Dreams & Mysteries - The Mystery of the Father's Blessing

life is a journey and as we travel through it we pick up things we want we also receive things we did not want we get items that surprised us in beautiful and unexpected ways and we lose things that are dear to us at unexpected times there are moments that are overwhelmingly sweet and they're heavy moments that take our breath away under the weight of its sorrow there are quandary zazz things we thought would happen don't and there are moments of elation as events we thought would never occur do life is not lived in a straight line nothing in life is linear there is no test you can take that guarantees your entrance to the next higher level of life to many that can be frightening or at least disconcerting the fact that life is full of curves and twists and turns can also be exciting because it means you can set your own sail and head in a direction that you choose life lies in your hands and you're shaping it each and every day in one way or another shaping your own life becomes your ultimate freedom but there are moments that transcend choice moments that seem to propel us to our future and accelerate our purpose in life they lift us above the fray of circumstances that try to drag us down they instill hope when the world around us is hopeless they point us in the right direction and often give us a jump start in life how this happen remains a mystery but history tells us it does happen one of those mysterious moments is called the blessing and the greatest blessing one can receive is the blessing of the Father join us as we discover the mystery of the father's blessing this is dreams and mysteries with John Paul Jackson God created us for the need to be loved and then that need to be loved he gave us a deeper need for intimacy the truth is that until we allow the father to fill our hearts with his love there's always going to be a vacuum and that vacuum would drive us to seek and other people while we can really only find in our Heavenly Father in Genesis 1:28 we find God displayed the first example of the father's blessing as soon as Adam and Eve were created I met each other God blessed them it says God blessed them very first thing God blessed them and God said to them be fruitful and multiply fill the earth and subdue it notice the first thing God did before he sent them on their journey to change the earth was to give them a blessing a blessing is the opposite of a curse the blessing is verbal it comes out of the mouth and just as the Apostle James says the tongue sets on fire the course of nature and the blessing does to the father's blessing is not cast in stone but it does pave the way and gives a child spiritual inclination to look to God for direction and answers to all of their lives questions and are going to have a few therefore Adam and Eve were fruitful they multiplied and they had dominion because God spoke a blessing over them yes he spoke a blessing blessings must be spoken for life is in the power of the tongue the patriarchs of the Old Testament Abraham Isaac and Jacob clearly understood the power of a father's blessing and practiced it with all their own children the writer of Hebrews gives us remarkable insight into the patriarchal blessing they were spoken in faith here's what Hebrews 11 20 and 21 says about the blessing by faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come by faith Jacob when he was dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worship on the top of the staff you see a blessing is spoken in faith and received by faith there may be no existing evidence that has any substance in fact or that the blessing that was spoken will actually come to pass that's up to the recipient however a blessing does open up a pathway for the journey that you will choose to take a New Testament example this is found in the Samaritan woman who Jesus met at a water well as soon as the woman revealed her interest in the living water that Jesus spoke of Jesus asked her go and get your husband her reply was that she had no husband and Jesus tells her she's telling the truth she has had five husbands and the man she's living with right now is not her husband in the midst of her great amazement at his insight Jesus starts to talk to her about the worship of God this is pretty startling considering he could have condemned her for her living conditions and what she was doing but chose instead to talk to her about the father that's remarkable to me the greek word used seven times in this passage for worship means to come close enough to kiss worship to come close enough to kiss jesus tells her that which he's been looking for in men she could find in God God was looking for those who would worship or come close enough to kiss him in spirit and truth in other words God was looking for those who would love him as much as he loved them the only way for that to happen would be through spirit and truth that spirit and that truth is none other than the Holy Spirit the blessing Jesus gave this woman the coming of the Holy Spirit it wouldn't happen for two more years but the blessing was given the pathway to the Father was cleared and she and though she influenced would never be the same the woman at the well was a clear sign that we can be looking at all the wrong places for the very thing the father wants to give us in her story we find that one of the first signs of the father's blessing is that he sends the Holy Spirit to us not only to go with us but to indwell us he is the one who enables us to worship God in spirit and in truth as our spirit connects with God's Spirit we see an even clearer example of the truth of this displayed as Jesus is about to begin his ministry here on earth the father's blessing of Jesus starts at his baptism which is his inauguration into ministry here as Jesus rises from the water the Holy Spirit descends on him as a dove and the father audibly speaks from heaven and blesses his son by saying this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased once again we find the heavenly father speaking words of identification approval and blessing but notice at this particular time Jesus had not performed one single miracle or delivered one sermon why is this important because a blessing didn't come as a reward you see Jesus was blessed as a son rather than being rewarded for what he had done and this is very important for you to know the father's blessing does not come as a reward but serves as an identifier of all those who are in the family and why is that important because some of you and listen this some of you feel you don't deserve the father's blessing you've done too many things that disqualify you and if you feel that way remember the woman at the well wasn't exactly cleaning herself but through an encounter with Jesus she did change a city with that in mind we know that the father's blessing is not to condone where you are in your life or even what you've done in your life is to clear a spiritual path to help you get to where you're going to help you achieve the purpose for which you were created Jacob wasn't in a really good place when his father Isaac blessed him he was a deceiver but the father's bless him took him to his future you see a father's blessing looks beyond who you are today and communicate your realistic potential what you can be and what you can do with the gift mix you have it communicates the Father's love of the child that tells the child I am with you and I will defend you and that tells the son or the daughter that they have hope in the midst of all the confusion of swirls around them in this world there really is hope and it's that hope that communicates you have a future in God's great plan the father's blessing instills a sense of parental acceptance into the thought processes of life or about to embark on and strangely enough as we feel the father drawing close to us it allows us to draw close to others it's the recognition of the Father's love that allows us to love others as we love ourselves the father's blessing is an evidence of that love moreover because the father takes time to speak his blessings over you it also denotes you have great value to your father you are not here to be average you were here to change the world you are here to take part in the miraculous in the spiritual living series listen to John Paul Jackson as he teaches you about the impact your life will have as you become the person that God has created you to be inherit all of God's promises and blessings recognize how the lives of others profoundly impact your destiny and purpose learn how to take risk and trust God the spiritual living series includes advancing to the next spiritual level regaining what you've lost your great purpose increasing your spirits capacity and matters of the earth their spiritual living series is being offered for your gift of $60 or more to the ministry order today at dreams in mysteries.com or call one eight hundred five three eight five two eight five 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they could bless their children and still others whose fathers were so bad they had to overcome their view of what a father really is in order to come forward no matter what the reason they came streaming down to receive the blessing of their Father in heaven as I've indicated there are usually three types of responses by those who were touched by the message the response that I hear most often when talking about the father's blessings is my father isn't bad he simply just never blessed me these father's may or may not be Christians but they're not bad fathers so the next question I hear is can my father still give me a father's blessing to that I respond to hardly yes he can it may sound too simple but go to your father and simply ask him to bless you no matter how old you are ask him to bless you he may say he doesn't know how or he may ask you why is it important to which you can respond with the information and I'm sharing with you here he may be awkward in trying to do it he may be hesitant but he will do it you see every good father wants his child no matter how old they may be they want them to be successful and they want them to feel loved in conjunction with that question I'm often asked this question by many fathers can I give a father's blessing if I never received one often they had a tag on other question by adding is it too late to give it again the answer is a resounding yes you can give one even if you've never received one and if you've not given your children one there's no better time than right now to do it you see the father's blessing comes from the heart not from an impartation you received from someone else well it would be great for every mother or father to have received a blessing from their father it's not required in order to bless what is flesh of your flesh and bone of your bone one other response I hear is that my father was a jerk and I don't want his blessings at all sadly this feeling is all too common and one that has to be addressed in the heart of the person a heart that is hardened to the earthly father will find it very difficult to receive the blessing of the Heavenly Father forgiveness doesn't that changes things though forgiveness doesn't mean that you have to accept their abuse or even trust them right now it does mean you have to forgive them forgiveness is a choice you make before you'll ever have the feeling of forgiveness why because forgiveness is a spiritual event and yet we feel it in our soul when we forgive we extend others the forgiveness Jesus extended to us when he died for what we've done our sin the reality is our sin caused his death and he forgave us for it forgiveness allows us to receive a blessing from heaven does far greater in his substance of what we've been trying to hold back forgiveness allows the Heavenly Father to make up the difference between what the earthly father didn't do for you and what the Heavenly Father intended to be done for you this is a mystery I mean a real mystery but I watched it play out hundreds of times God will fill the gap between what was not done and what should have been done in Matthew 6 jesus said it like this look at the birds of the air for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feeds them are you not more valuable than they God will move heaven and earth to get you where he wants you to be if you're where he wants you to be extending forgiveness is the spiritual atmosphere he wants you to live in and when you live there a whole new life will open for you and the blessing of the heavenly Father will be far beyond what you could ask or think it is the end of the afternoon like 6 o'clock p.m. I'm on the curb on the right side of the street then I realize I'm stuck on the curve caught by a sticky mass under and around my feet and I can't move when I notice that I become very disturbed at this point a large stream of crystal water washes down the curb running like a joyful fresh River freeing me to flow ahead in the street this is one of those remarkable deliverance dreams it's one of the 20 categories of dreams that I've kind of discovered as I thought it through the Bible looking at the types of dreams that God uses to talk to people deliver stream actually removes you from a situation that is that the the enemy's doing or someplace that you feel you're in enable to escape from and that certainly happened in in this dream in another interesting facet of this dream is that the number six six o'clock he remembers that it was the end of the day six o'clock end of the day that dis that phraseology indicates a time of transition and it also is indicated by the curb while is standing on the curb the curb is a transition between the sidewalk in the street or the grass and the street depending on the location but it do marks the street from whatever else is surrounding the street so he's in time of major transition and this in this dream he is stuck it by his feet in a sticky goo now feet represent as you might remember peace that means chaos and anarchy and tumult all these things of the enemy has tried to get him stuck in has captured his feet and he can't get undone from them he's annoyed and that's really good and he's trying to find his way out that's really good so he hasn't given up but at the same time he doesn't know what to do until something remarkable happens and that is a crystal clear stream of water comes running down the street the Bible talks about a highway of God it talks about a pathway that that we walked down we talks about the journeys that we take and what he got stuck in the enemy minute for evil because when usually get stuck in the street cars usually hit you he may a minute the enemy may a minute for evil but the Lord minute for good because in the street is where the stream was coming crystal clear representing the purposes and plans the action of God unand on humbyrd clear running down washing and dissolving away this black sticky goo and he's able to step out of it and notice that it gets greater and it gets brighter as he continues to follow the stream that stream is none other than the relationship he's going to have or having in greater measure anyway with the Lord Jesus Christ and his purpose for being created the Heavenly Father is releasing that purpose on him washing away everything that encumbered his walk in him on a personal note my administrative assistant and her husband had been together for 11 years and had not been able to have a baby one Sunday morning Amanda and her husband Mike were sitting toward the front of the auditorium it was while I was speaking that I saw a remarkable light of the Holy Spirit around Amanda and I felt like I heard the Lord telling me that because her father died prematurely she didn't receive a father's blessing he also said that she felt she had been robbed of life by the loss of his life little does she know that the feeling of the loss of life had kept her body from producing life you see Amanda had things in her life that she thought was a cause of her barrenness but they weren't really the reason she had not conceived I also heard that if I would bless her as a father she would be pregnant this time next year I remember praying for her at the end of the service and telling her what the Lord had told me and I felt her melt under the weight of the moment she'd never thought about the father's blessing until that time but it didn't make it less important four months later after 11 years of marriage she was pregnant and today has a beautiful little girl named Shiloh faith and why's God wants all believers to understand their dreams and that includes you order your season to dream bundle today visit dreams in mysteries.com or call one eight hundred five three eight five two eight five throughout the difficulties of life we found that overcoming fear and rejection was key in our relationship with God and each other through John Paul's life-changing resource the hope collection John Paul showed us how to truly become the person that God has created us to be the hope collection can be yours for your gift of $45 or more to the ministry order the hope collection by calling 1-800 five three eight five two eight five our Gotha dreams and mysteries.com you want to learn the deeper mysteries of God but feel overwhelmed with your schedule introducing John Paul's online classroom attendez classes without leaving your home explore subjects like dream interpretation hearing from God living the spiritual life prayer and spiritual warfare to begin your journey go to dreams and mysteries.com and click on John Paul's online classroom or call one eight hundred five three eight five two eight five it was early January when I received the news that would change my life forever as a dentist Li from the lonely brown face my father whom I hadn't talked to in years had written me he asked me to come home as my mother had gotten the fever it seemed as if she would not last through the winter I wasn't looking forward to the long train ride home I was still angry with my father and he with me he was right and I knew it and it made it even harder for me to go back you I'm taking you out of destruction causing though there's some things that God wants to do that begin inside of us that's going to change everything in your life let the winds of my power all right Janee there's a couple of things I need to tell you before I leave first I need to tell you that everything is going to work out between you and your father it's going to be fine and second I need to tell you that your mother is going to be okay through the team some of you did not have great father figures some of you had fathers who passed away before they could give you a blessing others of you for one reason or another are unable to receive a blessing from your father to you I want to offer the blessings of the Heavenly Father through myself an earth day bomber this type of blessing is seen in number six as God blessed the children of Israel under the pronouncement of Moses it goes on to say that upon blessing the people God would place his name and bless those who heard it that means you therefore may the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace and from me from my heart as a father and the grandfather I'd like to bless you in this way now you reach the purpose for which you were created may you have courage above your peers may you have more passion for the things of God than others think is necessary may you dream more than others think is practical may you expect more than others think is possible may you choose wisely without earthly bias you have people to influence that you've not yet met you have lives to change that are waiting for your arrival you are strategically placed wherever God takes you by his grand design just so you can become everything he made you to be that place is the place you can grow best that place is a place where you can be a most fruitful the place for the future is change because of your presence may you see vistas that others don't even know exist may you see God and every petal of every flower in every blade of grass for each of them are designed by his hand may you bless your children and may they become giants in the faith under the mighty hand of God you won't fail you are made by God to be here for such a time as this you

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Published: Fri Jun 20 2014