Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

I want to remind the parents today that you have the ability to pass on spiritual blessings

to your children. 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. Think about when your baby was born,

or there's a baby in the cradle, you picked 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 transfer the blessing to them. Now, we know that Jesus can speak of 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 physically pray for them with them in our presence, we still

put our hands on them, and we begin to pray. I can literally feel my children lean into that prayer.

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