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  • Daniel Johnson avatar

    No Sneezing For This Blessing

    Contributed by Daniel Johnson on Mar 18, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,469 views

    This sermon uses the story of Jacob fighting the angel of Yahweh to show how we as Christians should strive for God’s blessing.

    This morning we are going to look at the life of a man who was nothing more than a deceiver. We are going to examine his life, to learn how his life changed for the better. We are going to find out how Jacob received a blessing from God that completely changed his life. This morning I pray that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Green avatar

    Radical Prayer Series

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 13, 2009
    based on 58 ratings
     | 29,659 views

    Many prayers of God’s people are weak, empty, passion-less, and vision-less. If we are going to see God move, if we are going to see God at work, if we are going to see situations turned around and lives dramatically changed by the mighty hand of God the

    Walnut Prayers There was once a man who was very faithful in his prayer life. Every morning when he got up he would kneel by his bed and he would pray, ‘God bless me, God bless my family, God bless this day’. And before every meal he would say a prayer ‘God bless this food’. And every night ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Carl Greene avatar

    Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Carl Greene on Jul 18, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,614 views

    Jacob wrestles with God and names the place "Peniel," meaning "face of God". Each of us needs our own "Peniel," a place to meet God. God gives us such a place, the Holy Bible.

    OPENING Talk about the courage to suffer: A first-grade teacher seated her students in a circle. She asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up. One by one, each child got up and announced, "I’d like to be a nurse like my mother," or "I want to be a banker like my father," or "I want to ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Russell M Rillie avatar

    Tonight....we Wrestle

    Contributed by Russell M Rillie on Jul 30, 2009
    based on 24 ratings
     | 21,838 views

    Every man has a "Jacob" in him and an "Esau" they are running from. This sermon gives powerful & direct insight into the things Men and Women to a lesser degree wrestle with.

    Tonight….We Wrestle! - By Minister Russell M. Rillie Genesis 32:24-32 As a boy, I would love to get up on Saturday mornings, turn to channel 9 about 10 am & watch wrestling. Before the WWF ended up on cable, before there was a Wrestle mania, before they changed their name to WWE….there was simply ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Edward Hardee avatar

    Don't Let Go

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Aug 19, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 23,378 views

    Message on "Holding On" to the Lord.

    Disclaimer: I can’t take credit for the whole outline. I picked this up from some where but don’t know where (not on Sermon Central). I just added many of the notes. Don’t Let Go This is the account of Jacob wrestling with the Lord How many Knows you can wrestle with the God How many have ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    What Is Your Name

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,420 views

    Discovering your name sometimes requires experiences of dark nights and aloneness. God must test our behaviour. He pushes us to see things that are not good for us, things that must change. He loves us far to much to leave us to our destructive behaviour

    The unknown author of the following story captures the value of a name. “After the American Civil War the managers of the infamous Louisiana Lottery approached Robert E. Lee and asked if he’d let them use his name in their scheme. They promised that if he did he would become rich. Astounded, Lee ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Touched By God

    Contributed by Phillip Krueger on Nov 25, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,731 views

    God wrestles with Jacob to make him stop running and deal with his problems.

    TOUCHED BY GOD [Genesis 32:22-32] FCC 8-24-08 1. Hidden treasures: a) June 6, 2003—A National Geographic team working with Iraqi and U.S. military authorities recovered one of the greatest archaeological treasure troves of all time. • A vault was discovered below the Central Bank in Baghdad, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Spencer Homan avatar

    Wrestling With God (Battle Of Wills)

    Contributed by Spencer Homan on Dec 15, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,523 views

    This is a sermon that begs the question... who’s will are we REALLY following?

    Genesis 32:22-32 22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Rodney Burton avatar

    Jacob's Night Of Change

    Contributed by Rodney Burton on Jan 29, 2009
    based on 38 ratings
     | 17,932 views

    Jacob found himself in a tough spot and alone when the Angel of the Lord came and wrestled with him. Are we willing to put ourselves in a position for an encounter with God?

    n Jacob was a man who had always done things his way and he was the kind of person who wanted to be in charge and know how things were going to play out. n How many times do we get in that same place with God? We know what we are used to and we know what we expect and don’t want to see that ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Ed Vasicek avatar

    God Plus Sense Equals Blessing Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 2, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,844 views

    Sense is a virtue, but God plus sense is out of this world!

    God Plus Sense Equals Blessing (Genesis 32:1-32) 1. It takes all kinds of people to make a world. 2. Some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. Shortly after they took it for a float on ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Sherm Nichols avatar

    Wrestling With The Father…and Winning! Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 19,724 views

    God desires for us to wrestle with Him in order to shape us into the people He wants us to become

    I don’t have some clever fact or story or joke to start this sermon. Nothing can top the text itself: Genesis 32:22-32 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Ken Sauer avatar

    "Crazy On A Ship Of Fools"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Sep 19, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,804 views

    Do we beleive that the Risen Christ is more than willing and able to save even us, even us?

    "Crazy on a Ship of Fools" Genesis 32:22-31 Mark 8:34-38 By Rev. Ken Sauer, Pastor of Grace UMC, Soddy Daisy, TN I remember reading the morning paper way back in June of 1994. The lead story was about the murder of O.J. Simpson’s wife…which had happened ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • MELVIN MAUGHMER, JR. avatar

    Are You Ready To Be Blessed Series

    Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Jan 18, 2007
    based on 44 ratings
     | 30,842 views

    Everyone wants to be blessed, but are they ready to be blessed. Everyone wants to have stuff, but to be blessed is not about stuff but being equipped with power to be victorious.

    “Are you ready to be Blessed” “The Jabbok Experience” Gen. 32:22-32 Are you ready to be blessed? This may seem like a rhetorical question because there isn’t anyone that doesn’t want to be blessed. If you don’t believe that just stop for a moment and listen around Christiandom. Everyone is ...read more

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    Denomination: Apostolic

  • Ray Searan avatar

    Keys To Receiving The Blessings Of God

    Contributed by Ray Searan on Feb 21, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 16,295 views

    Obviously, this chapter in the Bible is about the familiar story when Jacob started a journey to meet his brother Esau. While Jacob was on his journey to meet Esau, he received the blessing of God on the way. It is at this point, where Jacob’s name was ch

    Text: Genesis 32:1-32 Introduction: Obviously, this chapter in the Bible is about the familiar story when Jacob started a journey to meet his brother Esau. While Jacob was on his journey to meet Esau, he received the blessing of God on the way. It is at this point, where Jacob’s name was changed ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Mark Holdcroft avatar

    The Danger Zone Of Faith

    Contributed by Mark Holdcroft on Mar 9, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,781 views

    This sermon is actually a testimony of our experince as my wife and I answered God’s call to be missionaries.

    The Danger Zone of Faith Pray I would like to talk a little bit this morning about the journey that we have been through since God called us to go to Slovakia. As I have just mentioned we will be moving on the 16th September 2006. Before I do that I just want to read a passage of scripture ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal