Pivotal Moments I'm Not Letting you Go until you bless me. (3)

Pivotal Moments

Jacob “I’m not letting go, until to you Bless Me!”

Gen. 32:22-31 “And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok. He took them, sent them over the brook, and sent over what he had. Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” So He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.” And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.” And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” Just as he crossed over”

Isaac prayed & pleaded because his wife was burden & barren God heard is prayer!!!

In Gen. 25:21 “Now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.”

Rebekah conceived, but felt conflict, controversy, contention, this contrast gave her concern because she felt a wrestling in her womb.

In Gen 25:22 She said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” She really saying is why am I feeling like this!!! I’m blessed but I feel stress. I’m Blessed but I’m stressed.

I got my breakthrough but I haven’t gotten over my been through. Maybe Rebekah is going through the depression of emotional connection. She feels a war in her womb, she began to pray about it.

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She intercede and God throughs her an interception about her conception.

Instead of telling her that she has two twin boys that will be ride or die for her.

She is told in Gen. 25:23-26 “And the Lord said to her: “Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; One people shall be stronger than the other, And the older shall serve the younger.” So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau. Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.”

Two Nations are in your womb,

Two people shall be separated from your body”

One people shall be stronger the the other,

And the older shall serve the younger.”

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Rachel understood what it meant to wrestle She wrestled with her sister Leah.

Don’t tell use what God told you to

Pivotal Moment : “Don’t Allow someone else Drama to become your Destiny.”

Jospeh and his dream!!

Jacob and his Moma’s Prayer

Issac love Esau

And Rebekah love Jacob

Essau was Rustic

Jacob was Refine

Esau was the Skilled Hunter

Jacob was the Souse Chef

Esau was Blunt

Jacob was Sharp

Esau was about the Now

Jacob was about the Later

Which leads us to another Pivotal Moment in the life of Jacob

Pivotal Moment “It is not yours for the taking, it is God’s for the Giving.”

Gen 25:29 The selling of the Birth Right

The Birthright represented the father’s authority and responsibilities

The Birthright represented the double portion of wealth of Inheritance

The Birthright represented the ability to succeed to the Throne

Jacob — Tricked Esau out of his Birthright

Esau despise his birthright

Esau disown his birthright

Esau disregard his birthright

Esau degraded his birthright

Don’t devalue your Birthright!!!

Because I’ve be Born - Again

Don’t devalue your Salvation

Gen. 27:22-24 “So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him. Then he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”” He lied to father to steal his brother blessing

Pivotal Moment “You cannot DECEIVE and RECEIVE God’s BLESSING”

The problem Is privilege “thinking that you deserve it”, when you didn’t earn it!!!

We have a problem in our culture with privilege,

Peggy McIntosh says that Privilege exist when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the group they belong to, rather than anything they’ve done or failed to do.”

Jacob already had the Destiny Defining Information, and he had the Birthright, but now he wants the Blessing!!! This is a pivotal moment he thinks he can Deceive and Receive God’s Blessing”.

This sit up in Church and talk about God knows my Heart!!!

Yes he does know your Heart

He knows what you’ve done Jacob

He knows your heart Jacob. He knows you treated your brother!!

Esau wants to Kill Jacob

Jacob runs to his uncle Laban.

On his way to Laban house

He has a Pivotal Moment: Gen 28:13-20

Pivotal Moment

God will be with you, Even when you not with him!!!

Gen. 28:16 “Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.””

Jacob is just like some of us we are a day late and dollar short!!!

The Lord is here and I did not know it!!!

He goes to Laban and see Rachel falls is Love

And works for 7 years

Pivotal Moment-

You will reap, What you Sowed!!!!

Laban tricks the Tricks him and gives him Leah

And he works another 7 years

Pivotal Moment- If he not will work to Get you, He won’t work to Keep you.

God bless him and he runs from Laban and goes back home.

He is life is filled with Running from to Running Back.

He then is on his way back home. Laban May the Lord Watch Between me and thee While absent from

He appears to have it together. He has cattle, two wives, children, and he is on his way to meet the brother Esau

He looks bless but he dealing with his own baggage

He want change but only God can Change him.

I said all that to get us here!!!

The Secret of Change is not to focus so much on the OLD that you forget to build on the NEW Socrates

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” – Peter Drucker

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” – Brene Brown

Pivotal Moment — He Encountered Angels

Gen. 32:1

Genesis 32:1 NKJV

So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Mahanaim. pronounced Ma ha Nime.

Esau was coming and Jacob was about to meet up with his forgotten past. Would Esau forgive him or fight him? Would Jacob lose everything he had schemed to acquire? Geography could not erase Jacob’s Guilty nor could twenty years of history change it.

God will give you confirmation that your headed in the right direction!!!!

Pivotal Moment- He encounter the Lord.

Keep in mind that Jacob was not wrestling to get a blessing from God; rather, he was defending himself and refusing to yield. The Lord wanted to break Jacob and bring him to the place where he would

All night long, Jacob defended himself and refused to surrender or even admit that he had sinned. Then God weakened Jacob, and The only thin he could do is Hold on!!!

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I won’t let you go until you bless me!!!

Pivotal Moment- He encountered himself vs. 27-32

God will not fix what you will not face.

We don’t truly see ourselves until first we see the Lord. “What is your name?” (v. 27, nkjv) was the question that forced Jacob to confess his true self—“Jacob, the schemer.” Once he faced himself and confessed his sin, Jacob could be changed. God gave him a new name—“Israel, prince with God” or “a God-governed man.” The way to have power with God is to be broken by

God. God also gave him a new beginning and a new power as he began “walking in the Spirit” and not in the flesh.

He is limpin but he is moving.