripture study. Currently we are reading The Book of Mormon from beginning to end, two pages per day. We opened to the pages we would be reading, pages 378 and 379. There in the third verse I read "And now, my sons, remember, remember, that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall" (Helaman 5:12). My favorite scripture. The one I'd seen in the video that day. We happened to be reading that scripture on that particular page on that day. It was a written note from my Father in Heaven. A note that told me that God knows me, loves me, and that I am His daughter. I am a child of God.