SPIRITUAL BLESSING: WHAT IS IT AND HOW TO GIVE IT
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A spiritual blessing is one of the most powerful tools of a parent. What is it? How do you give it? In our brief parent video, we give you practical tips on what to do, even if you didn’t receive one yourself.
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A spiritual blessing is when a parent or a significant person in your life offers to be a mirror to your soul, where they show you who you are based on how God made you. They give you an idea of what it looks like when God looks at you.
Blessings are a powerful and significant tool for a parent. To learn more, check out our brief, encouraging video just for you.
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VIDEO SCRIPT
When I was a kid, when people would talk about a blessing, I thought that was something that we said before we ate our dinner or something like that. But as I’ve moved forward in my faith journey, people began to teach me about a spiritual blessing and just how important it is to have the blessing, not only of God but of your parents. But as I begin to teach that to other parents, I was shocked to learn that a lot of folks that were considering giving their spiritual blessing to their kids felt like they were paralyzed. Like they couldn’t give their blessing away to their kids. In fact, I remember one dad introduced this to me in a real way. He said, “Listen, Jeremy, I never received the blessing of my parents. I never received a spiritual blessing from them. How can I give to my son or my daughter something that I never received?”
I wonder if that might be a place where you find yourself. Well, first of all, let me teach you what a spiritual blessing is. You might not even know whether or not you received it because you don’t know what it is yet. So let’s talk about that. A spiritual blessing is when a parent or a significant person in your life that you trust offers you like a mirror to your soul, where they show you who you are based on how God made you. They give you an idea of what it looks like when God looks at you. You see, the power and central idea of a blessing is when someone that you trust looks at you and says, “God made you to be …” And then fill in the blank. And whatever that uniqueness is that God made you to be. If it’s from someone that you trust like a parent, it really begins to become a part of your identity because you see it’s powered by God when it’s connected to God.
So what that means is, as parents, we have something akin to a spiritual superpower that we can offer our kids. It’s one of the best things we can do for them is to give them our blessing. And that’s not just blessing their performance. Like you’re a really good basketball player, or you’re a really good cheerleader, or you play the trumpet really well. It’s not that. It’s blessing their identity. It’s more about this is who God has made you to be. This is your purpose. This is what life is all about. And by giving you my blessing, I’m unleashing you with not just my approval, but with saying, “God will be with you as you go into this world and what he has made you to be and what he has called you to do, you can do with his power and not your own.”
You see how wonderful that is. A lot of you know exactly how wonderful it is because it was given to you by your parents. Some of you, though, you may not have received it like that. And you would love to give it, but you didn’t receive it. Well, let me go back to that dad who kind of presented that problem to me after a parent seminar, I was doing. And he said, “I’ve never been blessed before. How am I going to bless my kids?”
You know what? A few weeks later, he solved his own problem. He gathered a few people that were significant in his life, and he just said, “Hey, would y’all come have dinner at my house. And would you just, all I’m going to ask is for you to just fill in this sentence, God, we see that God has made you to be. Then answer that question with a unique characteristic that you see in me that God has made in me.” He did that. The folks who loved him came and did that. And when I saw him again, his face was beaming, and he was filled. You could just see with that desire to not only live out the blessing that was given to him but to share that with his kids.
Now, if you find yourself in a place where you don’t really know how to give a spiritual blessing, maybe because you didn’t receive it, it’s not too late to ask some of the people in your life, maybe to write it in a note or an email or even a text, or maybe come and like that gentleman share a dinner, either way. Maybe you might want to ask others to bless you so that you feel more free to bless your own kids. I promise you this- the blessing of God funneled through parents into the hearts of kids is one of the most powerful privileges we get to have in this journey of parenting.