Daily Blessing Compilation #2

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright blessing itself is powerful to see the power to blessings anybody's tester Helen Wright welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life for the whole of Eagle River is excited for today to hear it jump into our Friday tradition, the power of blessing Pastor Alan. Stepping aside from our normal programming each Friday this month in anticipation of Pastor Alan's new book, the power to blast it releases nationwide on February 2 through Baker books, of course, we encourage you to preorder through Amazon you get free copy of the audiobook. If you do that and if you are unable to stay with us for our entire discussion today will make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. It's a calendar the power to bless calendar for the year 2021 that were now in any can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright Ministries as you listen to today's discussion go deeper as we send you this beautiful calendar.

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Contact as a pastor, Alan.org pastor Alan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860 will have more on that as we go throughout today pastor Alan. We talked about this several times before. This is not just another book by someone who has been a lot of their life now, writing books, you're quite excited and I am to about this because to be honest in and this is I want to canister all through this question.

The word blessing, especially life of a Christian is not an uncommon word but I think sometimes it's kind of a bland word. Most of us think of it is something we say before a meal, a blessing or is just a Christian. These kind of a churchy word that we don't unpack well and I think a funny thing you know it still is not quite the craze that it was a little while ago but you know you see the hashtag blessed trivializes blessing. Doesn't that it one point I thought about calling the book beyond hashtag blessed.

I don't know you know some celebrities just had got an got a new car or something said hashtag blasting on it just sort trivializes it. And sometimes we know semi sneezes was a God bless you and I think we we very few Christians actually I had much teaching about this and realize that a blessing is one of the deepest spiritual forces in the world is that it is in many ways the release of real power. It is something that any's anybody can learn to do and blessing has irrevocable impact it does good no matter what it's like sowing seed.

It is like speaking a word of affirmation, but blessing is more than that. It's so important that God blessed Adam and Eve and then said be fruitful and multiply productivity is something that is empowered by blessing, so blessing is not the rule board for your fruitfulness is the fuel for and when you see the Hebrew patriarchs blessing their sons and their grandson and granddaughter said what why is there why is it that when Jesus comes everybody want their children, they bring them to. It's just please lay handle.

Bless my children is because the ancient world.

Nothing understood more than we that there is a very real mystical yet practical thing that happens when someone speaks a positive vision over your life and when that positive vision is joined by faith and is grounded in the word of God, then this but this is this is a powerful mode of transformation in our lives and yet is not is not understood very much so the power to bless coming out February is about my journey to that blessing. It is about an ancient blessing and how one of the blessings described in the Bible is actually a great model for us in the in the great thing Daniel is it. It teaches how anybody can learn to blessed actually skill you can gain you can train yourself and it so parents if you're feeling like you're frustrated with in the past, you tended to speak words, your kids, you'd rather take them back. Now you like learn a better way. You can get. You can train yourself to speak blessing even when your discipline, coaches, teachers, when you're trying to inspire people. There's a better way than our blessing and certainly to husbands and wives friends to one another is God's way of transformation. The power to bless. So the pastor with what was the point for you when you decided to dive deeper into this. Was it just getting curious of the order of service in your faith tradition has a bless a benediction or a blessing at the emissaries. I will go deeper. What is this will honestly it began early in my married life, where you know. Thankfully I know I was never that person that husband that was you know just speaking out curse in my curse, we don't mean cuss word swimming in negative forecast.

You know what, I realized that a lot of my life and speech in the way I thought and sometimes spoke to my wife mother was was was not powerful and could sometimes be negative and remember thinking I don't live like that and I begin to learn a little bit about blessing, not much as been written about it. To begin, learn a bit about and it was a time Daniel that my dad, who had the struggles often on with alcohol throughout his life was doing much better and we, my two brothers and I we had some counseling sessions with Mme., and I was very eager for those times that you have some conversations that would be healing and one day I I just said the counselor message. Another something to rule out for my dad and I would like to sit down. I like you to bless me. What he didn't really know what to talk about an inch thing. The counselor didn't really know what I was talking about. I said well I mean like the Hebrew patriarchs were you speak a positive vision over over someone's life is wanted you nicely to ask for and he came back to the next session and he crafted a little blessing. It wasn't particularly an all-powerful and wasn't really looking base training like that but the words he shared a cherished gobbled them up like a starving person and it really began a journey where I begin to realize I need whatever I missed from my dad is much I loved him.

I missed I missed a lot of that blessing when there for a lot of the time and is on those dads that always heard you know other people say he just brags about you all the time but seldom to me.

I think a lot of our listeners right now could identify with that.

Maybe you had a father who just never was able to look you in the I call out your gifts affirm who you are and speak a wonderful destiny of your life. Something then know that by the way. Once we began learn of this more more and incorporate in our lives. It just becomes a part of your sauce is where we raise our kids just by speaking blessing over their life and anyone can learn to do this. So the book itself is it's my journey, but it's also the journey of the word of God and then it ends with all the practical help that anyone would ever need to make this your way of being as well. The power to blessed can change your life. The book can be preordered right now like Amazon.com and if you do preorder before the book is formally on sale releasing February 2.

Then, as an incentive you are receiving this a note to charge the audiobook copy of power to bless the real value and so that way you can read the book or if you're in the car you listen to the book and you can make your way through that way. But more than anything Daniel you know I want all our listeners and our friends to know it really makes a difference doesn't it. When you preorder with Amazon is to it draws attention to the book, which then further helps other people. And let's face it, the devil is working overtime to true and get people on the Internet everywhere trying to spread curse and we need partners and help us spread the power of blessing pre-ordering the book is 1 Good Way to do it absolutely, and our special product of the month this month. In addition to talking about the book is this calendar when you support Alan Wright Ministries a gift of any size right now will be happy to send this beautiful inspirational wall calendar featuring a blessing each month your way when you contact us at pastoralan.org learn about the book, learn about the calendar support the ministry Pastor Alan.org or when you call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860. Let's get down to an actual blessing Pastor Alan that happened during with us.

The February blessing.

So on the on the calendar this this month affect the month of February.

What you see every day of the beautifully described as is. This blessing that is the sort of lens through which all of the book, the power to bless gets built, and it's because it's rooted in the most important family blessing. Probably the Bible. In fact, you could say Daniel that this blessing the blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh is the most important blessing of the Bible. I will meet. Let me speak this blessing. Listeners open up your heart wherever you are writing down the road and the car is open up your heart receiving that's what you doing blessing you don't, illness, or to analyze it. You just take it in us, like a compliment of somebody says complement the proper response is why thank you God receive that is waiting with a blessing and let me speak and then we'll talk to him about it. May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh like a grandsons. Jacob adopted as heirs secure forever like Manasseh, one who has forgotten yesterday's troubles like Ephraim, one who is twice fruitful like Jacob's crossed hands favored by God forever. This blessing is central to your new book, the power to bless releasing February 2 metals about what I've always been fascinated by this blessing… A start with this that this is interesting, isn't it, that in the Scripture Hebrew fathers are told to bless her children say.

May God make you see from the Manasseh. So every Sabbath in faithful Jewish homes. There's a father and he saying to his sons he say my God make you as Ephraim and Manasseh, laying his hands on them speaking this blessing over them.

They God make you as Ephraim and Manasseh, and what is so fascinating to me is that though it is the blessing that is spoken over every single Hebrew child. No one seems to know why I read almost everything I could about what rabbis suggestions were as to why Ephraim and Manasseh.

These are such obscure children there. The grandsons of Jacob, Joseph, sons, and they we don't learn much about anything in our lives there obscure. If you were going to speak a blessing over every child in the whole Jewish faith. When you think you would say. May the Lord make you like Abraham and Isaac oral Lord make you like David and Solomon are the Lord make you like Moses and Joshua why Ephraim and Manasseh will that sent me some years ago into the journey. What is this story all about and what I realize and this is much of the substance of the of the book by way of preview is I think hidden in here is the model for blessing that in the first place. There's something about the fact that, as Jacob blesses them first. The text tells us in Genesis 48 he adopted them is very interesting Jake up is blessing the sons of Joseph, but Jacob adopts the grandsons and why does he do it.

He does this because that means there you have a portion of the promised land because Jacob is going to be dividing up the land with his 12 sons and this means is there adopted. He says you can be treated just like my sons Reuben and Simeon is a fascinating thing. Adoption is one of those beautiful and powerful images in the Bible and it really is the picture of who we are in Christ were adopted chosen in him and so I think when you bless, you are finding a lot of different ways to say your accepted scene when you withhold blessing you're saying to someone you're not acceptable when you blessing your saying you are acceptable and the other thing that you see in it for Manasseh of blessing is I think something hidden in their names. Manasseh means forgotten like forgotten all of yesterday's troubles and so when you bless someone what you're saying is your life is to be shaped by yesterday's mistakes. Your life is and to be held back by all the all of the that the baggage from previous years. Your life is to be ruined because of sin. In the past, or wounds that have been afflicted against you know you can start afresh today. See bless people so that they forget their troubles and they can walk in the grace of God. The name Ephraim meets twice fruitful something when you bless people to be as Ephraim and Manasseh, you're not to say, may you start afresh today knowing you're not held back by the past, but you also say May God make you twice as fruitful as you ever would have been on your own power, but the story and end this sort of gives away what about you just gotta read the book because it it it still is the pinnacle of it. Jacob does a weird thing he crosses his hands when he blesses these two sons, and he puts his right hand on the younger Ephraim and his left handle Manasseh, and that is just improper because the firstborn was supposed to get the right hand, which is a symbolic symbolic gesture of the greater blessing is the privilege of the firstborn and Joseph said dad Nono try to put his hands back into into the right order, and Jacobson all now I know what I'm doing.

I know what I'm doing. I just think it's a picture of favor the younger receives the greater blessing and we are in Christ, we are like the second born is the firstborn of all creation.

You deserve nothing but blessing but instead God has extended to us. His right hand a blessing so it's all about it's all about favor and so that's in a snapshot. What Jacob blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh is all about. It's exceedingly interesting and powerful draw from that. It's about favor but it's also it's progressive. Yes, very forward-looking.

Yes, everything about blessing is moving you into a positive future blessing you into a destiny blessing you into the future. That's what we want for for our kids. That's what we want our spouse. That's what we want for our friends and even worse was to bless our enemies. It's powerful fuel for transformation with Pastor Alan here in the studio today, and this special Friday broadcast as we send you into the weekend with a blessing and that Pastor Alan has a new book and it's not just any old new book release. This is a this is really one that you want your hands on and free order. That's our big encouragement to you if you could help. It really scatter this blessing in the fall of blessing into a world filled with darkness and curse by free will ring you can help propel that and you also get is outsourcing thinks free copy of the audiobook.

When you preorder you describe in the book how Jacob finally in his old age understood grace and he looked back over his life differently and really start thinking about grace more in the New Testament. So this is very interesting, but talk about this part in another scriptural blessing to empower while I think the thing that this is in many ways the book is my journey in its Jacob's journey and it's anyone's journey, who travels from places of condemnation law and in a feeling of being on blast to the blessing of God and Jacob's journey was a long one euro Jacob from the time he was born was struggling to get himself in first place.

Jacob didn't feel blessed and he is always trying to be blessed. You know he was the one who stole his brother's birthright by first selling him some stew but then later he tricked his aged, blind father, Isaac tricked him.

Jacob pretended to be Esau so that Isaac would bless Jacob and said, Esau, and well, and he did so, and Jacob was is a connive or he struggled in love. He worked for seven years to get Rachel. He was fearful of Esau and then his beloved beloved son Joseph. Well, he thought that Joseph had been killed and he lived most of his life in agony. Thinking about that in a grievous way at the end of his life. Jacob was reunited with Joseph at the end of his life. I think Daniel Jacob finally got it.

I think he finally realized I have been blessed.

I just didn't know it. So when he crossed his arms and he blessed of those boys. I think he was saying I know what I'm doing now I really understand grace in the power of blessing. Sometime you can. We live in a blessed life and not know it because a circum-diet circumcised circumcised circumstances are not showing it and I think that you look only at your circumstances, you could go.

I don't feel very blessed. But the reality is that in Christ your blessed with every spiritual blessing. So I think just important that we start out every day every month with with blessing and that's why we put together a beautiful wall calendar this month. That's our thank you to our donors this month and in one of those blessings that will appear is in the month of November and also month we celebrate Thanksgiving, so it seemed appropriate to me to craft a blessing related to all of this that comes from Psalm 103 and solicitors. Open up your heart and receive this blessing from the Lord and from my heart to yours be blessed oh so to bless the Lord, and forget not all his benefits with spirit infused skill. May you uncover yesterday's God moments, like a treasure hunter unearthing precious jewels and finding great worth in an expected places, plus my blessing to how important is gratitude wanting is just important Daniel so so important that I wanted to have that blessing to our listeners that your heart would just evermore beef spelling. I was gratitude because gratitude is linked to emotional health.

Houston University researcher Renée Brown who was written so much about shame and empathy, studied gratitude and she once said that she and all of her years of research all the thousands of people that she has interviewed. She never knew or met anyone who had real marks of a healthy emotional character and genuine happiness in our lives who did not practice gratitude. Gratitude is according to research the virtue or characteristic of personality that is most linked to emotional health, more than any other characteristic people that are grateful their souls are healthy. I think God makes this plain to us that it all. He says whatever is true, and noble and right and pure, whatever is excellent, and praiseworthy think on these things in the God of peace be with you. Give thanks in all circumstances. All this, you see the pulsing in the New Testament is because if you want to have peace and you will have joy, then Avenue forgetting there is gratitude in the way that you become a grateful person is by forgetting not all the benefits of God. So there's a spiritual practice of uncovering remembering God moments of everything that God has done in your life.

And so that's what I want to today on this on this Friday just in them and in the middle of difficult times in a long long pandemic to bless you listeners and say blessing you that you will you have a fresh new ability to see everything God's done in your life and give them gratitude for it. It'll it'll change your life and bring you joy and on the topic of gratitude to our friend Dr. Gary Chapman who has done some writing on not only the five love languages, but even the languages of gratitude throughout one's life has partnered up at the beginning of this book written the forward right. I really appreciated to have someone of such stature in the Christian world who has written a book that's wrong think is fair. Say change the world. So one of the best-selling Christian books of all time. Five love languages and for Dr. Chapman to endorse the book and to write the forward for it is a tremendous honor and I and a testament to how much he thinks the power to bless is really important. Running short on time, we have time for one more blessing from the calendar is and what must we find this blessing so this is in the month of August.

When you hang the month of August up on your wall, with its beautiful image. By that time, at least in North Carolina. Little Italy will hit some dog days of August and they are and you get some hot and humid days and wonder if there's any relief in sight. Something you don't think about much here in the winter time at all. It'll be there in August and so to listeners open up your heart and even though we're in the middle of the winter. Let me speak summertime type blessing into you when life's air is hot. May you be refreshed at the well of God's grace. No soul be blessed to drink deeply of Christ livings if we send you into the weekend.

That's our special Friday broadcaster with Pastor Alan and a blessing for you, your family, your life and we encourage you to do a couple things here for the partner up with Alan Wright Ministries and let's just let's just take on the negativity in the world encounter with blessing you cannot only support Alan Wright Ministries right now receive this beautiful wall calendar. We've been talking about the books getting closer and closer to its full release, but you can preorder right now and that it just really helps in a big way to shine the light even brighter on the principal blessing and when you do so@amazon.com. You will get at no extra charge. A copy of the audiobook where you can you can listen if you drive for body bullets and then in the inhere books much more quickly than they would if they were having to sit in instant cargo time to read a book, so that's a great way to help as we do ride strongly into the launch date of February 2. So come to Pastor Alan.org for all the details and to contact us.

And also you can call or also, you can call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860 Pastor Alan, as always, thanks for your time today blessing.

Thank you so much. The delight of my heart to talk about how God has made us to be receive and give blessing anyone can find the power of today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries