S D28 Words of Blessing

It's nice to have other teachers, who I think really handle to text. Well, I thought Mariah's in a really nice job with Tora moment. Thank you Mariah. Wow, that's wonderful because she picked up by saying really well on the main threads through our readings and I'm going to go a different direction so I'm glad that she did what she did. Yeah. Sometimes it works to have reinforcements someone finds a theme and then they touch on it. Then another teacher comes along and Irene forces and sometimes it's nice to have to totally separate lessons that you can take from today. So thank you for what you did. I know that the main focus of the readings was like listening or hearing was the main tally word it is. But there was also another theme that was important to me that is related to the listening, okay? And it's not a blessing. And I think it's a blessing that's verbal and a blessing that turd.

I'm calling this teaching words of blessing or words have healing. It's out of Deuteronomy, 28. I don't know if you know, but Frank's paint and write an article for the local newspaper once a month. several of us, write articles, Terry writes articles, Doug writes articles, Frank writes articles, I write articles for The Gazette dissection something that carry Northington started almost a decade ago and he was kind of ready to back out and give it up cuz he's written a lot of Articles and he said, hey do you want to do it Kyle in a way? I can't write an article a week. That's just way too much for my life. I pitched the idea to some other teachers that we had here. And so we do about an article a month, I don't know if you get the Gazette, probably you don't and Fairborn newspaper in other places too. So So that's nice but we have this kind of like cam spot. And Frank has written something recently. That was very meaningful to me and it connects I think with the stator today he wrote that your words matter

And he talks about the patriarch Jacob and how he said something something came out of his mouth, that he really didn't need to stay, and it had a, an effect in the world. And he should have known how important his words were, right? Because he was somebody who had experienced some great blessing in his life because of some words that someone has spoken over him all anyways.

Frank won't give him a picture of it himself. This other lady has nice picture there, Frank's with. No, I don't want to send a picture in the my words, stay enough. It's nice to have this spot in The Gazette because the right down here is a advertisement for Church of the Messiah.

So, I know you can't see that, but it's right there, it's been there for years and now weekly we have a article and then an advertisement for church Messiah for anybody who would be interested to come. But he should have known to be careful with this words, right? Because he's part of this great, dramas fun bizarre drama when he dresses up, like his brother and sneaks in and steal the blessing that his father had intended for someone else. But God had really intended for him.

The words came out of his father's mouth and they were for him not really for his brother. That we're eating Genesis 27. So he came here and kissed him And you'd suck, smell the smell of his garments and he blessed him. And he still thinks he's blessing east of but he's actually blessing Jacob right now. You smell good? You smell like a field. I just love that about you son cuz his eyes are kind of getting them, right? If he doesn't exactly know the boy but he spelled it. And yeah your parrot hairy enough to be my son and you smell like my son. Very manly Bo and lots of hair and I just love what was what you got going on there and see if the smell of my is a smell of a field. The Lord is blessed and he starts into a blessing.

May God give you the Dew of heaven and a fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine. He doesn't stop. Let people serve you and Nations bow down to you. The Lord over your brother or brothers and met your mother. Son downtown to you, cursed as anyone who curse at you blasted. Everyone glasses you, that's a good blessing. Spoke this over his son.

Intending it for his other son. But that wasn't God's plan. God's plan was for this son to have this blessing and the words came out and they were for Jacob. That's a good blessing. They received it. If you remember the drama, he leaves and his other brother. He's real hairy brother comes in and he starts feeding his dad, some food and the dad in Tivoli serial, Isaac, like, who are you?

I need suck starts to tremble a little bit when he realized it. Something fishy's happened here. Something gave me again, trembling uncontrollably and he said then, who, who was the dude that took the game? And brought it to me just a minute ago and I ate it just before you came in and I gave my blessing to him and that's the truth and that blessing stand It was give it over a person and not blessing will stand. He stopped hurt his father's words and he burst out into a loud and a bitter stop. Father, bless me to and I thought on this from this spot before how this is got wrenching for me to read, a son who,

He had made some choices that really were not good choices. He had made some decisions to hold his Birthright and his Blessing lightly and

He probably wasn't the one to leave this family. Spiritually. Moving forward. God knew it was to be Jacob, but this is just like, right deep in your gut where he screams out is that father bless me to and I feel, like there are a lot of sons and a lot of daughters who are crying out to their parents bless me to Case were talking about blessing today because it's not something we do a lot, but we do it a lot here in this congregation. We just did it. We had the kids up here and we bless them but a lot of people don't bless their children in the larger Christian Community. We just don't black a lot even though it's part of our heritage and I think a lot of kids are screaming out last me to Speak word blessing over me. It's powerful different from just praying for them in secret. Do that and speak words of blessing.

Your brother came and deceitful and he took your blessing away.

It was really never designed for him. Arturo readings are out of Deuteronomy 28. Some blessings and some curses, I'll leave the curses alone. We're dealing with blessings today, roots of blessing, the after-hour, the prophet reading is out of Isaiah. We have for Ms. Moline for Psalms 130 was particularly relevant to where we are, so definitely suggest reading that and the New Covenant passages. We will be hitting different, New Covenant, passages, I think. Yes. Vitally words the words that link the passages together in our reading lectionary? Small. He heard the word that is very much tied up with this thing. That was recited twice-daily by religious people, religious Jewish people. And also other two, like this practice passages from Deuteronomy and numbers begin with listen, but it's more than listen, the Biblical word, listen to go in your ear. It's too To take it in to you, listen. Okay. It's more than just hearing with your ear, there's an action involved with it. Also the word that stood out to me, but I block you blessed. Also, we always saying this current location to recall that the word blast means also, he knelt Somebody is usually kneeling with a blessing is going on, right? Not always, but someone's off of the person. Receiving a blessing is sometimes. Kneeling, both of them are sometimes and kneeling, it's, it's an intimate thing. Baraka is the noun of this to slap a hay on the end of it. I know it looks a little bit different is formed at the Costco fee and there's a cop in the hay is on the end and it's really from the same word Baroque Rococo, a blessing. eretz is this word land, very common word and also who

Yeah. Yeah yeah. Yeah. Who is he? He is, she this is Hebrew Hebrew jokes 101, right? Who is he? And he is, she and dog is fish.

Doug. So here's our passage from Deuteronomy. If you listen closely with the Lord, your God, says observing today. Samuel. God will raise you High Above All Nations on the earth and all the following blessings. They will be yours in a bun. If you do

What are some yogurts? There's a blessing on you in this city of blessing on you, in the countryside, a blessing on the fruit of your body of blessing. On your land is your land a blessing on the fruit of your livestock, the young of your cattle, in your flocks, a blessing on your green basket and a blessing on your needing both a blessing. When you go out a blessing, when you come in, just to keep it coming, will cause your enemies Advance on you. And one way without flee from you in 7. I sure will order a blessing to be with you with all your barn than everything, undertake your bless you in the land, the Lord, your God is giving you. He will establish you as a people separated for himself as he was sworn to you. If You observe his commands, it doesn't come with nothing. Doesn't the blessings don't come along with nothing that he's offering them their entry into a covenant with him where they agreed to do. Certain things to be blessed in this world. I didn't, he will also give them blessings in this world and curses if they don't, they made the special agreement with him to bless you children of mine. All the people on the Earth will see that mushrooms name. His presence is with you so that they'll be afraid of you, he will give you great abundance of good things, the fruit of your body, the fruit of your life. The Ford of your land, At the Lord's towards your ancestors to give you a shovel open for you. Good treasure the sky to give you give your land to rain at the right season to bless everything. You undertake, you would lead to many nations. You will not borrow. I sure will make you the head but not the tail. You will be only above never underneath. If you listen, answer, you can't walk your own way, if you would just decide to go wherever you want and live, however, you decide to live. But if you follow his ways, the blessings will run after you. Listen, serve, no bags in exports and do not turn away from them. Any of these words that I'm ordering you today, either to the right or to the left to follow other things, other gods to serve them.

It occurred to me how foundational, the idea of blessing is I've been with other foundational actions that we do as part of our faith, Like a Prayer. That's pretty foundational. You see that all to the text people. Pray, let's say worship is one phrase and goes inside of worship. Worship is definitely one. It's an act that we do an action that we do. How about sacrifice includes giving an ancient Lee. They actually gained. Animal sacrifice is a Biblical action acts of Charity and kindness to people. Help him very sweet. That's what people do. You see it all through the text?

The baptism is a type of one of these two. I think it's something that you see all throughout. It's a foundational, biblical action. And so is blessing. From the very beginning. It's one of the things I showed himself does in Genesis one, right. He's created a number of things, he created or he separated Waters. I created an expanse between the waters, separate water from water, he created lights, the great lights. He had a blessed any of them yet but then he creates Living things, he says, let the waters swarm with swimming creatures. Birds that fly in the sky and God created. Sea creatures, water creatures, and things that creep, the creeper, the creep, the water swarm of all kinds of things and they were bringing birds and God's all good. And then what did he do? Unless meme. Currently in the process of the creation of this world.

saying be fruitful and multiply

they all the water of the Seas, like a bird's multiply on the Earth.

There was evening and morning is 50 larger beasts on the earth. Not just the creepers. Mankind and beasts. He created humankind in his own image, the image and likeness of God. He created him male and female, he created them. This is an early action Foundation. Little action is blessing.

We could be a Raonic blessing regularly in this congregation. Blessing is a Biblical action. Take me to the command.

You can take it as a command, I guess, if you want I don't see this as a man. This is a blessing, be truthful X. He says to the Beast heading to the humans, feel the Earth.

Rule over the fish. So the blessing blessing is foundational action, biblically.

I also want to point out that blessings and curses function differently than prayers. Okay. We pray for people a lot, pray for people. Sometimes they hear us most often. They don't hear us, right? We're asking God to intervene or trying to listen, also, to what he wants in this situation. So, we know how to pray for off and praying for people and they're not there and you should pray for people. You should go to them on God's behalf or go to God on their behalf. You said you were gone. I want an interview in the situation and I'd like your please. Meet this need or help this person this way. Can you pray and prayer? Is it wonderful thing to do? It is a Biblical action.

They're encouraged by you, they hear what you say. This is part of what Frank was saying his article. About your words matter because after they had left lavid Jacobs family, right after they left Laban in the role of all the boys, and all the girls, and all the servants, and all the animals travel on the road, his father-in-law, Levon comes back and runs and down, but hey, you took my household gods and he's like, no. No, we didn't.

Instead of just saying, no, we didn't go ahead and search. This is now from Frank's article. I think these words were so well-written. Instead he felt compelled to strengthen his words with like a note. And he said if anyone has your guys that person will die

We're Jacobs words merely prophetic. I mean His wife, the wife that he loved had the gods. He didn't know that ostensibly. I think the story gives us the impression. He doesn't know that. I mean, everybody's going to die at some point. I think the application is I'm willing to let this person, you know, the under your retribution, if they've done this thing, but they have it there for. I'm pretty confident. They have it. So, but he didn't know and he spoke these words and they went out and his wife, the wife, he loves had them and it's likely, she heard them or Jacobs words. Prophetic perhaps, Rachel heard what he had said and live in fear. The shoe be found out. You see this this negative word that came out perfect. It her because or potentially affected her because she heard it this person will die right. maybe this constant fear and worry, actually affecting her health,

The positive words, the positive words of blessing. Also work the same way. When you speak words of blessing over people, I do some of you still have kids. Some of you have a dog to tell if you have little kids, some of you Are not near your kids anymore. Okay.

There's a lot of people in here who have potential to bless their kids, even grown kids.

We learned from this reading the dangerous power of speech. Power word is a power to blast and to curse. Jacob of all people. He understood the power of words because he'd experienced it with the blessing, not even really intended for him. Was intended for him because God intended it for him that came to him, maybe your words have affected if a person Frank Wright, I never said something to someone. Who's seen it come true later. Maybe your words and affected that person in such a way that they live their life as if the words were true, They heard the words and they're living at if they are because they either discourage them or encourage them to such an extent. Like it, Jacob, perhaps the thing that you said either in anger or in love, had the power to affect reality, for the person that you were speaking to, or about what I'm suggesting is to speak only blessings and to speak them often. Frank says,

That was your words matter and it's different. A blessing is different from a prayer because it's heard by the person prayers are heard, but a blessing is pretty much always heard by the person and it has an effect.

My third Point here, is that words, a blessing, combat words of curse. I get my mother used to say it a different way. We were growing up, she would always say it. Takes 12 encouragement, to undo one, harsh criticism that you just gave to one of your siblings or critique or angry thing that you just said hurtful thing that you just said it's not going to take 12 to. I could never do it. I could never get it back to balance I just I just need to just not say anything. This idea also comes from a book that Brian age gave me several months ago that I'm almost finished with Brian and I brought it and I think you can take it back cuz I'm almost finished with it. Forgotten blessing, ancient words that kill generation wounds by Aaron free. It was important to Brian and has been important to me over the last month that I've been reading. It also, he really believes that when you speak a blessing over someone, it has a effective undoing. the hurtful things that have been said to that person,

The deleterious effect that words have negative effect that words have on people. Hurtful words harsh words. Angry Words. The blessing a blessing can undo that.

He said especially his Insight when I go back just a second his Insight is that. Look at the blessing. Look at how Jacob who has been affected by blessings, right his life. Look at how He blesses his son's his grandsons.

Write, you remember that? The situation he's been brought to him, he's about to die. He gets these two boys in front, in Menasha Minaj's, the older or the younger and he goes to bless them and he does the old Switcheroo with his hand and it has like no no old man. Hey, get your hands back this way. This one's the older and he says, yeah, I know, but but in this moment spiritual discernment cuz that's part of blessing, people is listening for what God, how God wants you to bless him. And this moment, this is what God wants me to do and you put a flame ahead of Menasha

And he says, this is a key to undoing the Hertz accurse. Okay, by setting Efrain, which is fruitful at the very word means fruitful. Joseph called him that as a second son, fruitful and happy God's making me fruitful in this land when he said him over Menasha it means like hard toil. My life was hard. Joseph named him that because his life has been hard. So you got like he has forgotten his Hearts will right now. It's still sort of a good thing when he named him that I have not forgotten my heart oil. Look, I have a boy or have a child. And that's one fruitful Lisa into switching. He seizes a spiritual thing here. That suggested Jacob is blessing Joseph but also the boys in such a way to put future fruitfulness ahead of past hurts that the blessing can do this. When you speak blessing to someone, it can cover the past hurts.

like the 12 compliments over the one crucified like it.

It works to undo the hurtful things.

Finally, I will say that maybe this kind of goes without saying, but the larger body must have has lost the hebraic custom of blessing. We do it a lot here, we bless our children, hundreds of blessings. My children have received hundreds of black

and I know some of your you been blessing your children for decades and decades.

I believe it is an important thing that we need to get back to Also, in forgotten blessing, he lists kind of like aspects of the blessing, right? And I've already sent a couple of that, they need to be verbal. I need to be spoken to the person can hear As we saw in the story with Rachel and the household Gods at Frank reference in his article, needs to be spoken, there needs to be touching involved.

Right. Look at this picture that Tissot Drew of this child being blessed. You sure is touching him. Or her things to him.

For blessing. So here are these, your eight of these, think he's at the natural part of Jewish life, he himself is Jewish but didn't grow up. Very religiously Jewish, but he has come to this. Kind of like this particular understand how many blessings he has to grow up in life. Only his grandma is Jewish. Grandmother would give him blessings. I knew he had this Moment of clarity when he was initially realized, man. She blessed me. And she said, things over me, but other people didn't. And I'm encouraging you to bless. And if you have grown children, I think Brian was going. Maybe it's awkward and maybe it's hard because you're holding the shoulders. Are you looking in the face of a thirty-year-old, man? But he still respects you. And in his heart, he still crying out like, father bless me to. He really is no matter how hard the shell is. You know, you were a boy to he sometimes, you just want to put up a shower like just leave me alone.

But this is a natural part of life, and I wonder if you can't undo the, you can't go back and do ones. You didn't do, but you can start doing ones that you didn't do now moving forward.

It includes a loving embrace.

Hug hand on the shoulders. I like to hold their faces and look in their faces.

Requires laying on of hands. Not really something you do from afar when you're speaking of blessing.

We'll see this one in just a second when your shoe is text. Basically says he put his hands on them and he blessed them.

This I thought was very profound The Giver the one giving the blessing is a conduit for all the people that have spiritually poured into their life. They are sharing their spiritual experience. All the Christian school principals in all the teachers and all the aunts and uncles at all the grandparents and all the people have to have poured into them. When you get a blessing. When that person gives a blessing, they are acting as a conduit for Spiritual Heritage there, passing on spiritual Heritage, it was a very profound.

Reinforcing people have taught me. People have blessed me and I bless you.

The words that are spoken are words of increase and expansion. This is like the East lightning part, the fruitful part part. You speak a word? Speak it. May God bless you. Such that your day, be wonderful today. That you grow today to understand him a little bit more. Use our words of increase and expansion.

It requires some discernment, listening through your spirit to know how exactly God would have you bless this person. What would really hit the spot? Hit the mark for that person today, or this week or this month or however, often whatever you decide to do this. This blessing and Joseph was given a wonderful blessing that was intended for his brother but was probably exactly what he needed. to hear as possibly with his brother, he needed these words that his father spoke and in in that moment as a conduit for what God wanted to say, Isaac said these things thinking that was somebody else but nevertheless, it went to the son who needed it to receive the blessing and to hear it requires discernment.

you know, those of you who have children of various ages, you know, their struggles, you know, the things that they still hurt their heart wounds that they have from when they were really, really little that they still hold on to things that are more recent, you know, Listen to your spirit. I have a child whose very fearful. I have to speak words of blessing that that combat that fear and bravery.

Are girls. They are girls that are girls. Many of them that they struggle with that their image, how they feel about themselves out in public like speak into that.

Spoken out loud. As we said, how its sting from praying and bold, faith is required for 4 results.

I don't want to raise hands to who does this regularly or not. I don't want to. Also keep telling stories about my own family. I have been over the last couple months, blessing, my kids more like daily than Weekly, right? I always had been at. May you be like if Raymond and his mother blessings to you and the girls may you be like stop or daily as they go off to school but as they go into their school day, Blessed blessed van, because there are things that they are working with everyday. I know they have little tiny hearts, and they're there. Hurts that they received too. You might seem a little tiny, but for them since they're still little tiny. It's big, right? So I can speak into these things and

And they like coming over to get a blessing because their father looks him in the face and their father speaks of positive encouraging words in their face and they like that.

All of us. I think it our hearts take away all the the layers in The Mask. We're all saying, father bless me to

You should have did this in Mark. We see, people are bringing children to him so that he might touch them. What you think he's doing. He's not just like, Warming them up, you know, like people touching them because he's blessing, blessing them will see you in a second for the problem of being rebuked, the people. Are you still busy for this? Come on, however, you should wasn't digging it. He said, let the children come, don't stop them. The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to these. Yes. Whoever you even better receive, the childlike receive the kingdom like a child, otherwise you won't answer it. I took them in his arms and laid his hands on them and he made a Baraka over them made a blessing over them. Imagine right. Wow, imagine shoe pulls you aside, looks you in the face in spiritual discernment. You will need. I'm probably not forget the rest of your life.

Is it up?

See what the poll on the supposed to be in 1998. That was a see what the Pole. Right. And we're praying is not even at my school, not even my school. I went to this other school. I'm praying, they're one of the moms. She stops the praying and she looks across the circle at me. She stops everybody and she says, no man, you will do great things. For the name of Jesus, for me to do. That was a long time ago was like a lifetime ago.

She walks around and touches these kids and he gets a blessing for them.

A verbal blessing, I encourage you. There's a challenge. It may feel weird at the beginning, if you're not in the habit of doing it. Even John Hoffman, I believe your kids. They respect you enough, you're grown sons. The next time you see them, it it would probably feel very weird but I know that they respect you enough. I was there, it was an anniversary, was it a birthday? And they respect you enough, they would take it from you.

My challenge is due this biblical action five times this next week.

you don't have kids, it might be hard, but probably, maybe you have a spouse.

And it's not just going one way, right? It's Father's. You can bust, children, mothers, you can bless children, they want that.

Husbands canbus wives. But why is converse husband's like this? this is, This is important and necessary. I'm not going to pray to end. Today, there is a song that I'm going to have played. It is the erotic blessing which were very familiar with, right? A father and a daughter are playing this together, this artist, my grandparents, considered him like a personal friend, he would often come to their Ministry and undo musical events, but he is with his daughter. Whom. I'm sure has received this blessing, many times from him. And you, it seems that they have a close relationship. I leave you with this. Blessing over you, they're singing it. But really, it is It's the erotic blessing and we placed it God's name on the people. This way.

Ernest Tubb.

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Play music.

John McFarland.

May the Lord lift Stuck on You.

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