The Impact of Family Blessings From a Father

You know for many years, we have been talking about the power of the blessing of a father. And we see in the Bible and - actually just in culture - when a father blesses his son, it changes something on the inside and releases that son in confidence, in purpose, in destiny.
You know I saw an incredible example one time of an eighty-seven year old father who blessed the sixty-five year old son. It was life changing for him. It happened this way: a friend of mine who is in his forties had learned this principle of blessing and practiced it with the twenty one year old son. He had noticed that his son was just having an inability to make a decision that he want to go to university and study something or go get a job or go to bible school. And since the son couldn’t decide, he was sitting at home doing nothing. And, so this man in his frustration was praying and wondering, “How could I help my son to make a decision and go forward?” He caught this concept of blessing and realized “When I look at my son’s eyes, I see a scared little boy,”