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Declarations for Blessing Your Family

Becoming the One

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You have a unique family history and a bloodline that’s precious in God’s sight.

Blessing your family can be a powerful act in the spiritual realm. Whether you have a good relationship with them or not, you can speak blessing over them—over your household, your heritage, the spiritual giftings carried in your blood, the legacy God has handcrafted for your family line: how He wants you to impact the earth.

This week at BTO, we’re praying a blessing over your family and the unique bloodline that is your heritage. Everything God has said about you and your family is true.

Here are three Bible-based statements you can pray over your family today:

1. God loves my family, and He has good plans for all of us—even those family members who have no idea who He is yet. May our eyes be opened to His faithfulness in our lives! May we see His goodness and His tender, compassionate heart everywhere we turn.

And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. (Ex. 34:6 NIV)

Think of Exodus 34:6 as a description of God’s heart for your family. Speak the following points out loud over your family:

  1. The Lord is compassionate.

  2. He is gracious.

  3. He is slow to anger.

  4. He abounds in love.

  5. He abounds in faithfulness!

2. The Lord’s great love is the story He’s telling with my family! May we come into a deeper understanding of His mercies today and how they are new toward us! May we come to know how deeply He loves us, how He hasn’t turned His back on us, and how He’s working on our behalf.

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness. (Lam. 3:22–23 NIV)

When we’ve gone through trauma, heartache, or an extended waiting period, it can start to feel like what we’re hoping for will never happen.

But God’s love for our families is a FRESH thing. It is new every day—it doesn’t dry up or run out.

Meditate on Lamentations 3:22–23 and ask the Holy Spirit, “How does this passage apply to my family and me today? What are You doing in my family? What do You want my heart to know today?”

Write down what He shows you, and go over it several times this week.

3. God longs for my family to know Him even more than I do! He’s arranged our lives so we can see Him and feel our way toward Him. May we start to understand how CLOSE God is to us! He is not far away—He is right here, listening to the cries of our hearts.

I thought to myself,

“I would love to treat you as my own children!”
I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land—
the finest possession in the world.
I looked forward to your calling me “Father,”
and I wanted you never to turn from me. (Jer. 3:19 NLT)

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us. (Acts 17:26–27 ESV)

That is who God is for your family! Those Scriptures are a glimpse into His huge heart for you.

Speak these powerful truths out loud over your family:

  1. God wants every person in my family to know Him.

  2. He has good things waiting for us!

  3. He loves us more than the world is capable of recognizing.

  4. He is not far away from any person in my family.

  5. He longs to have a deep, personal relationship with every member of my family.

Here’s our prayer for you this week:

Father God,

Thank You for this precious opportunity to bring our readers before You. You see all their hopes and concerns for their loved ones, and we ask that You would help them trust You where their families are concerned. Where they lack hope, please fill them up. Where they can’t see what You’re doing, please give them peace and help them to keep their eyes on You. We bless their families and the unique heritage You’ve given each household. We bless the beautiful legacy You’re building for every person reading this.

You are bigger than we think, stronger than we understand, more merciful than we expect in our humanness, and far more gracious than anything we’ve witnessed in the world.

— The BTO staff

 

Before you go!

If you struggle to believe God loves your family, remember what the Bible says.

Write a list of Scriptures that talk about the Lord’s faithfulness, His hope for the future, and how He wants everyone to come to know Him. Declare those verses out loud over your family, and don’t be afraid to hope for positive change.

No one who trusts in the Lord will ever be put to shame (Ps. 25:3).

 

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