Jacob’s Struggles

●A state of homelessness (for 20 years)Gen 28:10

●A space of helplessness Gen 31:36-42

●A stage of hopelessness Gen 32:19-23 Why Did God Bring Jacob to Jabbok?

●To remind him of God’s purpose (Vs. 1)

●To let him experience pain (vulnerability) (Vs. 9-12)

●To reset him a plan of transformation and a path of greatness. (Vs. 26-28) My encouragement…

●He reached the point of Surrender so God could affirm him

●He got to the place of Submission (Humility) so God could reform him ●He was placed on a path of Seclusion so God could transform him

●Let’s passionately desire to have a divine encounter with Jesus (Preincarnate of Christ vs. 28)

●Let’s desperately seek to have a divine experience with his transforming power (The woman with an Issue of blood), Mark 5:25-30 - Calvin ...