Genesis 30:25-43

ILL: Moving out… exciting. Then you have to worry about bills. Less exciting. Real life stuff. Bosses that are hard to work with. Coworkers working against you. makes you wonder how anyone gets anything done.

Big Idea: Because God's promises triumph despite opposition, we can build in this world.

FCF: There is much opposition to us. People. Satan. Bosses. Corrupt governments. cause us to despair. loose hope. - prosperity gospel..

how do we build?

Building Requires Ingenuity

Jacob out manuevers the deceiver

For us… all of life requires this king of ingenuity. Building a family… Counting change…. making the best of bad employment… we have to be creative to build in a broken world. This world works against you. Which is why it isn’t just creativity that is needed. But you need to take riskes too.

Building requires riks

Jacob risks by giving labanon the upper hand. how could he do this. because he trusts the Lrod.

Now am I saying that every risk will pay off? No. But in the end it will…

Building requires trusting the lord

Breeding thing… what’s happening here… ultimately This is God’s doing. But even in this God uses what jacob does and makes it work…Gjacob still had to do something. This is liek our work…oGod uses the silly things we do, and makes them fruitful

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We need to think like this in our world. We are away from home. But God is promises to setup his home on earth as it is in heaven… and he left us here to join him. How does God answer the Lord’s prayer? by using us… how does God answer jacobs desire to go home? By using his crazy methor

APP: where do you need to take riseks? Entrapranuer - swim out and grab hold… we cn do this because Christ goes before us. He makes us fruitful. And sometimes he doesn’t. Hti sisn’ the prosperity gospel. but this also isn’t the

what do i build and how do i do… build with what you have… find others who have already done it and ask them. you are not your own…