Series: Conversations with God
Speaker: Steve Hixon
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Date: May 14, 2000
Series: Conversations with God Speaker: Steve Hixon |
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“So Jacob was left alone,
and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.”
From birth we have been learning the rules of self-reliance as we strain and struggle to achieve self-sufficiency. Prayer flies in the face of those deep-seated values. It is an assault on human autonomy, an indictment of independant living. To people in the fast lane, determined to make it on their own, prayer is an embarrassing interruption.”
Bill Hybels,
Who was Jacob?
Prayer is an unnatural activity.
Too Busy
Not to Pray
Jacob leaves dad-in-law Laban, comforted by God's angels (32:1-2)
He anticipates meeting Esau, his long-lost (and possibly very angry!) brother (32:3-6)
Jacob fearfully reacts to a potentially disastrous situation (32:7-12)
Jacob carefully prepares an elaborate contingency plan (32:13-21)
The Night Encounter (32:22-32)
Principles of Prayer from Jacob's story
