Calling

Wrestling with God

Objective

This training explores how God uses wrestling matches as a way to encounter and transform us in ministry. It emphasizes that these struggles often arise when we try to control situations or achieve blessings on our own instead of trusting God. By surrendering to Him in the midst of these struggles, we can experience personal growth and receive the new names and identities He has for us.

Overview

  1. Encounters with God are crucial for personal transformation.
  2. Jacob wrestled with God because he tried to control everything.
  3. The Core Aspects of the Wrestling Match:
    1. Fight: Intense struggle where we must focus on how God wants to change us.
    2. Surrender: Actively rely on God, ask for His blessing.
    3. Victory: God transforms us, gives us a new identity.
  4. Surrender involves crying out to God for blessings.
  5. Learn to surrender and personally transform who you are

Questions

  1. Can you identify anywhere you are wrestling with God at the moment? What is the source of that struggle?
  2. What "new name" do you think God might be calling you to embrace? How would that change your identity and approach to ministry?
  3. How can you discern when a struggle is a God-encounter moment versus a simple hardship?
  4. Surrender isn’t passive. What area of your life is God asking you to actively surrender?

Verses Referenced

Genesis 32

Philippians 2:12

James 4:10

Revelation 21:7

Further Study

2 Corinthians 5:17

Galatians 2:20

Psalm 34:8

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