When Accessing Priesthood Power Finally Clicked for Me

The Moment I Stopped Pleading and Started Acting

For most of my life, I believed in priesthood power, and even saw it work miracles, but I believed it belonged to someone else.

I believed in blessings, ordinances, authority, and structure. I loved and sustained the men who held offices in the priesthood. I found strength in temple covenants and comfort in priesthood blessings. But the idea that I could use priesthood power? That felt like a stretch.

Then the leaders of the Church started speaking more directly about it.

“You might be saying to yourself, ‘This sounds wonderful, but how do I do it? How do I draw the Savior’s power into my life?’” —President Russell M. Nelson, Spiritual Treasures

Those weren’t just rhetorical questions. They were invitations. And I started asking myself: What would it actually look like for a Latter-day Saint woman to access and use priesthood power in her everyday life?

I didn’t fully understand the answer, until I had an experience that changed everything.

The Moment It Clicked

I was praying for one of my children. They were going through something heavy. Something I couldn’t fix. I had been pouring out my heart to Heavenly Father, begging Him to bless them, to comfort them, to intervene where I could not.

That’s when something unexpected happened. Something that was the beginning of me truly understanding what it means when prophets and apostles teach that women can access priesthood power.