A new year always brings a new hope in our hearts. We hope for a new beginning and a better life this 2022. Even in difficult times, we are a people of hope, because our hope is Jesus. We can bring that hope to our families, friends, and other people by our spoken blessings.
A blessing is an instrument of God’s love. When you bless others, you direct God’s goodness to them. The words may be as simple as ‘God bless you’, but the grace that those words bring to the recipient is inexhaustible. The key action here is you need to speak it to the person, and he has to hear them to receive them. For when we speak a blessing to them, we are also giving them hope. God, in His mysterious way, can rekindle a waning hope, and lift a person’s spirit when we give our spoken blessings. Let us follow the example of Simeon, the devout man who declared blessings upon blessings to Jesus as he was presented at the temple. The most powerful blessings begin by speaking His name, “The Lord bless you…”
Make it a habit to declare the blessings upon your life. Certain things do not happen to us because we do not ask it from God. Declare abundance, peace, long life, inspiration, the will to live, and all other things we want to receive. God wants to bless us. We just need to ask from Him.
As we start the year, let us choose our word of the year – a word to bless our life, our family, children, friends and community. What will that word be?
The Power of Spoken Blessing, shared by Sis. Vivian Banola and Sis. Gerlie Aman, is the first topic for the SOJC January prayer meeting module. Click the title links to read the first and third topics, The Power of Hope and You were born for this!
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