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Jacob: Rebuilt Genesis 32. Jacob Rebuilt. A desperate need (32:3-8). Lesson #1 You see God most clearly in your moments of greatest need. Jacob Rebuilt. A desperate need (32:3-8) A prayer & a plan (32 :9-20). Lesson #2 Prayer and planning are not mutually exclusive. James 4: 13-15
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Jacob: Rebuilt Genesis 32
Jacob Rebuilt • A desperate need (32:3-8)
Lesson #1 You see God most clearly in your moments of greatest need
Jacob Rebuilt • A desperate need (32:3-8) • A prayer & a plan (32:9-20)
Lesson #2 Prayer and planning are not mutually exclusive
James 4:13-15 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
Jacob Rebuilt • A desperate need (32:3-8) • A prayer & a plan (32:9-20) • An unexpected encounter (32:24)
Jacob Rebuilt • A desperate need (32:3-8) • A prayer & a plan (32:9-20) • An unexpected encounter (32:24)
Lesson #3 Too many of us spend our lives wrestling with the wrong people
“There is a God shaped vacuum in every human’s heart that cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God through His Son Jesus Christ.” Blaise Pascal
“You have made us restless until we find our rest in You.” Augustine
Jacob Rebuilt • A desperate need (32:3-8) • A prayer & a plan (32:9-20) • An unexpected encounter (32:24) • A debilitating touch (32:25-26)
Lesson #4 For God to fix the unfixable in your life, you must cling and plead
Jacob Rebuilt • A desperate need (32:3-8) • A prayer & a plan (32:9-20) • An unexpected encounter (32:24) • A debilitating touch (32:25-26) • A new name for a new man (32:27-31)
Lesson #5 Who you were in the past does NOT DEFINE who you’ll be in the future because God can give you a new name
Lesson #6 To receive a new name, meet God in His weakness
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Jacob Rebuilt • A desperate need (32:3-8) • A prayer & a plan (32:9-20) • An unexpected encounter (32:24) • A debilitating touch (32:25-26) • A new name for a new man (32:27-31)
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