Taught a lesson on chastity tonight. I was worried about it, but Heavenly Father blessed me. At the last moment I changed the whole beginning and the ending, and it made all the difference. I told the class that I had two questions to asked them. The first was: did they 'know' that Thomas S. Monson was a prophet who spoke for God; did they know that those prophets who preceded him spoke for God; and did they know that the Twelve also spoke for God? Then I asked them if they believe that God was the same yesterday as He is today and as He will be in the future. Then I paused and said, "If you answered no to any of these questions then I have no lesson for you tonight. I waited a moment and then I told them that what we would speak about in the lesson came from God through His prophets and that it was in direct opposition to what the world teaches. The Spirit came and the rest of the lesson just flowed. As with the rest of the world Fiji has a problem with moral purity.
I ended the lesson reading the account of Lot in Genesis. I focused on Lot pitching his tent facing Sodom and what his fascination with the moral degradation that was happening there cost him. Then I bore testimony that to be morally safe in today's world, we must not 'look to' the world, but keep our eyes on Heavenly Father.
When inspiration comes like this, I know that someone in the class has a need that Heavenly Father wants met. I pray that I did it well enough that they heard.
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