“I can't change myself, like Jacob, he had to go get broken, Lord, just deal with this, break these sins off my life.”
Using Jacob’s story, Chaplain Eric Acevedo preached that wrestling with God is not about insisting on your own way but being brought to brokenness, repentance, and transformation so you can walk in God’s promises with humility and obedience.
“That night, Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok... So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.”
A packed Inland Empire Sunday service featuring worship, communion reflections on Job, teaching from Matthew and Genesis, baptisms/testimonies, mission and leadership announcements, and a central sermon on 'wrestling with God' (Genesis 32) calling believers to honest, transformative prayer and wholehearted discipleship.
“Jacob meets God and wrestles (the wrestling at Peniel).”
Apostle Tobi teaches that believers are 'champion seed' born into spiritual conflict and called to fight from victory. Using Jacob and Esau, he urges listeners to develop spiritual discipline, practical skill (the 'stew' as a medium of transfer), and a persistent prayer life to claim their destiny, receive revelation and experience deliverance.
“Jacob has an encounter with God, receives a new name when asked 'what is your name,' and walks away limping.”
Pastor Daniel Batarseh taught practical, foundational tools for studying the Bible: read the whole Bible systematically, read slowly and meditatively, ask the text disciplined questions, use cross-references (Bible interprets Bible), notice concrete details, watch for repetition, and apply New Covenant and Christ-centered lenses. He framed Bible study as essential to discipleship and church mission, illustrated each tool with biblical examples (Abraham, Jacob, Peter, Jude, Luke, John, Genesis, Revelation) and led a short group exercise in Genesis 18.
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