God’s Assistance: Jacob Wrestling
Read with us Genesis 32:22-32. This passage brings up a lot of questions, some of which only God can really answer. However, it is commonly accepted based on some terms used in this passage that Jacob had stayed behind to pray, most likely with regards to his upcoming meeting with Esau. However, his prayer ends up in a direct encounter with God.
God’s Assistance: Nicodemus (John 3:1-21)
Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Jewish ruling council. As such he was not a commoner and must have held a respectable position at that time. Yet unlike his colleagues, his humility allowed him to see the truths in Jesus teachings.
God’s Assistance: Elijah & the Widow of Zarephath 1Kings 17:7-15
Elijah is a prophet of the Lord who has been sent to Ahab, the king of Israel with the word that there will be no more rain or dew for the ‘next few years’ except at God’s command.
Lost. Hopeless. Unsure. Afraid. Dying. We all face days of despair. We wonder where God is. We long for His assistance.
In this week’s teaching, you’ll hear how God miraculously assisted Gideon, empowering him to rout the enemy arrayed against him. Discover how God can assist you in conquering your trials and challenges.
God’s Assistance: The Centurion Matthew 8:5-13
Jesus is very early in His ministry. He is in Galilee and has called His first disciples and is now on a ‘preaching tour’ of the area, where He has just preached the ‘Sermon on the Mount’. On His return to Capernaum, a town on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, he is approached by a centurion, an officer in the Roman legion stationed in the area, whose servant is paralyzed and dying in great pain. The centurion’s request is unspoken in the text, but implied with the statement ‘Lord, my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering’ (Matthew 8:6 NIV). Jesus recognizes the need and says He will go and heal the servant.
“Zacchaeus was a wee little man, a wee little man was he. He climbed up in a sycamore tree, for the Lord he wanted to see.” And so the children’s song begins. This story found in Luke 19:1-10 has always had an impact for it shows that no matter who we are, if we seek out the Lord, He will call to us that we might be saved.
We are embarking on a four week, five Sunday study through the Bible called ‘God’s Assistance’. In this study, you are going to meet people who needed and received God’s help in the practical, day-to-day details of their lives. The needs that we will see God meet range from the overwhelming and miraculous, to the mundane and almost unasked for and God is unmistakably in the middle of each one.
Lost. Hopeless. Unsure. Afraid. Dying. We all face days of despair. We wonder where God is. We long for His assistance.
In this week’s teaching, you’ll hear how Jesus miraculously came to assist Lazarus by raising him from the dead, and discover how God can and will assist you in similar ways.
