The Spoken Blessing

Someone once said that if there is a blessing that every single person needs to hear again and again, it is the Ephraim and Manasseh blessing. This is the blessing spoken by the patriarch Jacob in Genesis 48:20 over his two grandsons. So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will bless, saying,…

We find in Genesis Chapter 27 what I consider to be the most convincing evidence of the value of a spoken blessing. The setting is a blind patriarch nearing death who invites his firstborn son to bring him a meal for what we could call a private blessing ceremony. Isaac’s intent is to speak empowering…

My journey as a blessing ambassador began at the age of fifty when I read The Power of Blessing book written by Terry and Melissa Bone.[1]  I discovered that God had intended for words of blessing (family blessings) to be spoken into my life that I had not yet received. Realizing that it was not…