Blessings of the Temple

D.C. 109 has the dedicatory prayer offered at the Kirtland Temple. It's very instructive about the reasons to attend the temple. I just made notes on what I thought were the main 33 messages in those verses. I'm bolding those that list blessings for attending the temple or things that the temple can do to help people. The point is, it's worth it to get there:

1) Recognizes the Lord's involvement in all lives and his commandment to build temple

2) ask Lord to accept the temple

3) Repeat purpose of temple - to help people learn through study and faith and be a house of prayer, fasting, faith, learning, glory, order, God

4) send thy glory on this people

5) people feel God's power and recognize temple's God's house

6) people taught words of widom and seek learning by study and faith

7) grow up in thee and receive fulness of Holy Ghost

8) prepared to obtain every needful thing

9) house become house of order, prayer, learning, faith, etc.

10) no unclean thing come into the house

11) when people transgress speedily repent and return and be restored to blessings

12) servants armed with power and assistance of God and angels

13) ready to bear truth of Gospel

14) no weapon formed against them shall prosper

15) no combination of wickedness shall prevail over them

16) confound those who fight against church and make their works ineffective

17) servants suffer from bearing record of God and gospel

18) deliver from yoke of persecution

19) forgive transgressions of the people

20) seal the anointings done

21) bless with gift of tongues and filled with glory

22) give servants a testimony of the covenant

23) remember the persecuted Saints

24) help the mob repent or destroy them

25) have mercy on all nations, and our nation's rulers, and establish the constitution

26) remember all people

27) help other stakes grow

28) help children of Jacob be gathered/redeemed from this hour; Judah return, and other lineage of Jacob repent

29) remember Joseph Smith

30) remember his family

31) remember the presidents of the church and their families

32) remember all the church and their families that the church may become great and fill the earth

33) help church be pure and ready for the Second Coming to be caught up to meet the Savior

Here's a few of my thoughts:

If you want to be assured that you'll repent quickly after transgressing, be a temple attender.

If you want to know that the church is God's church and the temple is truly God's house, be a temple attender.

If you want to be prepared for the "needful things" that life may throw your way, be they difficult or easy, be a temple attender.

If you want to be a great learner, be a temple attender.

If you want a testimony of the covenant of the Lord to be with his people and love his children, be a temple attender.

If you want to grow in spirituality and have the Holy Ghost as a companion, be a temple attender.

If you want to be a powerful missionary, be a temple attender.

If you want help to overcome wickedness or to be assured that you won't falter when great temptation comes your way, be a temple attender.

If you want to be ready for the Second Coming, be a temple attender.

I saw all of the above promises in those verses in D.C. 109. I have not attended the temple since moving to this area, but we have a plan in place to attend regularly starting next week, and I am excited about it.

Enjoy the temple. As President Monson said, it's worth every effort to make it to the temple.