Message Notes

HAVING A DEFECTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF SEEKING GOD’S BLESSINGS   (Genesis 27-28)

1. Misunderstanding about seeking God’s blessing

2. Misapplying oneself to seeking God’s blessings

3. Result – Misery experienced

THE CORRECTIVE ELEMENT NEEDED IN UNDERSTANDING GOD’S BLESSINGS

1. Revelation of God   (Genesis 28:13)

2. Promise of blessing   (Genesis 28:14-15)

3. Corrective work begins   (Genesis 28-30)

a. Experienced deception

b. Humbling to go through

c. God allowing us to go through correction

4. Learning to place the Lord in our life

A REFLECTION ON HOW THE LORD HAD BLESSED

1. Seeing the Lord’s hand of blessings   (Genesis 31:5-9)

a. The Lord turned things around for Jacob

b. The Lord protected him

c. The Lord prospered him

2. Defective concepts corrected   (Genesis 31:42)

a. Walking with God

b. Depending on God

c. Recognising God’s hand of blessing

i. Unless the Lord has blessed

ii. Jacob would have gone away empty-handed

3. Seeing the Lord’s mercies and truth   (Genesis 32:9-12)

a. Unworthy of the Lord’s mercies and truth

b. Your Servant

APPROPRIATE RESPONSES

1. Needing the Lord to correct our understanding of blessings

2. Learning to wait on the Lord for His blessings

3. Learning to reflect when we see His blessings