Jacob Wrestles With God (Genesis 32:22-30) 27 The man asked him, “What is your 22 That night Jacob got up and took name?” his two wives, his two female “Jacob,” he answered. servants and his eleven sons and 28 Then the man said, “Your name will crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them no longer be Jacob, but Israel, across the stream, he sent over all because you have struggled with God his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left and with humans and have overcome.” 29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw name.” that he could not overpower him, he But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there. touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he 30 So Jacob called the place wrestled with the man. Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for spared.” it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Jacob prays (Genesis 32:9-12) “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’ I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children. But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”
Jacob Wrestles With God (Genesis 32:22-30) 27 The man asked him, “What is your 22 That night Jacob got up and took name?” his two wives, his two female “Jacob,” he answered. servants and his eleven sons and 28 Then the man said, “Your name will crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them no longer be Jacob, but Israel, across the stream, he sent over all because you have struggled with God his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left and with humans and have overcome.” 29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw name.” that he could not overpower him, he But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there. touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he 30 So Jacob called the place wrestled with the man. Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for spared.” it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Jacob Wrestles With God (Genesis 32:22-30) 27 The man asked him, “What is your 22 That night Jacob got up and took name?” his two wives, his two female “Jacob,” he answered. servants and his eleven sons and 28 Then the man said, “Your name will crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them no longer be Jacob, but Israel, across the stream, he sent over all because you have struggled with God his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left and with humans and have overcome.” 29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw name.” that he could not overpower him, he But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there. touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he 30 So Jacob called the place wrestled with the man. Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for spared.” it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV) Galatians 5:16 (NIV) For the Spirit God gave us does not So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you make us timid, but gives us power, love will not gratify the desires of the and self-discipline. flesh. 2 Corinthians 3:18(NIV) Acts 1:8 (NIV) And we all, who with unveiled faces But you will receive power when the contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will transformed into his image with ever- be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in increasing glory, which comes from the all Judea and Samaria, and to the Lord, who is the Spirit ends of the earth.”
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