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one of the great stories of the Bible
verse 22 of Genesis chapter 32.
this is about Jacob and he arose that
night and took to his two wives
his two female servants his 11 sons and
he crossed over the river of jabach
he took them and he sent them over the
brook
and sent over what he had
maybe the most powerful phrase ever
spoken over his life happens next then
Jacob was left alone
and a man wrestled with him until the
breaking of day
and when he saw that he did not Prevail
against him
he touched the socket of his hip
in the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of
joint as he wrestled with him it says he
wrestled with a man it was not a man it
was Jesus it was God and I’ll show you
that in Scripture
he was not even wrestling with an angel
it was Jesus
and I’ll tell you why I say that and he
said speaking of Jesus
let me go for the day breaks but he said
speaking of Jacob I will not let you go
unless you bless me
so he said to him what is your name and
he said my name is Jacob and he said
your name shall no longer be called
Jacob but your new name is Israel for
you have struggled with God and with men
and have prevailed this is a what he’s
saying is Everything Changes here today
in this spot for you
then then Jacob asks saying tell me your
name I pray
and he said why is it that you ask about
my name and listen and he blessed him
there
he God Jesus blessed him there now
here’s why I know it who it was
so Jacob called the name of the place
Pinal listen for I have seen God face to
face
in my life is preserved
just as he crossed over penile the sun
rose on him
and he limped on his hip because it had
been poor pulled out of joy
therefore this day the children of
Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank
which is on the hip socket because he
touched the socket of Jacob’s hip in the
muscle that shrank
and in that moment
the angel said to Jacob what is your
name
and he said I’m Jacob he said I’m
changing your name from Jacob
which means worm to Israel which means
Prince
and this one encounter you go from a
worm to a prince and then I’m some
translation say it like this I’m give
you have prevailed and I’m giving you
favor and power with God and man
favor with God
favor with man
it’s called The Blessing
and the text said he blessed him there
with what with
favor with God
and with man what does that mean that
means that anything you do that’s in the
will of God when you come out of that
encounter God will give you his favor
and he’ll calls people who don’t even
like you
to bless you to open doors for you I’ve
actually had them tell me I don’t even
like you but God told me
Hallelujah there is a blessing that hell
can’t curse there is a blessing that can
come on your family and on your children
and on your business and on your dreams
and when you win the battle in that
spiritual Place God says you don’t just
have favor up here in Heaven someday
you’re going to have it down there on
Earth with men
and if the enemy comes one way he flees
seven
wow
those moments listen carefully when he
got changed in his name think of that he
was just Jacob and he was about to die
his brother was coming to kill him and
in one encounter he says no longer will
you be called Jacob you will be called
Israel your in other words your children
your your eventually 12 sons will become
the children of
not Jacob Israel
and out of those children will come
tribes and now those tribes will come
one of them called Judah and I know
Judah will come Messiah boy I’m blessing
you
I’m taking a Deceiver
and I’m turning him into a receiver
and you’re not going to be fake anymore
you’re going to be real and you’re not
going to be ashamed of me
and I’m gonna make you as the Sands of
the seashore and the stars of Heaven
and Jacob you were a loser when I found
you but because you have made up your
mind that you would not die just in the
marking but you would hold on to the
blessing
I’m going to bless you in ways in the
world that you cannot even imagine
that moment redefined his identity and
that’s what happens
I I love all the organizations that try
to help people get unaddicted and set
free and and anything and everything I’m
all for it as long as it’s helping
people deal with it but the one thing
that I don’t agree with
is that once an alcoholic you always
have to identify as an alcoholic once as
a drug addict you always I’m telling you
there’s an encounter with God that can
change your name and change your
identity and change your nature and
change your walk and change your talk
well I wish we’d get back to that real
salvation will change your walk it’ll
change your talk I don’t want what I
used to want I don’t talk like I used to
talk and if you got a filthy potty mouth
you need to get saved if you can go
around person and chewing people out and
treating people at some point he comes
and he says I need to work on who you
are I want you to walk away with a new
identity
[Applause]
he went from a deceiver to a receiver
and he said this powerful phrase my life
is preserved
he has preserved my future
I tell you there is a place this morning
and an encounter waiting on you where
fear does not dominate you anymore
I know that’s happened to me there’s
been times when I just had to get along
with God
my fear was so overwhelming of what
might happen this might happen even
through the years pastoring this church
and just the challenges all the time it
never stops
and in those moments sometimes I’ll just
say to the family to Charisse to
everybody
I’ve got to be alone
and when I go in I’m defeated
but when I come out of those encounters
I have a courage that I cannot explain I
have a faith that does not alter with
the bullying of the wind in whatever
Direction the wind blows but something
in me says if God before me who can be
against me and I have favor with God in
favor with man and he will bring it to
pass take a praise break take a praise
break I don’t know who’s fighting a
battle but don’t you let go during the
marking if you’ll hold on there’s a
blessing coming down your dusty road
I’m almost done I’m almost done
and notice this the Bible said and when
the sun rose
after he pulled his hip out of socket
he halted upon his thigh in other words
it altered his walk
in other words
The Next Step that he took was different
from the way he walked into that
situation
what I’m trying to say to you is the
step that he took after coming to that
moment was not the same step he was
going to take now this is so important
when you really encounter God the way
that I’m preaching this morning not a
religious something another Bible blah
blah blah I’m talking about a personal
Encounter With Jesus Christ
it will alter in other words it altered
the steps the step that he took after he
pulled his hip out of joint was not the
same step he would have taken before
and that’s a tight that’s just that’s a
that’s a an analogy of what a true
Encounter With Jesus Christ not religion
not Baptist Methodist Pentecostal not
any of that yeah
not church not churchy stuff an
encounter with Jesus
you know the one who carried your sins
to the cross the one who in agony and
moaned and groaned and he had you on his
mind when they hung him high and they
stretched him wide
and
it changed his next step
your next step will either be the right
direction or the wrong direction
and it all depends on whether or not you
have an encounter with God
it changes your identity it affects your
journey it changes your direction and
lastly
because of this touch
when the angel touched him
in that encounter
and marked him
the Bible said in verse 32 you’ll read
right over it’s the last verse of the of
the text and and it says in verse 32
therefore the children of Israel
this is so weird did not eat the muscle
that shrank
which is on the hip socket
because
he Jesus the angel touched the socket
of Jacob’s hip in that in them and the
muscle that shrank
what is that about
when you have one of these encounters
that I’m talking about this morning
there is a touch and that touch so
defines you
that they used to eat that part of the
Sheep
they used to eat that muscle that was
over the hip they used to but they don’t
do it anymore
what happened
when they got a fresh touch they got a
fresh conviction
and if you don’t ever get fresh touches
you don’t get any fresh convictions
but they said because he got touched
it’s affecting us and we will we used to
eat it all the time but that part of
that animal we will never eat again
and it wasn’t legalism
it was just the fact that they had had
an encounter with God and he had touched
some part of their life of his life The
Hollow Place
guess what I’m trying to preach is when
you walk out of church every once in a
while you ought to walk out with a new
conviction
I don’t think that’s necessary and I I
don’t know that I don’t I don’t like
that and I don’t let go I’m going to
just let go of that conviction and I
tell you times have changed and we just
need to be like everybody else and I can
hold on to this and hold on to that and
do it live any old way I want to live
and I’m okay and me and Jesus is just
all right with me Jesus is
something
but I’m gonna tell you something
we’re throwing away
our convictions
we’re seeing a nation who’s lost its
moral values completely
we’re we’re losing the desire for the
house of God thank God it’s not around
here but but but I’m just saying the the
things that made us great great families
when we got saved we threw stuff out of
our Lives not cause somebody made us but
we just felt convicted of it I’m done
with that
I’m done with that lifestyle I’m done
with that I I don’t want that lifestyle
and so what happens is if you don’t have
a fresh touch every now and then
you don’t get a conviction like that
that says that’s for me and my house we
will serve the Lord
I can’t partake of that no longer
when we lack convictions it’s because we
lack those moments that Mark us
before you make a decision to just throw
some conviction away and pick up stuff
that you once felt convicted of again
use not to get drunk used not to get
high use not to run with the clubs and
sleep around you used not to do it when
you got saved before you start going
back to that stuff I want you to have a
Revival
and I want you to come out of a service
where the Holy Spirit has moved and then
after after you’ve had an encounter the
ought to be before you let go of
something that’s been in your family for
a long time
Faith that’s been in your family young
people for a long time convictions and
standards and values that have been in
your family for a long time
there ought to be some tears before you
just let it go there ought to be some
fasting do it after you fasted 21 days
do it do it do it after you’ve been in a
red hot service and the power of God and
you kept wiping the tears away and you
you were embarrassed because the
presence of God was so then go out and
light you up a cigarette
oh I just I where did that come from
but I’ll tell you one thing I do feel
today there’s about 500 people that can
be delivered from Vapes
and all it takes is a marking all it
takes I appreciate counseling I
appreciate tampering off on it I
appreciate it but every now and then you
need to have an encounter because what
happens is when he touches you
suddenly there’s a fresh conviction and
I used to but I don’t do it anymore and
I feel myself sometimes the the very
current of this world is to pull us away
pull us away pull us away and every now
and then when I feel myself and it’s
happening I’m letting my standards down
in them hey I’m not I’m not on it and
I’ll just have to get along with God
and I’ll come out of that place
I wrote this down the other day and I
think it’s the word of the Lord
if you’ve been questioning everything
you know that’s the spirit of the of the
new I question that you know I question
that I question that
when you have a god encounter it makes
you sure again
I’m sure
I’m sure about the house of God
I’m sure about being in the house of God
I’m sure about tithing
you can argue all you want
I don’t care
I have my own convictions I don’t set my
convictions according to what other
people think
I get in the word and I get along with
Jesus and I make sure that what I’m
saying is confirmed out of the mouth
that I don’t get into weird Doctrine
neither
me and Jesus no not you and Jesus
there’s a lot of things that but but
when it’s all said and done if there’s
stuff in me and there is if I’ll wrestle
God can say you used to but you’re not
going to do it anymore
and it’s not a burden some legalistic
thing it’s a joyful thing
anybody know what I’m talking about
stand to your feet all over the room at
every campus thank you I’m sorry I went
in overtime but maybe it’s necessary
today
I want everybody under the sound of my
voice
who is so Pastor Jensen
I want an encounter I want a Jacob
encounter I want an encounter like that
I want it for me I want it for my family
I know this is crazy because we don’t
have much room but I just I’m going to
open the Altar and I’m going to say if
you want an encounter like that if
something in you is yearning for it but
if you have an until in your spirit
and you would be willing to say Pastor I
really want a change to happen I want to
encounter God in a in a real personal
way I want to point back and say I met
with the Lord in that place
something changed me that day it was the
power of the Holy Spirit they’re already
coming come on come on come on come on
come on if if you’ve got an addiction he
can touch you and give you a new
conviction he can take the addiction and
give you a conviction that you can lay
it down and never touch it again I’m not
talking about willpower I’m talking
about the power of the Holy Spirit
and it’s very real
it’s very real
lift your hands up all over this room
and just right where you are all the way
up in the balcony wherever you are just
lift your hands and say Lord this is
just me and you I’m sending everybody
across the river around me I don’t care
what people are thinking I I want you I
want you to touch me I want an encounter
with you I believe in you and if you’re
real then I should encounter you you
made me you created me you know how to
touch me you know how to change me you
know how to take me from a deceiver to a
receiver and so just lift your hands in
honesty and say I surrender my life I
Surrender everything just pray right
where you are he’ll hear you and say
Lord I need a change in my life I don’t
have to understand everything but I know
what I feel is real and I’m reaching out
to you like Jacob I need you to preserve
my future I need you I need you like
I’ve never needed you he will never turn
you away if you come in sincerity and
humility and honesty
just right where you are worship Him
worship Him worship Him sing it with all
of your hearts
[Music]
Hallelujah I love seeing these young
people I’m talking to teenagers and
young people this morning that need to
get out of your seat and walk to this
office
and say God I want to change I wanna I
wanna transformation I want you to touch
me again I need your power I need your
Holy Spirit
I can’t live it without fresh touches
and fresh conventions
worship him all over this room
[Music]
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