Sunday - March 1, 2009
My Daily Devotional - I have a Limp (Feb 29th — but only 28 days so it was the next devotional)
Sunday  Sermon - Testimony from the Tombs
Family Night - God and me (Scripture SAME as I have a Limp)

This was so amazing to me because both the family night sermon and my daily devotional were the exact same scripture Genesis 32:24-30. It talked about God pressing pause on our situations/blessings/lives in order to get our attention and keep it focused on Him.  It talked also about God giving a limp in order to keep us dependent on Him rather then ourselves.   Also it talked of the limp slowing us down so that we do not get ahead of God. 

This message spoke volumes to me in reference to my current situation.  Ofthen times I get so ahead of what God is trying to do in my life that I forget what and where my focus should be.  When God gives revelation, sometimes we just have to take it day by day, continue to walk and just let him work it out in front of us.  God does not give us revelation because he needs our help.  He gives us revelation so that when He produces what He says He is going to produce, we can be amazed see His Glory.  We can then go out and share that testimony with someone else so that they too can be blessed and believe.  It is not about us, which is what I think I tend to forget.  It is about His Glory, His Plan, the bigger picture. Anytime we get ahead of God, we end up wrestling. 

But the part that I like the most is that God changed His name.  For all that we can say about Jacob, he was a survivor, he was resourceful but yet, he was a trickster, a heal catcher, and a runner.  When he wrestled with God, Jacob took on a battle he knew he could not win, and YET he did not give up until it blessed him.  And because of this, God changed his name, He changed his name from Trickster to Isreal, he went from being a heal chaser, to one that is governed by God.  

He went away brand new, blessed, annointed and dependent on God.  What can be better than that?