Genesis
Week 8 - Wrestle
October 29th, 2023
Pastor Kyle Johnson
Genesis 32:22-32
Often, we
When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you. Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran. Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides. —Genesis 27:42-44 (NIV)
But is
You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength, yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me. —Genesis 31:6-7 (NIV)
God still had a
Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.” —Genesis 31:3 (NIV)
That doesn’t mean its
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. —Genesis 32:24 (NIV)
And wrestle
Reasons we wrestle
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This wrestling
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.” —Genesis 32:28 (NIV)
Ultimately, “I will not
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Notes:
Discussion Questions:
Why do so many people run from their problems? How much success does this get them?
What do you tend to struggle most with; past, present or future? How so?
Read Genesis 32:24. Talk about the importance of wrestle just with God over things? How does this help? How does this leave us really, not “alone”?
What would it look like for you, this week, to wrestle with God with the struggles with your past, present or future? What time are you going to set aside to do this?