Relief Society Lesson Schedule:
- January 11: “They Are Their Own Judges” David A. Bednar https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2025/10/51bednar?lang=eng
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2025 Worldwide Relief Society Devotional
Watch and/or read the most recent Worldwide Relief Society Devotional here: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/broadcasts/miscellaneous-events/2025/02?lang=eng
Gratitude, Invitations, and Blessings to Women
From President Russell M. Nelson at the Worldwide Relief Society Devotional Broadcast, as reported in the Church Newsroom:
“Anytime we help anyone find the covenant path and stay on it, we are helping to gather Israel. No one does this better than you do — as mothers, leaders, teachers, sisters and friends. You are preparing future generations of the Lord’s Church and the world.”
He paid tribute his late wife, Dantzel, who died in 2005, and Wendy, his wife of 18 years, as to the two people who have influenced him most. “They have changed my life,” he said. “They have made my life more complete.”
Women have been at the center of Heavenly Father’s plan from the beginning, he said. Covenant daughters of God have a receptivity to the Spirit and an enhanced moral compass.
“Sisters, please never underestimate the extraordinary power within you to influence others for good … if the world should ever lose the moral rectitude of its women, the world would never recover.”
Sisters’ voices are needed to teach the doctrine of Christ, detect deception and articulate truth. The wisdom of women is needed in their families, ward and stake councils, and other places of influence throughout the world.
President Nelson invited women to make the scriptures their personal Liahona, the temple their place of refuge and recalibration, and their personal prayers the way they learn where the Lord needs them to be that day. Over time, he said, they will see how the Lord guides them to help others.
Additionally, he blessed women:
- With increased spiritual discernment and the ability to find joy in offering relief to others.
- With wisdom to discern what is needful and not to run faster than they are able.
- With the courage to live up to divine privileges as covenant daughters of God.
- To feel deeply that Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, know them and love them.
- To realize that their divine gifts as daughters of God give them the power not only to change lives but to change the world.
Spiritual Treasures
By President Russell M. Nelson
“The heavens are just as open to women who are endowed with God’s power flowing from their priesthood covenants as they are to men who bear the priesthood. I pray that truth will register upon each of your hearts because I believe it will change your life. Sisters, you have the right to draw liberally upon the Savior’s power to help your family and others you love… You won’t find this process [of learning to draw liberally on the Savior’s power] spelled out in any manual. The Holy Ghost will be your personal tutor as you seek to understand what the Lord would have you know and do. This process is neither quick nor easy, but it is spiritually invigorating. What could possibly be more exciting than to labor with the Spirit to understand God’s power—priesthood power?
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2019/10/36nelson?lang=eng
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