Section (1) of Ch. 4. (The Power of a Parent’s Blessing)

 

 

Blessing Your Child at Conception

 

 We will spend the next several chapters looking at each critical time of blessing. Before we dig deep into this topic, I want to remind you that there is an intense spiritual battle over whose message of identity and destiny will be imparted deep inside the heart of a child. If parents are not aware of this battle, the devil will use them to inadvertantly impart his message of worthlessness and purposelessness into the hearts of their children. So it is important that as parents you remain focused on God’s truth about your child – and about yourself. God’s message of love and value is just as true for you. It is often out of our own sense of worthlessness that we impart the same ungodly message to our children.

 

Key Role Player

 

 Satan starts at the very beginning trying to impact a child’s image of identity and destiny. That is why the first critical time of blessing is at conception, and God wants to use both parents

as His agent of blessing at this strategic time. The father and mother play an equally important role in creating a safe and blessed environment into which a child may enter. Both parents are equally necessary and equally responsible to bless the child at this time.

 

Key Questions To Be Answered

 

 As I mentioned in the previous chapter, at each critcal time of blessing there is a key question being answered in the heart of the child. Again, either God or Satan can answer the question through the messages parents impart. I believe that the primary question being answered at the time of conception is: Am I wanted and welcome in this family?

Satan and his kingdom of darkness, of course, want parents to answer this question by saying, “No, you are not welcome. We don’t want you. No one wants you. We didn’t want a child. You are a nuisance, a bother, and an intrusion into our lives. You are a mistake, just a product of lust with no purpose and no destiny.”

 

God’s answer is just the opposite. He wants parents to convey: “Yes, you are completely welcome. We want you and are anticipating your birth with joy. You have a place in this family, and you are a great blessing to us. God has given you a unique purpose and destiny, and we will do everything possible to help protect and guide you to fulfill that purpose.”

To be blessed or cursed at the time of conception would mean the following types of things.

 

Blessing at conception

 

1. Both parents want the child and anticipate the birth with great joy.

 

2. The parents are in a legitimate covenant of marriage.

 

3. The conception occurs in love and not in lust.

 

Cursing at Conception

 

1. Either or both parents do not anticipate and do not want the child.

 

2. Either parent resents the conception and sees the child as an intrusion.

 

3. The conception occurs outside of the covenant of marriage.

 

4. The conception occurs in lust and not in love.