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you've been good to us great is your faithfulness it's because of your mercy why we're not consumed and lord god we humble ourself before you tonight asking that you forgive us of all our sins cleanse us of all our iniquity pardon us of all our transgression and wash us clean with your precious blood have your way in this bible study tonight lord god we're in need of your wisdom knowledge and understanding now pray lord jesus and as we're standing here that your word will cleanse us your word will wash us lord jesus that you draw us closer to you o god than ever before we bind satan tonight in the name of jesus we forbid him to operate in this place we lose the power of the holy ghost to take full control of this atmosphere now have your way lord jesus we bind every spirit of confusion and in jesus name we lose clarity in the house of god lord god almighty i pray that your word will go forth tonight and bring about salvation healing and deliverance and we give you all the glory honor and the praise in jesus name somebody ought to say amen clap your hands one more time to the lord amen god bless you you may be seated i see we've got some uh folks visiting with us tonight see a wonderful family back there amen god bless you clap your hands for that beautiful family amen we got another visitor sitting up here clap your hands for him amen appreciate all of you that are uh with us in the house of the lord tonight i want god to bless you we've been talking about uh jacob uh we've been dealing with jacob and dealing with what's going on in jacob's life and i want you to turn to genesis and chapter uh let's go to about 33. genesis chapter oh genesis 32 genesis 32 and hopefully we can get somewhere with with jacob tonight genesis chapter 32. all right if you found it say amen and genesis 32 is a pivotal chapter in scripture genesis 32 is pivotal and it's pivotal because uh in this chapter there's about to be a shift in the life of jacob that is going to affect destiny it's about to be a shift in his life that's going to affect destiny sometimes god will bring you to a place where everything is going to change there are some times that god will just bring you to a place and and a lot of times when things are about to shift in your life it is preceded by trouble lord lord lord amen you can almost say hey i might as well get ready for what's about to happen because when you see a whole lot of problems and a whole lot of trouble coming in your general direction god's trying to do a new thing in your life look i only got three y'all because y'all can't really receive that word right there that that word is not the most exciting thing to receive but can i tell you that god uses trouble to bring about transformation because sometimes if trouble doesn't come you won't move if trouble doesn't come you will stay complacent if you don't go through some foolishness sometimes you never pray look at you all looking cute i'm so glad it's just a few of y'all tonight that way i don't have to be scared of nobody praise god i'm gonna say it again y'all can't beat me up all at once amen i'ma say it one more time that god sometimes will allow some trouble to come in your general direction it's not because god doesn't love you but god uses that circumstance to bring about a brand new blessing a brand new miracle and a brand new level in your life because you should know this just in the natural course of life that nothing gets better without struggle i i remember going to the gym one time i've i've been there before i know i don't look like i've been there but i have been to the gym it's happened and at that time when i went there i noticed amen and you know i've been there more than once but don't tell nobody but i try not to i try not to shame myself too much but but you know been there more than once and i noticed so i went there amen and i caught myself having a trainer one time first of all trainers are expensive but i don't know why i'm talking like this tonight i'm trying to help somebody save money trainers trainers are expensive and they're miserable because you know when i go to the gym by myself i have a good time i go to the gym by myself there's not much exertion i do what i feel so you all don't want to talk right kind of you know working on my biceps today you know i curl a little bit when i'm by myself i curl a little bit amen curl a little bit right here praise god i heard something about working on triceps but i don't really know how they work so i won't bother with that amen they said something about squatting but my thighs hurt so won't be doing that thank you jesus tell me what i'm gonna do i'ma head over here amen to the massage chair because after all those bicep curls you know you need to recover i went to the gym with a trainer this joker you know i can't even call his name because he might be watching tonight this guy he says he's an armist collins so today we're working on legs i said i'm all for that i love chicken legs if we get them all together and and and we put a he said no no scott we're working on your legs i said god help us yep and he took me out there and he said all right first he took me to one machine that was designed for me to lay on my back and push stuff up i said this ain't the will of god for me this this this is not how my life i didn't envision my life looking like this when i was younger then he says you're going to push this this way and then he says i want you to do this and squat down here and stay there i want you to count count what and so the more the workout went on the less i liked him by the time we got done with that whole deal i totally despised the man totally despised him it was hard for me i mean i had to pray through just to work with him again but guess what i know working with him was better for me because he put me in struggle are y'all with me here you're not supposed to leave the gym with no pain at all i'm i wish some healthy people would talk back to me am i no what's this sir thank you thank god see god sent this man to help us tonight no pain the brother said no gain so in other words if you don't struggle nothing will be built up there there's no muscle coming without the struggle if there is no sweat i've been to the gym before and didn't sweat too much you know that's a bad sign i can't blame it on how cold the ac is it was a lack of effort so what god will do well i'm gonna help somebody tonight because you are called and because you are chosen what god will do because he loves you so much he will ensure that you are in the middle of some struggle so you can exercise certain things he wants you to exercise like prayer talk back to me somebody like learning how to praise god in spite of your circumstances like instead of just saying that word when it says i will bless the lord at all times and his praise continue to be in my mouth he'll put you in some craziness to see whether you're really going to bless the lord at all time talk back to me somebody anybody ever been broke and still had to give god the glory anybody ever been through some trial and still had to magnify god still had to give god the praise how about this i'ma help somebody tonight anybody ever been through something and praise god and found out that your praise went to another level and when you made it through on the other side you were praising him greater and better than you ever have that was a product talk to me somebody of struggle issues trial tribulation so in this particular instance jacob uh we're getting into here genesis 32 jacob had been through some things been through some trials and this chapter is pivotal because he's about to have a shift in his life and he's getting ready to face somebody that he deceived a long time ago life has a way of catching up with you somewhere did you know that what you sow you shall surely reap at some point and and and and don't you know sometimes you know people feel like they get away with stuff god is not blind just because god is merciful doesn't mean he's blind he knows exactly what you're doing and god is a god of justice thank god he's also a god of mercy now i can't tell you that he deals with you the way we deserve because god doesn't deal with us the way we deserve because if he dealt with us the way we deserve nobody would be in bible study tonight we would all be pushing up davey days and we'd be in the lake of fire on top of that well we'd be in hell waiting for the lake of fire hello god doesn't deal with us based on based on us because god's mercy endureth forever his loving kindness is extended toward us so even though he's a god of justice he tempers his justice with mercy so that instead of destroying you and bringing punitive judgment against you he brings corrective judgment so with his children he brings corrective judgment what is corrective judgment how many all in here got kids just wave your hands if you got kids that's a lot of parents that we have in here tonight how many parents love your children how many love them enough to punish them that's right you punish your kids because you love your kids oh lord i'm i'm have to read a scripture right here see if i can prove to you that god is a dad uh let's see look look looking looking in in hebrews real quick hebrews chapter 12 hebrews chapter 12 amen and we're going to begin in verse 5. hebrews chapter 12 beginning in verse 5. all right sister jessica if you got verse 5 just read until y'all want to hear this word tonight y'all want me to read this scripture you want me to skip over this part of the bible we're coming back to genesis read that for me sis and ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children you are children i don't care how grown you are when you come into the presence of god you just a child i've got five of y'all that said that because you know some folks so grown nobody can't tell them anything when you get into the presence of god you better humble yourself real fast you're not that old my grandma died she was 92 years old everybody was a boy to her if you were 60 boy talk back to me somebody if you were 70 she was still 22 years older than you boy everybody was a boy to her so what you gonna do with somebody who's who's been alive forever where do you fit in you're a toddler you're an infant you have diapers on as far as god's considered you're a child so you've forgotten the chase you forgot the exhortation which speaks to you as to children read my son my son despise not thou the chastening of the lord don't be upset when god punishes you nor faint when thou art rebuked of him hold on i felt a brick spirit a while ago say that stop start that verse again don't don't despise not despise not thou the chastening of the lord i'ma say it one more time don't be upset if god punishes you okay let's rephrase that look at your neighbor say neighbor oh neighbor god will punish you see some people believe that church is just is just free-for-all like burger king have it your way people believe that just because god is a god of grace that grace is a cheap salvation and you can just do whatever you want with god and and and treat god however we want to treat them y'all not talking to me well let's read it down despise not chasing the lord talk to me nor faint when thou art rebuked of him don't faint when you're rebuked of him keep going for whom the lord loveth read this whoever god loves he chasteneth he's going to punish you so if god loves you you're going to get a weapon at some point if you've never gotten a whooping from the lord you need to question whether god loves you or not the sign that god loves you is not just the blessing it is also the chastening talk to me somebody i love my kids i bless my kids but i also correct my kids and and my love is no less when i'm confiscating their iphone than when i'm giving them the iphone here you go little johnny god bless you merry christmas oh daddy i love you so much thank you thank you thank you thank you jumping around and and i'm the best person and then did you do your homework no hand over the phone it used to be that you needed to bring out a whooping no all you need to do today is confiscate the phone confiscating the phone is more devastating in this hour they're giving somebody a weapon you give somebody within chat children as long as i got my phone my heart will go on i'm good good but if you take this it's like death it's devastation folks start to fall out you might have to call somebody to restrain them they start acting like that that's a spirit you need you need to confiscate that phone indefinitely praise god they start acting like that something is wrong what you on this phone doing these are the questions we need to ask god will chase him read beloved and chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth scourgeth every son whom we receive keep going if you endure chastening yes god deal it with with you as with son so if you go through it god is dealing with you just like he's dealing with his children read for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not there's nobody that god is going no one is going to escape chastening from the lord at some point you're going to receive i've received it some of my chastening has been extended chastening so some folks are grounded for a day some folks for a week for a month and some are on an indefinite chastening talk to me somebody read but if ye be without chastisement yes whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons so you are illegitimate if you're never chasing phew wow so that means sometimes the stuff we blaming on the devil it was god i feel like bishop now i'm checking the mic sister kenisha can you hear me back there is anybody loud and clear amen i just wanted to make sure everybody can hear me all the way back we are blaming the devil for some stuff that god is doing this whooping right here god some stuff definitely devil how about this sometimes god lets the devil do some stuff wow because this is where it gets crazy because he loves you i know some of y'all saying i just don't know about all that pastor i mean when i was little my mom was talking about this gonna hurt me more than it hurt you as this woman was coming up she didn't look like she was in pain i was i was the one getting it yeah but if you don't love your children let them do what they want to do you don't love your children just let them do what they feel like doing like like like go ahead and let your children decide what gender they're going to be today or decide what time they're going to come home let me all ask you all a question how many all pay like mortgage or rent just wave your hand if you pay mortgage already now if you're paying the mortgage to rent at that particular location i'm just asking for a friend if if if you're paying the rent at that location doesn't everybody have to kind of obey whatever rules you i'm talking about if you spending the money now if you're not spending the money rock call with your bad self everybody can do what they want but if i'm spending the money if i tell you that you will be you shall surely be here at this particular time i don't care how grown you are you maybe i'm from i must be from like another era you know i used to feel like i was young and hip now i just feel like i have a hip and i'm old because i'm from a whole other era because i just feel like rules if i come home at this particular time you should come home and if if not well there's always other places where you can spend your money thank you jesus but you're living here you really have to follow the rules am i right about it if you don't love your children just let them do whatever they feel like doing go to wherever they feel like going hey mom going to the party tonight deuces oh no school night first of all in my house we're not going to well we go party is not what you want to use if you're asking my permission you want to rephrase that say well i'm going to the get together you have to come up with a different type of terminology you don't want to come at me with party because when i think party i think bacardi i think liquor talk to me something i think i think i mean i've been to real parties i don't know what kind of parties y'all go to the parties i went to folk were high and drunk these some sanctified parties folks got now i i don't know nothing about a sanctified party never been to one all the parties i've been to were not good so you want to say they're having a little birthday get together at at chili's we're going to a restaurant well praise god yeah don't don't just let your children do what they want because whoever if you love your children you chase them keep reading let's see this as i go into this go furthermore furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us we had fathered of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence and we respected them shall we not much rather be in subjection shouldn't we shouldn't if we did that for our earthly fathers doesn't it make more sense to give god reverence read shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirit yes and live and live keep going for they verily for a few days chasing at us after their own pleasure so your your parents they chasing you and it was still subjective because your parents were probably wrong on some of those weapons boy you missed that right there they came in and they were just upset and they thought you didn't wash something come on here or they thought something hey you know parents can be like that sometimes just wrong just come in mad start blaming it you come here what did you do i didn't do anything yes you did mama no i didn't yes you did but you think you can lie to me you think you can lie to me that's it and boom go right in and just wrong that's the context of this scripture that your parents chasing you for their own pleasure oh boy but read but he for our prophet but god is never wrong so if you get a chastening from god it is perfectly just it is perfectly right if god chastens you it is absolutely that i deserved it i can never look at god said no that whooping i got right there that was that was unfair you better put your put your hand and just say that right there that i got amen amen david said the law of the lord is perfect converse in converting the soul the testimony of the lord is sure making wise and simple the commandments of the lord are pure enlightening the eyes the statues of the lord are are right rejoicing the heart the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired than gold yay than much fine gold sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb moreover by them is thy servant warn and in keeping of them there is great reward so so with with with with god everything god does is right if god blesses you it's right if god chastens you it's right if he promotes you it's right if he demotes you it's right whatever god does is right the thing is we need to get our heart right to receive the rightness of god wow back to genesis we can stop there let's go back to genesis chapters all of that was a setup because jacob now is heading back and guess who he's about to run into esau and y'all remember how it worked out with esau first he got esau to sell him his birth right then second he stole esau's blessing thank you jesus so stole that blessing and so if you look in in in genesis you'll find out now that jacob is trying to make it right he knows that he he saw's a fairly dangerous person and so you know he prays from verse 9 genesis 32 verse 9 to 12 uh jacob is busy praying and and and so he sets up now after he prays he figures he has a plan so look at verse 13. look at look at what he sends to esau read and he lodged there that same night and keep reading and took of that which came to his hand a present for he saw his brother 200 she-goats and 20 he goats 200 ewes and 20 rams 30 milch camels with their colts 49 40 kind and 10 bulls 20 she asses and 10 fouls and he delivered them into the hand of his servants every drove by themselves and he said unto his servants pass over before me and put his face betwixt drove and drove and he commanded the foremost saying when esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee saying whose art thou and wither goest thou and whose are the are these before thee then thou shalt say they be thy servants jacob it is a present sent unto my lord esau and behold also he is behind us so so so jacob jacob's coming back to meet esau so jacob said you know what it's not good you know uh i'm probably going to die today might be the last day i'm on earth so jacob figures i want to hedge my bet i got to do something to kind of keep things going in the right direction so so what jacob does is he says i'm going to send esau a present and he just doesn't send him he just doesn't send him a watch you remember back in the day they used to have those watches cassio see i'm saying cassio you'll see nobody said amen because y'all gonna act like you never own any kind of watch that was off-brand but cassio or you know what you're trying to say we got a casio now sister for leader am i talking the wrong or you know there's some watches that are like ten dollars at walmart who's ever had a ten dollar walmart watch come on now tell the truth shame the devil went there got me attended it was good too amen i'm good with that it worked whoo i got real excited if it like said 50 meters water resistant man i thought i'd hit jackpot amen hunt you get to 100 meter water resistant man you know that you could tell somebody took a shower a lot because right where they wore their watch if they ever took that whole place is really light yeah and that's the kind of watches we used to buy this is not what jacob was sending to esau i needed to understand the context of what's going on here jacob is sending him a rolex give him this presidential rolex right here and let him know his brother said hi amen and after you give him the rolex uh you know give him this high-end gucci luggage and let him know i'm coming in that general direction talk to me somebody and then after that he said um yeah this particular shoes i don't even know what the really fancy shoes are for men but it's fancy alec whatever some animal-based shoes thank you jesus not just cow leather some something snakeish or alligator-ish give him that yep in other words jacob was trying to pacify esau financially and why was that because he robbed esau all of all of the stuff that he's giving to esau now it's almost like he's saying esau i realize you're supposed to be the number one and i took your position and the wealth that was supposed to be yours is mine so here shows you also how wealthy jacob was that he was able to give 200 uh qigoats and and this much camels and that much cows and i need this is valuable stuff in the context of the day and and he was still all right i showed you how much he had gathered over in laban's house he's coming out wealthy jacob is literally coming out in modern day terms a multi-millionaire and so he's able to like send a million dollar gift and say hey this is just for you just to let you know no beef we good how are things going no hard feelings don't shoot me that's basically what he's saying yeah and and so it shows that jacob is still relying on his own wit and his own ability to fix the problem i come with news for somebody tonight quit relying on your own strength and your own intellect to fix the problem because god puts you in some stuff that your mind can't wrap around if you could fix the problem you would think you were god god had to put you in some stuff sometime that you can't fix it doesn't matter what you come with doesn't matter how much presence you send doesn't matter how well you speak you will not be able to talk yourself out of it you can't buy yourself out of it you can't you can't do anything to get out of it only god can get you out i don't know who this is for tonight god is setting somebody up for a radical change in your life and that is why you have been going through all kind of crazy stuff you need to praise god in advance that something is about to happen that is why you've been dealing with some things i got a rhema word for somebody in this bible study right now i'm telling you god almighty has sent me here tonight to tell somebody that you've been set up for ano another level in god you're being set up for a promotion in the spirit things are happening to move you to a place where god can actually trust you with some stuff and he can't trust you as long as you think you got it figured out but he had to make it so bad that even when you brought all your phds together you couldn't figure it out all of your formidable intellect and strength all of all of what you think you know hey here's here's a new one what used to work for you normally that that's not even working now how about this people you used to call have you on block anyway y'all they know you oh hey didn't i block that number we sending that straight to voicemail see if you call somebody and you go straight to voicemail that means they just sent you the voicemail y'all missed that if you call somebody you go straight to voicemail they saw that and went quickly am i right turk they only want to talk they say straight to voicemail thank you for calling blah blah blah blah blah and if they really don't want you to know they sent you the voicemail they just let the phone ring in other words they don't want to talk and so the lord is cutting off you're ready for this god sometimes cuts off sources god sometimes cuts off things that you normally rely on whether emotionally or physically or finance whatever sometimes even spiritually because god wants you to learn how to know his voice for yourself i'm messing with somebody tonight because you always call mother such and such and you call mother this time and she said baby i ain't got nothing for you you go back you call mother i said mother and she said well you probably should pray about that that's her telling you you better call on jesus at some point you gonna have to learn how to call on jesus for yourself because you might be in a situation where you call and there is no one to answer talk to me here somebody call pastor i have no answers for you in this all i could let's pray what is my answer let's pray we're going to call on jesus i have no answers are y'all with me right here yeah and god did that god's doing this to jacob now jacob is thinking i'm gonna pay esau off i'm gonna work on this i'm gonna pay esau off i'm gonna do a little shocking and jiving like i normally do and maybe i can assuage the anger of my brother with my tributes the bible said he send over everybody across the river jabock and then something special happens in genesis 32 beginning in verse 24. i want you to read that for me sis and read all the way through go and jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day and when he saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of jacob's thigh was out of joint and he wrestled with him and he said let me go for the day breaketh and he said i will not let thee go except thou bless me and he said unto him what is thy name and he said jacob and he said thy name shall be called no more jacob but israel for as a prince has thou power with god and with men and has prevailed and jacob asked him and said tell me i pray thee thy name and he said wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name and he blessed him there and jacob called the name of the place pineal for i have seen god face to face and my life is preserved and as he passed over panul the sun rose upon him and he halted upon his thigh therefore the children of israel eat not of the sinu which shrank which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day because he touched the hollow of jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank come up here real quick turk if you could do me a favor just run up here real fast brother turk yeah i'm talking about you come on up here can you hear me touch him elder jefferson turk can you hear me son you come on up here yeah you you come on up here come on yeah you you you come on up here thank you jesus so he's like who me that's not turk it looked like turd no one of the man was wondering come on up here anyway he looked like turk from all the way up here come on up son praise god i thought that was brother turk in the back man this brother looked at me like who he said i couldn't be talking about me i'm talking about you come on worked out very well you going you're going to help me out tonight clap your hands for this man what's your first name sylvestone silverstone that don't sound like no turtle that's of a stone come up here ld i need your help praise god amen well i know it's you mask on somebody tell turk that i was calling for him tonight we watch the video amen so but stone you're gonna be jacob tonight god got a blessing for you there's sometimes when god got a blessing for you i want you to notice as we started to read it said he was left alone this is for somebody tonight what god's getting ready to do in your life nobody can go with you you're going to be by yourself because there are some levels where you have to be by yourself y'all not hearing what i'm saying left alone and out of nowhere comes a mysterious figure grab him and start wrestling just grabbers they're wrestling well this rest in here sylvester don't beat that man up cause that this if this angel is wrestling you that wrestling is so weak challenge the man there you go there you go this was going on all night they weren't smiling like they smiling now they weren't smiling but they were fighting so grab a hold of him just act like he's still there fighting and they're fighting all night fighting all night and it got to a place where they fought to a stalemate they fought to a stalemate which means nobody was moving they were locked in huh you ever seen those kind of fights where they're resting everybody's holding on for dear life they're grappling and holding on for dear life uh you know uh in military training for example they they actually do some of these uh little grappling matches and if you're in certain certain certain combat zones certain combat roles and you're learning how to fight and and sometimes amen people get tied up they're grappling and they get tied up that's what happened in the story jacob is wrestling with this mysterious figure who we find out later is an angel so he's fighting with something supernatural sometimes the opposition that you face is god's supernatural emissary and the wrestling uh the hebrew term there with the wrestling which is why it couldn't be cute wrestling the wrestling that was there it it meant to kick up dust so it meant that it was it was fierce it was violent it was radical dust was being kicked i mean they're rolling on the ground it's it's bad and i know you're thinking angels with wings this angel didn't have no wings he just showed up like a regular guy are y'all with me here and they're fighting and kicking up dust and it's a struggle and i need you to understand that the struggle that jacob was in here was actually symbolic of a struggle that he had to overcome something that was holding him back and jacob's biggest enemy was himself i wish i had somebody here can i just help somebody tonight that your biggest problem sometimes is not anybody else guess who our biggest problem is how many folks in here can wave your hands and say i've blocked myself before i've stopped myself from making progress before my lack of discipline has hindered me before something i should have conquered a long time ago i didn't conquer something god told me to let go i didn't let how many times have i been the one why i didn't get that promotion how about this how many look back over your life wish you could do two or three things different suppose you could get back all the money you wasted who in here would do that say lord lord i'll take that you give me back all the money that i've ever spent incorrectly every time i was a poor steward of time of energy of resources you ready who who who if you knew that math was going to be so important would you would you pay attention in high school praise god i don't need math really yeah think you don't it's coming up praise god if if there are some things you could have done differently you'd have done this quicker you'd had four or five degrees already that's thing about school for example you know uh if you go to school if you take one class that's three credits more than you had before and usually at the beginning of school it just looks like it's far like a degree just looks far away looks like it's far away and it but then you blink and you're walking across the stage am i right about it those of you that got it like man where did the almost wish you could get some of those years back it went so quick but when it's in front of you it just looks when i went to basic training it looked long and it's long while you're in it when you get to the other side i'm done you're you you know there's things that i've done in life to conquer that it just looks so insurmountable and if i look back now it really wasn't that bad stuff that looks bad in front of you in in hindsight was it really that bad no so if you knew then how about this if you knew then what you know now how many would have made some different decisions they're locked in lock up again because now now jacob has to overcome himself so the angel starts to try to pull away hold on to himself silverstone hold on to him ain't just trying to get away now grab him don't let him get away i don't care what he tries to do the angel says let me go for the daybreaks this young man said jacob said i will not let you go until you bless me y'all not talking back the angel just touched the hollow of his thigh boom when he touched it i want you to pretend like your foot just went out of joint but hold on to him even if you're falling down hold on to him just pretend like you're falling hold on to him there you go he's going down he can't stand up he's using the angel to stand up now you know i should have played that part silverstone come on now there you go don't be salty because i called you turk just play the play play the part amen that's it he's falling out and he's still holding on he's holding on for dear life he said i'm not gonna let you go until you bless me somebody in here needs to develop a mindset that you're not gonna come out of the presence of god until something changes somebody needs to develop a mindset that you're going to pray until something happens somebody needs to develop a mindset that something has to shift in my life it cannot stay the way it's been going you know you can't get no deliverance until you're sick and tired of being sick and tired that angel said all right you want a blessing i can bless you now he said what is what is your name he asked jacob what's your name and jacob said my name is jacob he said you will no more be called jacob but you will be called israel because as a prince you have power with god and men and you've prevailed are you hearing what i'm saying jacob meant supplanter jacob meant deceiver jacob spoke to what he used to be but when god does something new in your life he changes your name this is why the baptism in jesus name is so important because when you get baptized in jesus name it's a shift something new is happening in your life jacob now stand up jacob now the angels bless them stay right there sylvester god bless you angel did a good job amen you need to fight a little harder though amen thank you brother l.d so now before the battle he was jacob now when he when he gets up he's israel but but he has a limp now so now you got to walk like you got to live let's see if you can act that one out nah man see that right there that right there is that's a walkway swag that's a swag wall i said the walk with the lip that's right that's me you know my man doing the whole stroke no to do the limp you got to drag your leg like this right here you can't really walk right because there you go let's try it now drag it there you go son not much better less swag more limp god bless you clap your hands for sylvester good job a little coaching little directing my man will be a superstar praise god here it is the reason why he had to walk with this lymph node why is this limp necessary because the limp the fact that his leg is out of socket was a reminder of the encounter because now he had to learn it's not based on my strength anymore talk to me somebody now he has to say this thing is based on god's god's blessing and god's strength the only way i'm making it is by the grace of god i'm limping and the limp is a reminder that i have to depend on god there's a total dependence on god because when you're walking like this and you got that swag like my man threw out a while ago it's all good but i got money i got friends i got influence i got everything i need church what's that who needs that god god amen i'll see him sunday but when you get a limp from your encounter with god you remember every day as you're walking around the house i need god i need god y'all are not saying nothing i need god i need god going to work i need god and not only do you remember you ready everybody notices now you're walking with a limp say hey what happened to you hey i had an encounter see god god gonna do something so everybody knows that god brought you out of it y'all are not saying nothing so you have to give god the glory now say how you still standing god god the only reason i'm still alive is god i heard one preacher say that everywhere jacob went you knew he was there now because he left the trail y'all not saying they're walking through the sand so now there's something you can point to call a testimony so if it had not been for the lord who was on my side this was where y'all better y'all better shout hallelujah if god brought you through some stuff and yes you might be walking with a limp but that limp is a testament that god calls you to survive and that if it had not been for the lord who was on your side you would have been dead and gone furthermore that limp ensures that you will never be the same again because every time you try to go back to how you used to be that limp is going to remind you you can try to walk with a swag all you want you better get a stick praise god we we're not going to be doing we're not going to be doing what we used to do can't because god wants to remind you i have changed your name listen and the change of name actually was symbolic of a change of character a change of trajectory a change of destiny he was going one direction god said i'm putting you in this other direction so now he's israel you used to be a supplanter but now you're a prince that has power with god because god wants to see are you going to give up in the middle of this trial or are you going to hold on until he does something with you somebody need to stretch your hand i said lord change me in the middle of this whatever you're going through say god i want you to change me into whatever you want me to be whatever it is that you're trying to get me to be change me praise god so by the time we get to the next chapter and we're going to end here amen chapter 33 verse 1. read that sister jessica let's see if esau was in a good mood and jacob lifted up his eyes and looked yes and behold he saw cain yes and with him 400 men did you say four men 400. did you say he carried four brothers with him 400 400 men listen if somebody is riding into your general direction with 400 men sister felita said i'm out of there if somebody's riding your direction with 400 men something good is not happening 400. he's not coming with 400 men to throw you a feast this esau wasn't on his way to meet jacob said man who we this is wonderful 400 men i just have to bring 400 people to greet you one by one he's bringing 400 men because he's getting ready to try to kill somebody his deal was i'm about to what this is it esau probably been waiting for this moment for at least 20 years thank you yes ma'am that's exactly right she said she got a revelation right here she said god had to change him before he came absolutely right had to change him before he got with esau had to had to see see for your for where god is taking you lord help me tonight jesus the way you used to do things can't work and how you used to fight has to change you used to just be ignorant and fight now god wants you to be strategic y'all miss that you up here ready to cause you know like my sister over here ready to she throwing knuckles and you don't realize that the context of the battle has changed boy somebody missed that you're still fighting at this level and you don't realize that god has shifted you to this level and at this level we don't do what we did when we were at that level a lot boy oh boy oh boy oh boy when you left 20 years ago jacob you were broke had no children had no wives you're coming back you're a multi-millionaire and you got a clan with servants and we still acting like we back by the soup kettle thank you soup kettle warfare will not work here angelic warfare takes place over here something spiritual has to happen over here your strength won't work over here you need god over here you need here's here's what you need you need something called wisdom boy somebody lift your hand said god give me wisdom see you see if you get some wisdom you won't act the same way on your job you won't act the same way with your family i'm helping somebody right now if you get some wisdom you'll think differently you'll you'll you'll react differently to different stimuli different folks used to be able to say stuff and get you to get upset talk back to me somebody and get irritated you just run off at the mouth but when you get a little bit of wisdom you realize this thing is completely different now it doesn't matter what they say you can smile because you see something called the big picture i should put well i'm about ready to go back to my office see y'all looking at me that tone of voice now yeah cause you know we want to revert to you know like we were in high school you want to revert to high school you're using high school schoolyard tactics in boardrooms it's crazy you can't even move to a boardroom with a high school mentality i know i only got five of you right there you need wisdom for you need to be able to handle stuff the higher you go can i help somebody here the more god elevates you the more you have to be able to deal with conflict and remain calm under fire now if you can't if you can't handle somebody cutting you off on 75 i only got two of you right now you can't barely deal with what they do with you on the street you know you can't deal with a higher level of responsibility if your sister can pick up the phone and get you so mad that you almost lose your salvation you ready to put down jesus said and and ready to tell somebody off because you know the devil knows how to push your buttons and if he can still push your buttons he will push your buttons until the rapture what you need to do is get some holy ghost intestinal fortitude stand up and when the enemy push your button you stand there and go glory what a mighty god we serve they push another button hallelujah push another butt thank you jesus push another button you bust out in a dance now they wonder what we confused everybody's confused now why why are you shouting why are you happy why do you have joy because i got jesus on the inside and i passed this test but we have to find out what esau did next week stand to your feet but i'm going on all night but we're going to stop right here praise god i want to teach somebody getting a miracle here somebody's spirit is being expanded somebody's getting ready to move to a higher level in the spirit somebody god's getting ready to entrust you with something more than you've ever had but he had to bring you through some trouble and some trial to get you to a place where you would pray like he wants you to pray where you would fast like he wants you to fast thank you jesus some folk going on a fast because the food is low didn't say there was no food i just said it's low or it's not the food you want i know i'm telling the truth and some folks i'm hungry and there's food in the house now i'm hungry say are you going to eat anything no i don't want that you're not hungry you are not hungry because there's only some beans and you know we got some beans talk to me somebody some some cup of soup what they call that ramen noodles i don't i don't want ramen noodles what do you want ruth chris i want steak you're not hungry so the lord did the lord has to move some things out the way sometimes so there's nothing left so might as well just seek the lord i might as well just i just go ahead and pray thank you jesus amen god will allow things to happen because he's trying to take you higher he has to chase on us he has to train us are y'all with me here and what you go through in one level will actually prepare you for the next if you don't learn the lessons in this level when you get to the next level the lessons will come back and until you pass that class you will go in circles anybody in here tired of going in circles then jonathan mcreynolds sing some song about cycles what are the lines of that song said the devil learns from your mistakes even if you don't that's pretty deep it's true and if the devil's learning from my mistakes i need to learn from my mistakes because i don't like cycles anybody in here just don't want to keep going around and just around here we go around the mulberry bush here we go around the mulberry bush we're just walking in the wilderness it's time to leave the wilderness if god put you in the wilderness and you're supposed to be there yes but when god says it's time for you to come out of the wilderness don't stay there voluntarily praise god lift your hands all over the building father in the name of jesus we thank you lord god for every soul amen that's come out to bible study tonight i pray that the word that was spoken in this place will find good ground and bear fruit 30 60 100 fold lord jesus we rebuke the enemy that would try to snatch this word out of the hearts of the people of god lord jesus we rebuke lord god almighty the cares of this life lord jesus that would seek to choke out the word lord god when it's ready to bear fruit lord god i pray your strength and your people so that when persecution comes lord god they won't become discouraged by the way lord jesus that will stay standing and that they'll bear fruit lord god fruit that will remain i pray that your hand will be on them that you'll anoint them that you'll strengthen them that you'll help them make your people the head and not the tail put them in front and not behind put them above and not beneath open doors for them that the devil cannot shut open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing on them lord god that they have not room to receive i speak life over them i speak your miracle working power over them i speak healing over them i pray lord god for them that might be suffering lord that are watching this broadcast lord jesus christ that are sick in their body i pray that you heal them and raise them up from the bed of affliction in the name of jesus lord god that they'll be able to come to the house of god and give you glory and talk about how you did it for them lord jesus we rebuke this covered spirit in the name of jesus we rebuke lord god almighty everything that is attacked lord god almighty attached to that spirit lord we plea the blood of jesus against it we lose the power of the holy ghost to take full control of the atmosphere in their home and in their life we give you all the glory now we give you all the honor we give you all the praise in the mighty name of jesus christ somebody ought to say amen clap your hands onto the lord everybody somebody let out a shout tonight shout hallelujah god bless you god bless you god bless you amen god bless you listen i want you to greet somebody tonight i told you before you need to meet people that you don't know amen so i want you to to go over and say hello to people that you've never met shake hands with somebody amen if you haven't been talking to somebody for a while tonight's a good night to make up praise god go over there and just tell them you're sorry and we need to love each other to go to heaven anyway amen give a good offering we got ushers in the back remember all our offering here goes to missions work in the week amen and you've been doing well so please give amen if there's less people here that means you need to give more to cover those that didn't come god bless you you can give online at your nlt.com amen or download the app god bless you

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Published: Mon Aug 23 2021