Types of Latter-day Saint Spiritual Experiences
last update: 2020-06-02
(notes)
List originally provided by a member of the Uplift Community of Faith here
- Personal witness that the Book of Mormon is true by way of an extraordinary feeling
- Personal witness that the Book of Mormon is true by way of another kind of experience
- Personal revelation in response to inquiring if the Church is true
- Personal revelation that the church is where God wants a person to be
- Spiritual confirmation of the prophetic calling of Joseph Smith
- Visionary confirmation of events in church history
- Spiritual confirmation of the prophetic mantle/calling of other church leaders after Joseph Smith
- Experience of physical healing by the priesthood or by the prayer of faith
- Experience of emotional or other healing by the priesthood or that prayer of faith
- Being raised from death back to life by the power of the priesthood
- Private, specific aspects of one’s life spoken in a priesthood blessing
- Specific and unique future life events predicted in a priesthood blessing, that have come to pass
- Church service (ministering or other) reaching out or arriving personally in answer to a prayer
- “Burning in the bosom” in response to a prayer inquiring about a specific issue
- Specific words felt or spoken to one’s heart or mind in response to a prayer about a specific issue
- Being led to a new source of information in response to a prayer for understanding
- A prompting to answer a question of another person
- A strong impression to rethink something you were planning to do
- Being guided to a specific person while doing missionary work
- Finding an investigator in response to the investigator’s prayer while doing missionary work
- In response to a prayer, an event occurring that could not possibly be coincidental
- A “tender mercy” miraculous event that was completely unexpected
- A prompting to do something very unusual, resulting in an extraordinary blessing to oneself or someone else
- Witness of possession by spirits
- Witness of exorcism
- Experience of divine providence in a time of need
- A vision in one’s church service
- A vision in response to a prayer for help with a problem
- A vision of ancestors
- Miraculous events while seeking or preparing names for temple ordinances
- Miraculous events during temple worship
- Personal revelation during temple worship
- Miraculous confirmation that a deceased person is seeking temple ordinances
- Miraculous confirmation that a deceased person has gratefully accepted temple ordinances
- Audible hearing of a voice from the other side of the veil
- Audible hearing of a spiritual prompting
- Revelation via dream
- Angelic visitation
- Visitation by a scriptural figure
- Seeing to the other side of the veil
- Personal revelation of the reality of the atonement of Christ
- Personal revelation of Christ’s forgiveness
- Spiritual confirmation of the resurrection of Christ
- Eyewitness confirmation of Christ on the other side of the veil
- Eyewitness confirmation of Christ on this side of the veil