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  • Jacob Wrestles With God, A Salvation Story. Series

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 6, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,013 views

    Jacob had been at odds with pretty much everyone his entire life, He wrestles with God and surrenders. There is a new beginning. Why do we wrestle with God and not just surrender to him?

    Read Genesis 32:22-32 Who here likes a bit of alone time, the family have gone off on a trip and here’s an opportunity, there’s that novel that you would like to finish reading, that project that you’ve been wanting to finish or in my case get started, the hobby that it would be good to lose ...read more

  • Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Carl Greene on Jul 18, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,184 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

  • "Jacob - The Man Who Wrestled With God"

    Contributed by Ray Scott on Oct 21, 2003
    based on 129 ratings
     | 42,756 views

    In Jacob, we see that we wrestle with the same problems as he does. We have the same weaknesses. And, God has the same lessons for us.

    “Jacob – The Man Who Wrestled With God” INTRODUCTION: It’s interesting to study the people of the Bible. We find out that they’re not much different than we are. They dressed different … ate different things … different culture … different times … BUT … the same in so many ways. We can SEE ...read more

  • Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 23, 2019
     | 5,067 views

    At times God wants us to wrestle with Him for the blessings we request. How badly do you want that for which yu ask?

    1. When I was a child I watched the wrestling matches on TV and was shocked when I found out that they were not real. 2. There is real wrestling as born out in The National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum headquartered in Stillwater, Oklahoma. 3. There is also an even more serious wrestling ...read more

  • Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Jul 19, 2023
     | 2,765 views

    Jacob wrestles with the Divine, but he really wrestled with his self, and we do to.

    “Wrestling with God” Genesis 32:22-32 1. Wrestling is a tough sport it not for the faint at heart • One needs upper body strength • One needs a strong determination • One needs a strong work ethic • One needs to be courageous you must fight 2. Today’s text tells us that Jacob wrestled all his ...read more

  • Jacob-When He Wrestled With God Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Apr 1, 2022
     | 4,085 views

    If you have ever wrestled with anyone. you'll understand a little of what Jacob endured when he spent most of a night wrestling with an unknown Guest!

    Introduction: Jacob and his household had left the land of Laban and were heading back to his homeland. God Himself had told Jacob to do this (Gen. 31:3) and Jacob had obeyed. While on the journey, Moses wrote “the angels of God met” Jacob at a place he called “Mahanaim (Hebrew for “two camps)”. ...read more

  • Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Scott Lamshed on Apr 19, 2001
    based on 69 ratings
     | 25,895 views

    WE all need a limp, just as Jacob wrestled and God touched him, let’s be like him

    WRESTLING WITH GOD I need a limp - a life changing limp. I have told you we need it but I have not shown you how. Today I would like to take that one step further and show you how we can get a limp by wrestling with God, then it’s up to you. Unfortunately too many Christians spend very little ...read more

  • Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 18, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,666 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

  • Wrestling With God

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Aug 3, 2005
    based on 17 ratings
     | 7,528 views

    We struggle or we don’t grow. Jacob gives us the keys for how to struggle (and how NOT to struggle).

    THE PASTOR’S POINTS (The view from my garden) Wrestling with God Genesis 32:1-27 Of all the mysteries I would like solved before I die, it is the one that says you must struggle if you are going to grow. Growth always means struggle in one form or another. I struggled when I was a youth, ...read more

  • Prayer Series

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Sep 30, 2016
    based on 3 ratings
     | 10,107 views

    Jacob wrestles with God to receive the blessings. He struggled and finally succeded in Life. Never give up until you get.

    Genesis 32:22-32 Success and Struggles in Life Genesis 32:29. I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. When Jacob offered this prayer when he was a wealthy and healthy man. He had the blessings of two legal wives and another two as a bonus, he had eleven children, (v.22). He is a foreign ...read more

  • Jacob's Night Of Change

    Contributed by Rodney Burton on Jan 29, 2009
    based on 38 ratings
     | 17,442 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

  • The Wrestling Match- That Changed Everything.

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Feb 27, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,227 views

    Israel is the name of God's people, do you know where it came from? Again, From a wrestling match… In the night. It is recorded that Jacob was alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of dawn.

    The Wrestling Match- That Changed Everything. Genesis 32:24-30AMP As Jacob turns from his Father-in-law, Laban who tricked Jacob more than once, with years of hard labor in earning Laban’s daughters hand in marriage. Jacob should be pretty fed up with bad relationships and so forth. However ...read more

  • Jake The Snake Wrestles God

    Contributed by Mike Turner on Sep 18, 2005
    based on 131 ratings
     | 16,742 views

    A message about Jacob’s wrestling match with God

    Jake The Snake Wrestles God Gen 32:21-32 I grew up watching Pro Wrestling. It was fake way back then, and it’s even more fake now. But I would have never told my daddy that. Me and Daddy used to have a ringside seat beside our black and white t.v. set on Sat’s at ...read more

  • You Can't Fight With God PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Dec 14, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 965 views

    This sermon encourages us to wrestle with God's Word, surrender our wills, and trust in His steadfast love, as exemplified by Jacob's encounter with God in Genesis 32.

    Greetings, beloved, in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior, and Redeemer. It is always a joy to gather with you, to share in the fellowship of the Spirit, and to turn our hearts and minds toward the Word of God. We are here, not by accident, but by divine appointment. Our gracious God has called ...read more

  • Heroes Of The Bible: Jacob Series

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Feb 17, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,960 views

    The Bible is full of heroes! They don't wear spandex or fly around in capes and cowls, but God empowered these heroes and heroines to accomplish some pretty amazing feats that can inspire us to become heroes of God ourselves. Our next hero is Jacob. (Aliterated Outline, PowerPoint)

    Heroes of the Bible: Jacob Scott Bayles, pastor Blooming Grove Christian Church: 7/25/2021 NOTE: This sermon was adapted from my book, Holy Heroes of the Bible. If it's a blessing to you, please consider buying my book which includes chapters/sermons on 17 additional Bible heroes: ...read more

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