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00:05 #S089 - A Limp Is The First Step In A Leap (Part 2)
00:19 Welcome to the Breath of Life 00:21 Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:26 In today's episode, Pastor Snell preaches part 00:29 two of the powerful message a live is the first step 00:34 in a leap. 00:36 Now let's go deeper into the word of God. 00:40 And I need you to understand that Jacob, 00:43 in this way becomes a symbol of all of us. 00:47 Now, you're going to get mad when I say this, 00:48 because most of us don't go to the deep place 00:52 in God voluntarily. 00:59 Most of us 01:00 don't find that inner place of the most high. 01:04 Just because we feel like it. 01:06 The truth is that most of us 01:10 only find the deep place in God when there is a difficulty 01:15 or any person that drives us into the presence of God 01:21 with an urgency that our upbringing cannot create. 01:25 And I need you to know that there's a difference 01:27 between a driving agent and a satanic attack, 01:32 because a satanic attack 01:34 is going to be the thing that keeps you from praying. 01:38 But a driving agent 01:40 is going to drive you into the prayer closet. 01:43 See, sometimes the driving agent 01:47 is the unchanging circumstance in your marriage. 01:50 Sometimes the driving agent 01:54 is the pressure you feel on your job. 01:57 Sometimes the driving agent is the thorn in your flesh 02:00 that won't be moved. 02:02 Sometimes the driving agent is 02:05 the description nation you face at your place of work. 02:08 And I need you to know, as crazy as it seems, 02:12 if Jacob was here to testify, he would say, 02:15 I thank God for Esau, for he drove me to know God in a way 02:23 I could not have known Him under any other circumstance. 02:27 And I just need to know if I have seven honest sets 02:31 that will thank God for the driving agents 02:34 that pushed you closer to God 02:38 than you would ever get by yourself. 02:44 So notice what happens here. 02:46 Verse 13 Can we stay in the book? 02:48 Are you all still with the pastor? 02:50 Are y'all still with the pastor today? 02:52 So the Bible says so. 02:53 He lives there the same night 02:56 and took notice. 02:58 What happened? He prayed. 02:59 But then he lives there the same night and took what had come 03:03 to his hand as a present. 03:04 For he saw his brother 200 female goats and 20 male goats 03:08 to use in 20 rams. 03:10 30 milked camels with their coats for $0.60. 03:13 Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants. 03:17 Every drove by itself and said to his servants, Pass over 03:20 before me, put some distance between successive droves. 03:25 And he commanded this first one saying, 03:26 When he saw my brother meet you and asked you saying, 03:29 to whom do you belong and where are you going? 03:33 Whose are these in front of you? 03:36 Then you shall say they are your servant. 03:37 Jacobs It is a present sent to my Lord Esau, and behold 03:43 he is also behind us. 03:47 Now, I don't know if you saw what just happened here 03:52 all the way. 03:53 Church Do you realize that after 03:57 Jacob finished praying the story of him 04:02 and Esau should have ended when he said 04:05 Amen? 04:10 Do you realize that once he prayed, 04:14 if he had just trusted in God, that would not have been a need 04:19 for a night of Jacob's trouble and wrestling? 04:23 In other words, notice what happens. 04:27 He on the front end tries to sense gifts to appease God, 04:30 but then he gathers himself, calls on 04:33 God, and claims the promises that God made to Abraham. 04:38 But because there is no immediate result, guess what? 04:40 Panic sets in 04:42 and he goes back to the old way of scamming his way 04:45 out of stuff. 04:48 In other words, he schemed his way out of favor 04:51 with Esau 04:52 and he tries to scheme his way back into favor with Aesop. 04:57 And this is Jacob's pattern to one moment. 05:00 Hold on to God. 05:01 And we got takes too long. 05:03 I'm going to let go of God. 05:05 I'm going to trust God in this season. 05:08 But when the season does change, I'm going to let go of God. 05:11 I'm going to hold on to God in this moment. 05:14 But when I feel shaky, I let go of God and understand 05:17 that Jacob literally becomes a parable 05:21 of the inconsistency of our walk with God. 05:25 Because we walk with God and hold on in one season. 05:29 But then when money gets tight, we let go. 05:32 We hold on to God to get the job. 05:35 But when they say You got to work on Sabbath, we let go. 05:39 We hold on God to get a man, but then we let go. 05:43 When that man makes us compromise our principles. 05:47 And Jacob's pattern is to hold on and let go. 05:51 To hold on and let go, to hold on and let go. 05:55 And so God says, I'm gonna engineer a night of trouble 06:00 that teaches you how to hold on 06:03 and never let go of my hand. 06:07 Okay, so, so, so now, 06:10 you know, I'm trying to figure something out. 06:14 So I'm like, okay, 06:16 God, if you want to save Jacob, 06:20 just give him a Bible study, right? 06:24 If you want to save him, just send him to church. 06:29 But notice he doesn't save Jacob in a church service. 06:34 He saves Jacob in a confrontation. 06:39 He don't save Jacob in a Bible study. 06:42 He saves Jacob in hostility. 06:46 He doesn't save Jacob in a cool with the background 06:50 of the aliens, he saves Jacob in a warfare. 06:55 In other words, he saves Jacob by pushing him around. 06:59 He saves Jacob by knocking him to the ground. 07:02 He saves Jacob by being rough with him 07:06 and understand the manner in which Jacob is saved 07:10 teaches us a critical lesson that you can't have 07:13 any preference about the way God saves you or your children. 07:17 You've got to get to a place where you want to be saved 07:20 so bad that even if God shows up in a confrontation, 07:24 if God 07:26 shows up in a wrestling match, if God has to knock you down 07:30 to get your attention, you say, like Jacob, any way 07:33 you bless me, Lord, I'll be satisfied. 07:40 So, Adam Cole, I'm looking at this thing 07:42 and I'm trying to get like. 07:43 Like the real time. 07:45 I kind of the importance of God 07:50 wrestling with Jacob to the breaking of day. 07:53 And it's funny 07:54 because like one of the things that God began to reveal to me 07:57 is that sometimes wrestling 08:00 is a bonding activity, so that sometimes mothers 08:07 and daughters bond differently than fathers and sons. 08:12 So that my wife and daughter, they might bond while baking 08:15 something in the kitchen, or they might bond by 08:18 getting their hair or nails done. 08:20 They might bond in a very deep and meaningful conversation. 08:25 But brothers, do I get to witness 08:26 that sons and fathers don't bond always in that way, 08:30 but sometimes 08:31 we bond through confrontation and on the basketball court 08:35 that that we bond through a father son rivalry 08:39 that's developed over the years, that sometimes a father 08:42 and son will bond back wrestling with each other. 08:47 In fact, friends of mine, I'll attest 08:49 that sometimes in my own house I got two wonderful big sons. 08:53 But I need to know that sometimes I love them. 08:55 But I don't just come in and give them a hug. 08:58 But sometimes I'll come 08:59 and just bump into them to start something 09:03 that every now and then 09:05 I'll just come in and push them around to see what they going. 09:08 Then that 09:10 that as a dad, sometimes I'll knock them to the ground 09:13 just so that they can get up and we'll begin 09:16 a wrestling match right there in the middle of the bedroom. 09:20 Now, all y'all gentle parents can relate to what I'm saying. 09:23 Go see the therapist after church is over. 09:26 But sometimes fathers and sons born to a wrestling match. 09:31 Are you hear me today? 09:33 And I need you to know that sometimes I start something for 09:37 no good reason. 09:38 But there is a metric behind the madness 09:42 because there is something that takes place 09:45 when me and my sons wrestle with one another. 09:47 See, the truth 09:49 is that me and my oldest, we've been wrestling so long 09:52 that now he knows how to anticipate my moves. 09:56 Because we've been wrestling so 09:57 long, he knows how to imitate my moves 10:02 cause we've been wrestling so long. 10:05 His strength has increased because we've been wrestling 10:08 so long. 10:09 In other words, because we've been wrestling. 10:13 He becomes like me in the process. 10:17 Are y'all hear me today? 10:18 Thanks. 10:20 So, so wrestling is actually bonding activity. 10:25 Now, the other reasons I wrestle with them 10:27 is because my boys, they love us and they're not fighters. 10:30 And so every now and then I realize, Malcolm, 10:34 that there are some kids outside of our house 10:37 that don't care nothing about who they daddy is. 10:40 And so I have to fight with them so that they can handle 10:44 the battles that are waiting for them. 10:46 Not now. Let me tell the truth. 10:49 I don't know if I teach them to turn the other cheek. 10:51 How y'all pray for me in this house the next. So? 10:56 So every now and then, 10:57 Miss Dent, I engage them in a battle and a fight. 11:01 Because remember, Esau, Jacob 11:04 is afraid of Esau who's on his level, 11:08 but he prepares him for Esau by having a fight 11:11 that's beyond his level. 11:13 Okay, let me see y'all on this side. 11:16 He's afraid of Esau, who's on this level. 11:19 So God prepares him in a battle that's beyond his level. 11:22 And he is the same way 11:24 a daddy prepares a son for battle outside of the house. 11:28 Now I know my sons can't beat me, 11:31 but I just believe if they contend with me, 11:33 if they hang with me, if they can just hold on 11:37 with me, if they can just stay in the battle with me, 11:42 if they can fight with Daddy, they can handle any Negro 11:45 on the playground, on the court, in the streets. 11:50 I told them, like my daddy, if you let them whup 11:54 you in the streets, it might be some. 11:59 Now, Haryana. 12:02 So so what God does is he prepares us for 12:06 a horizontal battle by preparing us in a greater battle. 12:11 Let me say this. 12:11 I remember 12:13 probably about eight or nine years ago, you know, 12:15 they had this cotton row run here in the city of Huntsville. 12:19 And so I remember 12:21 there was me and some of the guys 12:22 from the church we trained and they dragged me in 12:25 peer pressure me into doing this cotton roll run 12:27 ten K about 6.2 miles. 12:29 So I remember training for the cotton well run. 12:31 Now, I need you to be clear. 12:32 Saints ain't trying to break no records. 12:36 My ego is not attached to my time. 12:39 My only goal is to get out of the race uninjured. 12:42 Do I have a witness? I the today brothers, 12:45 as I remember. 12:46 Good training and here in Huntsville 12:47 doing a little best I can. 12:49 And I remember Malcolm the day we showed up for the race. 12:52 All of the folk were out there getting the numbers. 12:53 And I see this older gentleman at least 12:57 he was older at the time, and this guy probably had like 12:59 1% body fat on his body. 13:03 I noticed he had some expensive running shoes on his feet. 13:06 And as we got to know each other, 13:07 we made some small talk. 13:09 As he found out that I was from Florida, 13:12 he said, I live in Florida. 13:14 I'm just here to visit a loved one for the weekend. 13:18 And the more comfortable he got as we talk, 13:21 the more condescending Louis he became. 13:24 So this brother man that you can tell he runs all the time. 13:27 He begins to criticize my shoes 13:29 and he's saying, you got on the wrong kind, 13:31 and how are they going to hurt your back down the line? 13:33 And I had on some long basketball shorts 13:36 and he says, Man, you got on these long shorts. 13:37 They got hurt. Your range of motion. 13:39 And I wanted to tell you, I'm looking at too much upper male. 13:41 Find the shorts that you got on. 13:44 You need to go back home and put on some. 13:45 NELSON And you talked about how you got on this big t shirt. 13:49 But what you need is these wicker shirts 13:52 that's going to be able to consume the sweat when you run. 13:54 And so when we got ready to take off for the race, 13:58 he looked at me in a snide way and he says, 14:00 I'll see you at the finish line if you make it. 14:05 And so now I need you now. 14:06 Since I ain't in 14:07 my feelings about this, I just want to finish the race. 14:11 And so now I'm running the race. 14:12 I'm about four and a half miles in. 14:15 And as I look ahead, I see them little tiny 14:18 shorts in front of me and I see them special 14:21 expensive shoes from about 100 yards back. 14:26 And all of a sudden I feel my help coming on. 14:29 I feel a second wind in my spirits. 14:34 I feel like the Lone Ranger about to get my man. 14:38 And I'm getting closer and closer to him. 14:41 And I notice that when we get by the heel, 14:44 he stops running and he starts walking. 14:47 And then it dawns on me he's been training in Florida 14:51 where the ground is flat. 14:54 I've been training in Huntsville, 14:56 where his heels on every corner. 15:00 So when he got to the hills, he was run it out of gas. 15:05 And Ralph, when I got close, I wanted to be a Christian. 15:10 I wanted to turn the other cheek. 15:12 But when I ran by the brother, 15:15 I said, I'll see you at the finish line 15:19 if you get there. 15:24 But because I was trained on a higher level, 15:29 it didn't matter if he had on 15:30 better shoes, it didn't matter if he had on the right side. 15:35 He hadn't wrestled like a wrestler. 15:38 He hadn't felt like I felt he hadn't scaled what I scale 15:42 and can I say to somebody that's cursing your situation 15:45 does go come a day where you praise God 15:48 for the mountains you had to climb 15:50 and the way you had to take and going up the rough 15:53 side of the mountain so that when you pass by those 15:58 who've only been on flat land, just turn and say, 16:01 I'll see you at the finish line if you make it. 16:06 There 16:08 you are here in the world today, friends, as a friend of mine, 16:16 this is why 16:19 Jacob should have just prayed 16:23 and left this thing in the hand of God. 16:26 Let me show you this quote here Patriarchs and Prophets. 16:28 Page 198, put this up on the screen. 16:31 This is why we don't ever need to be trippin. 16:33 We don't need to be stressing. 16:34 We don't need to get overwhelmed. 16:36 We don't need to allow ourselves to be in panic. 16:38 A single day of our lives can you say, man today? 16:40 Church Look at this. 16:41 Patriarchs and prophets. 198 What's this? 16:44 He called Jesus. 16:48 Oh, look at this. 16:51 While Jacob 16:54 was wrestling with the Angel, 16:57 another heavenly messenger was sent to Esau. 17:02 God, in our dream, Esau 17:05 beheld his brother for 20 years and exile. 17:10 He witness his grief at finding his mother dead. 17:14 He saw Jacob in campus by the house of God, 17:18 the God of his father was with him. 17:19 Watch this. 17:20 The two companies at last approached each other, 17:24 the desert cheek, leading his men of war, 17:28 Jacob, with his wives and children, followed by long 17:30 flocks of long lines of flocks and herds. 17:34 Now, in other words, you got an army on this side, 17:36 Jacob, with sheep and women on the other side. 17:39 And at the sight of the crippled sufferer, Esau ran 17:43 to meet them and embraced him and they wept. 17:49 Even the hearts of Israel's rude soldiers were touched, 17:54 but they 17:55 could not account 17:56 for the chains that had come over their captain. 17:59 Okay, so some of y'all already missed it. 18:03 The she says that while Jacob was wrestled, 18:08 God had already sent an angel 18:12 to go ahead and deal with Esau. 18:15 So Jacob didn't need to send no gifts. 18:19 Jacob didn't need to try to pacify him 18:22 because God had already went ahead of him and went out. 18:26 The problem, snatched the courage from Esau 18:31 and fought the battle that he could not win. 18:34 Pastor, what are you trying to say? 18:36 Wow. You trying to figure it out? 18:41 God has already worked it out. 18:47 See how many of us know 18:48 you're waiting on God to do some things? 18:51 No, God has already done it. 18:54 You're just waiting for it to be manifested. 18:57 Can I suggest to somebody today that the bill has already 19:00 been paid, 19:02 that the job has already been secured, 19:05 that the House has already closed, that the healing 19:08 has already take place, that the ministry has already grown 19:13 sick. 19:14 God has gone ahead of you and worked it out. 19:19 You just got to move to where God is already working. 19:23 So why is this? 19:27 The Bible says 19:35 he sends the women 19:38 send the flocks. 19:39 Since Roxanne in the Bible says 19:41 Jacob is left there alone. 19:46 Let me just pause and say this, 19:47 because one of God's greatest efforts in your life 19:52 so that he can get himself and reveal himself to you, 19:54 he's just got to get you along. 19:59 That's the reason God can't reach you 20:01 is because of the company you keep in. 20:05 The reason he can't reach you is because of who you came in 20:09 with on the internet. 20:10 The reason he can't reach you 20:12 is because of who you boo'd up with at the snack shop. 20:16 The reason he can't reach you is because of your boys. 20:18 That's filling your phones and your house with drama 20:22 because they sending you Nikki pictures on Instagram. 20:24 He can't reach you because of who you rolling with. 20:29 And so 20:30 understand that not all betrayal is of the devil, 20:34 not everybody is that ghost you is spiritual attack. 20:38 Sometimes God is commencing a surgery in your life 20:42 to get you separated and loose and untied 20:47 so that he can get you by yourself. 20:52 And the words says that they wrestle 20:57 to the breaking of the day. 21:01 Now I need you to get this today. 21:02 Sense that as this stranger assails Jacob 21:08 in the middle of his prayer, he is startled. 21:12 But if he really Jacob moves into a posture of confrontation, 21:16 assuming that Esau on one of his services has come upon him, 21:21 Jacob gets ready to engage for the very fight of his life. 21:26 But the servant of the Lord says, 21:27 and he notices from the very beginning of this fight, 21:30 that the strength he is combating is not of human 21:35 origin. 21:36 It is clear that this is a battle he cannot win. 21:41 But the thing I like about Jacob 21:44 is that he does not take flights 21:47 when God shows up, he says. 21:50 Since you came for me, 21:53 I'm going to come back for you. 21:56 And you've got to see this thing that God grabs 21:58 Jacob by the arm and God Jacob knocks his arm free. 22:03 That God grants Jacob by the leg 22:06 and Jacob shakes himself loose. 22:08 That God gets Jacob and the full Nelson and Jacob slips away. 22:13 Jacob gets God in the suplex, but somehow God breaks three 22:18 and before they know it, they've been in a sweaty embrace 22:22 where He is so close to God that He can feel the breath of God, 22:26 that the sweat of God is falling upon Him and the Bible says 22:32 that they wrestle all night till the breaking of the day, 22:36 and when the beams of light begin to pierce 22:39 the horizon, the angel says, Let me go 22:44 for the day breaks. 22:46 But Jacob doesn't let him go. 22:49 So the angel touches 22:52 with his finger, the hollow of his thigh, 22:57 and knocks it all the way out of joint. 23:00 Now, I need you to get the miracle, 23:02 because even though he knocks the tie out of joint, 23:06 guess what? 23:06 Jacob is still wrestling 23:09 his own one good leg, and Jacob is guilty of wrestling. 23:13 Jacob gets knocked to the ground, 23:15 but Jacob is still wrestling. 23:17 He grabs the man and he knocks him free. 23:21 And Jacob grabs his garment. 23:22 He shakes it loose. 23:24 Jacob grabs his sandal and he kicks him off. 23:28 Jacob grabs his arm and he shakes him free. 23:31 But after the last time of getting knocked on the ground, 23:35 Jacob gets up on his knees, climbs up the angel's garment, 23:39 grabs him face to face, gets in the face of God 23:43 and says, God, I don't mean to be rude. 23:47 I don't mean to be unseemly, but you can't leave yet. 23:52 And do I have any Jacob's that will get like Jacob 23:56 and say, God, I won't let you go 24:00 until you 24:02 bless me. 24:06 And that ain't even the best part. 24:10 He yells on, goes on to God, Now get what's happening. 24:13 Because this 24:15 is the moment of deliverance 24:18 for somebody in 2025. 24:21 This is where you have to overcome. 24:24 You realize that there is a nerve center around your thigh. 24:28 So if your thigh gets 24:31 knocked out of joint, suddenly it's going to be a pain 24:37 that is unbearable. 24:41 So be honest here yet, 24:43 Jacob is holding on to God 24:46 while experiencing an unbearable 24:49 kind of pain. 24:52 He's holding on to God while dealing with the pain 24:57 that is too human for him not to respond to. 25:00 Now, what's human nature when something is hurting you, 25:04 your natural response is to start holding it. 25:08 Yeah. Okay. 25:09 When something is hurting, your natural response 25:13 is to hold it. 25:15 But notice that when Jacob is hurting, 25:18 he doesn't hold on to us. 25:20 Hurting him. He holds on to God. 25:24 Oh, God, 25:26 he doesn't hold on to his pain. 25:28 He holds on to His Savior. 25:31 He doesn't hold on to his infirmity. 25:34 He holds on to his healer. 25:36 And the word of deliverance to someone today 25:39 is you got to stop holding on to was hurting you 25:44 and you got to stop holding on to your God, stop 25:48 holding on to your ex and start holding on to your God. 25:53 Stop holding on to your parents and start 25:55 holding on to your God. 25:57 Stop holding on to your sickness 26:00 and stop holding on to your God. 26:03 You can't be changed and you can't be free 26:06 until you stop holding on to your pain 26:13 and start 26:14 holding on to your savior. 26:17 Because the truth is, you can't admit it. 26:19 That's why we all look at him crazy 26:21 is that we've been holding on to our hurt 26:24 more than we hold on to the healer. 26:28 We've been holding on to our suspicions 26:30 more than we hold on to our Savior. 26:33 We've been holding on to the ones who left us 26:37 more than we hold on to the God who stands next to us. 26:40 We hold on more to those that have injured us 26:44 more than we hold on to the one that prosperous us. 26:47 And I'm looking to see if I got 18 folk in the room 26:50 who are going to take a leap this year. 26:52 And you're going to say, I'm going experience deliverance. 26:55 You're saying I'm going be set free. 26:58 I'm laying aside the chains of yesterday. 27:01 I'm laying aside every bitterness, I'm casting 27:04 aside every yoke I'm no longer holding on to what hurt me. 27:10 But I'm going to start holding on to my God. |
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