Ministering With the Power and Authority of God

Last Sunday evening (ward member) gave the prayer in our YSA ward prayer.  As usual we had made a list of those whom we were specifically praying for.  He then prayed the kind of prayer that President Nelson was referring to in his Priesthood talk in April conference.  He told Heavenly Father that many in the room held the priesthood.  He commanded by the power of the priesthood held in that room that those we were praying for would be blessed according to Heavenly Father’s will. He expanded those blessings to all of us in the room and to those in our ward and to our associates and loved ones.   It was a powerful prayer and you could sense that those blessings were called down and that a difference had been made.   As I re-read Pres. Nelson talk, Ministering With the Power and Authority of God I thought how we unintendingly leave untouched the blessings that could be all around us through a conscious use of prayer and priesthood power and through our temple covenants.  Our busy lives and the many, many distractions in our world keep us just a breath away from the fullest blessing of the gospel.