Stories
- “Baby’s Blessing Day” (June 2019 Friend)
Kate shares the experience of watching her baby sister get blessed. - “A Baptism Blessing” (June 2013 Liahona)
Trevor is afraid to be baptized because he doesn’t like going underwater so he asks his dad and grandpa for a blessing. - “Blessed by the Priesthood” (July 2006 Liahona)
Elder Douglas L. Callister of the Seventy teaches how his son had faith that the priesthood would heal him. - “A Blessing for Mama” (June 2014 Liahona)
Ruben asks the missionaries to give his mother a blessing. - “Brand-New Deacon” (October 2013 Liahona)
Benji gets a blessing from his dad because he is nervous about passing the sacrament for the first time. - “Daddy’s Blessing” (February 2004 Liahona)
A young girl watches as her father is set apart for a new calling. Then she also asks for a blessing. - “Dana’s Blessing” (June 2012 Liahona)
A girl receives a blessing before a major operation. Includes two activities about priesthood blessings. - “Eli’s Operation” (March 2011 Liahona)
A boy gets a priesthood blessing before surgery, and gains courage from hearing about Joseph Smith’s surgery as a child. - “Help to Heal” (February 2009 Liahona)
President Thomas S. Monson shares a story of when he gave a priesthood blessing to a sick sailor in the Navy. - “Lindsay’s Priesthood Blessing” (March 2010 Liahona)
Lindsay’s older brother gives her a priesthood blessing before she has surgery. - “Matt and Mandy” (November 2019 Friend)
Matt gets a priesthood blessing before having surgery on his broken arm. Later he shares how grateful he is. - “Matt and Mandy” (October 2019 Friend)
Matt asks for a priesthood blessing after he hurts his arm and finds out he will need surgery. - “Miracles Along Joseph’s Journey” (August 2008 Liahona)
An illustrated story about how Joseph Smith’s life was saved by a blessing after someone poisoned him. - “A New Chapter” (June 2019 Liahona and Friend)
Sarah is nervous about going to church and school in a new place after her dad died and she and her mom moved. She asks her uncle for a priesthood blessing. - “A Plan for Our Family” (January 2013 Liahona)
Levi’s little sister, Nora, receives a priesthood blessing after she is born a couple months premature. - “Priesthood Ordinances and Temple Work Bless My Family” (June 2014 Liahona)
Karl and his dad talk about the importance of priesthood ordinances. - “The Primary Talk” (November 2019 Friend)
Dennis is scared to give a talk in Primary because he stutters. His father gives him a blessing that he’ll be able to say what he needs to say. - “Sacred Priesthood Blessings” (October 2004 Liahona)
President James E. Faust explains how priesthood blessings strengthen us.
Activities
- Image: “Priesthood Blessing”
- Image: “Priesthood Blessing”
- Image: “Priesthood Blessing”
- Image: “Priesthood Blessing”
- Music: “Love Is Spoken Here” (Children’s Songbook, 190)
- Music: “The Priesthood is Restored” (Children’s Songbook, 89)
- Video: Bible Videos, “Jesus Forgives Sins and Heals a Man Stricken with Palsy”
- Video: Bible Videos, “Jesus Raises the Daughter of Jairus”
- Video: Bible Videos, “Peter and John Heal a Man Crippled Since Birth”
- Video: Book of Mormon Stories, “Chapter 43: Jesus Christ Appears to the Nephites”
- Video: Mormon Messages for Youth, “Sanctify Yourselves”
An 18-year-old uses his newly conferred Melchizedek Priesthood authority to give a blessing to a boy who was struck by lightning. - Video: New Testament Stories, “Chapter 23: The Man Who Could Not Walk”
- Video: New Testament Stories, “Chapter 24: Jarius’s Daughter is Raised from the Dead”
- Video: New Testament Stories, “Chapter 31: Jesus Heals a Deaf Man”
- Video: New Testament Stories, “Chapter 39: Jesus Heals a Blind Man”
- Video: New Testament Stories, “Chapter 56: Peter Heals a Man”
- Video: New Testament Stories, “Chapter 60: Peter Brings Tabitha Back to Life”