Each Day an Unspoiled Page

Each one of us is commanded to both repent and to call upon God continually throughout life. That pattern allows each day to be an unspoiled page in the book of life, a new, fresh opportunity.

Elder Richard G. Scott - October 2000 General Conference "The Path to Peace and Joy"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/10/the-path-to-peace-and-joy?lang=eng

Weaken the Powers of Satan

When we are consistently praying morning and night, studying our scriptures daily, having weekly family home evening, and attending the temple regularly, we are actively responding to His invitation to “come unto Him.” The more we develop these habits, the more anxious is Satan to harm us but the less is his ability to do so. Through the use of these tools, we exercise our agency to accept the full gifts of His atoning sacrifice.

Elder Richard G. Scott - October 2014 General Conference "Make the Exercise of Faith Your First Priority"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/make-the-exercise-of-faith-your-first-priority?lang=eng

Becoming As a Child

But King Benjamin, who understood as well as any mortal what it meant to be a man of strength and courage, makes it clear that to be like a child is not to be childish. It is to be like the Savior, who prayed to His Father for strength to be able to do His will and then did it. Our natures must be changed to become as a child to gain the strength we must have to be safe in the times of moral peril.

We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit’s direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts. When we have, by that experience, become as a child in our capacity to love and obey, we are on the sure foundation.

President Henry B. Eyring - April 2006 General Conference "As a Child"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/04/as-a-child?lang=eng

My Thoughts on Personal Preparation to Guidance

Although I do not hold the priesthood, I believe that the concepts President Eyring is teaching about personal guidance and revelation still apply to me.  I know that the Spirit can guide us and give us specific instructions for our individual circumstances and callings, but we have to be living worthily to have this spiritual guidance.  Not only must we be keeping the commandments, but we also have to be putting in the time and the effort to pray and study and make that personal connection with the Lord.  The more we do this the more clear his promptings, warnings, and instruction will become to us.  The Lord is constantly trying to speak to us and trying to give us guidance.  We have to fine-tune our receptors so that we learn how to hear and heed His communications to us.  If we do this we can become better tools in His hands to help and lift His other children as well as ensuring our own spiritual safety and growth.

Companionship of Holy Ghost

“You will not survive spiritually without the protection of the companionship of the Holy Ghost in your daily life.  You must pray for it and work to have it. Only with that guide will you be able to find your way along the strait and narrow path through the mists of evil. The Holy Ghost will be your guide as He reveals truth when you study the words of prophets.  Getting that guidance will take more than casual listening and reading. You will need to pray and work in faith to put the words of truth down into your heart. You must pray that God will bless you with His Spirit, that He will lead you into all truth and show you the right way. That is how He will warn and guide you into the right path in your life and in your priesthood service.”


“President Henry B. Eyring - April 2015 General Conference "Priesthood and Personal Prayer” 
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/priesthood-and-personal-prayer?lang=eng 

Sincere Prayer

"We do not have to cry unto him with many words. We do not have to weary him with long prayers. What we do need, and what we should do as Latter-day Saints, for our own good, is to go before him often, to witness unto him that we remember him and that we are willing to take upon us his name, keep his commandments, work righteousness; and that we desire his Spirit to help us. Then, if we are in trouble, let us go to the Lord and ask him directly and specifically to help us out of the trouble that we are in; and let the prayer come from the heart, let it not be in words that are worn into ruts in the beaten tracks of common use, without thought or feeling in the use of those words."

Joseph F. Smith - Teachings:Joseph F. Smith, Chapter 3
https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-joseph-f-smith/chapter-3?lang=eng&query=cry+unto+him+with+many+words

Guided by the Example of Christ

“As we walk the pathway of life, He provides a clear map and points the way toward our desired destination. He cautions: beware the detours, the pitfalls, the traps. We cannot be deceived by those who would lead us astray, those clever pied pipers of sin beckoning here or there. Instead, we pause to pray; we listen to that still, small voice which speaks to the depths of our souls the Master’s gentle invitation, ‘Come, follow me.”  

President Thomas S. Monson - October 2014 General Conference "Guided Safely Home"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/guided-safely-home?lang=eng