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The Family Blessing Guidebook
This is not a self-help book.
This is a book that unlocks a forgotten talent that you can use in every one of your important relationships.
The practice of Family Blessing has been proven over centuries especially in the Jewish culture. Today it has largely been lost or never learned.
We have devoted years to learning and applying blessing to our relationships with children, family, friends and even in our business life. We have tested this teaching in many different countries, cultures and languages on five separate continents. We know it works.
The Bible has been our guidebook in principle and practice but we believe that Family Blessing is applicable to people of all faiths.
While this book does not contain everything we teach, it does contain everything we think you need to know in order to give and receive family blessings at every stage of life.
In it there is something for your HEAD, for your HEART and for your HAND.
Our goal is to help you understand the power, to recover your missed blessings and to learn how to give blessings to others.
Section ONE gets straight to the point. It explains what Family Blessing is and why it matters in your life.
Section TWO goes for the heart. It uses the power of stories to paint a clear picture of what Family Blessing looks like at every stage of life and how to recover the blessings you have missed along the way.
Section THREE shows you how to apply blessing to your important relationships. The appendices put the tools in your hands.
We encourage you to read the whole book for this reason:
“You can’t give what you haven’t received!”
By taking the time to read through all the stages you will discover which blessings may still be missing from your life. Learning how to receive blessings you have missed, will increase your effectiveness when you bless others.
May the eyes of your heart be enlightened as you read these pages
May you receive every blessing that you need and desire.
May you be inspired to bless others with deliberate words and actions.
Terry & Melissa Bone
This is a book that unlocks a forgotten talent that you can use in every one of your important relationships.
The practice of Family Blessing has been proven over centuries especially in the Jewish culture. Today it has largely been lost or never learned.
We have devoted years to learning and applying blessing to our relationships with children, family, friends and even in our business life. We have tested this teaching in many different countries, cultures and languages on five separate continents. We know it works.
The Bible has been our guidebook in principle and practice but we believe that Family Blessing is applicable to people of all faiths.
While this book does not contain everything we teach, it does contain everything we think you need to know in order to give and receive family blessings at every stage of life.
In it there is something for your HEAD, for your HEART and for your HAND.
Our goal is to help you understand the power, to recover your missed blessings and to learn how to give blessings to others.
Section ONE gets straight to the point. It explains what Family Blessing is and why it matters in your life.
Section TWO goes for the heart. It uses the power of stories to paint a clear picture of what Family Blessing looks like at every stage of life and how to recover the blessings you have missed along the way.
Section THREE shows you how to apply blessing to your important relationships. The appendices put the tools in your hands.
We encourage you to read the whole book for this reason:
“You can’t give what you haven’t received!”
By taking the time to read through all the stages you will discover which blessings may still be missing from your life. Learning how to receive blessings you have missed, will increase your effectiveness when you bless others.
May the eyes of your heart be enlightened as you read these pages
May you receive every blessing that you need and desire.
May you be inspired to bless others with deliberate words and actions.
Terry & Melissa Bone
180 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 10, 2012
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October 29, 2025
This book while I’m sure had great intentions when written, leaves so much room for guilt and legalistic pressure to do something that I don’t see as biblical. Yes, God can provide blessings and does and says he has blessings in store for us, but that is up to God what they are, how they come about and when they show up whether we receive them on earth or in heaven.
Too many thoughts to put into one review but overall, I feel this book represent the biblical aspect of blessings incorrectly. Also it uses fear and guilt as a way to convince you that doing it this way and ensuring blessings happen will be the only way your family heals from or is prevented from trauma or hurt.
I also found parts of this book contradicted itself by saying that these blessings are a requirement for your children in order to have keep them from hurt but continuing to say “even a blessed child can’t be protected from making their own choices in life and may end up walking away from faith.” Therefore loosing the power of the blessing because free will is a thing and it’s God who decides our blessings, even if we say we bless someone, God is the ultimate deciding factor.
Saying “I bless you in…” and attaching Gods name to it does not mean that thing will happen.
Saying blessings and claiming them to be powerful but that they’re also not prayer feels backwards. We should praying blessings. And humble asking for God to give them while also respecting that he may choose to do so in a way that doesn’t make sense to us.
The amount of points that were made and verses pulled out of context to prove those points was disappointing. We cannot cherry pick just to make a point that’s not how the Bible works. Instead we should be teaching how to read the Bible for all it’s worth and applying it to our lives so we can see and know our full value in God - not seeking after human approval and affirmation.
Too many thoughts to put into one review but overall, I feel this book represent the biblical aspect of blessings incorrectly. Also it uses fear and guilt as a way to convince you that doing it this way and ensuring blessings happen will be the only way your family heals from or is prevented from trauma or hurt.
I also found parts of this book contradicted itself by saying that these blessings are a requirement for your children in order to have keep them from hurt but continuing to say “even a blessed child can’t be protected from making their own choices in life and may end up walking away from faith.” Therefore loosing the power of the blessing because free will is a thing and it’s God who decides our blessings, even if we say we bless someone, God is the ultimate deciding factor.
Saying “I bless you in…” and attaching Gods name to it does not mean that thing will happen.
Saying blessings and claiming them to be powerful but that they’re also not prayer feels backwards. We should praying blessings. And humble asking for God to give them while also respecting that he may choose to do so in a way that doesn’t make sense to us.
The amount of points that were made and verses pulled out of context to prove those points was disappointing. We cannot cherry pick just to make a point that’s not how the Bible works. Instead we should be teaching how to read the Bible for all it’s worth and applying it to our lives so we can see and know our full value in God - not seeking after human approval and affirmation.
December 17, 2012
A truly amazing book that I feel everyone should read.
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