Membership in the Church

32% of blessings since 1950 included the promise of Membership in the Church.

1845-06-09 Thou hast entered the Covenant by baptism. Thou art adopted into the family and kingdom of God. 1845-07-19 In as much as thou hast joined the true church and given thyself unto the Lord and honoured him in the blessed ordinance of baptism thou art a new creature in Christ Jesus in the everlasting covenant with faithful Abraham and his servant in the holy Priesthood is witness to thine adoption into the family and kingdom of God. 1845-08-26 Thou has been honored in the Blessed ordinance of Baptism. 1857-01-23 Thou art truly blest, inasmuch as thou hast embraced the gospel in thy youth. 1866-01-29 Thou hast left thy native land to dwell among the Saints which is well pleasing in the sight of the Lord. 1870-12-26 Thou hast received this gospel with an honest heart. 1877-01-21 You have suffered yourself to be gathered to this land of Joseph by the power and revelation of God the Eternal Father, given to his servant Brigham Young, the lawful and legal successor to Joseph Smith. 1877-10-24 When you were baptized into this kingdom the light from on High rested down abundantly upon you and you could not tell the meaning of it, but you have felt it again and you knew from whence it came, and the angels shouted for joy. 1878-09-03 I say unto thee be thou comforted for thou art one of the daughters of Zion and art numbered among the daughters of Israel. 1880-01-11 You shall be numbered with the Church of the First-born. 1891-04-19 Thou shalt receive the glories of Zion. 1891-07-12 The Lord has given you faith and his Holy Spirit and has brought you into His Church and Kingdom. 1891-09-24 Thou hast received the gospel with good and honest heart. 1900-08-04 Thy heart rejoiced greatly when thou heard the servants of the living God proclaim the true and everlasting gospel. 1902-02-02 You have come upon the earth in the day and age in which the Lord has established His church, never more to be taken from the earth, and you have yielded obedience to the requirements of the Lord and have embraced His gospel. 1931-01-24 Thou art an heir to all blessings promised unto the daughters of Zion among who thou art numbered. 1951-06-15 You have availed yourself of the opportunity of becoming a member of this great organization and have lived to enjoy the blessings it offers those who faithfully serve the Lord. 1952-06-12 You have been chosen in these last days to come to Zion to the stakes of Zion where you can advance in the Church and help bring souls unto Christ and build up Zion. What a glorious privilege that has come to you to come to Zion in these the latter days to the shadows of the Temple where you can rear your family. 1952-06-12 You were chosen as a choice spirit in the Spirit World to come forth in the day when the Gospel was restored that you might enjoy all the blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and be taught in your youth the Gospel and receive and understand it, and receive a testimony of the divine mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith. 1952-07-19 Thou hast been privileged to come forth at this time when the Gospel has been again restored to the earth. The Lord has been merciful unto thee in granting unto you this privilege. 1953-07-12 Be proud of your membership in the Church. 1954-10-10 The Gospel is restored in this day and you are one of the partakers of the same. 1954-10-10 You may know at this time that it is not an accident in your life that you are a member of the Church. 1955-02-10 You were permitted in time to receive the Gospel and to aid the Priesthood in building up His great church preparatory to His second coming. 1955-12-17 You now have the opportunity to hear, accept, and enjoy all the blessings of the gospel as they have been restored to earth in the time in which you have the privilege to live. 1956-06-08 Through the waters of baptism you have associated yourself with the House of Israel and you have the promise, that if you continue faithful and maintain the standards of the Church, and are willing to make such sacrifices which will be required of you, you will share in the gifts and blessings of the Lord. 1957-02-18 You earned the right to come into the earth at this time when the Gospel in its fullness is here upon the earth whereby the children of God, by obedience to its teachings might eventually gain exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom of our Father. 1957-08-07 Thou hast already been greatly blessed in thy life in receiving this fine tabernacle in which you dwell, and in thus far partaking of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 1957-11-03 I bless you, at this time, that you will continue to serve in such a manner that others seeing your good example and hearing your sincere testimony of the truthfulness will feel to glorify our Father in Heaven and to join with us in the acceptance of the restored gospel. 1957-11-29 Because of your sweetness and your devotion to the Lord, He sent you to earth that you might come to a good home and be taught the gospel of Jesus Christ and enjoy all the blessings the Church has in store for the Children of God. 1971-09-18 Thou art blessed to have come forth in this dispensation and to have had the privilege and opportunity of gaining a knowledge of the Restored Gospel and entering the waters of baptism and making thy covenants with thy Heavenly Father to keep His commandments and to serve Him. 1973-05-08 You have been blessed to receive in childhood the message of the gospel. 1978-10-15 You have pleased our Heavenly Father greatly in having asked to become one of His within this gospel. 1979-04-09 Brother *****, you are, along with a very few people who have been born in this world, most fortunate that you have in your young adult life found your way into the Church and Kingdom of Jesus Christ in these last days. 1979-07-03 The Lord intends that the major function and role of Latter-day Saints in this dispensation is to so live and so teach that people will hear and understand the message of the restored Gospel and be led to participate in its privileges. Help them to understand and grow and have the privileges and blessings that you have had since your baptism into the church. 1980-02-10 This is the fullness of time when the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored with all the powers and authority of all the previous dispensations restored to earth for the salvation of mankind. The gospel shall not be taken again from the earth, for these are the last days. I bless you that you shall fully realize the great value of your membership in the Church to you, for it is the way unto life eternal in the Celestial Kingdom. I bless you that you shall treasure this membership above all else in life. The greatest accomplishment of your life shall be to convert yourself to the truths of the Church and the gospel. 1981-10-11 You can be the means of helping many of them become members of the Lord's Church and to enjoy the blessings that you enjoy. 1983-06-26 I say unto you, dear brother, that you have come in a blessed age when the gospel is upon the earth and been privileged to partake of it. 1989-05-14 Now *****, there are many special things in store for you, blessings that would not come to the common man who is not a member of this great Church and who does not know Heavenly Father. 1994-07-31 For this is a great work which you have embraced, as it is restored in all its purity and with all of the gifts and powers that are embraced in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 1995-09-06 You have been blessed to be a member of the only true and living church upon the earth. 1995-10-27 He has blessed you to be born under the New and Everlasting Covenant where you are sealed to your parents for time and all eternity. 1996-02-11 I bless you, *****, that during these years of preparation you will grow and develop into lovely womanhood, you will be taught by the Holy Ghost, and you will become converted into the gospel of Jesus Christ and to the restoration. 1996-08-11 You have been called before this earth was ever created to be a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to come to know the Prophet and the Apostles, to journey throughout the length and the breadth of the earth as a messenger of truth and righteousness. 1997-09-01 You have been blessed here upon earth to have found the restored Church of Jesus Christ, and if you are faithful and obedient, and remain active in the Church, your life will be greatly blessed. 1999-07-18 You have experienced the blessings of the gospel in large measure as you have proceeded through the years since your birth and to this point in your life. 2001-04-26 You came into the world in a position where you could become a member of the Church and to receive the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 2001-08-12 Your spirit was withheld until these latter days when the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ is on the earth and you would be able to experience the restored Gospel in your life. 2001-09-15 You are greatly blessed to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to have a living Prophet, Seer and Revelator to give you guidance and counsel. 2002-02-08 It was your desire to come into a home where these principles were taught and lived so that you could enjoy a lifetime membership in His church. 2002-04-14 Continue your activity in the Church. 2005-04-24 Among your children some will become leaders and worthy members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 2006-08-27 You have been blessed to have the gospel taught to you. 2008-04-20 Heavenly Father and the Savior are pleased that you made the decision to join Their Church here on the earth. 2009-10-17 You made important covenants with our Father in Heaven in the waters of baptism. 2010-03-28 You have been watched over and guided to where you would have the blessing of finding the true church of Jesus Christ. 2010-05-30 You obtained a divine commission to receive the restored gospel in mortality. 2012-08-17 Great men and women, some of your ancestors, struggled mightily that they might live the gospel, that they might have it in their lives and that they would use it to guide their lives and pass it on to their children and to their children's children. You should feel gratitude for that, be aware of that and make a covenant between yourself and your Heavenly Father that you will never despoil or sully the rights and privileges that are yours by having the gospel which has been given to you and brought to you by your ancestors. 2014-01-10 You have been richly blessed thus far in your life in having parents who love you and would do everything they can that is right to help you to progress and grow. Listen to their counsel and your life will be prolonged upon the earth. 2014-01-14 As you continue to learn and establish yourself in your Heavenly Father's church, you will come to the realization of the many areas in which He expects you to excel. 2014-10-26 As you remain true and faithful to the church you will have the ability to make the correct choices every time in accordance with Heavenly Father's plan for you. This is another grand promise that your Heavenly Father promises you that through total activity in the church will bring peace, comfort, safety and happiness in your life. 2015-04-28 You have been blessed with goodly parents who have raised you in the church and provided you a home filled with the gospel and the teachings of Jesus Christ. 2016-04-24 I bless you to recognize the favored position you occupy as a member of the restored Church of Jesus Christ, with opportunity to make covenants with God. 2017-09-10 You have received the gift of the Holy Ghost by being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 2018-03-04 Du hast den Bund mit dem Himmlischen Vater geschlossen durch die Taufe und Dich so entwickelt, dass Du heute ein gehorsames Mitglied der Kirche des Herrn bist. 2025-05-07 You chose a time when the true church has been restored to the earth, as prophesied in the meridian of time. You have rejoiced to learn of the restoration, and to enter the waters of baptism, receiving the first principles and ordinances necessary in returning to God's presence. Blessing #20 You are chosen by God to be among the first to receive the restored gospel in the latter days. Blessing #25 You have accepted baptism and confirmation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and so doing, you have accepted all of those commandments that our Heavenly Father has given His children to live by, and this will be the pathway that you will tread throughout your life.