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Resetting Your Life

Explore Jacob's journey of facing his past, wrestling with God, and embracing a new identity, and discover how it relates to resetting our own lives. |

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Resetting Your Life

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  1. Resetting Your Life Breakthroughs Jacob’s New Name

  2. Resetting Your Life Genesis 32: 9-12 NIV 9 Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’ 10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. 11 Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children. 12 But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’ ”

  3. Resetting Your Life Questions • We let our pasts haunt us. Why? • How should our relationship with Christ affect this? • Why does God take us on journeys that require us to face our past in order to embrace His plan? • How do we try to avoid dealing with our past?

  4. Resetting Your Life Genesis 32: 22-30 NIV 22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

  5. Resetting Your Life Questions • How does our past isolate us from others? • How has God wrestled with you as you tried to reconcile your past with the journey He has for you? • Has God had to resort to “touching your hip” in order to bring your wrestling with Him to an end? • Is it wrong to be persistent in your wrestling with God as you seek to reconcile your past with His plan? Explain. • Can we request that God bless us?

  6. Resetting Your Life Genesis 32: 22-30 NIV 27 The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered. 28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” 29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there. 30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

  7. Resetting Your Life Questions • What is our new name in Christ? • How has God prepared/is He preparing you for the plans that he has for you? • What do we learn about the dealing with the intersection of our past and God’s future for us from Jacob’s experience? • What can we do to remember or memorialize our experiences wrestling with God?

  8. Resetting Your Life Genesis 33: 1-5 NIV 1 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. 3 He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother. 4 But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept. 5 Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

  9. Resetting Your Life Questions • Why do we fear stuff from our past? • What is the best way to deal with stuff from our past? • What had to happen in order for Jacob to be ready to move forward? • What do we need to do in order to move forward and follow God?

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