Good morning everyone,

Genesis 32:24-25-And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.

If you read maybe 1 or 2 verses before, Jacob had sent his family away and wrestled with God alone until he came to the place of not letting God go until He blessed his soul, but it cost him something.

I believe for any Christian who wants to continue on walking with the Lord, there will be times where there is a need to wrestle with God if you are going to move onto find out who you really are. Jacob wrestled with God and the Lord renamed him Israel. Jacob would become the blessing by which God would multiply His promise through his 12 sons. But it took Jacob to recognize who he was from wrestling with God to find out what his purpose in life was.

Jacob is the story for all Christians who eventually find out who they really are and the magnitude that God wants to use them. But usually the wrestling is painful and will cause you to have a "limp" to always remind you that without God you don’t know who really are. Don’t settle and allow outside struggles to define you. But bear down and internally wrestle with God until He blesses you with a "new name" and purpose that sets the course of the rest of your life.

In His Love, Ld

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:19 AM, eldoret gentry <eldorets> wrote:

Good morning everyone,

Jeremiah 1:11,12-And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see an almond branch." Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

If you read the first 10 verses leading up to this point between God and Jeremiah, you see God giving a very young boy at this time a call that would pronounce the soon coming judgment of Israel. Yet Jeremiah used a perceived "limitation" to try and disqualify himself from his call.

Jeremiah is so familiar for me personally, but I know this same perception is in many Christians I’ve spoken to over the years. Somehow we all think that we have some limitation that God hasn’t seen before He created us and called us. But I believe that limitation we perceive is meant to push us to be utterly dependent on Christ alone, not disqualify ourselves from His call.

Jeremiah was tested not for his age, but his ability to see what God is revealing to him. Vision or "seeing God" is all you need to do God’s will. Our perception of ourselves aside, when you "see" God through a pure heart, you become more preoccupied with His mighty grace to work through you, rather than any limitation or failure you have experienced. Sincerely desire to "see" God and what He has to reveal to you, and you will war against all things that tries to limit you from your purpose. Remember Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

In His Love, Ld

On Oct 16, 2012 9:37 AM, "eldoret gentry" <eldorets> wrote: