The following are 25 genuine testimonies from people who have been learning to bless using 'The Awesome Power of Blessing'
Healing and a note on this from Richard Brunton, December 2019
From a pastor who attended a pastors’ conference in Kenya a few weeks ago, heard the blessing message, and then preached it in his church the following Sunday.
"Thanks, many testimonies are coming in since Sunday service, Sister Rosemary, a member in the church, was married to alcoholic husband. We have prayed for the husband over 5 years now but the drinking habit worsened day after day. When I preached how to bless the drunkard husband at the Sunday service she come up and blessed the husband. From Sunday to date the husband has not drunk alcohol.
There’s a lot of testimonies now about the powerful effect of a wife blessing an alcoholic husband in the name of Jesus. Glory to God who breaks the chains of addiction in a moment."
Note from Richard:
Regarding this testimony about a woman blessing her alcoholic husband and seeing him set free after 5 years of prayer. I have observed this and similar things many times now. I believe that the learning is this: Complaining repels the Kingdom of God. You can pray with no response if there is bitterness in your heart or even an offence against God. Thankfulness on the other hand attracts the Kingdom of God.
Even forgiveness only takes you from overdraft to zero, so to speak, but blessing deposits something in the account - it’s a step beyond mere forgiveness.
Blessing, in Jesus name, releases the Kingdom - healing, deliverance, provision etc because one’s heart is now aligned with the original Blessor, Almighty God Himself. Blessing releases God into a situation to move it from where it is now to where He wants it to be. We have to remember too that God loves the one who has hurt or offended us.
There may be more to it even than the above. Addiction often has a root in rejection and blessing speaks of affirmation, acceptance, love, and breaks off shame etc. Blessing is such a powerful and beautiful thing that we can all do.
From a pastor who attended a pastors’ conference in Kenya a few weeks ago, heard the blessing message, and then preached it in his church the following Sunday.
"Thanks, many testimonies are coming in since Sunday service, Sister Rosemary, a member in the church, was married to alcoholic husband. We have prayed for the husband over 5 years now but the drinking habit worsened day after day. When I preached how to bless the drunkard husband at the Sunday service she come up and blessed the husband. From Sunday to date the husband has not drunk alcohol.
There’s a lot of testimonies now about the powerful effect of a wife blessing an alcoholic husband in the name of Jesus. Glory to God who breaks the chains of addiction in a moment."
Note from Richard:
Regarding this testimony about a woman blessing her alcoholic husband and seeing him set free after 5 years of prayer. I have observed this and similar things many times now. I believe that the learning is this: Complaining repels the Kingdom of God. You can pray with no response if there is bitterness in your heart or even an offence against God. Thankfulness on the other hand attracts the Kingdom of God.
Even forgiveness only takes you from overdraft to zero, so to speak, but blessing deposits something in the account - it’s a step beyond mere forgiveness.
Blessing, in Jesus name, releases the Kingdom - healing, deliverance, provision etc because one’s heart is now aligned with the original Blessor, Almighty God Himself. Blessing releases God into a situation to move it from where it is now to where He wants it to be. We have to remember too that God loves the one who has hurt or offended us.
There may be more to it even than the above. Addiction often has a root in rejection and blessing speaks of affirmation, acceptance, love, and breaks off shame etc. Blessing is such a powerful and beautiful thing that we can all do.
Here’s some wisdom from my pastor friend Darin Olsen from the USA - a great blessing champion
What we bless and thank the Lord for has a way of increasing; so find out what you want to increase and thank the Lord for what is already there in that area. (Mark 6:38-44; 2 Kings 4:1-7).
Richard, I have found in my interceding for others that just about the best thing I can do for them is to first thank the Lord for them and then to bless them. The Lord seems to take my blessing for them and apply it to just what they need. Much overall health seems to come from blessing people and I don’t just mean physical health. What I/we thank the Lord for (bless) increases and what I/we leave to happen-chance (tends to) dissipate.
Ps Darin Olsen, USA
What we bless and thank the Lord for has a way of increasing; so find out what you want to increase and thank the Lord for what is already there in that area. (Mark 6:38-44; 2 Kings 4:1-7).
Richard, I have found in my interceding for others that just about the best thing I can do for them is to first thank the Lord for them and then to bless them. The Lord seems to take my blessing for them and apply it to just what they need. Much overall health seems to come from blessing people and I don’t just mean physical health. What I/we thank the Lord for (bless) increases and what I/we leave to happen-chance (tends to) dissipate.
Ps Darin Olsen, USA
I've Started Blessing ... Like I Used To
Many thanks for the little blue booklet. May I tell you a wee story?
Yesterday, I was expecting to host a couple at church. I had met him in Invercargill Prison and had been corresponding since that time. He was released just a month ago to join his partner in Tokoroa. They wanted to see me, but couldn't make it due to unforeseen family obligations. I was disappointed, I was so looking forward to seeing him (I was instrumental in his baptism). Then you gave me the booklet. I went home and read it over lunch. It moved me to the extent that I couldn't wait to bless them and jumped in my car and drove to Tokoroa. After a great reunion over a cuppa tea I was able to bless them both and left, with great joy. Thanks again. I've re-started blessing people and things, like I used to do.
Bill
Many thanks for the little blue booklet. May I tell you a wee story?
Yesterday, I was expecting to host a couple at church. I had met him in Invercargill Prison and had been corresponding since that time. He was released just a month ago to join his partner in Tokoroa. They wanted to see me, but couldn't make it due to unforeseen family obligations. I was disappointed, I was so looking forward to seeing him (I was instrumental in his baptism). Then you gave me the booklet. I went home and read it over lunch. It moved me to the extent that I couldn't wait to bless them and jumped in my car and drove to Tokoroa. After a great reunion over a cuppa tea I was able to bless them both and left, with great joy. Thanks again. I've re-started blessing people and things, like I used to do.
Bill
I Learnt to Bless and Healing Came
Straight after reading your book I met a man who was struggling with shoulder pain. He was due to have an operation on both shoulders in two or three weeks’ time.
Rather than asking, "Can I pray for you?" as I normally would, I asked permission to BLESS him. He accepted and was immediately able
(after several more requests for more Holy Spirit healing) to lift both arms simultaneously, pain-free, to heights he had not achieved for years and years!
That opened the door to more prayer about his chronic fatigue syndrome that had forced him to enter an early retirement. I asked God to bless him again with full healing. I led him to Christ then commanded the blessing of healing won for him at the cross.
When I left him his arms were high, hands in the air and he was saying of his own accord, praise Jesus and hallelujah, astounded at his good fortune, and knowing for the first time in his 60+ years that God is a LOVING Father who Loves...HIM!
So, to ask to bless is a great opener. Thanks!
Mike
Straight after reading your book I met a man who was struggling with shoulder pain. He was due to have an operation on both shoulders in two or three weeks’ time.
Rather than asking, "Can I pray for you?" as I normally would, I asked permission to BLESS him. He accepted and was immediately able
(after several more requests for more Holy Spirit healing) to lift both arms simultaneously, pain-free, to heights he had not achieved for years and years!
That opened the door to more prayer about his chronic fatigue syndrome that had forced him to enter an early retirement. I asked God to bless him again with full healing. I led him to Christ then commanded the blessing of healing won for him at the cross.
When I left him his arms were high, hands in the air and he was saying of his own accord, praise Jesus and hallelujah, astounded at his good fortune, and knowing for the first time in his 60+ years that God is a LOVING Father who Loves...HIM!
So, to ask to bless is a great opener. Thanks!
Mike
Even Children can Learn to Bless
Again thanks for writing this book. I've read it over my girls just about every night for one month. They love it and haven't tired from wanting it read over them. Thank you for the blessing your book has been.
Richard
Again thanks for writing this book. I've read it over my girls just about every night for one month. They love it and haven't tired from wanting it read over them. Thank you for the blessing your book has been.
Richard
Confidence Growing: Learning to Bless and Pray for Healing
Hi Richard,
It was wonderful and unexpected to be able to talk to you along with my daughter about a month ago.
After reading your book my daughter and myself were really galvanised into action. We have prayed for people, blessed them to health and encouraged them by giving them a copy of your book to bless their prayer life as well. Each time my daughter managed to pick up the book and read a chapter, someone came into her life who she would have to give the book to. We gave out the first 20 copies to bless others within a month. I had to carry them in my handbag as she was approached by her friends with issues and she would pray for them and give out the book. She encouraged them to bless every situation they were going into. Her friends are reporting back great success.
16th December 2018 The first healing I was involved in after reading your book was at church where a person had a herniated disk. You could actually feel the jelly out of alignment in the spine. The person was bent over and in great pain. The anti-inflammatory that had been taken in the morning had worn off and the person was desperate for healing or more pills. I noticed they were being prayed for and moved to assist . I used what I had learnt in the book about praying for healing and I asked the Holy Spirit for guidance in how to pray. This was the first time I had stepped out in church for a long time to pray for healing, hands on. The Holy Spirit encouraged me to pray for the spine to come into alignment and for every sinew, atom of their being, blood vessel and ligament to be blessed in the name of the Father, Jesus Christ His Son and the Holy Spirit. I blessed all the work of their hands, their going out and their coming in, their ministry for the Lord and every other blessing that came to mind during the prayer. During the time I prayed, I felt the really strong heat in my right hand over the spine. The person could not feel the heat when I told them what I was sensing. But I felt reassured that the blessing was working.
Two weeks later the person came and told me they had been healed that Sunday and that they were really grateful for the healing. They had felt no immediate improvement or the heat I had felt during the prayer. But in just 4 hours they realised they had been completely healed and were pain free, and have not taken any medication since. I was praising God that I had stepped out in faith and blessed them back to health. I constantly use the phrase “in the name of Father, Jesus Christ His Son the the Holy Spirit” to reinforce to the person I am praying for that it is not me. I am only stepping out in faith for them.
The second healing I have had is for myself. I blessed my own skin as I have had for at least 4 years three lesions on my back that were ugly but not cancerous and the doctor would not remove them. I blessed my skin back to health for several nights and checked the following night to see if they were gone. I was expecting them to disappear. I could not reach them myself to scratch them off to see if they would come off and my husband refused to do anything to them either. They appeared to be growing in size height-wise, and looked worse to me. My daughter was putting sunscreen on my back and she said to me, "I feel like I want to scratch at these growths on your back is that okay?" I told her to go ahead and although she has very short fingernails the first one just popped off in her hand. She went ahead and removed the other two as well. The wonderful thing for me is there is no scarring from them and I no longer have to see them in a place I cannot reach.
My daughter and son-in-law prayed the blessing of the Father over their children the other night and one of the boys just sobbed the whole way through, I believe the prayer will be a turning point for his life.
Richard I want to bless you in everything you put your hand to, thank you for your little book, I think the best thing about your book is it is condensed and easy to understand and apply; anyone can read it and be encouraged.
Thank you so much for your faithfulness to God and all the sharing you do, as well at Promise Keepers.
Ruth
Hi Richard,
It was wonderful and unexpected to be able to talk to you along with my daughter about a month ago.
After reading your book my daughter and myself were really galvanised into action. We have prayed for people, blessed them to health and encouraged them by giving them a copy of your book to bless their prayer life as well. Each time my daughter managed to pick up the book and read a chapter, someone came into her life who she would have to give the book to. We gave out the first 20 copies to bless others within a month. I had to carry them in my handbag as she was approached by her friends with issues and she would pray for them and give out the book. She encouraged them to bless every situation they were going into. Her friends are reporting back great success.
16th December 2018 The first healing I was involved in after reading your book was at church where a person had a herniated disk. You could actually feel the jelly out of alignment in the spine. The person was bent over and in great pain. The anti-inflammatory that had been taken in the morning had worn off and the person was desperate for healing or more pills. I noticed they were being prayed for and moved to assist . I used what I had learnt in the book about praying for healing and I asked the Holy Spirit for guidance in how to pray. This was the first time I had stepped out in church for a long time to pray for healing, hands on. The Holy Spirit encouraged me to pray for the spine to come into alignment and for every sinew, atom of their being, blood vessel and ligament to be blessed in the name of the Father, Jesus Christ His Son and the Holy Spirit. I blessed all the work of their hands, their going out and their coming in, their ministry for the Lord and every other blessing that came to mind during the prayer. During the time I prayed, I felt the really strong heat in my right hand over the spine. The person could not feel the heat when I told them what I was sensing. But I felt reassured that the blessing was working.
Two weeks later the person came and told me they had been healed that Sunday and that they were really grateful for the healing. They had felt no immediate improvement or the heat I had felt during the prayer. But in just 4 hours they realised they had been completely healed and were pain free, and have not taken any medication since. I was praising God that I had stepped out in faith and blessed them back to health. I constantly use the phrase “in the name of Father, Jesus Christ His Son the the Holy Spirit” to reinforce to the person I am praying for that it is not me. I am only stepping out in faith for them.
The second healing I have had is for myself. I blessed my own skin as I have had for at least 4 years three lesions on my back that were ugly but not cancerous and the doctor would not remove them. I blessed my skin back to health for several nights and checked the following night to see if they were gone. I was expecting them to disappear. I could not reach them myself to scratch them off to see if they would come off and my husband refused to do anything to them either. They appeared to be growing in size height-wise, and looked worse to me. My daughter was putting sunscreen on my back and she said to me, "I feel like I want to scratch at these growths on your back is that okay?" I told her to go ahead and although she has very short fingernails the first one just popped off in her hand. She went ahead and removed the other two as well. The wonderful thing for me is there is no scarring from them and I no longer have to see them in a place I cannot reach.
My daughter and son-in-law prayed the blessing of the Father over their children the other night and one of the boys just sobbed the whole way through, I believe the prayer will be a turning point for his life.
Richard I want to bless you in everything you put your hand to, thank you for your little book, I think the best thing about your book is it is condensed and easy to understand and apply; anyone can read it and be encouraged.
Thank you so much for your faithfulness to God and all the sharing you do, as well at Promise Keepers.
Ruth
Learning to Bless Anyway
I have just finished reading this powerful little book, and am absolutely thrilled and blown away by its practicality and application.
I have over the last couple of days prayed for men in very stressful situations, and seen them lifted and encouraged and hopeful about life.
It has also lifted me and equipped me for this place and for my own home. Amidst everything I am encouraged to look for the gold in people and, if I can’t see it, to bless them anyway.
Thank you brother.
Arthur
I have just finished reading this powerful little book, and am absolutely thrilled and blown away by its practicality and application.
I have over the last couple of days prayed for men in very stressful situations, and seen them lifted and encouraged and hopeful about life.
It has also lifted me and equipped me for this place and for my own home. Amidst everything I am encouraged to look for the gold in people and, if I can’t see it, to bless them anyway.
Thank you brother.
Arthur
From Defensive to Offensive. Greatly Empowered
Thank you indeed for this book. I have read Roy Godwin's books and learning to speak blessings has changed my perspective altogether from what I would call a defensive position to offensive - opening the way in Jesus' authority for all the power of Holy Spirit to change people's lives and circumstances. It has greatly empowered me!! Such a joyful thing to do, speaking God's blessing and desire into people's lives and circumstances.
Then, my friend came home from Western Australia with your little book and I couldn't put it down, re-reading it and re-reading it, and keeping it close. Everything so simply pulled together. Easy to read and take hold of. THANK YOU!!
I am looking to pass this Truth on to family and friends and would like to purchase more.
Leslie
Thank you indeed for this book. I have read Roy Godwin's books and learning to speak blessings has changed my perspective altogether from what I would call a defensive position to offensive - opening the way in Jesus' authority for all the power of Holy Spirit to change people's lives and circumstances. It has greatly empowered me!! Such a joyful thing to do, speaking God's blessing and desire into people's lives and circumstances.
Then, my friend came home from Western Australia with your little book and I couldn't put it down, re-reading it and re-reading it, and keeping it close. Everything so simply pulled together. Easy to read and take hold of. THANK YOU!!
I am looking to pass this Truth on to family and friends and would like to purchase more.
Leslie
Rapid Results
My husband and I have enjoyed reading your book “The Awesome Power of blessing.”
We only started reading it two days ago and started blessing ourselves and others with astonishingly rapid results. We have decided to buy 20 copies to share with friends and family.
Madeleine
My husband and I have enjoyed reading your book “The Awesome Power of blessing.”
We only started reading it two days ago and started blessing ourselves and others with astonishingly rapid results. We have decided to buy 20 copies to share with friends and family.
Madeleine
This Non-Confrontational Book
I believe that your book is one of the most anointed and useful books for this generation as it provides a simple and very effective way to enable the average Christian to become activated under the anointing of the Holy Spirit in a completely non-confrontational (thus very effective) way.
John
I believe that your book is one of the most anointed and useful books for this generation as it provides a simple and very effective way to enable the average Christian to become activated under the anointing of the Holy Spirit in a completely non-confrontational (thus very effective) way.
John
Learning to Bless
I've just read your book, downloaded for free, thank you. (FREE PDF"s - see HOME page on website) - I loved it. It was recommended to me by a couple of ladies at church who have adopted the principles in your book. They have seen amazing results and suggested I read it.
I'd love to purchase 20 copies so that I may share it with others at church.
Rose
I've just read your book, downloaded for free, thank you. (FREE PDF"s - see HOME page on website) - I loved it. It was recommended to me by a couple of ladies at church who have adopted the principles in your book. They have seen amazing results and suggested I read it.
I'd love to purchase 20 copies so that I may share it with others at church.
Rose
Changing
I have just finished reading your amazing book The Awesome Power of Blessing and am feeling really inspired and challenged to change my way of praying.
Helen
I have just finished reading your amazing book The Awesome Power of Blessing and am feeling really inspired and challenged to change my way of praying.
Helen
There's Another Way
I read your book and it is a great blessing for my husband and me. We try to speak blessing instead of thinking and speaking negatively. Thanks for sharing your experience with us through the book. I would like to give the book to others too.
Amy
I read your book and it is a great blessing for my husband and me. We try to speak blessing instead of thinking and speaking negatively. Thanks for sharing your experience with us through the book. I would like to give the book to others too.
Amy
This Book is a Blessing Given to East Africa
You are a blessing to East Africa. All 10,000 books have been distributed to people in parts of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Eastern Congo and there is still a huge demand for more books.
Some people have given me their testimonies of how they have applied the principles from the book to their situations and how God has moved to bring the blessing and that really encourages me. One pastor tells me that he often grumbled because of the small offering the congregation gave on Sundays but when he started blessing the congregation with regards to their income, the offering has increased and the small congregation is now growing bigger.
One woman whose husband has been a drunk kept cursing him when he came home late and dead drunk. She says that when she read the book and started having a different perspective of her husband, she begun to bless him to be what God intended for him. Now the husband doesn't drink as much as he used to and he quite often comes home early. The quarreling has stopped and she praises the Lord for honouring the blessing she has been speaking to her husband.
A few people told me they will write to you to say how the book has blessed them. I wonder if they have done so.
I look forward to seeing you in Kenya in November/ December for the Generals.
Blessings to you.
Bishop Michael (Kenya)
You are a blessing to East Africa. All 10,000 books have been distributed to people in parts of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Eastern Congo and there is still a huge demand for more books.
Some people have given me their testimonies of how they have applied the principles from the book to their situations and how God has moved to bring the blessing and that really encourages me. One pastor tells me that he often grumbled because of the small offering the congregation gave on Sundays but when he started blessing the congregation with regards to their income, the offering has increased and the small congregation is now growing bigger.
One woman whose husband has been a drunk kept cursing him when he came home late and dead drunk. She says that when she read the book and started having a different perspective of her husband, she begun to bless him to be what God intended for him. Now the husband doesn't drink as much as he used to and he quite often comes home early. The quarreling has stopped and she praises the Lord for honouring the blessing she has been speaking to her husband.
A few people told me they will write to you to say how the book has blessed them. I wonder if they have done so.
I look forward to seeing you in Kenya in November/ December for the Generals.
Blessings to you.
Bishop Michael (Kenya)
How Two People Have Used Blessing in Their Daily Lives
Wanted to give you some feed back on a couple of discussions I have had with people.
A good friend of mine explained that she was given your book and was so impressed she has got her group of 26 working women to use it as a study tool and encouraged them to step out and operate in the gift of blessing. The group are due to report back to her next week on how that has gone.
The second discussion was with a school teacher who was struggling with kids from low income families often without fathers and who created havoc in his classroom. He had been absolutely amazed at the turn around as he has applied the principles. He uses it at home and his children won't leave home without their blessing for the day.
I asked how the blessing was done - en masse, face to face or before the class arrived, and was it once only or ongoing?
The answer: He does it ongoingly before the class arrives. He is very conscious of employer's attitude to anything Christian so does it via the throne room of God as opposed to one-on-one or en masse to the class.
John
Wanted to give you some feed back on a couple of discussions I have had with people.
A good friend of mine explained that she was given your book and was so impressed she has got her group of 26 working women to use it as a study tool and encouraged them to step out and operate in the gift of blessing. The group are due to report back to her next week on how that has gone.
The second discussion was with a school teacher who was struggling with kids from low income families often without fathers and who created havoc in his classroom. He had been absolutely amazed at the turn around as he has applied the principles. He uses it at home and his children won't leave home without their blessing for the day.
I asked how the blessing was done - en masse, face to face or before the class arrived, and was it once only or ongoing?
The answer: He does it ongoingly before the class arrives. He is very conscious of employer's attitude to anything Christian so does it via the throne room of God as opposed to one-on-one or en masse to the class.
John
'All the Clobber' Strangles Truth
Just want to say a sincere thank you for coming to our church and blessing us mightily with both your gentle spirit and the awesome lesson shared with us.
Lesson learnt - Blessing is SO easy without all the ‘clobber’ that so many of us seem to get caught up in, ‘strangling’ the truth and thereby the full potential of blessing.
At our Home Group meeting last night we were still all ‘buzzing’ from Sunday as we discussed and shared what we each learnt and grew from. I bless you heaps in the name of Jesus.
Judi
Just want to say a sincere thank you for coming to our church and blessing us mightily with both your gentle spirit and the awesome lesson shared with us.
Lesson learnt - Blessing is SO easy without all the ‘clobber’ that so many of us seem to get caught up in, ‘strangling’ the truth and thereby the full potential of blessing.
At our Home Group meeting last night we were still all ‘buzzing’ from Sunday as we discussed and shared what we each learnt and grew from. I bless you heaps in the name of Jesus.
Judi
Opened up a New Way to Bless
I went to a seminar last weekend and I was given your book, The Awesome Power of Blessing. Since reading your book I feel a fire inside to want to bless people . In fact, it has been running through my head all the time and its opened up a new way to bless people and the Lord. I wonder if I could have another book to share with a friend who I know would appreciate it too. I met with my prayer partner on Tuesday and we did what you said. We blessed each other and prophesied over one another. We are going to continue to share our blessings with others.
I bless you Richard in the name of Jesus , may your book bring awesome blessings to others who read it.
Valerie
I went to a seminar last weekend and I was given your book, The Awesome Power of Blessing. Since reading your book I feel a fire inside to want to bless people . In fact, it has been running through my head all the time and its opened up a new way to bless people and the Lord. I wonder if I could have another book to share with a friend who I know would appreciate it too. I met with my prayer partner on Tuesday and we did what you said. We blessed each other and prophesied over one another. We are going to continue to share our blessings with others.
I bless you Richard in the name of Jesus , may your book bring awesome blessings to others who read it.
Valerie
True Blessing, Spoken over Someone Describes the Way God Sees Them
I was given a copy of your small book, “The Awesome Power of Blessing” by my sister, just a few days ago, while visiting her in Auckland. Having some spare minutes up my sleeve I decided to have a bit of a “man” read through. I liked what I was reading and after about 10 minutes or so put the book down and carried on with my day. Later in the evening my wife, sister, and I talked about the book and thoroughly agreed on what you had written.
The following evening, my wife and I were driving back to Tauranga and pulled into the Autobahn just past Papakura to pick up a coffee. I had just gotten out of the car when a scruffy-looking guy in his mid-twenties called out to me and asked if I could give him some money so that he could put some petrol in his car in order to drive home. Without thinking I said to him “Okay, go over to the pump and put some petrol in your car and I will go inside and pay the guy on the till.” He said, “How much shall I put in?” To which I replied (the words just came out of my mouth), “Fill it up.” The young man sort of protested, but I repeated my instruction to “just fill it up.”
He thanked me and was about to drive his car over to the pump when another guy came out from the service station shop, came over to the young man, handed him $10.00 and said, “That’s all I can spare.” The young guy thanked him, looked at me and said, “Put that towards paying for the petrol I’m going to put into the car.”
I then said to him, “No, he has given that $10.00 to you, so you keep it and go and fill up your car.” He was a bit taken aback at what I had said, but then got into his car and amid more thanks drove over to the pump. I then went inside the station to wait for the amount to be registered so that I could pay for the petrol.
However, the guy having driven over to the pump, then got out of his car, went over to where my wife was standing, gave her a big hug and thanked her for the petrol. Then he came into where I was waiting and as he stood there the guy behind the counter started shouting at him to get out. He then went on to accuse him of begging for money around the petrol station and said that if he did not clear off he would phone the police. Everyone in the petrol station shop could easily hear this guy berating the young man and I reckoned what he was saying was probably true. The young man protested his innocence, but after a further tirade from the guy behind the counter he decided to head back to his car.
Understandably, because I was standing between the guy behind the counter and the young man, I was a bit stunned by what had just happened, so I then said to the guy behind the counter that I wanted $40.00 in cash via my credit card, which he then gave me, and I then went back outside. I walked over to the young guy, who was standing by his car, and said to him, “I don’t need to know what that was all about, I just want to bless you,” and gave him the $40.00. He thanked me and I went back to my car and drove off. As we continued our journey back to Tauranga, my wife and I praised the Lord for having us bless that young man.
The little bit of your book that I did read included the words: “Don’t judge. Don’t judge whether someone deserves a blessing or not. True blessing, spoken over someone or something, describes the way God sees them. God’s focus is not on how they may appear to be at the moment, but rather the way they are supposed to be.” That was the bit that was going through my mind/heart the whole time I was involved with this scruffy, young man. It was as though I was not - in and of myself - determining what I was doing, although I felt empowered to do it. As a result of that experience my wife and I have shared with our family of believers back here in Tauranga the awesome power of blessing we had experienced and they each now want a copy of the booklet to read for themselves. Can’t say I blame them, can you?
I figure I am going to need about ten of these booklets to meet immediate demands so having this morning discovered your email address in the back of the booklet here I am with my testimony on how the Lord has blessed me through what you have written, asking how I can order 10 copies and how to make payment for same.
Bless you Richard.
Colin
I was given a copy of your small book, “The Awesome Power of Blessing” by my sister, just a few days ago, while visiting her in Auckland. Having some spare minutes up my sleeve I decided to have a bit of a “man” read through. I liked what I was reading and after about 10 minutes or so put the book down and carried on with my day. Later in the evening my wife, sister, and I talked about the book and thoroughly agreed on what you had written.
The following evening, my wife and I were driving back to Tauranga and pulled into the Autobahn just past Papakura to pick up a coffee. I had just gotten out of the car when a scruffy-looking guy in his mid-twenties called out to me and asked if I could give him some money so that he could put some petrol in his car in order to drive home. Without thinking I said to him “Okay, go over to the pump and put some petrol in your car and I will go inside and pay the guy on the till.” He said, “How much shall I put in?” To which I replied (the words just came out of my mouth), “Fill it up.” The young man sort of protested, but I repeated my instruction to “just fill it up.”
He thanked me and was about to drive his car over to the pump when another guy came out from the service station shop, came over to the young man, handed him $10.00 and said, “That’s all I can spare.” The young guy thanked him, looked at me and said, “Put that towards paying for the petrol I’m going to put into the car.”
I then said to him, “No, he has given that $10.00 to you, so you keep it and go and fill up your car.” He was a bit taken aback at what I had said, but then got into his car and amid more thanks drove over to the pump. I then went inside the station to wait for the amount to be registered so that I could pay for the petrol.
However, the guy having driven over to the pump, then got out of his car, went over to where my wife was standing, gave her a big hug and thanked her for the petrol. Then he came into where I was waiting and as he stood there the guy behind the counter started shouting at him to get out. He then went on to accuse him of begging for money around the petrol station and said that if he did not clear off he would phone the police. Everyone in the petrol station shop could easily hear this guy berating the young man and I reckoned what he was saying was probably true. The young man protested his innocence, but after a further tirade from the guy behind the counter he decided to head back to his car.
Understandably, because I was standing between the guy behind the counter and the young man, I was a bit stunned by what had just happened, so I then said to the guy behind the counter that I wanted $40.00 in cash via my credit card, which he then gave me, and I then went back outside. I walked over to the young guy, who was standing by his car, and said to him, “I don’t need to know what that was all about, I just want to bless you,” and gave him the $40.00. He thanked me and I went back to my car and drove off. As we continued our journey back to Tauranga, my wife and I praised the Lord for having us bless that young man.
The little bit of your book that I did read included the words: “Don’t judge. Don’t judge whether someone deserves a blessing or not. True blessing, spoken over someone or something, describes the way God sees them. God’s focus is not on how they may appear to be at the moment, but rather the way they are supposed to be.” That was the bit that was going through my mind/heart the whole time I was involved with this scruffy, young man. It was as though I was not - in and of myself - determining what I was doing, although I felt empowered to do it. As a result of that experience my wife and I have shared with our family of believers back here in Tauranga the awesome power of blessing we had experienced and they each now want a copy of the booklet to read for themselves. Can’t say I blame them, can you?
I figure I am going to need about ten of these booklets to meet immediate demands so having this morning discovered your email address in the back of the booklet here I am with my testimony on how the Lord has blessed me through what you have written, asking how I can order 10 copies and how to make payment for same.
Bless you Richard.
Colin
Blessing Others has Changed My Life
I have never met you or heard you speak, but over the past few months I have been practicing the scriptural principle of speaking a blessing over people's lives. Our home group leader gave each of us a copy of your book and we read it and practiced on each other first, and then we have been looking for opportunities to speak a blessing over others in our day to day life.
At the end of your book you ask for feedback on how blessing has transformed your life. Attached is a copy of 3 pages of my journal in which I have documented an amazing day with the Lord, a day on which I look back on as "5 blessings in one day."
The day starts with blessing a sick dog, and it was like the Lord led me step-by-step through the morning in increasing steps of obedience until the final step which required boldness. The Lord led me to go up to a couple in their car, knock on their window and offer to bless them. Complete 'cold calling,' so to speak, without even building up relationship with a brief chat first.
It is hard to explain how blessing has transformed my life. In my brief experience so far, no person has turned down a blessing - even the Muslim man. Offering to pray a blessing over a person's life opens a door.....it is such a simple non-threatening way to bring the Kingdom of God into a situation ...into a person's life. For me, being able to pray a blessing has added a very special tool to the tool kit... it's like a part of my life was missing and has now been slotted into place.
May God bless you richly as you continue to serve Him.
Sandi
I have never met you or heard you speak, but over the past few months I have been practicing the scriptural principle of speaking a blessing over people's lives. Our home group leader gave each of us a copy of your book and we read it and practiced on each other first, and then we have been looking for opportunities to speak a blessing over others in our day to day life.
At the end of your book you ask for feedback on how blessing has transformed your life. Attached is a copy of 3 pages of my journal in which I have documented an amazing day with the Lord, a day on which I look back on as "5 blessings in one day."
The day starts with blessing a sick dog, and it was like the Lord led me step-by-step through the morning in increasing steps of obedience until the final step which required boldness. The Lord led me to go up to a couple in their car, knock on their window and offer to bless them. Complete 'cold calling,' so to speak, without even building up relationship with a brief chat first.
It is hard to explain how blessing has transformed my life. In my brief experience so far, no person has turned down a blessing - even the Muslim man. Offering to pray a blessing over a person's life opens a door.....it is such a simple non-threatening way to bring the Kingdom of God into a situation ...into a person's life. For me, being able to pray a blessing has added a very special tool to the tool kit... it's like a part of my life was missing and has now been slotted into place.
May God bless you richly as you continue to serve Him.
Sandi
Salty and Muscular Christianity
Reading your book has helped solve one of the main spiritual issues I faced. The thorny problem of how to stay close to God.
When I realised that I was empowered to bless, I felt able to grasp hold of a force that kept the Lord in my mind, and the issues I faced and the distractions of the world were not intruding to the extent that God was forgotten. I have by no means won the battle for total spiritual awareness, but I am sure that it is one I can fight with more vigour because I am blessed by God’s love and He in turn permits me to bless others.
I know too by the enthusiastic response I have had when speaking about your book to others that this is not my experience alone.
My blessings to you, as the author of an empowering little book.
Thank you in particular for your message. We saw it as salty and muscular Christianity – in that its practical, day to day application is all around each one of us.
Mike
Reading your book has helped solve one of the main spiritual issues I faced. The thorny problem of how to stay close to God.
When I realised that I was empowered to bless, I felt able to grasp hold of a force that kept the Lord in my mind, and the issues I faced and the distractions of the world were not intruding to the extent that God was forgotten. I have by no means won the battle for total spiritual awareness, but I am sure that it is one I can fight with more vigour because I am blessed by God’s love and He in turn permits me to bless others.
I know too by the enthusiastic response I have had when speaking about your book to others that this is not my experience alone.
My blessings to you, as the author of an empowering little book.
Thank you in particular for your message. We saw it as salty and muscular Christianity – in that its practical, day to day application is all around each one of us.
Mike
Blessing Instead of Complaining
I was given your book by someone who went to Promise Keepers and I have started blessing people and situations instead of complaining. It feels so much better, if anything, to know that I am speaking good into the situation.
I have a group of ladies who meet once a week and would like to get some books for them. Please tell me where I can get some more? Click here
Paula
I was given your book by someone who went to Promise Keepers and I have started blessing people and situations instead of complaining. It feels so much better, if anything, to know that I am speaking good into the situation.
I have a group of ladies who meet once a week and would like to get some books for them. Please tell me where I can get some more? Click here
Paula
Learning About Blessing Myself
My husband brought home your book from Promise Keepers in Wellington. Wow! Your book is fantastic! Your book is Awesome!! We love it and we're doing it. Your book has taught me about blessing myself, not asking God to do it. I love the teaching about blessing yourself and your body and getting healing that way. Talking to my body and thanking it for doing its job.
We have been putting it into practice and using it in our Life group that meets in our house. Your book has been loaned out, but we would love more copies.
Valerie
My husband brought home your book from Promise Keepers in Wellington. Wow! Your book is fantastic! Your book is Awesome!! We love it and we're doing it. Your book has taught me about blessing myself, not asking God to do it. I love the teaching about blessing yourself and your body and getting healing that way. Talking to my body and thanking it for doing its job.
We have been putting it into practice and using it in our Life group that meets in our house. Your book has been loaned out, but we would love more copies.
Valerie
Praying this Way has Changed Me
I go to the ……… Community Church and various ones have already begun blessing in this way and they haven't even read your book yet! The thing that I have noticed is that it has changed me. I can't bless people who have irritated me, for example, and then speak or even think wrong thoughts about them. That would be wrong. Instead I am looking for good results to come from the blessing. Also, it makes praying so much easier somehow. When you bless the plans God has for a person's life, you couldn't pray a more wonderful prayer. It is very exciting. Thank you for writing this book.
I bless you and the plans God has for this book.
Jillian
I go to the ……… Community Church and various ones have already begun blessing in this way and they haven't even read your book yet! The thing that I have noticed is that it has changed me. I can't bless people who have irritated me, for example, and then speak or even think wrong thoughts about them. That would be wrong. Instead I am looking for good results to come from the blessing. Also, it makes praying so much easier somehow. When you bless the plans God has for a person's life, you couldn't pray a more wonderful prayer. It is very exciting. Thank you for writing this book.
I bless you and the plans God has for this book.
Jillian
Opened a New Path for Me
Wow! Your book is written in very simple language but sooo powerful it will have impact in people’s lives. We read many books but your book about blessing covers everything. I listen to many preachers but “The Awesome Power of Blessing” makes me think and speak and bless people in a different way. It opened a new path in my life really. I speak blessing every day and it works.
Prakashni
Wow! Your book is written in very simple language but sooo powerful it will have impact in people’s lives. We read many books but your book about blessing covers everything. I listen to many preachers but “The Awesome Power of Blessing” makes me think and speak and bless people in a different way. It opened a new path in my life really. I speak blessing every day and it works.
Prakashni
Blessing Each Household, Each Letterbox
Sincere thanks for sending the order for the books which arrived today.
I heard about the book through my wife and friends at an event a few weeks ago. One of those friends took action by walking around his neighbourhood praying a blessing on each household as he passed by and anointing the letterbox with oil as he passed. In just a couple of weeks he has had a number of opportunities to engage with neighbours in ways that had never happened before.
Paul
Sincere thanks for sending the order for the books which arrived today.
I heard about the book through my wife and friends at an event a few weeks ago. One of those friends took action by walking around his neighbourhood praying a blessing on each household as he passed by and anointing the letterbox with oil as he passed. In just a couple of weeks he has had a number of opportunities to engage with neighbours in ways that had never happened before.
Paul