The righteous of God

Psalms 34:19(19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.)
Genesis 32:22-31(22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”)But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”“Jacob,” he answered.28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.30 So Jacob called the place Peniel,[b] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,[c] and he was limping because of his hip.


The righteous of God has the capacity to overcome all things.

However the power of the righteous does not come without pain.

As a matter of fact the power of the righteous is many times than not born from experiences whose aftermath leaves us nursing pain.

But the focus of attention should not be on the pain inflicted during the time when we enduring the experience that God has called to us but our attention should be the blessing attained from the experience.

They are lessons to be learnt from every experience God calls us unto.

And these lessons are vitally important to the accumulation of our wisdom, knowledge, and understanding in God, which in turn give us the capacity to overcome and to be crowned victors.

Jacob wrestled with God from the stroke of midnight to the break of day.

And by the time the wrestling is done, Jacob’s image looks defeated, and injured but the matter is that before the angel of God spoke a word of blessing upon Jacob he first inflicted pain unto his hip.

The blessing that Jacob received from the angel of God was the blessing of being called Israel.

Israel in this context translates to mean the righteous of God.

The righteous of God is the very power of God that overcomes all things.

It’s here and now that we ought to carefully consider the idea that the power of God many times than not comes from the pain inflicting experiences that we endure.

After the infliction of pain follows the crown of power, Jacob "s hip was in pain but his head had been crowned with power as a result of the pain inflicted while Jacob was wrestling with the Angel of the living God.

Jesus is the righteous of God but for him to bear the crown of all power in both the heavens and the earth came as a result of the pain he endured on the cross upon the hill of Calvary.

Furthermore it’s here that we understand that when God calls you to the crown of power/the righteousness of God before he actually crowns you they will be a season of painful experiences.

They is need to keep moving forward despite the pain born from an experience that is God led, guided and directed you unto.

Because after the pain comes the crown of people and righteousness which are the capacity to overcome all things.

Jacob's picturesque image after wresting with the angel of the living God looked like that of an individual who had just suffered defeat at the hands of life, but yet still they were joy in his heart.

Because he understood that even though he has struggles with his life moving forward he has received a crown of righteousness/power from the experience that inflicted pain to his hip.

And that his newly begot crown will enable him confront all his tormentors with boldness in order to overcome all things.