S01 E16 - When All Else Fails.... Jesus Does Not, Will Not

Jacob’s Struggles ●A state of homelessness (for 20 years)Gen 28:10 ●A space of helplessness Gen 31:36-42 ●A stage of hopelessness Gen 32:19-23 Why Did God Bring Jacob to Jabbok? ●To remind him of God’s purpose (Vs. 1) ●To let him experience pain (vulnerability) (Vs. 9-12) ●To reset him a plan of transformation and a path of greatness. (Vs. 26-28) My encouragement… ●He reached the point of Surrender so God could affirm him ●He got to the place of Submission (Humility) so God could reform him ●He was placed on a path of Seclusion so God could transform him ●Let’s passionately desire to have a divine encounter with Jesus (Preincarnate of Christ vs. 28) ●Let’s desperately seek to have a divine experience with his transforming power (The woman with an Issue of blood), Mark 5:25-30 - Calvin ●Let’s prayerfully ask for His divine empowerment to face your Esau .●Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success; Failure is not a loss; it is a gain packaged inside; ●It is better to fail a thousand times than to be to cowardly to ever under take anything – Clovis G. ChappelExamples of Failures•Arriana Huffington (Rejected by 36 publishers)•Bill Gates (First Company Crumpled)•Walt Disney (told he lacked creativity)•Milton Hershey•Simon Peter the Apostle (Denied Jesus 3 times)How do you move one?I propose the following•Learn from the mistakes•Let it sink in (accept the failure but affirm that it does not define you)•Live to fight another day (recollect yourself and move on)Loading…Take Away ●Truth is you will fail at one point or another. If you fail ●Fail forward (Don’t stay there, move)●Fail onward (Learn from it) ●Fail upward (Failure turns into success when God is included, involved, invited).Finally.. ●For when all else fails, ●Jesus does not, Jesus has not, Jesus will not fail