Friday's Two-Minute Takeaway - Fighting with God
When we wrestle in prayer, we don’t just meet the Lord, we meet our limits.
From Gen. 32:22-32. Real problems drive us to real prayer. They also drive us to an honest place.
God uses our worries, threats, fears, spinning and spiraling thoughts, and painful memories to drive us to a place where He can confront us with a question: Who are you? Really?
Jacob has been running from a 20-year-old issue that's unresolved. He has to be honest about who he is and what he's done. Now he's ready. "I'm Jacob" the deceiver, liar, thief.
So, who are you, really? You might have to wrestle with God and fight it out to find out.
When we wrestle with God in prevailing prayer, we leave changed - and that’s the goal: We don’t seek to change God, we put ourselves in the place where God will change us.
It’s in those difficult seasons that while seeking to meet with God, He helps us meet ourselves. When we wrestle in prayer, we don’t just meet the Lord, we meet our limits.
We learn another valuable lesson in wrestling: We must lose the battle in our flesh to gain the victory in our spirit. Our example Jesus won when He said, Not my will but thine be done.
The old stubborn self (our flesh) can fight a good long time against God. It’s very much alive until God touches it. Once surrendered, God breaks us to make us into someone better.
Broken, Jacob can no longer fight, he can only cling! It took over twenty years to get to the place where he was ready to deal with and allow God to deal with the real problem: himself.
Here's the thing: The one who is broken by God becomes the one branded by God. They’ll never be the same and others will know you've met God face to face. Ready to wrestle?
When it’s painful to pray persist and you’ll prevail. When we wrestle with God, we might leave limping, but we’ll be better for the experience. What you “were” you’ll be no longer in Christ.
Let's Take the Message Home:
As you wrestle with God about something, what change is He trying to make in you? Let Him.
From Gen. 32:22-32. Real problems drive us to real prayer. They also drive us to an honest place.
God uses our worries, threats, fears, spinning and spiraling thoughts, and painful memories to drive us to a place where He can confront us with a question: Who are you? Really?
Jacob has been running from a 20-year-old issue that's unresolved. He has to be honest about who he is and what he's done. Now he's ready. "I'm Jacob" the deceiver, liar, thief.
So, who are you, really? You might have to wrestle with God and fight it out to find out.
When we wrestle with God in prevailing prayer, we leave changed - and that’s the goal: We don’t seek to change God, we put ourselves in the place where God will change us.
It’s in those difficult seasons that while seeking to meet with God, He helps us meet ourselves. When we wrestle in prayer, we don’t just meet the Lord, we meet our limits.
We learn another valuable lesson in wrestling: We must lose the battle in our flesh to gain the victory in our spirit. Our example Jesus won when He said, Not my will but thine be done.
The old stubborn self (our flesh) can fight a good long time against God. It’s very much alive until God touches it. Once surrendered, God breaks us to make us into someone better.
Broken, Jacob can no longer fight, he can only cling! It took over twenty years to get to the place where he was ready to deal with and allow God to deal with the real problem: himself.
Here's the thing: The one who is broken by God becomes the one branded by God. They’ll never be the same and others will know you've met God face to face. Ready to wrestle?
When it’s painful to pray persist and you’ll prevail. When we wrestle with God, we might leave limping, but we’ll be better for the experience. What you “were” you’ll be no longer in Christ.
Let's Take the Message Home:
As you wrestle with God about something, what change is He trying to make in you? Let Him.
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