GEMS-Teachings: Blessings of Life and of Health

Gems from the Teachings of Church Leaders
Blessings of Life and of Health
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“I wish that every Latter-day Saint would remember these few
words. How I wish that they were engraven upon our memories and upon our
hearts, and that we would determine that God shall be bound to fulfill His
promises unto us, because we will keep His commandments. There is a law
irrevocably decreed in heaven–so we are told by the Prophet
Joseph–before the foundations of the world, upon which all
blessings are predicated, and when we receive any blessing, it is by
obedience to the law upon which it is predicated [see D&C
130:20-21]. If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health,
of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by,
as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of
Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us.”

Topics: blessings, obedience, word of wisdom

( Heber J. Grant, in Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant [2002], 191-92)