TurningPoint Community Church

CORPORATE PRAYER

• Pray for someone to invite to our Easter service, and for the courage to ask.

• Pray for God’s blessing on our nation and its leaders.

• Pray for God to heal the sick in your life space.

• Ask God to give you a hunger for His Word and His will.

“The one who fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.”

— Edward Clowney

• God’s will WILL be accomplished in our lives. God will guard the “land” He has promised to us.

• Panic and prayer are often cousins in the loving purposes of God.

• God will do what He must in our lives, to draw us to Him in deeper faith and trust.

Faith wins when it knows that all is lost, and clings to God alone.”

—Edmund Clowney

•God aims to teach us to trust Him in the wrestlings of life.

• God teaches us to experience His intimacy through His power and His purposeful working in us.

• Cling to the one who first laid hold of you.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

1. Have you ever taken a long trip where your destination was uncertain?

2. What do you find most interesting in the story of Jacob’s return to Canaan?

3. What is the most shocking insight from the story of Jacob wrestling with God?

4. Discuss what we can apply to our own spiritual journey with God from this account.

NEXT STEP:

• This week, I will ask God to help me review the circumstances of my own spiritual pilgrimage, so I can give thanks for how He has directed me the whole time