Title: Your Father’s Blessing
MEMORIZE: Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him—and indeed he shall be blessed.” Genesis 27:33
BIBLE READING GENESIS 27:27-33
[27] And he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him and said: “Surely, the smell of my son Is like the smell of a field Which the Lord has blessed.
[28]Therefore may God give you of the dew of heaven, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
[29]Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be those who bless you!”
[30]Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
[31]He also had made savory food, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that your soul may bless me.”
[32]And his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” So he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
[33]Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him—and indeed he shall be blessed.”
MESSAGE:
Is your father usually encouraged to pray for you, or are you a child that provokes him to anger? A father has tremendous power over the life and destiny of his children. Any wise child will always seek to get the blessings of his/her father, whether biological or spiritual, because a father’s blessing is irreversible.
Once your father blesses you, you are blessed forever. In the memory verse today, when Isaac realized that he had blessed Jacob instead off Esau, even he could not reverse it.
Many years ago, I had just returned from a journey with a big bag in each hand when two of my children-in-the-Lord came to welcome me. The one who got to me first just greeted me, while the other one took the bags from me immediately, and I said to him, “God bless you”.
The one who just greeted me questioned why I did not say the same to him, and I replied, “You saw me carrying the bags, but you didn’t help.” My dear, if you want your father to bless you, provoke him to do so.
ACTION POINT
Do something that will provoke your father to bless you today.
HYMN 17 – THERE SHALL BE SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS
- “There shall be showers of blessing”
This is the promise of love;
There shall be season refreshing
Send from a savior above
Chorus:
Showers of blessing
Showers of blessing we need:
Mercy drops round us are falling
But for the showers we plead.
- “There shall be showers of blessing”
Precious reviving again;
Over the hills and the valleys;
Sound of abundance of rain. - “There shall be showers of blessing”
Send them upon us Oh Lord!
Grant to us now a refreshing;
Come now and honour Thy Word. - “There shall be showers of blessing”
Oh, that today thy might fall,
Now as to God we are Confessing,
Now as on Jesus we call! - “There shall be showers of blessing”
If we but trust and obey;
There shall be season refreshing,
If we let God have his way.
BIBLE READING IN ONE YEAR: PSALMS 73-77
AUTHORS: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
PASTOR MRS FOLU ADEBOYE