Speaking Spiritual Truth

I am realizing how important it is to speak spiritual truth.  I heard a message from Heavenly Father that only if we speak spiritual truth, can people feel the Spirit, and hear the Spirit testify in their spirits the truth.  If we hold back, then we are with holding the Spirit from them.  I have to say, the only way I got baptised was because people spoke the truth to me, and yes I could feel and hear the Spirit in what they were saying.  This testified to me, and made me want to get baptized. 

Also, I am learning we compromise our spiritual strength when we keep quiet and do not say what the Spirit wants us to say.  We are strengthened in the Spirit, in our walk with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, in our relationship to the Church, the more we speak spiritual truth, the more we share our testimony, the more we share what we have learned is true.  I realize now we do no one favors by with holding it.  Also, how real are our relationships if we are simply pretending and not saying what we know is true.  My experience is our lives become authentic, and we feel more firmly planted in the Gospel as we speak the truth. 

In our world where there is so much non-truth being condoned, it can be challenging, and I don't always find it easy.  But yet I know this is part of being a follower of Christ.  Part of being a member of the Church is to say what we know is true.  Often I pray before hand and ask the Holy Spirit to speak through me.  Then the words pour in power and love.  Its an amazing experience to write or speak words directly from the Spirit. 

 It really is an opportunity to bless, help and love people in the way that is most needed.  People need to hear the truth that we know, and we need to be willing to share it.  We can't always know what impact our words will have on them.  It may look like it goes into deaf ears, or resistant ears, even angry ears, but I know the times in my life when I have heard truth, it has always stayed with me and eventually changed me. 

I am now willing to tell the Truth of the Gospel, of God's love, of the Church, of all the Spiritual Truths I have learned, knowing as I do this, I am loving and blessing others, and enabling them to feel the Spirit.