Sermons about Genesis 32:1-33:20

Jacob Series

Contributed by Alan Mccann on Jul 5, 2004

based on 18 ratings

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God brings Jacob to Peniel to bless him but not before he has struggled all night with God. Limps are reminders from God.

GENESIS 32.23-32 JACOB AND THE STRUGGLE WITH GOD. If I were to say the letters WWF would you know what it meant? My immediate answer to that is World Wildlife Fund. Ask the children and you will probably get World Wresting Federation. I am not a great fan of wrestling but I know a lot of the ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:23

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

In The Sinew That Shrank..." By Dr. E. Winson Butler

Contributed by Winson Butler on Aug 4, 2004

based on 8 ratings

| 2,820 views

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going and going that way! Jacob learned the hard way. Had he followed God without reservation, he may not of walked with a limp for the rest of his life. Let’s examine the story together!

Introduction Going God’s way is not only the best way but the only way! It’s when we look back we say, "I wish I had followed God..." Jacob knew the feeling too well. A person is never what he ought to be until he is doing what he ought to be doing. Jacob was neither. In other words it took a bit ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:31-32

Denomination: Baptist

Wwf (Wrestling With The Father)

Contributed by Paul Tuck on Jan 20, 2002

based on 250 ratings

| 30,551 views

Ok, Ok, you’re probably wondering what the title of this sermon is all about. Well, the letters “WWF” don’t stand for the World Wrestling Federation. They stand for Wrestling With the Father. And today’s message is about a man who did just t

Ok, Ok, you’re probably wondering what the title of this sermon is all about. Well, the letters “WWF” don’t stand for the World Wrestling Federation. They stand for Wrestling With the Father. And today’s message is about a man who did just that. Jacob wrestled with the Lord. ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:22-32

Denomination: Baptist

Returning To Our Proper Place In God Series

Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 26, 2002

based on 34 ratings

| 10,635 views

We continue our walk with Jacob as he meets Esau. Jacob shows us a great deal of wise stewardship in this chapter. Jacob follows through and returns home in obedience to God.

Returning to Our Proper Place in God Jacob’s Reunion with Esau Jacob’s Return in obedience to God’s Promised Land I noticed in the Bristol Bay Times this week that a serviceman and his family were able to visit Dillingham. Imagine he had been gone 13 years. I know that when Gloria and I leave ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 33:1-20

Denomination: Baptist

God's Favorite House Part 4: The Importance Of His Name Series

Contributed by Randy West on Mar 13, 2002

based on 117 ratings

| 20,049 views

Whatever you name is tonight it can be changed to Child of God. Names are important. What’s your name tonight?

God’s favorite House part 4 The importance of His name Text Genesis 32:24-32 The importance of a name can easily be understood when we look back to the early 1980’s. In that time frame a new revolutionary diet control candy hit the market. The candy was gaining popularity nationwide and was ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:24-32

Denomination: Church Of God

Provocando A Dios

Contributed by Hector Rodriguez on Oct 29, 2001

based on 27 ratings

| 13,555 views

A spanish sermon on the need to provoke God to bless us, just like Jacob did.

Provocando A Dios Texto: Génesis 32:24-30 Lucas 8:43-48; Lucas 18:2-5 Pastor: Hector .M. Rodríguez Introducción: Estaba leyendo la Biblia en el libro de Génesis, cuando me encontre en él capitulo 32 en donde pelea un varón (Dios) con Jacob, y yo miraba como Jacob estaba provocando a este ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:24-30, Luke 8:43-48

Denomination: Pentecostal

Finding Your God-Given Dream Series

Contributed by Brian Atwood on Apr 9, 2005

based on 31 ratings

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Three precepts for finding God’s big dream for your life. Second sermon in four-part series, "Dreaming Big for God."

Most sports fans know the name of Reggie White, great defensive end for the Green Bay Packers who recently went to be with the Lord. Some do not know that he was an ordained minister. Before signing a $17 million deal with the Packers, White said publicly that he would look to God to tell him ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:24-30

Denomination: Baptist

Blessings From God

Contributed by Caleb Bolton on Nov 30, 2006

based on 1 rating

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Our Prayer life is what determines the blessing.

Tonight I want to talk to you about how to obtain the life that God wants you to have. Tonight I want to talk to you about two individuals that had something in common. These two men lived on this earth hundreds of years apart from one another yet they met each other one night. While on earth ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31

Denomination: Pentecostal

Jacob And The Blessing Series

Contributed by Rik Wadge on Dec 2, 2006

based on 7 ratings

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Part IV of a six week series demonstrating how God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Story: The phrase “God Bless you” is said to have been originated by St. Gregory the Great, in the year 594 AD. +He appointed a formal prayer to be said to people who sneezed. At that time it was believed that the air was filled with dangerous impurities and that those who sneezed violently were ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:24-31

Denomination: Bible Church

Wrestles With God

Contributed by Christian Cheong on May 31, 2006

based on 26 ratings

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The whole experience of PRAYER is not to wrestle with God over our demands, but to know the heart of the One who seek to bless us and call us to a higher purpose in life, and help us understand our utter dependence on Him for success.

This picture of Jacob wrestling with a God-man can be considered as one of the most bizarre encounter in the Bible. • He was all alone, having sent his family and all his possessions across the stream. • It was in the night, and he wrestled with this God-man until daybreak. Many see him as a hero ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:22-32

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Revival & Brokenness

Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Mar 3, 2008

based on 2 ratings

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- God uses brokenness in our life to multiply our influence - When our life is broken the very life of God will flow from us

Lk 20:17-18 17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? Psalm 118:22KJV 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. Isaiah 28:16KJV 16 Therefore thus ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:1-31

Denomination: Baptist

No Sneezing For This Blessing

Contributed by Daniel Johnson on Mar 18, 2008

based on 7 ratings

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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

Scripture: Genesis 32:24-32

Denomination: Baptist

Jacob To Israel: Wrestling Bout Of Destiny

Contributed by David King on Apr 17, 2008

based on 6 ratings

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Believers are in a process of "evolution"- what I call the process of transformation from glory to glory. The Lord designs and expects that the Church be dynamic in experience and operations. Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel. One of the ways of practica

JACOB TO ISRAEL: WRESTLING BOUT OF DESTINY PROFILES OF STRIKING BIBLE PRAYERS 1. JABEZ. The Prayer of Jabez seems to have worked at "the snap of the fingers". There is no record of the time and place where this prayer took place. “And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:23-30

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Wrestling With The Father…and Winning! Series

Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008

based on 14 ratings

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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

Scripture: Genesis 32:24-32

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

When Parental Guidance Slumps To Parental Negligence

Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Jan 29, 2008

based on 3 ratings

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This is a strong call to the parents in the home who are raising children. I used this as a baby dedication message.

Genesis 33:17-20 KJV And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. [18] And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 33:17-20

Denomination: Pentecostal

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