Post 44x In This Blog Post You Will Be Given the Special Opportunity of Viewing Several Videos Which Portray Jesus During His Life As Described in the New Testament. You will also be Introduced to a Book of Mormon Scripture in Which the Resurrected Lord, Jesus Christ Reveals Himself Very Clearly and Convincingly!

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Dear Readers of this Blog, please note that Google advertisements may appear in this blog post. They were not solicited by me and I do not profit from them. I did request particularly that Google not place them within scriptures which I often use in my blog posts. It appears they have honored that request of mine. Thank you Google!

I discovered an add that was placed in a scripture I used in a previous blog. I respectfully withdraw my previous "Thank you."

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Jesus the Christ -by Del Parson

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the assistance of You Tube have very recently provided a series of videos  filmed at that Church's Goshen, Utah Filming Site in Utah County not far South from the Salt Lake Valley which has been very skillfully and accurately transformed by skilled craftsmen to resemble the Holy Land in very close detail. Also, very skilled directors and actors were called upon to portray those involved in the biblical history portrayed.

I have chosen several of these very accurate portayals of scenes from the life of our Savior Jesus Christ to assist you in learning from Him regarding Matters of  His Gospel and in perhaps feeling closer to Him emotionally and spiritually. These video scenes  which occurred in the Holy Land were based upon that which is recorded in the New Testament.

I look forward to the day when there will be video depictions of the Savior teaching the Nephites in the areas of America where those events actually took place. There is not yet a consensus of opinion within the Church as to where in the Americas those events actually took place, therefore filming can not yet take place at replicas of those actual geographical sites as has been done in Goshen, Utah (U.S.A.) in the portayal of sites in Ancient Palestine. However, I believe that time will come, possibly and hopefully, during my lifetime!

At Easter time this year I provided you with other videos filmed in at the aforementioned site Goshen, Utah, but those shown then will not be shown again in this blog post.


Jesus Teaches Nicodemus About Being Born Again


Jesus is Baptized by John


Jesus Turns Water Into Wine!


Here is a Painting by an LDS Artist Showing a Scene Which Took Place in A.D. 34 somewhere in Ancient America. Below that painting, you will read marvellous and inspiring words from the Book of Mormon which our Resurrected Lord, Jesus Christ spoke to those Nephites whose ancestor, Lehi, had led his family along with others through God's guidance from Jerusalem to Eastern Arabia and across the largest ocean in the world to somewhere on the coast of ancient America in about 600 B.C..

CHRIST AND THE BOOK OF MORMON CHILDREN -BY DEL PARSON 

The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, 3 Nephi, Chapter 17: Verse 11: And it came to pass that he commanded that their little children should be brought. 

12  So they brought their little children and set them down upon the ground round about him, and Jesus stood in the midst; and the multitude gave way till they had all been brought unto him. 

13  And it came to pass that when they had all been brought, and Jesus stood in the midst, he commanded the multitude that they should kneel down upon the ground. 

14  And it came to pass that when they had knelt upon the ground, Jesus groaned within himself, and said: Father, I am troubled because of the wickedness of the people of the house of Israel. 

15  And when he had said these words, he himself also knelt upon the earth; and behold he prayed unto the Father, and the things which he prayed cannot be written, and the multitude did bear record who heard him. 

16  And after this manner do they bear record: The eye hath never seen, neither hath the ear heard, before, so great and marvelous things as we saw and heard Jesus speak unto the Father; 

17  And no tongue can speak, neither can there be written by any man, neither can the hearts of men conceive so great and marvelous things as we both saw and heard Jesus speak; and no one can conceive of the joy which filled our souls at the time we heard him pray for us unto the Father. 

18  And it came to pass that when Jesus had made an end of praying unto the Father, he arose; but so great was the joy of the multitude that they were overcome. 

19  And it came to pass that Jesus spake unto them, and bade them arise. 

20  And they arose from the earth, and he said unto them: Blessed are ye because of your faith.  And now behold, my joy is full. 

21  And when he had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them. 

22  And when he had done this he wept again; 

23  And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones. 

24  And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them. 

25  And the multitude did see and hear and bear record; and they know that their record is true for they all of them did see and hear, every man for himself; and they were in number about two thousand and five hundred souls; and they did consist of men, women, and children. (emphasis added by Neil Birch)

Inasmuch as you have had the opportunity of reviewing the words of our Lord Jesus Christ from both the New Testament and the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ in this blog post of mine, you may have compared what was said by our Savior from each of these sacred scriptures.

It is very interesting to me personally to contrast the words spoken by our Savior, Jesus Christ both before and after the climax of His Holy Mission and Life, which came about through His Atonement, Crucifixion and Resurrection. All that He spoke, both before and after His resurrection are equally true, but when speaking after those just mentioned fulfilling experiences, He had become One with His (and our) Heavenly Father. His words spoken to the Nephites in Ancient America as recorded in the Book of Mormon particularly illustrate that sacred truth.

For those of you who desire to research this subject further I refer you to my Blog Post 44m. I think you will find reading a certain part of that post particularly applicable! To get to the heart of this matter quickly after clicking on the Internet link found just beneath this and the following paragraph, you should scroll down in my Post 44m to where I suggest you begin your reading! Begin right at the first of the three paragraphs preceding the John Scott painting showing our Savior, Jesus Christ teaching the Nephite people with the temple in the Land Bountiful seen in the background along with other buildings which were saved from the great destruction which the Resurrected Lord and Savior Jesus had personally caused to take place throughout their land.

I believe it will be most beneficial if you would read from where I suggested you begin in Post 44m and from there on to the regular end of that post. If you do so, that which you will have read will help you more fully realize the great surge forward in His Godly abilities that had become a part of our Savior since His atonement, death by crucifixion and His resurrection.

Neil Birch's Blog Post 44m

After viewing and studying that to which I referred you to in my Post 44m and recalling that which you experienced in today's main post (44x) I think any of you who thought they were convinced that Joseph Smith and his young frontiersmen associates made up and wrote the Book of Mormon, will surely no longer have any logical reasons for believing such!

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I deeply appreciate your readership and hope you found very beneficial, that which was presented to you in this blog post.

If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested in it. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish: Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

Neil Birch

Post 44w: If You Are Addicted to Anything That Binds You and Keeps You From Being the Kind of Person Jesus Christ Desires You to Be, You Can, If You So Desire, Overcome Such Addiction/s With the Assistance of an Addiction Recovery Program Provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!

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I recently discovered an add that was placed in a scripture I used in my just previous blog. I respectfully withdraw my previous "Thank you."

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The Lost Lamb -by Del Parson

Like the Lost Lamb Pictured Above in the Arms of Our Savior, Jesus Christ, Those of Us Who are Addicted to Anything Harmful to Us, Can be Rescued From Such an Addiction with the Help Provided by the Lord's Restored Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of  Latter-day Saints

A Message on the Subject of Addiction, By a Modern Day Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, M. Russell Ballard;

You Will Be Freed (from Addiction)

I now provide you with the means whereby you will be assisted in becoming personally involved with the LDS Addiction Recovery Program if that is something needed by you or persons dear to you:

How to Become Personally Involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Addiction Recovery Program

This is to inform you of some of my involvement as a co-missionary with my wife, Melva and an earlier personal involvement professionally with LDS Family Services and concurrently as a graduate student, in programs that led to its development, and then just before our mission, on an assignment from our LDS Ward Bishop, in the Addiction Recovery Program mentioned above.

From some time in the year 2004, to mid 2006, my wife, Melva, and I served a full-time Couple's Mission in Finland, the country in which I had served as a young missionary. In her younger years, Melva had served a full-time mission in the Eastern States Mission headquartered in New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Several months before my wife and I received our call to serve a mission in Finland, I was assigned by our ward bishop to assist a male member of our ward in attending Addiction Recovery Group meetings in the Salt Lake Valley which is in our part of Utah. That program was not yet fully functioning when I retired. However, a number of years earlier as a full-time employee of LDS Family Services in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, and at the same time, as a graduate student in the MSW program at San Jose California State University - San Jose, I had the privilege of playing a key role in developing groups that became some of the forerunners of the eventual LDS Family Services Addiction Recovery Groups.

With the Lord's special help I was blessed in being able to retain a good portion my skill with the Finnish language I had acquired as a young missionary. Much of that was accomplished by reading the Book of Mormon in Finnish out loud in our daily scripture reading sessions while my wife, Melva read her portion in English.

Although our mission call was to be a proselyting mission couple, part-way through our mission we were also assigned officially by our Area Leadership located in Frankfurt, Germany to help bring about the Addiction Recovery Program in Finland. At that time that program was not functioning at all in Europe.

I was very effectively assisted in my efforts to accomplish that by closely coordinating my efforts in Finland through long-distance telephoning, with my former colleague, Brent Scharman at the Headquarters of LDS Family Services in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.

By the end of our two year mission, Addiction Recovery Groups were functioning not only in Finland but also in England. A former colleague of mine with LDS Family Services in the Western U.S.A, Mark Ricks and his wife were serving as full-time missionaries in England, asked us to include them in our first group leader training meeting that we held in Hämeenlina, Finland in about mid-2005, (if I remember correctly.) Then because the Addiction Recovery Services manual had already been published in English (for use in the U.S.A.), they were the first to use the official Addiction Recovery Group manuals in Europe (in various parts of England).

It took a little while to begin providing official Addiction Recovery Groups in Finland because the manual had not yet been fully translated into Finnish. However, when our groups began, the first of all groups in Europe, the group leaders used the English Language version of the Addiction Recovery manuals by personally translating that which was needed from the English language version. The Finns who did that were very capable in working with the English language as well as their own Finnish language. Near the end of our mission several small preliminary addiction recovery groups were functioning in Finland.

It was just several days after Sister Melva Birch and I arrived home from our mission in Finland that we received by mail the officially approved Finnish Translation of the Addiction Recovery Manual. It wasn't long after that translation was approved that three officially approved groups were established within several stakes of the Church in Finland. The numbers of groups in that country has continued to grow I am happy to report!

Now there are a good number of LDS Family Services' Addiction Recovery Groups functioning in a fairly good number of nations throughout Europe, including in Germany and in Scandinavia, as well as those which had begun in England.

Actually, before the Addiction Recovery Groups had been set up in Europe, groups had already been set up in the United States of America and in South America and in even in some other parts of the world as well.
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I deeply appreciate your readership and hope you found very beneficial, that which was presented to you in this blog post.

If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested in it. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish: Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

Neil Birch

Post 44u: Mother's Day is Celebrated in the United State of America Annually on the Second Sunday of May. Through This Post You will Experience This Special Mother's Day Post Along With the Post Which Would Ordinarily Run by Itself Through This Coming Monday, May 14, 2012.

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I recently discovered an add that was placed in a scripture I used in my just previous blog. I respectfully withdraw my previous "Thank you."

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Post 44u:  Through This Post We Can Remember Our Own Mother's by Viewing a very Special Mormon Messages' Video About a Young Mother Who Because of Severe Injuries Suffered in an Airliner Crash along with Her Husband (Whose Injuries Were Lest Severe Than Hers) Caused Her to Find Inner Strength Within Herself Which Strongly Stemmed From Her Faith in Her and Our Lord Jesus Christ.

A Mormon Message Especially for Mother's Day:

The Birth of Jesus, -by Carl Heinrich Bloch

I have chose the above Classic Painting by a Great Artist to Accentuate this Special Mother's Day Post of mine!

As you may have noticed by now I have posted this particular post several days early so that you would be able to experience the timely Mormon Message you already have experienced a few moments ago.

The painting above ties all together this new post and the one that is scheduled to run until very early Tuesday Morning, May 15, 2012 which emphasizes the Important Message of Our Savior, Jesus Christ's Resurrection and its Powerful Effect on Our Lives.

Now I invite you to click on the link found below to be enabled to view the blog post you would have been viewing all by itself had not there been a special need for me to publish a special Mother's Day Blog Post which you have just experienced through viewing the special Mother's Day Mormon Messages Video provided above.

The regular post for this past week will officially run from Midnight (Pacific Time)on this past Tuesday until this next Monday at midnight. May 14, because it is provided through the link just below. Please notice that this just previous post ties in nicely with the Mother's Day Theme of the Post you have just experienced. Its subject is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and its supernal effect on all of mankind which, of course includes each of you and me along with our loved ones, and perhaps especially our dear mothers!

Please Note: If you would prefer, instead of clicking on this next link you could just scroll down through the rest of this most recent post until you reach the just previous post which you ought to consider viewing because you most likely may have not done that yet!

http://varsinainen.blogspot.com/2012/05/post-44t-to-be-published-on-may-8-2012.html (that is an incorrect date! Please ignore it!)

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I deeply appreciate your readership and hope you found very beneficial, that which was presented to you in this blog post.

If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested in it. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish: Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

Neil Birch

Post 44t: Our Savior, and Redeemer, Jesus Christ Will Bring About the Resurrection of All Mankind!

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I recently discovered an add that was placed in a scripture I used in my just previous blog. I respectfully withdraw my previous "Thank you."

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Easter has just come and is now gone, however, its message of hope and eternal happiness continues on and on. Feeling that its message could still be especially needed by some of you right now, even so very soon after Easter 2012; and because the subject of the Resurrection generally continues to be a very vital subject to each of us, I present the following:


Why Weepest Thou? -by Simon Dewey

The Resurrection of the Dead was a subject many Nephite Prophets focused upon in their writings as recorded in The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ.

This list I provide you is just a small sample of two, but within these two scriptures are included significant statements on this important subject of Resurrection framing sure scriptural evidence of the truthfulness of the promise of a resurrection of all mankind.

The following are words of the Prophet, Moroni, son of the Prophet, Mormon (Who lived between A.D. 400 and 421 somewhere in Ancient America):

The Book of Mormon: Mormon 9:13 And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the Lord; yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death.

In about 82 B.C., Also somewhere in ancient America, the Prophet Alma, The Younger, wrote:

The Book of Mormon: Alma 11: 40 And he shall come into the world to redeem his people; and he shall take upon him the transgressions of those who believe on his name; and these are they that shall have eternal life, and salvation cometh to none else.

41 Therefore the wicked remain as though there had been no redemption made, except it be the loosing of the bands of death; for behold, the day cometh that all shall rise from the dead and stand before God, and be judged according to their works.

42 Now, there is a death which is called a temporal death; and the death of Christ shall loose the bands of this temporal death, that all shall be raised from this temporal death.

43 The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time; and we shall be brought to stand before God, knowing even as we know now, and have a bright recollection of all our guilt.

44 Now, this restoration shall come to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked and the righteous; and even there shall not so much as a hair of their heads be lost; but every thing shall be restored to its perfect frame, as it is now, or in the body, and shall be brought and be arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son, and God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God, to be judged according to their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil.

45 Now, behold, I have spoken unto you concerning the death of the mortal body, and also concerning the resurrection of the mortal body. I say unto you that this mortal body is raised to an immortal body, that is from death, even from the first death unto life, that they can die no more; their spirits uniting with their bodies, never to be divided; thus the whole becoming spiritual and immortal, that they can no more see corruption.

In the following Mormon Messages Video President Thomas S. Monson of the  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gives His Sure Prophetic Witness that there is Life after Death!

We Can Live With God Again

Now after having provided each one of us with a strong, vibrant hope and assurance that after the death of each us and our loved ones, Life will eventually continue through the Resurrection of the Dead which was provided by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; I now feature a special musical presentation filmed in Utah County the county just South Salt Lake County where I live here in the State of Utah (U.S.A.)

This video features a very a very talented male soloist of the World Renowned, Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Alex Boyé who was born in Nigeria and later moved to the United States of America with his family and just very recently became a U.S. Citizen. Recently he teamed up with an LDS Church Institute (Youth) Choir in a production in which the great joy which comes from the sureness of the Resurrection of the Dead, is beautifully and dramatically proclaimed:

Alex Boyé: "I Will Rise" (Emi Yo Leke)

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I deeply appreciate your readership and hope you found very beneficial, that which was presented to you in this blog post.

If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested in it. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish: Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

Neil Birch

Post 44s: Believers in the Holy Bible and in the Other Revealed Scriptures, such as the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Know that Miracles Continue to Occur Among Believers in Jesus Christ and in His Restored Gospel!

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I have just discovered an add that was placed in the scripture I use in this blog post you are reading. I withdraw that "Thank you."

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Mormon Abridging the Plates -by Tom Lovell
















Moroni, Now a resurrected man, (an Angel), delivers those Plates of Gold to Joseph Smith in 1830 -by Kenneth Riley

Many words of the Prophet Moroni, a son of the Prophet Mormon were also included within that sacred book, the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, which his father, for the most part compiled. Here are some of them which I feel are particularly appropriate for this blog post of mine:

Mormon 9: 7  And again I speak unto you who deny the revelations of God, and say that they are done away, that there are no revelations, nor prophecies, nor gifts, nor healing, nor speaking with tongues, and the interpretation of tongues; 

8  Behold I say unto you, he that denieth these things knoweth not the gospel of Christ; yea, he has not read the scriptures; if so, he does not understand them. 

9  For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing? 

10  And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god who doth vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then have ye imagined up unto yourselves a god who is not a God of miracles. 

11  But behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles, even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and it is that same God who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are. 

12  Behold, he created Adam, and by Adam came the fall of man.  And because of the fall of man came Jesus Christ, even the Father and the Son; and because of Jesus Christ came the redemption of man. 

13  And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the Lord; yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death. 

14  And then cometh the judgment of the Holy One upon them; and then cometh the time that he that is filthy shall be filthy still; and he that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is happy shall be happy still; and he that is unhappy shall be unhappy still. 

15  And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles, I would ask of you, have all these things passed, of which I have spoken?  Has the end come yet?  Behold I say unto you, Nay; and God has not ceased to be a God of miracles. 

16  Behold, are not the things that God hath wrought marvelous in our eyes?  Yea, and who can comprehend the marvelous works of God? 

17  Who shall say that it was not a miracle that by his word the heaven and the earth should be; and by the power of his word man was created of the dust of the earth; and by the power of his word have miracles been wrought? 

18  And who shall say that Jesus Christ did not do many mighty miracles?  And there were many mighty miracles wrought by the hands of the apostles. 

19  And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being?  And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles. 

20  And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the right way, and know not the God in whom they should trust. 

21  Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it shall be granted him; and this promise is unto all, even unto the ends of the earth. 

22  For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to all his disciples, in the hearing of the multitude: Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature; 

23  And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned; 

24  And these signs shall follow them that believe—in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover; 

25  And whosoever shall believe in my name, doubting nothing, unto him will I confirm all my words, even unto the ends of the earth. (emphasis added by Neil Birch)

I am sure that those of you who are viewing this particular blog post of mine come from many different backgrounds, but whatever your view of miracles has been I want you to know that I from my own personal experience can testify that the Lord, Jesus Christ is a God of miracles!

A particular miracle that I was blessed to experience recently was not an astounding miracle, but nonetheless it was a miracle in my view and in the view of several leaders with whom I'm assigned to work in my church service assignment at a local hospital here in the Salt Lake Valley in the State of Utah (U.S.A.)

I relate this experience of mine to you in order to help each of you know that miracles continue to happen in our day and time on earth. As usually is the case this miracle was, in my humble opinion, given to me to strengthen my, and the faith of others who come to learn of this experience of mine, including each of you, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  

On about the second Sunday of this March, 2012 about five minutes early I entered the room in which our branch Sacrament Meetings are held. Just after I sat down somewhere near the front of the room as I usually do, Brother Al McBride of the branch presidency began walking toward me. I quickly realized that he most likely was just about to ask me to help with the Sacrament.

That turned out be his intention, but instead of asking me to pass the Sacrament which I have done a good number of times, he instead asked me to bless the Sacrament. He asked me if it would be difficult for me to kneel (knowing I had had knee problems as a boy) and I replied: "no."

I had never been asked to do that before in one of our branch sacrament meetings, in the two and a half years I had been assigned by our stake president to the Murray Fourth Branch, and I never really expected to be asked to do so because when Melva and I were first assigned to serve in the branch we were asked whether there was anything that would be too difficult for either of us to do that is usually done in the branch. I most likely told that member of the presidency in reply that it would be difficult for me to bless the Sacrament because my voice had become somewhat raspy. I might also have mentioned that I had two new knees which were implanted surgically.

Anyway, as I was seating myself next to the right of the other man who would also be blessing the Sacrament, Brother Al McBride right then walked over and told both of us "Priests" that we would have to read the Sacrament Prayers loudly and clearly that day because the Branch's Sacrament microphone was not functioning and wasn't even there.

I then silently and urgently asked the Lord to bless me that when I would soon be reading the Sacrament Prayer on the Bread that my voice would be sufficiently loud and clear so all in attendance could hear the sacred words of the prayer clearly and feel their meaning!

Soon the Sacrament song had been sung and I knelt down on the little stool provided me and began reading the Prayer on the Bread. Kneeling was not a problem but I recalled I had asked the Lord for His help in reading the Sacrament Prayer sufficiently loudly and clearly so all could hear these so very sacred words.

Book of Mormon, Moroni 4:3 O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it; that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him, and keep his commandments which he hath given them, that they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Amen.

As I began reading, I instantly and clearly realized that my prayer, despite the absence of a microphone, was very loud and had been somehow magnified and was being very clearly heard throughout that good sized room with the usual large number of branch members along with a number of patients and hospital workers in attendance also.

I even felt an impulse to tone down the loudness of that prayer, but instantly I knew intuitively that was something I should not do. My voice was not raspy! It was my voice I was hearing, but it was an amazingly clear voice and was being greatly magnified! I sensed that I was experiencing a miracle!

When it was time for the Water to be blessed, my "Priest" partner had difficulty praying loud enough to be heard as clearly as I realized mine had been. He mentioned to me just after we had finished the Sacrament service that my prayer had been sufficiently loud but his hadn't. I didn't attempt to explain to him what I believe had happened during the prayer I had offered.

No one else that day mentioned anything about the loudness and clarity of my reading of the Sacrament prayer. Soon while standing each time in various patients' rooms, I took turns reading each of the Sacrament prayers a good number of times while serving with several couples who were also branch members.

Each time while taking turns reading those Sacrament prayers I experienced my usually somewhat raspy voice. The magnified voice I had been blessed with earlier that morning downstairs in the meeting was no longer with me and wasn't really needed in those settings!

I later decided that most of those who heard me read the Sacrament prayer on the bread earlier that morning must have assumed the Sacrament microphone was working just fine and that when the second man read the prayer on the water they most likely could have assumed the microphone (which most of them couldn't have seen even if it had been there that day) had accidentally been turned off.

Several Sundays later I reminded Brother Al McBride about that experience we had that Sunday earlier in the month when the Sacrament table microphone wasn't working . He then told me:

"That microphone wasn't working and wasn't even there on the Sacrament table, but we heard you loudly and clearly."

I told him that although it was my voice that was heard reading the sacrament prayer on the bread, I knew I was doing it with special assistance from the Lord! He smiled and nodded.

Later on that same Sunday after finishing my assignment upstairs in the Hospital with the group to which I had been assigned, I ran into the other counselor in the branch presidency, Brother John Riches. I mentioned to him the experience I had earlier in the month when the Good Lord had magnified my voice when it needed to be magnified.

He said he realized that was happening when it happened because he knew the Sacrament table microphone wasn't working and wasn't even there at all. He then told me:

"That was just a very good example of the miracles that take place all the time in this Hospital Branch in which we have been assigned to work by the Lord!"

I believe the reason why that special reading of that holy Sacrament prayer occurred can be explained by something that President Thomas S. Monson, the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said during his closing remarks in the April (2012) General Conference Priesthood meeting:

"Do your duty that is best, and then leave unto the Lord the rest."

Respectfully and Gratefully Submitted, J. Neil Birch

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