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  • Spencer Homan avatar

    Wrestling With God (Battle Of Wills)

    Contributed by Spencer Homan on Dec 15, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,735 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

  • Christine Forehand avatar

    Something's Gotta Give!

    Contributed by Christine Forehand on Nov 3, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,824 views

    Something’s gotta give in three areas of the church: in our circumstances, in our worship, and in our outreach.

    Genesis 32:28 (AMP) 28And He said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob [supplanter], but Israel [contender with God]; for you have contended and have power with God and with men and have prevailed. The phrase, “something’s gotta give” has its basis in an older phrase ’give and take’ which is ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Justin Colon avatar

    En La Lucha Libre Series

    Contributed by Justin Colon on May 29, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,941 views

    To become a blessing we need to stop wrestling with God and surrender to his will. Para ser una bendicion necesitamos dejar de luchar contra Dios y rendirnos ante su voluntad.

    Propósito: Que la congregación se rinda y se someta ante la voluntad de Dios para sus vidas. Tema: Nosotros luchamos con Dios cuando no nos sometemos a su voluntad. Introducción En la Lucha Libre… Carlitos Colón, El Invader, Chicky Star, Savio Vega…Stone Cold Steve Austin…¿Qué tienen en común ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Paul Green avatar

    Radical Prayer Series

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 13, 2009
    based on 58 ratings
     | 30,296 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

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    Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Carl Greene on Jul 18, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,025 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

  • Isaac Butterworth avatar

    Your Character Arc

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jul 30, 2011
     | 4,040 views

    If you’re a person of faith, you are a person in process. It’s process guided by the Holy Spirit, of course, and what he’s doing is -- he’s transforming you from building your life around yourself to building it around God.

    First Presbyterian Church Wichita Falls, Texas July 31, 2011 YOUR CHARACTER ARC Isaac Butterworth Genesis 32:22-32 (NIV) 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, ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Christine Forehand avatar

    Something's Gotta Give!

    Contributed by Christine Forehand on May 19, 2011
     | 8,035 views

    What is happening with our churches today? Or should I say "not" happening? Something's gotta give in our circumstances, in our worship, and in our outreach!

    Something’s Gotta Give! Genesis 32:22-31 (NIV) Jacob Wrestles With God 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 ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Wave The White Flag Series

    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 13,379 views

    The best thing that a person can do is to surrender to God - give up control, surrender the glory, yield your independence to God.

    Two hundred years after Christ, China’s Han Dynasty began its ruthless conquest of neighboring territories. During a particular battle, an enemy soldier, knowing he was defeated, stripped off part of his shirt and waved it in the air. It was an act of surrender – thus began the tradition of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tim Patrick avatar

    Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Jul 1, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,622 views

    Consider what it means and what it accomplishes when we wrestle with God.

    Have you wrestled with God lately? What do I mean by wrestling with God? There are times in our lives when we will wrestle with issues concerning our behavior or God’s will for our lives. We will wrestle with God when we are considering His will. We will wrestle with God when we are struggling with ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 18, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,212 views

    Jacob Wrestles With God. (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request - email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

    Reading: Genesis chapter 32 verses 22-32. Ill: • James Whistler, the Victorian artist, • Showed scant respect for the hierarchy of any profession. • When his poodle fell ill with a throat infection, • The artist sent immediately for the country’s leading ear, ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • Chris Surber avatar

    Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Aug 1, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,311 views

    As a Christian, it is a good thing to question, to seek; the key is to ask good questions and seek out good sources for your answers; most notably, the Bible.

    Wrestling with God, Genesis 32:22-31 Introduction Once a Hasidic teacher told this parable; a man had been wandering about in a forest for several days, unable to find the way out. Finally he saw a man approaching him in the distance. His heart was filled with joy. Now I shall surely find out ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Phillip Krueger avatar

    Touched By God

    Contributed by Phillip Krueger on Nov 25, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,138 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

  • Sherm Nichols avatar

    Wrestling With The Father…and Winning! Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 20,061 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

  • Stephen Funderburk avatar

    Becoming A Blessed Community

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Aug 26, 2007
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,427 views

    Jacob became Israel, in this story are the keys to being blessed by God

    Intro: the story of Jacob becoming Israel is one of the most fascinating in the Bible. Up until this point, Jacob seemingly had done everything his own way. He was a deceiver, he had basically cheated his way through life. But the story of Jacob becoming Israel is based on God’s love, and God’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Charles Cockroft avatar

    What Is Your Name? Series

    Contributed by Charles Cockroft on Aug 12, 2007
    based on 184 ratings
     | 38,072 views

    Your life can Change if you do not believe what the world says about you.

    What is your Name? We are looking at life changing Questions asked by God. Where are you? Who said you were naked? Why are you mad at me? Why are you laughing? Today we are looking at: What is your Name? The importance of a name can easily be understood when we look back to the early ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God