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Speaker 5: like to start with something funny and I heard about
Speaker 5: this country grandmother she'd go out on her front porch
Speaker 5: every morning and thanked the Lord for another day. Her
Speaker 5: neighbor didn't believe in God. He'd shout back, there's no
Speaker 5: such thing as the Lord. One day he overheard her
Speaker 5: asking God to give her groceries for the week. He
Speaker 5: snuck over the next morning put some groceries on her
Speaker 5: front porch. She got up and said, thank you, Lord,
Speaker 5: you did it again. He laughed and laughed and said,
Speaker 5: God didn't give you those groceries. I put them there.
Speaker 5: She said, Lord, thank you. You not only gave me
Speaker 5: the groceries, but you made the devil pay for it.
Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my
Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name.
Speaker 6: God bless you.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about the blessing.
Speaker 5: As parents, we have the ability to impact our children
Speaker 5: like no one else can. While the mother's role of
Speaker 5: nurturing and caring is vitally important, Without the father's approval
Speaker 5: and validation, the child will fill avoid Every person needs
Speaker 5: the blessing from their father.
Speaker 6: Many adults still struggle today.
Speaker 5: Low self esteem, working all the time trying to prove
Speaker 5: that they're good enough, all because of their father's lack
Speaker 5: of affirmation. Their father never told them I'm proud of you.
Speaker 5: He never made them feel approved, so they're still trying
Speaker 5: to measure up gain this approval that can only come
Speaker 5: from a father. Fathers, we have something to give our
Speaker 5: children that nobody else can give. Other people can tell
Speaker 5: them how great they are, how special they are, but
Speaker 5: when you tell them, it carries a whole new weight.
Speaker 5: As the father, you have the god given authority to
Speaker 5: bless your child. Every time you say I'm proud of you,
Speaker 5: I love you, You're beautiful, God releases strength into your child, value, confidence, security.
Speaker 6: Those are not just nice words, it's what the scripture.
Speaker 5: Calls the blessing. You are propelling your child toward their destiny.
Speaker 5: And we're all busy. It's easy to get sidetracked or
Speaker 5: even in odds with our children. They're not doing right.
Speaker 5: When they straight enough, I'll be nicer when I'm not
Speaker 5: so busy, I'll spend more.
Speaker 6: Time with them or Joel. They know I'm proud of them.
Speaker 5: I told them fourteen years ago, brought him home from
Speaker 5: the hospital. No, they need to hear again and again.
Speaker 5: You're the father. You carry the blessing. Don't withhold your love,
Speaker 5: your affection, your approval. Now you may not have received
Speaker 5: this blessing from your father. He wasn't around growing up,
Speaker 5: or maybe he was there, but all he did was correct.
Speaker 5: You tell you what you're doing wrong. He didn't show affection,
Speaker 5: make you feel valuable. Don't let that negative cycle get
Speaker 5: passed to the next generation. You can be the difference maker.
Speaker 5: You can set a new standard. Start blessing your children,
Speaker 5: Start calling out their seeds of greatness, telling them what
Speaker 5: they can become, prophesying their future. Let them know you're
Speaker 5: their number one fan. When you see them in the morning,
Speaker 5: give them a hug. Don't let them pass by without
Speaker 5: showing your affection. Sometimes we were raised to think men
Speaker 5: we don't express our feelings. We don't hug, We don't
Speaker 5: say nice things that would make us look weak. It's
Speaker 5: just the opposite. When you show your feelings, you're strong.
Speaker 5: Real men hug their children, Real men show affection, make
Speaker 5: their children feel valuable. Real men go out of their
Speaker 5: way to approve, to validate, to encourage fathers. Our children
Speaker 5: have been given to us as a gift. Do you
Speaker 5: know how many people would love to have kids. They're
Speaker 5: going through infertility treatments, spending thousands of dollars, enduring pain, suffering.
Speaker 6: They do anything to have children like ours.
Speaker 5: God has entrusted you with his most prized possession. He's
Speaker 5: counting on you as the father, to give them the blessing,
Speaker 5: your approval, your love, your affirmation, carries more weight than
Speaker 5: any other man. Without your blessing, your children and will
Speaker 5: struggle in areas that they did not have to struggle in.
Speaker 5: There's a reason people are insecure, angry, overly competitive, promiscuous.
Speaker 5: Many times, the root cause can be traced back to
Speaker 5: they never got the blessing.
Speaker 6: From their father. I know a man that's extremely successful.
Speaker 5: His business has taken off, but he's never satisfied. He
Speaker 5: works all the time, so competitive, he's got to go higher.
Speaker 6: We were talking one day.
Speaker 5: He brought up how his father has never acknowledged his success,
Speaker 5: never once told him he was proud of his son.
Speaker 6: When they visit on the holidays.
Speaker 5: His father never brings up his accomplishments, and this son,
Speaker 5: instead of being proud of who he is, enjoying his success,
Speaker 5: he keeps working harder and harder, hoping one day he'll
Speaker 5: gain his father's approval. What a difference it would make
Speaker 5: if the father would just pick up the phone and say,
Speaker 5: my son, Have I told you how proud I am
Speaker 5: of you, how I think you're amazing, How you mean
Speaker 5: the world to me. It seems so simple, yet it
Speaker 5: carries so much weight. It fills a void that only
Speaker 5: the father can fill, something we were all born with,
Speaker 5: even as little children on the playground. There can be
Speaker 5: twenty other adults people that we know, but we're constantly saying,
Speaker 5: look at me, daddy, watch me run, Daddy, watch me.
Speaker 6: Jump, Daddy, Watch how fast I am?
Speaker 4: Daddy.
Speaker 6: We long for our daddy to watch us.
Speaker 5: We long for our father to say, that's good, you're strong,
Speaker 5: you can run really fast. We could have our babysitter
Speaker 5: watch us, our cousin watch us, our neighbor watch us.
Speaker 5: But when it's our dad, it takes on a whole
Speaker 5: new meaning. This longing for our father's approval was put
Speaker 5: in us by our creator. Your children may be fifty
Speaker 5: years old today. Deep down they're still saying, watch me, daddy,
Speaker 5: look at what I'm doing, Look at how I'm raising
Speaker 5: my children, Look at how I'm excelling in my career.
Speaker 5: They still long for your approval. Fathers, here's the good news.
Speaker 5: It's never too late to bless your children. You may
Speaker 5: not have done this growing up. This is not the
Speaker 5: way you were raised. But I wonder what would happen
Speaker 5: if you picked up the phone called your son daughter.
Speaker 5: They may be thirty, forty years old, You hadn't spoken
Speaker 5: to them in a while, but you call and say, hey,
Speaker 5: I just want to tell you how proud I amma you,
Speaker 5: how much I love you, how I think you're amazing.
Speaker 5: Your approval, even later in life, can be a turning
Speaker 5: point for them. Your validation of their family, their success,
Speaker 5: their accomplishment, can put an end to issues they've been
Speaker 5: struggling with, can bring healing and wholeness, set them on
Speaker 5: a whole new path. Friend of mine named Robert grew
Speaker 5: up with an alcoholic father. They lived way out in
Speaker 5: the country. His dad was known as the town drunk.
Speaker 5: Robert was the star football player in high school. He
Speaker 5: was named an All American went on to play in college.
Speaker 5: Football was what he lived for. But in spite of
Speaker 5: all of his accomplishments, deep down there was a missing piece.
Speaker 5: As far as he knew, his father had never seen
Speaker 5: him play one football game. His dad had never complimented him,
Speaker 5: never told him that he was proud of his success.
Speaker 5: Even though his father was an alcoholic, Robert still longed
Speaker 5: for his approval. Years later, he found out that his
Speaker 5: dad did attend many of his games, but he stayed
Speaker 5: way over to the side because he was so embarrassed
Speaker 5: by his drinking problem. After Robert's football career, went to
Speaker 5: seminary and became a minister. One day, he received a
Speaker 5: phone call saying that his father had a heart attack
Speaker 5: and might not make it. Robert rushed up to the
Speaker 5: emergency room saw his father lying on the bed. His
Speaker 5: dad was going in and out of consciousness. He wasn't
Speaker 5: completely there. He thought Robert was the doctor, the cardiologist.
Speaker 5: He said something that forever changed Robert's life. He said, doctor,
Speaker 5: have I ever told you about my son Robert? And
Speaker 5: how proud I am him? He was the star football player,
Speaker 5: led the league in tackles. Now he's the great pastor
Speaker 5: of a church went on and on, braggon on his son.
Speaker 5: Robert began to weep that day he heard the words
Speaker 5: that he had waited thirty five years to hear. It
Speaker 5: was like a healing bomb was released on the inside.
Speaker 5: It filled a void that only a father can fail.
Speaker 6: You think, well, come on, Robert, he's an alcoholic.
Speaker 5: He's never been there for you. Just blow him off. No,
Speaker 5: the father holds a blessing that is a strategic peace
Speaker 5: to our puzzle. Maybe, like Robert's father, you haven't been
Speaker 5: there for your children, had struggles and issues, and now
Speaker 5: you think my children don't need anything from me. Joel,
Speaker 5: I've made a lot of poor choices. They're doing better
Speaker 5: than I am. No, just life with Robert. They still
Speaker 5: need your approval. Don't withhold your blessing. Sometimes we think
Speaker 5: they know I love them, they know I'm proud of them.
Speaker 5: I don't need to tell them. No, a blessing is
Speaker 5: not a blessing until it's spoken. People don't know what
Speaker 5: you're thinking. They can't read your mind. Even though it
Speaker 5: may seem minor to you as a father, when you
Speaker 5: tell your children you're proud of them, it can do
Speaker 5: something major in their life. The blessing of the father
Speaker 5: carries so much weight. It can help release them to
Speaker 5: a new level of their destiny. I think about growing up,
Speaker 5: how many times I heard my pa parents tell me
Speaker 5: that they were proud of me, that I was going
Speaker 5: to do great things in life. My father would brag
Speaker 5: on me so much in front of other people it
Speaker 5: would embarrass me. Every place we would go together, he
Speaker 5: couldn't wait to say, have you met my son Joel.
Speaker 5: He'd go on and on telling all of my history.
Speaker 5: How I did the television production at the church. Nobody
Speaker 5: could do it better than me.
Speaker 6: I was the greatest producer, the greatest director. None of
Speaker 6: that was true.
Speaker 5: I wasn't the greatest anything. But I kind of liked
Speaker 5: the fact that I had my father fooled. But really,
Speaker 5: more than bragging on me, he was speaking the blessing.
Speaker 5: He was approving, validating, honoring me. There's a reason people
Speaker 5: are secure, confident, they feel valuable.
Speaker 6: It has a lot to do with the blessing.
Speaker 5: From their father. One time, in the fourth grade, the
Speaker 5: principal's assistant came and got me out of class and said,
Speaker 5: my father needed to speak to me on the phone.
Speaker 5: I was alarmed, wondering what was going on, walked to
Speaker 5: the office, my heart beating fast, answered the phone. Yes, Daddy,
Speaker 5: what is it? He said, Joel, I'm ordering red lobster
Speaker 5: for lunch today. Do you want tater tots or French
Speaker 5: fries with your meal? One thing about it, I knew
Speaker 5: my father cared. He traveled a lot when I was
Speaker 5: growing up and couldn't attend many of my basketball games,
Speaker 5: but every once in a while he would show up.
Speaker 6: My father normally wore.
Speaker 5: Suits, he didn't have many casual clothes, but when he
Speaker 5: had come to my games for some reason, he would
Speaker 5: wear short pants. His legs were so white you needed sunglasses.
Speaker 6: They looked like the glory of God.
Speaker 5: If that wasn't bad enough, he would wear his black.
Speaker 6: Dress shoes with those shorts. That contrast was deadly.
Speaker 5: I was so embarrassed, but I had no doubt my
Speaker 5: father was so proud of me. Maybe you're a father
Speaker 5: in a single parent situation. You don't have your children
Speaker 5: with you all the time.
Speaker 6: That's okay.
Speaker 5: You can still give them your blessing. Don't take the
Speaker 5: easy way out and make the mother do everything. Your
Speaker 5: children need your love, your guidance, your support your mentorship.
Speaker 5: If a young lady doesn't get the approval from her father,
Speaker 5: many times she'll try to get that approval from other men.
Speaker 5: She'll go from relationship to relationship, not valuing who she
Speaker 5: is because she has not been valued by the most
Speaker 5: important male in her life, her father.
Speaker 6: Your daughter. As a little girl, she looks up to
Speaker 6: you as her hero.
Speaker 5: She admires you. She thinks you can do anything. She's
Speaker 5: not going to feel good about herself until she knows
Speaker 5: you think she's the greatest thing in the world world.
Speaker 5: You're teaching your daughter how other men should treat her.
Speaker 5: She's learning from you what love is. She's felt her
Speaker 5: mother's love, but you are her first male love. You
Speaker 5: are her first boyfriend. It all starts with you. It's
Speaker 5: going to be compared to the love that you show her.
Speaker 5: It's why it's so important fathers not only to treat
Speaker 5: your wife with honor and respect, but treat your daughter
Speaker 5: like she's a queen.
Speaker 6: You are setting the tone for how she will allow
Speaker 6: other people to treat her.
Speaker 5: If you're harsh, rude, condescending, don't have time for her,
Speaker 5: You're teaching her that's how men treat women. That's Okay,
Speaker 5: find somebody like that. But when you treat her with
Speaker 5: respect and kindness, you value her, make her feel loved, important, honored.
Speaker 5: That's the standard she's going to set. Our daughter, Alexandra,
Speaker 5: her first day was not with another young man. It
Speaker 5: was with this young man. I've taken her to dinner,
Speaker 5: to the mall, to build a bear, to Disneyland. I've
Speaker 5: opened the car door for her, I've carried her luggage.
Speaker 5: I've told her she's beautiful, valuable, talented, one.
Speaker 6: Of a kind, a masterpiece.
Speaker 5: I've set a high standard. The people she chooses to
Speaker 5: date are going to have a tough act to follow.
Speaker 5: Not only are they gonna have to be good looking
Speaker 5: like me, but they're gonna have to bring their a game.
Speaker 5: They're not gonna be average mediocre.
Speaker 6: She'll know to.
Speaker 5: Weed them out.
Speaker 6: They're gonna have to be a.
Speaker 5: Cut above, exceptional, extraordinary people that are treated like a queen.
Speaker 5: That's what a father does. A father sets the standard.
Speaker 5: Don't be harsh on your children, don't be too.
Speaker 6: Busy for them.
Speaker 5: If you don't tell your daughter how beautiful she is,
Speaker 5: don't be surprised if she finds a young man.
Speaker 6: To tell her how beautiful she is.
Speaker 5: If you don't make your children feel special, they'll go
Speaker 5: out and try to fill that void with something or someone,
Speaker 5: a void that you can fill as the father. Let's
Speaker 5: set a high standard. This is your legacy. This is
Speaker 5: what you're passing down. More than your money, more than
Speaker 5: your success, your accomplishments, your values, your principles, what you
Speaker 5: believe in. That's what's going to live on. I'm asking
Speaker 5: you to model excellence, model integrity. Give your children the blessing,
Speaker 5: Let them know their maid and the image of God,
Speaker 5: that they're extremely valuable, that they have seeds of greatness
Speaker 5: on the inside.
Speaker 6: In the Scripture, there was a father named Jesse. He
Speaker 6: had eight sons.
Speaker 5: When the prophet Samuel came to his house to choose
Speaker 5: one of those sons as the next king, Jesse's youngest son, David,
Speaker 5: was out in the shepherd's fields.
Speaker 6: Jesse didn't even invite David in. He thought he doesn't
Speaker 6: have a chance.
Speaker 5: He's too inexperienced. When Samuel looked at the other seven boys,
Speaker 5: he said, it's none of these. He asked Jesse if
Speaker 5: he had another son. Jesse was so surprised he said, yes, David,
Speaker 5: my youngest he's out there taking care of the sheep.
Speaker 5: But I know it's not him. The moment Samuel saw David,
Speaker 5: he lit up, said, that's him. He's the next king.
Speaker 5: Here's my point. Jesse had a king in his house
Speaker 5: and he didn't recognize it. He had one of the
Speaker 5: greatest men that would ever live, but he didn't see it.
Speaker 6: He just looked on.
Speaker 5: The outside, saw his size, his ability, his experience. He
Speaker 5: couldn't see the seeds of greatness on the inside. He
Speaker 5: didn't see the giant killer, the army general, the skilled musician,
Speaker 5: the history maker. Don't do like Jesse and have a
Speaker 5: king a queen in your house and not recognize it.
Speaker 5: You don't know the gifts God has put in your children.
Speaker 5: You could be raising the next giant killer, the next
Speaker 5: army general, the next David, the next history maker.
Speaker 6: All they need is your blessing.
Speaker 5: Your encouragement, to know that you believe in them, that
Speaker 5: you're cheering them on, that you're their number one fan.
Speaker 5: Two thousand and nine, a young man named Jonathan Sanchez
Speaker 5: was the starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants baseball team.
Speaker 5: He'd been doing okay, but he started struggling Eventually he
Speaker 5: was sent.
Speaker 6: Down to the bullpen.
Speaker 5: When the star pitcher Randy Johnson hurt his shoulder, he
Speaker 5: was put back in the starting rotation. Just so happened,
Speaker 5: his father had flown in from Puerto Rico to watch
Speaker 5: him pitch for the first time in the major leagues.
Speaker 5: With his father up there in the stands, Jonathan pitched
Speaker 5: the game of his lifetime, striking out a career high
Speaker 5: eleven batters and not allowing one hit. It was the
Speaker 5: first no hitter in thirty three years for the Giants.
Speaker 5: After the game, the first one in the dugout to
Speaker 5: congratulate him was his father. Jonathan said, I was so
Speaker 5: pumped to know that my father was watching me pitch
Speaker 5: for the first time. Wasn't a coincidence that he pitched
Speaker 5: the game of his life on the first time his
Speaker 5: father was there to watch him play.
Speaker 6: The blessing kicked in. Fathers, when your children know.
Speaker 5: You're watching them, you believe in them, you're cheering them on.
Speaker 5: That's going to give them an extra boost to rise higher,
Speaker 5: to go further, to accomplish things they never thought they
Speaker 5: could accomplish. And I realize not everybody got this blessing
Speaker 5: from their father.
Speaker 6: Some people lost their father early in life.
Speaker 5: Half of the children today are being raised in fatherless homes.
Speaker 5: Maybe your dad was around, but he wasn't a good influence.
Speaker 5: He made it harder on you. Notice with David, even
Speaker 5: though his father didn't believe in him, that didn't change
Speaker 5: David's destinies. What God had planned for David's life could
Speaker 5: not be stopped by how his father raised him. Don't
Speaker 5: use this as an excuse. I didn't get the blessing, Joel.
Speaker 5: Now I know why I'm stuck. Now know why I
Speaker 5: can't accomplish my dream. Know what you did or did
Speaker 5: not get is not a surprise to God. You may
Speaker 5: not have had a father involved in your life growing up.
Speaker 5: God said in Psalm sixty eight he will be a
Speaker 5: father to the fatherless. God will be your father. He
Speaker 5: will watch over you in a special way. He'll get
Speaker 5: you to where you're supposed to be. For many single
Speaker 5: mothers doing an incredible job raising their children without the
Speaker 5: help of a man, God said he will be your husband.
Speaker 5: He will help you raise your child. He will give
Speaker 5: you wisdom, He will provide for your needs. There's a
Speaker 5: single mom that attends here. She has two sons. They
Speaker 5: were raised on a limited income, but today both of
Speaker 5: her sons are in major universities on full scholarships, one
Speaker 5: in medical school, one in law school.
Speaker 6: God will be your husband. God will take care.
Speaker 5: Of you and your children. Read a story about a
Speaker 5: little boy. He grew up with a single parent mother
Speaker 5: in the Hills of Tennessee. Back then, especially in that area,
Speaker 5: children that were born to unwed mothers were really looked
Speaker 5: down on. At three years old, neighbors would not let
Speaker 5: him play with their children. They would say things like,
Speaker 5: what's he doing in our town? And who's his father? Anyway?
Speaker 5: He'd go up to the local store on Saturdays with
Speaker 5: his mom and people would make these disparaging remarks loud
Speaker 5: enough so they could hear it. There he is again,
Speaker 5: Did you ever find out who his father is? He
Speaker 5: grew up insecure, always feeling like there was something wrong
Speaker 5: with him. At twelve years old, a new minister moved
Speaker 5: into town. Young man, very dynamic, talented, created quite a stir.
Speaker 6: This boy had never been to church.
Speaker 5: One day, he decided to go all by himself to
Speaker 5: see what all the excitement was about. He went late,
Speaker 5: sat in the back hoping that nobody would see him.
Speaker 5: That day, he felt a love and an acceptance like
Speaker 5: he had never felt. Planned on leaving early, but he
Speaker 5: got engrossed in what the minister was saying. Was over
Speaker 5: Before he knew it, he got caught in the crowd.
Speaker 5: As he was leaving, the young minister was greeting everyone
Speaker 5: at the door, and he saw the young boy by himself,
Speaker 5: and of course he didn't know anything about him. Innocently,
Speaker 5: this minister said, son, whose child are you? The whole
Speaker 5: place grew completely silent. That was the question they had
Speaker 5: all been wanting to ask. The boy put his head down.
Speaker 5: He didn't know what to say. The minister snapped that
Speaker 5: something was wrong. He looked at the boy and said, oh,
Speaker 5: I know whose child you are are. I can see
Speaker 5: the resemblance so strongly. You're a child of Almighty God.
Speaker 5: That day was a turning point in the young boy's life.
Speaker 5: Chains of insecurity, inferiority were broken off of him. Over
Speaker 5: thirty years later, that young boy was elected governor of Tennessee.
Speaker 5: If you were to ask him, Ben Hooper would tell
Speaker 5: you the day he really got elected was the day
Speaker 5: that minister told him who his father was. A lot
Speaker 5: of people today grew up without fathers.
Speaker 6: I wish that were not so.
Speaker 5: But if that's you, let me tell you what the
Speaker 5: minister told Ben Hooper. Your father is Almighty God. He's
Speaker 5: chosen you, called you, set you apart.
Speaker 6: You didn't get here by accident. You didn't just happen
Speaker 6: to show up.
Speaker 5: God breathed his life into you. You have a destiny
Speaker 5: to fulfill, an assignment that only you can accomplish. A
Speaker 5: few years ago after the sir, this mother came up
Speaker 5: to me with two small children, a boy and a girl.
Speaker 5: They were very loving. The little boy, about five years old,
Speaker 5: hugged me and he wouldn't let go. We talked for
Speaker 5: a little while. Finally they walked away. A couple of
Speaker 5: minutes later, the little boy came back said he wanted
Speaker 5: to whisper something in my ear. I leaned down. He said,
Speaker 5: in the most sincere voice, I wish you were my dad.
Speaker 5: I'll never forget that. But maybe today your father has
Speaker 5: not been involved in your life as much as he
Speaker 5: should have, And like that little boy, you feel a
Speaker 5: void on the inside, a longing for that approval. I
Speaker 5: believe right now that void is being filled. Healing is
Speaker 5: taking place. Wholeness, value, confidence. Your heavenly father is giving
Speaker 5: you the blessing. He's saying, I'm proud of you. You're amazing,
Speaker 5: You're valuable. You're going to do great things in life.
Speaker 5: Some of you, like me, have a father that's no
Speaker 5: longer with us. He's in heaven. You hear people say
Speaker 5: I wish my dad could see me now. Even when
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