Comments on: Blessings http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/06/15/blessings/ uncovering life's layers, exploring truth's terrain... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:51:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Karsten http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/06/15/blessings/#comment-1074 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:26:59 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/06/15/blessings/#comment-1074 I love that Scripture as well. Do you realize where the blessing in the story began? When morning came, and he realized that he had been wrestling with God, he refused to let Him go. He said, "I will not let you go until you bless me." What a powerful statement, albeit a simplistic one in its approach! He had been wrestling all night with God, and now he said he would not let go of God until He blessed Him. That is where the Church has went wrong today: we have let go of God. We lose sleep at night, wrestling with God over issues of finances, marital problems, hidden sins, and confusion over our purpose. Yet when we are done wrestling with the issue, we let go of the God. We should be as father Jacob, and refuse to let God go until He blesses us! We should not leave Church, not stop praying, refuse to cease fasting, press on in our meditating, read the Word without fainting, and refuse to let God go until He changes our very lives! Have you let God go? Or are you continuing to hold on to Him, even after you've wrestled with Him? I love that Scripture as well. Do you realize where the blessing in the story began? When morning came, and he realized that he had been wrestling with God, he refused to let Him go. He said, “I will not let you go until you bless me.” What a powerful statement, albeit a simplistic one in its approach! He had been wrestling all night with God, and now he said he would not let go of God until He blessed Him.

That is where the Church has went wrong today: we have let go of God. We lose sleep at night, wrestling with God over issues of finances, marital problems, hidden sins, and confusion over our purpose. Yet when we are done wrestling with the issue, we let go of the God. We should be as father Jacob, and refuse to let God go until He blesses us! We should not leave Church, not stop praying, refuse to cease fasting, press on in our meditating, read the Word without fainting, and refuse to let God go until He changes our very lives!

Have you let God go? Or are you continuing to hold on to Him, even after you’ve wrestled with Him?

]]> by: susie albert miller http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/06/15/blessings/#comment-1073 Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:53:14 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2005/06/15/blessings/#comment-1073 i loved this book, when i happened upon it at a friends house, a while back, and i need to buy it as well... thanks for the reminder;) i loved this book, when i happened upon it at a friends house, a while back, and i need to buy it as well… thanks for the reminder;)

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