You can’t experience all of God unless you give him all of you.
We are all prone to pretending to be someone we’re not. We all have things in our lives that we try to hide. But God can’t bless who we are pretending to be.
Jacob, who we meet in Genesis 25, illustrates that better than anyone else in the scriptures. This study looks at the life of Jacob, a man whose name means deceiver. Jacob deceived his brother and his father trying to get the birthright & blessing. But because of his deception he was never able to truly enjoy them. He got the blessing but had to run away. And while on the run, the deceiver was deceived by Laban. His life was filled with chaos because of his deception. Yet this pretender met reality and finally understood that God wanted him to stop pretending. God had a blessing from Jacob, and it wasn’t until Jacob owned his deception that God truly blessed him. And changed his name from deceiver (Jacob) to overcomer (Israel).
We are all prone to pretending to be someone we’re not. We all have things in our lives that we try to hide. But God can’t bless who we are pretending to be.
Jacob, who we meet in Genesis 25, illustrates that better than anyone else in the scriptures. This study looks at the life of Jacob, a man whose name means deceiver. Jacob deceived his brother and his father trying to get the birthright & blessing. But because of his deception he was never able to truly enjoy them. He got the blessing but had to run away. And while on the run, the deceiver was deceived by Laban. His life was filled with chaos because of his deception. Yet this pretender met reality and finally understood that God wanted him to stop pretending. God had a blessing from Jacob, and it wasn’t until Jacob owned his deception that God truly blessed him. And changed his name from deceiver (Jacob) to overcomer (Israel).
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Pretender
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Bad Trades
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My Way or God's Way
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Middle Of Nowhere
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Never Enough
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The Wrestling Match
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Call It What You Want
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