Father’s Blessing
I spoke on the Father’s Blessing in the women’s conference today in Delhi where my daughter Marita was the featured speaker. I said that a blessing speaks to our identity and our destiny and that a blessing enables us to prosper.
As part of my presentation, I knelt before Marita, looking her in the eyes, my hand on her shoulder, as I gave her the Father’s blessing. I told her I was pleased with her, that I delight in her and that God has a great destiny for her and her family.
Marita reminded me, through tears, that I had blessed her many times but that each time was powerfully meaningful.
I realized anew that each of us carry the power to enable the people around us to prosper through our spoken words of blessing. Yet Satan often convinces us that our words are unnecessary or will be ineffective. So we withhold the blessing.
And I saw in the tear filled eyes and subsequent testimonies of the conference participants that many still long for the father’s blessing.
I told the one’s whom I blessed that while I was not their father, I would speak the words that I believe God would have wanted their earthly fathers to have spoken to them.
In fact, our blessings bring heaven to earth and enable those we bless to walk with new expectation and realization of heaven’s favor.
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