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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry.

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Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 2: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes.

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Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying.

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Speaker 2: Be a part of one of our services. I'll promise

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Speaker 2: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for tuning in, and thank you again for

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Speaker 2: coming out. I like to start with something funny, and

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Speaker 2: I heard about this country grandmother. She'd go out on

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Speaker 2: her front porch every morning and thank the Lord for

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Speaker 2: another day. Her neighbor didn't believe in God. He'd shout back,

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Speaker 2: there's no such thing as the Lord. One day he

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Speaker 2: overheard her asking God to give her groceries for the week.

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Speaker 2: He snuck over the next morning put some groceries on

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Speaker 2: her front porch. She got up and said, thank you, Lord, you.

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Speaker 1: Did it again.

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Speaker 2: He laughed and laughed and said, God didn't give you

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Speaker 2: those groceries.

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Speaker 1: I put them there.

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Speaker 2: She said, Lord, thank you, not only gave me the groceries,

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Speaker 2: but you made the devil pay for it. Say it

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Speaker 2: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 2: what it says I am. I have what it says

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Speaker 2: I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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Speaker 2: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 2: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about the blessing.

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Speaker 2: As parents, we have the ability to impact our children

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Speaker 2: like no one else can. While the mother's role of

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Speaker 2: nurturing and caring is vitally important, without the father's approval

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Speaker 2: and validation, the child will fill avoid Every person needs

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Speaker 2: the blessing from their father. Many adults still struggle today

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Speaker 2: low self esteem, working all the time trying to prove

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Speaker 2: that they're good enough, all because of their father's lack

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Speaker 2: of affirmation. Their father never told them I'm proud of you.

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Speaker 2: He never made them feel approved, so they're still trying

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Speaker 2: to measure up gain disapproval that.

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Speaker 1: Can only come from a father. Father.

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Speaker 2: We have something to give our children that nobody else

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Speaker 2: can give. Other people can tell them how great they are,

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Speaker 2: how special they are. But when you tell them, it

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Speaker 2: carries a whole new weight. As the father, you have

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Speaker 2: the god given authority to bless your child. Every time

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Speaker 2: you say I'm proud of you, I love you, You're beautiful.

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Speaker 2: God releases strength into your child.

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Speaker 1: Value, confidence, security.

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Speaker 2: Those are not just nice words, it's what the scripture.

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Speaker 1: Calls the blessing.

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Speaker 2: You are propelling your child toward their destiny.

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Speaker 1: And we're all busy.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to get sidetracked or even in odds with

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Speaker 2: our children or they're not doing right. When they straighten up,

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Speaker 2: I'll be nicer when I'm not so busy.

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Speaker 1: I'll spend more time with them, or Joel. They know

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Speaker 1: I'm proud of them.

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Speaker 2: I told them fourteen years ago when we brought them

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Speaker 2: home from the hospital. No, they need to hear again

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Speaker 2: and again. You hear the father, You carry the blessing.

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Speaker 2: Don't withhold your love, your affection, your approval. Now you

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Speaker 2: may not have received this blessing from your father. He

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Speaker 2: wasn't around growing up, or maybe he was there, but

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Speaker 2: doing wrong. He didn't show affection, make you feel valuable.

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Speaker 2: Don't let that negative cycle get passed to the next generation.

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Speaker 2: You can be the difference maker. You can set a

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Speaker 2: new standard. Start blessing your children, Start calling out their

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Speaker 2: seeds of greatness, telling them what they can become, prophesying

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Speaker 2: When you see them in the morning, give them a hug.

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Speaker 2: Don't let them pass by without showing your affection. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: that would make us look weak. It's just the opposite.

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Speaker 2: When you show your feelings, you're strong. Real men hug

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Speaker 2: Real men go out of their way to approve, to validate,

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Speaker 2: to encourage. Fathers, our children have been given to us.

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Speaker 1: As a gift. Do you know how many people would

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Speaker 1: They do anything to have children like ours.

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Speaker 2: God has entrusted you with his most prized possession. He's

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Speaker 2: counting on you as the father, to give them the blessing,

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Speaker 2: your approval, your love. Your affirmation carries more weight than

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Speaker 2: in areas that they did not have to struggle in.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason people are insecure, angry, overly competitive, promiscuous.

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Speaker 2: they never got the blessing from their father. I know

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Speaker 1: We were talking one day.

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Speaker 2: He brought up how his father has never acknowledged his success,

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Speaker 2: When they visit on the holidays, his father never brings

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Speaker 2: harder and harder, hoping one day he'll gain his father's approval.

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Speaker 2: What a difference it would make if the father would

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Speaker 2: It seems so simple, yet it carries so much weight.

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Speaker 1: It feels a void.

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Speaker 2: That only the father can fill something we were all

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Speaker 2: we're constantly saying, look at me, daddy, Watch me run, Daddy,

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Speaker 2: Watch me jump, Daddy, Watch how fast I am, Daddy.

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Speaker 1: We long for our daddy to watch us.

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Speaker 2: We long for our father to say, that's good, you're strong,

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Speaker 2: you can run really fast. We could have our babysitter

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Speaker 2: watch us, our cousin watch us, our neighbor watches but

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Speaker 1: Dad, it takes on a whole new meaning.

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Speaker 2: This longing for our father's approval was put in us

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Speaker 2: by our creator. Your children may be fifty years old today,

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Speaker 2: but deep down they're still saying, watch me, daddy, Look

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Speaker 2: Look at how I'm excelling in my career. They still

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Speaker 2: long for your approval. Father's here's the good news. It's

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Speaker 2: never too late to bless your children. You may not

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Speaker 2: have done this growing up. This is not the way

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Speaker 2: you were raised. But I wonder what would happen if

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Speaker 2: you picked up the phone called your son daughter.

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Speaker 1: They may be thirty forty years old.

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Speaker 2: You hadn't spoken to them in a while, but you

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Speaker 2: can be a turning point for them. Your validation of

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Speaker 2: to issues they'd been struggling with, can bring healing and wholeness,

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Speaker 2: set them on a whole new path. Friend of mine

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Speaker 2: named Robert grew up with an alcoholic father. They lived

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Speaker 2: way out in the country. His dad was known as

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Speaker 1: Football was what he lived for. But in spite of

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Speaker 2: His accomplishments, deep down, there was a missing piece. As

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Speaker 2: far as he knew, his father had never seen him

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Speaker 1: Of his success.

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Speaker 2: Even though his father was an alcoholic, Robert still longed

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Speaker 2: his drinking problem. After Robert's football career, went to seminary

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Speaker 2: was going in and out of consciousness. He wasn't completely there.

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Speaker 2: He thought Robert was the doctor, the cardiologist. He said

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Speaker 2: something that forever changed Robert's life. He said, doctor, have

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Speaker 1: And how proud I am him?

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Speaker 2: He was the star football player, led the league in tackles.

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Speaker 2: and on, brighton on his son. Robert began to weep

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Speaker 2: that day he heard the words that he had waited

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Speaker 2: only a father can fail. You think, well, come on, Robert,

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Speaker 1: He's never been there for you. Just blow him off.

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Speaker 2: No, the father holds a blessing that is a strategic

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Speaker 2: peace to our puzzle. Maybe, like Robert's father, you haven't

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Speaker 2: been there for your children had struggles and issues, and

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Speaker 2: now you think my children don't need anything from me, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I've made a lot of poor choices.

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Speaker 1: They're doing better than I am. No, just like with Robert,

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Speaker 1: they still need your approval. Don't withhold your blessing.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we think they know I love them, they know

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Speaker 2: I'm proud of them.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to tell them.

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Speaker 2: No, a blessing is not a blessing until it's spoken.

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Speaker 2: People don't know what you're thinking. They can't read your mind,

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Speaker 2: even though it may seem minor to you. As a father,

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Speaker 2: when you tell your children you're proud of them, he

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Speaker 2: them to a new level of their destiny. I think

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Speaker 2: about growing up, how many times I heard my parents

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Speaker 2: was going to do great things in life. My father

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Speaker 1: Every place we would go together.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't wait to say, have you met my son, Joel.

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Speaker 2: He go on and on telling all of my history,

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Speaker 2: how I did the television production at the church, nobody

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Speaker 1: None of that was true. I wasn't the greatest anything.

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Speaker 2: But I kind of liked the fact that I had

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Speaker 1: Speaking the blessing.

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Speaker 2: He was approving, validating, honoring me. There's a reason people

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Speaker 1: It has a lot to do with the blessing from

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Speaker 2: One time, in the fourth grade, the principal's assistant came

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Speaker 1: To me on the phone.

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Speaker 2: In the scripture, there was a father named Jesse.

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Speaker 2: Everybody got this blessing from their father. Some people lost

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Speaker 2: But if that's you, let me tell you what the

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Speaker 1: Your father is Almighty God.

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Speaker 1: You didn't get here by accident. You didn't just happen

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Speaker 2: He said, in the most sincere voice, I wish you

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget that.

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Speaker 2: But maybe today your father has not been involved in

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Speaker 2: a longing for that approval. I believe right now that

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Speaker 2: void is being filled. Healing is taking place, holness, value, confidence,

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Speaker 2: Your heavenly father is giving you the blessing. He's saying,

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Speaker 1: Some of you, like me, have a father that's no

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Speaker 2: You hear people say I wish my dad.

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Speaker 1: Could see me now.

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Speaker 2: Even when we lose our fathers, deep down, there's still

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Speaker 1: Watch me, Dad, look at what I'm doing.

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Speaker 2: The scripture talks about how there is a great cloud

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Speaker 2: now looking down watching you closely, is your father, my father,

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Speaker 2: fathers that have gone before us.

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Speaker 1: You know what they're saying. Look at my son, look

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Speaker 2: Look at how amazing they are, Look at what they're accomplishing.

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Speaker 2: They may not be here in person, but you can

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Speaker 1: They still think you're amazing. They still give you their approval.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of great things still to come.

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Speaker 2: Friends, life is short. Make sure you give your children

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Speaker 2: the blessing. It's never too late. You can pick up

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Speaker 2: get the blessing, your earthly father wasn't around.

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Speaker 1: God is your father. He put his blessing on you.

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Speaker 2: Now I believe and declare because of that blessing, you're

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Speaker 2: going to rise higher. You're going to accomplish your dreams.

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Speaker 2: You're going to set a new standard for your family.

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Speaker 2: Your children are going to be mighty in the land.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. If you receive it. Can you say

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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