I want to remind the parents today that you have the ability to pass on spiritual blessings to your children you know we can speak the blessing to our children encourage them lift them up but there’s another transfer that the Bible talks about and it’s one of the very first transfers of blessing and it’s called Personal Touch you know think about when your baby was born or there’s a baby in the Cradle you pick that baby up and before that baby can ever understand your voice of approval he senses your touch of approval you hold that baby you bring that baby close to
you and you just show the warmth and love to that child and research shows that when a baby is cared for and loved by their parent that their brain literally begins to develop emotionally and they begin to develop properly physically see the power of touch is so important it transfers a blessing we see this in Matthew 19 when the parents brought their children to Jesus they brought their children to Jesus so that he could put his hands on them and bless them you see he could trans transfer the blessing to them now we know that Jesus can speak a blessing he healed people
without ever touching them but this case shows that there is a transfer of blessing also when you feel that Personal Touch when you have hands laid on you now I know that from the time that our children were very little Joel and I would put our hands on them when we would pray for them we’d touch their shoulders we’d hold their little hands we’d put our hands on their head and we’d begin to pray for them ever since they were very young and they experienced this transfer of blessing so much that even now when they’re 21 and 17 and they’re going to leave the house and we’re able to
