Consider The Blessings

Presents fifty of the true accounts President Thomas S. Monson has shared over the years.

What if we took Jesus at his word and simply believed what he said: that we are indeed blessed? We would then see the beatitudes as a love song, one that invites each of us into a life of prayer and service in keeping with the gift we are. Embracing Our Blessings walks us through the life of Jesus, through the stories he told and the people he touched, and identifies these people of blessing.

"Get Out of the Way . . . You're Blocking Your Blessings!!!" contains practical, easy-to-understand dialogue that will greatly benefit readers in the implementation of God's Word to their daily life. (Christianity & Daily Life)

In Consider Yourself Blessed, How to Walk in the Blessings of God Every Day, you will find answers to some of life's important questions such as:Why is my life so difficult?Does God really mean well for me?Why are God's promises absent from my life?God wants you blessed and living a full life. His desire is for you to walk in all that He has provided through the work of His son, Jesus Christ, when He died on the cross. You will discover and learn how to live the life of abundance God promises in the Bible by:Understanding and grasping God's expectations and plans,Knowing that God's love and thoughts of you trumps what others think or say, and byApplying and putting into effect all that God has already declared and spoken over you.This book is designed to encourage you to evaluate and measure how you think of yourself against God's regard for you. It will encourage and inspire you to grasp that God, indeed, has great plans and intentions for you as stated in Jeremiah 29. It also includes a survey, which can be used to test any scripture and see how it applies in your life. God had great expectations for you long before you were in your mother's womb. His thoughts are for you to walk in peace and not evil and to give you an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11). God has declared you blessed, for He decrees in His Word (the Bible) that surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life. That is God's expected end for you.

The ordinary moments of life can be sacred, if we simply take a moment to notice. This collection of prayers, poems, and meditations offers a brief respite from the hectic, harried pace of our days. Open it when the spirit moves you or when the spirit feels distant--the words will be here to inspire, calm, and encourage you either way. From gifted poet and empathetic pastor Meta Herrick Carlson, Ordinary Blessings collects blessings for loving yourself, enduring hard things, authenticity, living with others, and the rhythms of each day. Pause, take a deep breath, and open these pages to find that you've been standing on holy ground all along.

“I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26b NIV Are you in the midst of a storm, today? Are dark clouds looming above you while water is rising around you? Or do you find yourself fighting a battle that seems to test every fiber of your strength and faith? Or maybe you have a friend facing a difficult challenge, and you’d like to encourage them through their battle. Inspired by a friend’s courageous battle with cancer, Blessings in the Rain is a collection of Scripture verses and poems meant to encourage those who find themselves fighting battles of their own. Whether physical, mental or spiritual…the battles we face daily can easily cause us doubt, discouragement, despair, or fear. But God has an incredible way of taking what might have been meant to harm us, and instead use it for our good. He turns our storms into “showers of blessing.”