TurningPoint Community Church

• God has determined to accomplish His will through human weakness.

See Genesis 28:3-4

• God loves the many colors and ethnicities that make up His Church.

• We must pray and strive to pass on our faith to our future generations.

See Genesis 28:8-9

See Galatians 4:4

• True religion comes not from human’s pursuit of God, but from God’s pursuit of humans.

• We can grow up in a God-fearing family without fearing God ourselves.

• The assurance of God’s presence should birth in us the same worshipful response and confidence it prompted in Jacob.

• God, by grace, visits us and promises us protection and provision, so that we might be a blessing to others.

• What Jacob’s dream promised became a reality in the enfleshment of Jesus Christ.

• Jesus is the TRUE Bethel, the house of God, Immanuel, God with us."

“Every morning, Christians may anoint God’s Anointed with the fresh oil of devotion, and say, 'This is the gate of heaven. God is in this place.'”

— Edmund P. Clowney

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

1. Describe a time you’ve felt really alone. What did God teach you through that experience?

2. Share a great turning point in your life regarding God.

3. Discuss Jacob’s response of worship to his dream (Genesis 28:16-22).

4. What worshipful responses might we offer to God when we have experienced HIs presence in a significant way?

NEXT STEP:

• This week, I will more specifically respond in worship for the work of God in my life.