There is something POWERFUL about the blessing of a parent over a child.  

This beautiful gift has been lost in this culture.

Today,  I heard words from my Mother that I may have “heard” before (though I don’t remember my Mom ever saying this), but TODAY I HEARD with my heart.  Do you know what I mean?  We were driving down the road and I was telling her how sorry I was that she was having to stay in a rehab for now.  I told her I understood that she wanted to come home, but I didn’t know what else to do.  I HAD to make sure she was cared for and protected.  She looked at me and said, “You are the sweetest person I know and I love you.”  Just typing those words brings tears to my eyes.   I told her I didn’t think I was the “sweetest” but that I did love her.  (Thank You Father for that sweet blessing today.) 

I am part of Generation-X.  I don’t know about you, but I never heard “I’m sorry” from my parents — even if they overreacted in a situation.  Did you?  Kids were to be seen and not heard back in those days.  I really didn’t have a voice, if you know what I mean.  Trust me, my parents definitely did they best they knew to do, but there is something much different about my relationship with my daughter.  I talk openly about how imperfect WE ALL ARE because we are human.  I apologize to her on a regular basis for misunderstandings or times I just completely overreact.  When she messes up I remind her that Mommy and Daddy mess up and do things that grieve the Holy Spirit sometimes too.  I don’t want her to think I’ve got it all together because I don’t.

The reason I’m even sharing this is because I was just watching Sid Roth’s show, “It’s Supernatural,” and saw his interview with John Waller.  John has done research concerning the importance of the Jewish blessings that were passed down to children in the Old Testament.  I heard John sing this song and it washed over me.   I immediately went to YouTube to find it.

If you never received a “blessing” from your parents, receive the words of this short, anointed song and agree with the words for your own children as well:

I pray God helps us to humble ourselves as parents and build up our children.

If you are a parent, place your hands on your precious children and bless them.

Genesis 27:1-4
Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”
And he answered him, “Here I am.”

Then he said, “Behold now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death.  Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.  And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”

Genesis 48:20-21
So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!’” And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.”