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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