The Power to Bless: How to Speak Life and Empower the People You Love

Blessed people flourish by a power that transcends human talent or hard work--a mystical grace empowers them to be joyful and fruitful. But does it ever feel like others are blessed while you're stuck?With honesty and warmth, Alan Wright shares his inspiring journey from craving blessing to living the blessed life. The absence of his father's affirmation left him struggling for years with symptoms of the unblessed life: shame, pretense, and drift. But when he grasped the most powerful blessing in the Old Testament--the mysterious, ancient blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh--he learned how to receive blessing and how to bless the lives of his loved ones. And you can too.With biblical insight and practical wisdom, The Power to Bless shows you how to craft a positive, faith-filled blessing. By learning a few simple, biblical skills for imparting life-changing blessings, you'll be more spiritually blessed than you'd ever imagined, and you'll be equipped with the power to bless the people you love.From the Inside FlapAlan Wright is the lead pastor of Reynolda Church in North Carolina, a four-time author, a popular conference speaker, and the host of a daily thirty-minute radio program syndicated on more than four hundred stations, which encourages listeners through the good news of the gospel. The blessed life can be yoursEver feel like something's holding you back, as if you lack an important key that could change everything? Is there someone you love who seems stuck? You'd like to help them, but how? What's missing?Blessing. We all need a positive, faith-filled vision spoken over our lives.Blessed people flourish by a power that transcends human talent or hard work. Their lives aren't shaped by shame or strife but by deep, inward security that fuels joy and fruitfulness.With honesty and warmth, Alan Wright shares his inspiring journey from craving blessing to living the blessed life. The absence of his father's affirmation left him striving to prove his worth until he grasped the most powerful blessing in the Old Testament. In the mysterious, ancient blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh, he learned how to receive blessing and how to impart it to others.You can too!With biblical insight and practical wisdom, The Power to Bless shows you how to craft a positive, faith-filled blessing. By learning a few simple, biblical skills for imparting life-changing blessings, you'll be more spiritually blessed than you'd ever imagined, and you'll be equipped with the power to bless the people you love.From the Back Cover"If you want to change words of death to words of life, this book will help."--from the foreword by Gary Chapman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages"Blessing isn't a reward for productivity but the fuel for it. This book will not only inspire you but give practical instructions to speak a blessing over others. I recommend it!"--Eric Metaxas, #1 New York Times bestselling author; host of the nationally syndicated The Eric Metaxas Radio Show"What a wonderful and refreshing book! If you've ever struggled with shame, pretense, loneliness, or drift (and I do), get ready to be blessed and to bless others."--Steve Brown, radio teacher; seminary professor; author of numerous books, including Talk the Walk"I'm thrilled that Alan Wright is putting this great truth of blessing in the context of the gospel. Understanding the privilege we're given to put words to the truth of Jesus's finished work is so life-giving."--Dudley Hall, popular conference speaker; author of numerous books, including Grace Works"In a season when so many people crave life-giving words, Alan's book is a call to speak blessing and watch as lives change."--Josh Surratt, lead pastor, Seacoast Church, Mount Pleasant, SC"Every spouse, parent, teacher, boss, and coach needs to read this book."--Stu Epperson Jr., author of Last Words of Jesus; president and host, The Truth NetworkAbout the Author