Are you ever “alone with God”?
description
Transcript of Are you ever “alone with God”?
![Page 1: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Are you ever “alone with God”?
Genesis 32:22 Today’s New International Version
![Page 2: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabok
Genesis 32:22 Today’s New International Version
![Page 3: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Genesis 32:22 Today’s New International Version
![Page 4: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Genesis 32:23-24 Today’s New International Version
![Page 5: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Genesis 32:23-24 Today’s New International Version
![Page 6: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Genesis 32:23-24 Today’s New International Version
![Page 7: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Jacob has been alone for a long, long time.
• Alone growing up
A mommy’s boy in a daddy world
“Red” vs. “the Cheat”
![Page 8: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Jacob’s twin brother…“Esau” = “Red”
Red-blooded…male
“Jacob” = “grasping”“deceiving”“cheating”
![Page 9: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Esau held a grudge against Jacob… He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 27:41 Today’s New International Version
![Page 10: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him…
Genesis 27:42 Today’s New International Version
![Page 11: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
“Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you. Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran.”Genesis 27:42-43 Today’s New International Version
![Page 12: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Jacob has been alone for a long, long time.
• Alone growing up
…because of his grasping
![Page 13: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Jacob has been alone for a long, long time.
• Alone growing up
• Alone on his journey
![Page 14: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Genesis 28:15 Today’s New International Version
![Page 15: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Genesis 28:15 Today’s New International Version
![Page 16: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
“Surely the LORD is in this place….” He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.” Genesis 28:17 Today’s New International Version
![Page 17: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Jacob has been alone for a long, long time.
• Alone growing up
• Alone on his journey
…he is not listening
![Page 18: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Jacob has been alone for a long, long time.
• Alone growing up
• Alone on his journey
• Alone in his business
![Page 19: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 32:41 Today’s New International Version
![Page 20: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Jacob has been alone for a long, long time.
• Alone growing up
• Alone on his journey
• Alone in his business…he cheats a cheat
![Page 21: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Jacob has been alone for a long, long time.
• Alone growing up
• Alone on his journey
• Alone in his business
• Alone in his marriage
![Page 22: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. "You must sleep with me," she said. "I have hired you…”
Genesis 32:41 Today’s New International Version
![Page 23: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Jacob has been alone for a long, long time.
• Alone growing up• Alone on his journey• Alone in his business• Alone in his marriage
…he’s not loved
![Page 24: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Jacob is in a tight place
He’s stuck in a canyon
He has fled Laban who wants to kill him.
He’s coming home to Esau who…
![Page 25: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him." Genesis 32:6 Today’s New International Version
![Page 26: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabok
Genesis 32:22 Today’s New International Version
![Page 27: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Genesis 32:22 Today’s New International Version
![Page 28: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Genesis 32:23-24 Today’s New International Version
![Page 29: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
“…for their never at home and their always alone…
…even with someone they love.”
![Page 30: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Genesis 32:23-24 Today’s New International Version
![Page 31: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
God grasps us in his grace
…even as we fight him…making us face new
hope
![Page 32: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.Genesis 32:25-27 Today’s New International Version
![Page 33: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
When the man saw that the man could not overpower Jacob, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.Genesis 32:25-27 Today’s New International Version
![Page 34: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
When the man saw that Jacob could not overpower the man, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.Genesis 32:25 Today’s New International Version
![Page 35: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
God grasps us in his grace
…even as we fight him…making us face new
hope…even if it takes pain to
do it.
![Page 36: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Genesis 32:26-27 Today’s New International Version
![Page 37: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
God grasps us in his grace
…until we grasp back
![Page 38: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.
Genesis 32:27 Today’s New International Version
![Page 39: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Cheater,” he answered.
Genesis 32:27 Today’s New International Version
![Page 40: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Swindler,” he answered.
Jacob owns that he has made others into objects
Genesis 32:27 Today’s New International Version
![Page 41: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with human beings and have overcome.”Genesis 32:28 Today’s New International Version
![Page 42: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
God grasps us in his grace
…until we grasp back…until we grasp change
![Page 43: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
Genesis 32:29 Today’s New International Version
![Page 44: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Genesis 32:30 Today’s New International Version
![Page 45: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
God grasps us in his grace
…until we grasp back…until we grasp change…until we grasp grace.
![Page 46: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Are you in the tight spot?
Are you caught between the consequences and circumstances of your
life?
![Page 47: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Are you“alone with God”?
Genesis 32:22 Today’s New International Version
![Page 48: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
God grasps us in his grace
…until we grasp back…until we grasp change…until we grasp grace.
![Page 49: Are you ever “alone with God”?](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062409/56815071550346895dbe6bc0/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)