Do LDS Women Have Priesthood Power? | Barbara Morgan Gardner: Endowed to Lead

Send us Fan MailDo Latter-day Saint women have priesthood power, and what does the temple endowment give to both women and men? In this LDS (Latter-day Saint) episode, Tia Smith shares Barbara Morgan Gardner's BYU devotional "Endowed with His Power, You Are Ready to Lead," and frames it around a doctrine she loves in Sister Gardner's teaching: that men and women together access real power through the priesthood as they make and keep temple covenants.Barbara Morgan Gardner, BYU associate professor of Church history and doctrine, gave this address on July 11, 2023. She teaches five principles of leading with God's endowed power: that you are a child of God born to lead; that learning to hear Him is necessary to fulfill your unique errand; that leading takes courage, effort, and power from Jesus Christ; that God's power is gained through keeping covenants; and that, endowed with His power, we lead as joint-heirs perfected in Christ. Along the way she draws on Joan of Arc, on President Russell M. Nelson's teachings on personal revelation and on hesed (God's covenantal love), and on the endowment's laws of obedience and sacrifice — testifying that every covenant-keeping member has direct access to God's power.Tia Smith frames the whole talk for the gathering of Israel: she describes covenant-keeping Saints as a great preparatory army of the latter days, foreordained to this work, preparing the world for the Second Coming on both sides of the veil — and testifies that when we understand the power that comes through our covenants, miracles follow, and the hope of millions on the other side of the veil rests in our hands.Q: Do Latter-day Saint women have priesthood power?A: Yes — in the teaching Tia Smith highlights from Barbara Morgan Gardner's 2023 BYU devotional, every woman and man who makes and keeps covenants with God and worthily participates in priesthood ordinances has direct access to God's power. President Russell M. Nelson taught that those endowed in the temple receive a gift of God's priesthood power by virtue of their covenant, along with knowledge of how to draw upon it.Q: How do we gain access to God's power, according to this talk?A: Barbara Morgan Gardner teaches that God's power is gained through making and keeping covenants — especially temple covenants — and through effort: hearing Him through personal revelation, keeping the laws of obedience and sacrifice, and riveting our focus on the Savior. She testifies this power is available to every covenant-keeping member, not a select few.Q: What does priesthood power have to do with the gathering of Israel?A: In this episode Tia Smith connects the endowment of God's power directly to the gathering, describing covenant-keeping members as a foreordained latter-day army preparing the world for the Second Coming on both sides of the veil. As we understand and draw on the power our covenants give us, we're better able to lead out in saving souls — the most important work on earth today.▶️ WATCH & LISTEN🎬 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thinningoftheveil🌐 Website: https://www.thinningoftheveil.com🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinning-of-the-veil/id1753511394🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6jWCfMHkZXwnSwy2b98J4M🎵 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a0a45561-d4c2-46d3-af8d-a1e967a21a25📖 BOOKPatterns of Revelation — Spiritual Foundations for Hearing God's Voice: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW36MG9B📱 CONNECTInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinning.of.the.veilFacebook Group (Gathering of the Gatherers): https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429562078443774Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thinningoftheveil💛 SUPPORT THE SHOWVenmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/thinningoftheveilPayPal: https://paypal.me/thinningoftheveil✉️ Have you had a thinning of the veil experience? Email [email protected] — your testimony may be exactly what someone needs to hear.#ThinningOfTheVeil #SpiritWorld #TempleWork #FamilyHistory #LDS #LatterDaySaints #GatheringOfIsrael #MinisteringAngels #FamilySearch #PersonalRevelationCITATIONS:Barbara Morgan Gardner, "Endowed with His Power, You are ready to Lead", BYU Devotional, July 11, 2023: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/barbara-morgan-gardner/endowed-with-his-power-you-are-ready-to-lead/Support the show