Wrestling With God

Genesis 32:24


The human mind is a rigid element whose changing does not occur by the flipping of a mere switch. The changing of one's mental state of affairs occurs after an intense wrestling with the mind.



Many times than not when the mind of an individual is mentally disturbed its as a result of the fact that they are some demonic forces that are wrestling with the mind of that particular individual's identity.


In the event of one's mind wrestling with different spiritual forces there is always a lose of touch with the environment of one's stay and place of operation. And when is it that one has lost touch with his/her environment of operation then they are taken into an insane asylum.



In the effort to transform and change one's identity, the spirit of God does not simply set out to wrestle with one's environment but rather he sets out to wrestle with one's mind.


This so, because in order to change one's environment its the mind that has got to be wrestled with thereof.And once the mind has been changed then the environment will change.


When the environment changes then the identity will also fundamentally and radically change.

In Genesis 32:24, we come across Jacob wrestling with a man(who later we understand was God).


However before Jacob wrestles with God his historical background is of such that he was a servant in his father's house, a servant in his uncle(Laban)'s house.

And just before he wrestles with God he is surely destined to end up as a servant in the house of his brother Esau.



However the wrestling with God that Jacob begins to endure in genesis 32:24 is surely aimed and predestined to change his servant hood from being man -centric unto God-centric.


In order to be an effective servant of God there is a need and a fundamental requirement to be independent of men. And in order to ensure that you are independent of men and dependent to God, God has to give unto you in terms of certain natural resources and supernatural resources so as to facilitate your total dependence unto God Almighty as a servant in his presence.


Its pivotal to wrestle with God because apart from altering the course of your natural destiny and ushering you unto the course of your spiritual destiny, wrestling with God also ushers you into a trans formative process designed to lead you up to a level and a degree of identity change.


The people who knew Jacob before he wrestled with God were unable to identify with him immediately after he wrestled with God because Jacob had been transformed physically, spiritually, and psychologically.


In short, whenever man wrestles with God in order to come to terms with the elements that shape his present and the future, that man can never remain the same because immediately after the wrestling he become a new man.


In Genesis 32:22 the argument is of such that during the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two servant wives, and his eleven sons and crossed the Jabbok River with them.


After taking them to the other side, he sent over all his possessions.


This left Jacob all a lone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob's hip and wrenched it out of its socket.


The aforementioned narrative mysterious suggests that in order for there to be a wrestling with God, its incumbent upon the man who is to wrestle with God to create an environment of privacy and secrecy.



In other wards if God is going to wrestle with you then the wrestling is going to endure in a private and secret place. A place that is not open to the casual observers and spectators eyes of the general public.


This is imperative because God never appears in openness but rather he appears in privacy and secrecy so that the consequences of his appearance may be a witness unto his glory, victory, and honor before the whole world.


In taking all the members of his family and every thing that he owned across the Jabbok river.


Jacob was demonstrating his commitment to wrestling with God by creating an environment of privacy and secrecy so that God can be welcome enough to wrestle with Jacob so that Jacob's life can make a fundamental transition and transformation in regards to his spiritual, physical, and psychological stature and awareness.


Before wrestling with God Jacob regards himself as a mere family head but immediately after the wrestling he then becomes a national leader and a leader of a nation.


Thus once you create an environment of privacy and secrecy with the objective of wrestling with God then immediately you will endure a transformation which will be earmarked by shifting from your lowest capacity to your highest capacity in regards to your operation in life.


Immediately after wrestling with God Almighty then you will cease to walk according to your natural and time-bound identity demands and then will begin to walk as your eternal and time boundless identity demands.


The resources for the life of you will then have no limit unto them but they will be limitless.


At this juncture if you feel and know that you are at a place where you have been deprived of company and completely void of any sort of company, it goes down to tell you that there is a call upon your life to wrestle with the creator and maker of the heavens and earth.


God had to impel and compel you to be at a place that is void of any physical company so that he may be able to come and wrestle you.


So that your life can go through a transformation from a mere man to a major nation. Wrestling with God confirms that you not only a man but a nation.




The greatest error that a man appointed to wrestle with God will ever register is the error of running after company after God has taken company away from the man that he has chosen and appointed to wrestle with.

Don't run after any company when you know you have been appointed by God to wrestle with God.


This should be so under the standing that as soon as you finish wrestling with God there will be a divine measure of value deposited on the inside of your life and existence.


A divine measure of value that is in no man and in no other part of the world except in your being.


And because of this distinctive and idiosyncratic divine measure of value the whole world is about to come looking for you and to dwell amidst your company because of the divine deposit of God on your inside which deposit is no where in the world and has never been witnessed by no body living.