Putting God's Kingdom First

Prophet Joseph Smith spoke on the importance of putting God's Kingdom first in our lives to the priesthood brethren. When reading that address that he gape and how he praised the priesthood for their faith and labors in the cause of righteousness and for doing the work of the Lord and using their priesthood for mankind. It made me ponder my genogram graph.

When complying my Genogram graph I have my grandparents on my mom side both members of the church but my grandfather choose other ways of the world to follow and therefore all his 7 children didn't stay active in the church and some weren't even baptized members while living at home. My grandmother is still active in the church she fell away for a while and remarried another man after divorcing my grandfather but her children were effected by their marriage and inactivity in the church. I think on this because home lives do effect the outcome of individuals that live in them. Due to an inactive Priesthood holder the siblings didn't all stay active in the church therefore their children aren't members.

Joseph Smith in his address is simply telling the priesthood holders that it is especially important we put the Lord's Kingdom first. He later tells them as they do this they will seek eternity.

How can we as servants of God seek out our own blessing that come from eternal life from what we know about marriages and God's Plan? How can we receive the blessings of a Temple Marriage and understand what those blessings are and how they can bless ourselves and our prosperity.

Receiving the Priesthood is one step to gaining eternal life a man can achieve  women also can share the blessing in this by preparing themselves and keeping the commandments and serving the church in their divine callings.

Attending the temple regularly and remember our covenants we took ourselves and bringing the spirit we feel at the temple home into our daily lives can bless our marriage and bring peace and comfort into our home life.

When we are actively following God's plan and being obedient our children will see this and want that joy and happiness in their lives. As we teach our children about the Temple and are an example of a happy marriage and one that both spouses love the Lord and serve him and love each other then marriage can be saved and children can grow up in homes that have both parents intact.
I know to be fact that when we put our Savior first in our lives and our marriage that we will be blessed and our children will be blessed and so forth.