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Topic: Inspirational 09/01/11 A Father's Blessing
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From: Sherry's Inspirational List <sherrysinspirationallist@hotmail.com>
Date: Aug 31 08:57PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/sherrys_inspirational/msg/db8e908f1c853f1f
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MISSION STATEMENT: Our mission is to be the channel, not the source, through
which we pray God's blessings may flow to others. Our ministry is not to
provide counseling, advice, or doctrinal interpretation. For this we refer
you to local spiritual leaders who may know and deal with your needs more
personally. It is our prayer that God may truly bless your day through the
inspiration we seek to channel your way. In Him, Sherry and Jim Heard
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A Father's Blessing
by Dick Innes
"Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me in this
place." And he said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them"
(Genesis 48:9, NIV).
Working with people in support groups over a number of years it amazed me
how many participants-both men and women-had a father issue. That is, they
felt that their father was never or rarely involved in their life either
physically and/or emotionally when they were a child and/or a teenager. All
of these people have a deep father wound because they never received their
father's affirmation or blessing.
Popular author and psychologist, Gary Smalley, lists some key answers
received after asking one hundred people how they knew that they had
received their father's blessing. Following are some of the answers he
received:
1. "My father would put his arm around me at church and let me lay my head
on his shoulder."
2. "When my father was facing being transferred at work, he purposely took
another job so that I could finish my senior year in high school at the same
school."
3. "When I wrecked my parent's car, my father's first reaction was to hug me
and let me cry instead of yelling at me."
4. "When I was thirteen, my dad trusted me to use his favorite hunting rifle
when I was invited to go hunting with a friend and his father.
5. "My father went with me when I had to take back an ugly dress a
saleswoman had talked me into buying."
6. "My father would let me practice pitching to him for a long time when he
got home from work."
7. "Even though I had never seen him cry before, my father cried during my
wedding because he was going to miss me no longer being at home."
For those of us who have had or still have an unresolved father issue we
know the pain of missing out on our father's blessing. For fathers of
children/teens who are reading this article, I trust you will realize the
crucial role you play in the emotional and spiritual development of your
children. With your blessing they have a much greater chance of having a
fulfilling life and a healthy marriage and family life. Without your
blessing they may, like millions of others, spend the rest of their life
seeking love in all the wrong ways and places albeit in an unconscious and
desperate attempt to fill the empty place in their heart caused by a lack of
their father's blessing and their subsequent father wound.
Suggested prayer (if you have a father wound): "Dear God, thank you for
helping me to see that I never received my father's blessing. Please lead me
to the help I need for the healing and recovery of my father wound. (If you
are a father): Please help me to be the father my children need so they
will know without a shadow of a doubt that they have my full blessing. Thank
you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."
NOTE: For further help see "Healing a Man's Father Wound"
(the same principles apply to healing a woman's father wound) click on:
http://www.actsweb.org/recovery/fatherwnd1.htm
When copying, please include the following: <From Daily Encounter (c) Dick
Innes 2002. Subscribe from: http://www.actsweb.org/subscribe.htm >
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"A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy
habitation." - Psalm 68:5
"'n Vader van die wese en 'n regter van die weduwees is God in sy heilige
woning." - Psalm 68:5
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