Watch “Pressing for the Blessing” Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.

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Jennsen franklin delivers the timely

pressing for their blessing if you have

your Bibles I would like for you to open

them with me to the book of Genesis I

want to go to the book of Genesis

chapter 32 I just felt like that what

I’m going to share with you right now if

you will let the Holy Spirit kind of

plow deep if you will let the Holy

Spirit do what he wants to do because

you’ve you’ve come from all over the

world so open your heart open your

spirit and let him speak to you tonight

in Genesis chapter 32

there’s the amazing story of Jacob

wrestling with God in verse 24 then

Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled

with him until the breaking of the day

now when he saw that he did not prevail

against him he touched the socket of his

hip and the socket of Jacob’s hip was

out of joint as he wrestled with him and

he said let me go for the day breaks but

he said I will not let you go unless you

bless me so he said to him what is your

name and he said Jacob notice instantly

something was released and he said your

name shall be called no more Jacob you

shall be no more Jacob but Israel for

you have struggled with God and with men

and you have prevailed so I want to talk

to you for a few moments about pressing

for the blessing pressing for the

blessing in the story Jacob was afraid

he was greatly afraid greatly distressed

because he had four hundred men coming

to wipe him out his brother Esau you

remember he had he had stolen the

birthright from his brother and now some

years later his brother

has finally located him and he is mad

and he is furious and he’s got 400 armed

men and he’s going to not only wipe

jacob out but he’s going to wipe his

family out he’s going to wipe his

children out because he has to destroy

the bloodline to get in that position of

inheritance again he has to wipe his

brother out and the Bible said that he

was greatly distressed he was afraid

afraid for his family afraid for his

future afraid for things that were going

on and in that moment he became

desperate and he begins to focus on Esau

and he begins to cry out to God at the

River J Buc he begins to cry out God do

something about Esau Esau is my problem

Esau is my issue god I really need you

now I’m in a desperate situation I’m

afraid of what’s going to happen if you

don’t handle Esau Esau is coming to get

me

Esau is coming to kill me God do

something Esau is my problem he thought

that he had too much Esau but God was

thinking what your real issue is is you

have too much Jacob sometimes what we

think is the real problem is not the

real problem

the real problem is us God can handle

your Esau’s God can handle whatever is

coming to stop you and and hinder you

God was saying you don’t have a problem

that I can’t handle the issue is not too

much Esau the issue is too much Jacob

but when I get through with you this

night by the time I finish wrestling

with you there shall be no more Jacob

you’re not going to leave here like you

came you’re not going to leave here

struggling with the same issues that you

struggled with because I’m going to so

touch you I’m going to so transform you

then he says something

powerful if you look it up if you look

and get a few other commentaries to look

this versa he says I’m going to change

your name and you shall no longer be

called Jacob I’m going to call you

Israel which means Prince and then he

makes this promise and and it’s powerful

he said for you shall have power with

God and favor with men power with God

and favor with men God has got a plan

and a purpose for every person who is

listening to me right now

God wants to make something useful

something influential something power

powerful with every person under the

sound of my voice right now God is

wanting you to understand that he can

bless you tonight with something called

the blessing it’s a supernatural force

on your life that gives you power with

God and it gives you favor with men and

it causes the blessing to come on your

life to such a degree that even if

people try to curse you

even if haters start hating on you even

if people start attacking you there is a

blessing on your life that God says

because they have wrestled and they have

desired what I had for them I’m going to

give them power with God and favor with

men everybody shall power with God and

favor with men the Bible said that in

Hosea

he was weeping and wrestling weeping and

wrestling he was he was a desperate man

it’s time for us to get a little

desperate I want to say to all of the

men in this room that the women

shouldn’t be the only ones who shed

tears and weep

but there comes a time when as men we

need to wrestle with God for our

families and it’s okay to weep sometimes

because I try to act strong in front of

them but sometimes I tremble inside

because I don’t have all the answers but

I can go and I can wrestle with God on

behalf of my family and I can wrestle

and I can weep all night

he wrestled and he wept he was broken he

was desperate you know you’re desperate

when you’ll wrestle an angel Jacob

wrestled the angel until it was a draw

it was a tie this is crazy

they’re not even in the same weight

division the Bible said in Psalms eight

and five that that he is made man a

little lower than the Angels sums 120

said bless the lord o ye angels which

excel in strength one angel slew 185

thousand men in the Old Testament and

yet he is so desperate that he wrestles

and he weeps with that angel because he

says I can’t let my family just be

attacked and I can’t let my life just

not matter and something’s not right and

I need a change and I need something in

my life that is forever changed and I

won’t let go until you bless me he’s

wrestling until it was a draw how is

that possible you’ve seen the stories

I’ve seen them that some terrible

accident happens and and apparent and

desperation a man or a woman they pick

up a car it’s a superhuman strength

because then they’re not just doing it

maybe their child is caught up under the

car and something in them says I’m so

desperate I’m so desperately that they

get supernatural strength

this was the desperation of Jacob’s

heart he was not wrestling for fun he

was not wrestling for bragging rights he

was a desperate man and he was capable

of doing desperate things and what I’m

trying to say to you

is when you’re really going to get

changed from God when you’re gonna go

more than the surface when it’s going to

be more than happy and clappy and then

you go right back to who you were and

what you were in the fear the depression

the sin the whatever if you really want

change you have to lose the casual state

of mind and you have to get desperate

you have to say if Lord I’m wrestling

and I’m weeping and he lost the casual

state of mind the angel is closely

monitoring the fight he could have

killed him anytime he wanted to but

notice something God is not interested

in destroying you and hurting you God is

interested in changing you he’s focused

on one thing he wanted change in Jacob

he could have killed him but instead he

just held on to him and let him fight

until there was no more Jacob his name

means liar deceiver you know he stole

the birthright he came out of the womb

as a twin his brother Esau and he had

his brother by the heel and he was

trying to remove him from the blessing

from the birth something in him was

always lying and deceiving and was just

Shady and he was partly cloudy there was

always he was that kid you know that you

always something’s just not quite right

about that guy

this was Jacob I want to get the Jacob

out of Jacob so that he can reach his

full potential the reason that God

allows us to struggle the reason that

God allows us to have pressure and

weeping and wrestling is not to kill us

is not to crush us is not to destroy us

but to

change us we’re not prone to change in

comfort

we’re not prone to change when we’re on

top of the world

we’re not prone to change when

everything’s going our way and God is

more interested in your character than

he is your comfort he’s more interested

in his will and his plan and he wants to

get to a point where he says hey you

know that old you that always was

playing the game when I get through with

you this night there will be no more

Jacob you’re going to emerge from this

place as a prince with God and you’re

going to have power with God and you’re

going to have favor with men and I’m

going to open doors no man can stop I’m

going to pour out blessings on your life

and I’m going to use you for my calls in

my glory and I’m going to see you reach

your full potential and watch this

Jacob recognized this is my moment and

he said to the angel I will not let you

go until you bless me there’s one way

you’re gonna get out of here he said to

God it was actually God and he said to

him I will not let you go until you

bless me and that’s the only way I’m

gonna let you leave me we’ve got to

become more aggressive in getting the

blessing of God we’ve got a hunger and

thirst we’ve got to get desperate I’m

telling you the world is desperate and

the world is looking for some people

who’ve had an encounter with God the

world is looking for some people who

have been so transformed

there’s no more Jacob and they have

become Prince’s with God they have

become people who have power with God in

favor with men get more aggressive when

you got God’s attention like you’ve got

it this week

I just sense in my heart and I just feel

deep in my soul this is your hour this

is your moment this is when the Holy

Spirit is saying I’m ready to change

some things in your life and I’m ready

to move you to a level that you have

power with God in favor with men like

you have never experienced before now

here’s the key to the story the angel

asked him what is your name and why is

that so significant because the last

time he was asked that very question was

when his father was dying on his

deathbed and he was blind

the old man was blind and he was dying

and Jacob came in and when his father

asked him what is your name he couldn’t

see him he said what is your name and he

said my name is Esau and because he

deceived the father the father blessed

him with the double portion blessing and

he left now the angel our God is asking

him what is your name and he says I’m

going to deal with who I really am but

last time you asked me that question I

didn’t tell the truth the last time you

asked me that question I didn’t admit I

was a deceiver I was a liar I was a

manipulator the last time you asked me

that question and what really God was

saying was are you still plagued

with that lack of character are you

still plagued with that old nature are

you still plagued with Jacob and he said

I am Jacob in other words he could have

lied and he could have tried to say

something else but God was warning him

to get to the place that he came to the

end and faced who he really was

he said to him no longer no longer will

you be called Jacob from this night

forward there will be no more Jacob but

you shall be Israel you shall be a

prince you shall have power with God and

you shall have favor with men and that

night Jacob walked away he had a

different name he had a different nature

he had a different future he didn’t walk

the same he walked with a limp he was

not the same person that he used to be

God in one night so transformed him that

he had a pronounced blessing on his life

and God gave him favor with men and God

gave him power with God to such a degree

that we still talk about the

transformation and inside of every Jacob

is a Israel waiting to be renamed inside

of every Saul of Tarsus is a Paul the

Apostle waiting to be renamed inside of

the drug addict or the alcoholic or the

person who’s got issues going on there

is someone that is waiting to be renamed

and God is saying I’m ready to pronounce

tonight that there’s no more Jacob you

are a new creation and you have power

with God and you have favour with me put

your hands together and clap just a

moment

I want that to get down in your spirit I

want it to become a cry of your heart

power with God in favor with men and so

what I felt in my heart was to call you

to a challenge every day of my life for

many years I pray several prayers I pray

the prayer of Jabez I pray the Lord’s

Prayer and I pray this prayer father

give me power with God and give me favor

with men and there’s things that God

will do for you when you reach that

point a blessing and and it’s all been

purchased through Jesus the blood that

He shed on the cross has the power to

transform and change your family and

many of you are in this place tonight

but your burden is your family because

there are forces that are coming to

destroy your family and you’re saying

God do something about Esau and you

thought it was about Esau but God has

brought you here tonight to say let me

transform you and when I get my wheel

with you you’re gonna go home and you’ll

have power with God in such favor with

men that no weapon formed against you or

your seed will prosper I don’t know who

I’m preaching to tonight but I want to

declare that our God is a healing God

and he can heal your body right now in

this room cancer must bow down AIDS must

bow down heart disease must bow down

because there’s something called the

blessing that can come on our life and

it gives us power with God and favor

with men the resources will come the

finances will come the blessing on your

life is unstoppable and I just wonder

tonight

if there are young people in this room

who would be willing who would be

willing to say I’m going to get my

blessing I will not let you go Lord

until you bless me I’m pressing for my

blessing I’m not gonna let up I’m not

gonna let go because when you get broken

before God look out when he asks you

what is your name and you get honest

before him and you quit playing the game

you quit pretending and you say Lord

this is who I am this is all I’ve got

and I give myself completely to you

there is a blessing that comes on your

life through the blood of Jesus Christ

suddenly you have power with God you

have favor with men everybody in this

room stand to your feet there in

Brisbane all over wherever you’re

viewing this at different campuses how

many of you tonight would like for God

to pronounce and don’t put Jacobs name

in there put your name in there no more

how many of you would like for him to

put a blessing on you that you have

power with God when you pray

and favor with me right people the right

blessings the right doors the right

opportunities power with God favor with

men who I feel that in my soul tonight

somebody is going to get the blessing on

their life like never before

lift your hands high and if you don’t

care what anybody thinks open up your

mouth and cry out to God for a few

moments cry out to him all over this

ring if you’ve got a son if you’ve got a

daughter if you’ve got a situation in

your family cry out to God for a moment

I didn’t say whisper I didn’t say just

kind of mumble I said cry out to God

with a hunger with a desperation cry out

to it change me God change my situation

give me power with God give me favor

with me

does anybody feel a stirring in your

heart tonight that’s saying this one’s

for me

this one’s for me this is my word I’m

tired of some things I’m ready for the

change

I’m ready for the blessing I’m ready for

the favour I’m ready for the power in

the favor of God like a tidal wave to

hit my life in my family I want you to

reach over and put your arm around

somebody and begin to pray for a moment

I want to hear

I want to hear an army a prayer warriors

beginning to pray for a moment we’re

wrestling right now everybody say change

change change change change change

change change

no more Jacob no more no more no more no

more double life no more no more no more

depression no more fear no more

intimidation no more holding me back no

more telling me I’m a nobody and nothing

I’m done with that I’ve got power with

God

I’ve got favour with men no more holding

my dreams back no more reason no more

feeling like I’m a failure I shake all

of that off I shake yes turday off lord

I receive power with you and favor with

men that’s it lift your voice come on

pray the Spirit of God is changing

people chains are falling off miracles

are happening in this room

go for it hunger for the desperate like

Jacob you need to say I will not let you

go until you bless me I will not let you

go until you bless

there is an answer there is a miracle

miracles can strike as suddenly as

tragedies so just raise your hands now

and begin to rejoice that the blessing

is on you

I speak blessing to you

power of God and the favor of men on you

receive it right now with a shout of

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