Wrestle with God

[Lamb]

What are some examples of current day wrestling with God?

 

[Frankj]

What are you meaning by wrestling with God? Are you meaning this is the sense that Jacob wrestled with angel and would not let go till he got what he wanted from it?

 

[NewCreation435]

One might be knowing that God wants you to do something or go somewhere and then not wanting to do it. Being willing to surrender our will to God's and do what he wants. The wrestling that Jesus went through in the Garden before he was betrayed comes to mind.

 

[Edward429451]

One might be knowing that God wants you to do something or go somewhere and then not wanting to do it. Being willing to surrender our will to God's and do what he wants. The wrestling that Jesus went through in the Garden before he was betrayed comes to mind.

That's true for all of us isn't it? It is guarenteed that the Lord will say things you do not like. Do this...I don't want to Lord.

That happened to me. I was living in Colorful Colorado where every day is like being on vacation. God gave a Brother in Christ a word of knowledge about me and told me to move to Ohio. Now that was not on my agenda, ever! I am from Ohio and do have family here, but we moved away to Ohio in the first pllace to, get away from Ohio. We didn't want to raise our kids there.

So my online forum friend whom I've never met before, calls me up one day and says, Ed, I dunno what this means, but the Lord told me to tell you to, give your business to your Son, and move to Ohio...

And in my mind, I immediately rejected it. I lived in Colorado might as well say 30 years and two times during those 30 years we went to Ohio to visit. BOTH TIMES we cut our visit short and went home early. Nothing had changed, Ohio is, a not good place.

Then my Brother in Christ friend keeps on talking, and he starts talking about different aspects of my life and what will happen and so forth and these were things...that I had not shared with him before ever! So this was my Confirmation that the message was legit and from God. I hung up that phone with a heavy heart. No I don't want to go live in Ohio again!

My stubborn spirit was alive and well and kicking. No, I wont go to Ohio! What for? And I tried to put it out of my mind...but the Lord was ready for that!
All of a sudden, everyone was teaching and preaching about Jonah. I couldn't sign on to youtube without seeing a Jonah teaching or hearing someone refer to Jonah! And that made me scared. I watched the teachings until I was sick of them and it scared me. I think the Lord is Warning me! I better obey God and go to Ohio...Now I know, how Abraham must have felt! For what? Can anything good come from Columbus Ohio? Drat. So I was scared enough to give my son my business and got as big a trailer as I could rent and took the best stuff with me and left a whole lot of furniture and things I didn't have room for.

That was in 2016. I dreaded being here again, especially to live...but, the Lord had several things in store for me. And in 9 years, I did have a task to perform which I did.. Then He gave me my own house, paid off and no mortgage payment. He let my disability go through so I have everything a body needs.

The Lord has totally blessed me so much for my obedience in this thing, that He rewarded me with many things and has brought my heart to a place where, I am glad that the Lord sent me here. It was worth it. And I trust Him even more now!.

 

[NewCreation435]

That's true for all of us isn't it? It is guarenteed that the Lord will say things you do not like. Do this...I don't want to Lord.

That happened to me. I was living in Colorful Colorado where every day is like being on vacation. God gave a Brother in Christ a word of knowledge about me and told me to move to Ohio. Now that was not on my agenda, ever! I am from Ohio and do have family here, but we moved away to Ohio in the first pllace to, get away from Ohio. We didn't want to raise our kids there.

So my online forum friend whom I've never met before, calls me up one day and says, Ed, I dunno what this means, but the Lord told me to tell you to, give your business to your Son, and move to Ohio...

And in my mind, I immediately rejected it. I lived in Colorado might as well say 30 years and two times during those 30 years we went to Ohio to visit. BOTH TIMES we cut our visit short and went home early. Nothing had changed, Ohio is, a not good place.

Then my Brother in Christ friend keeps on talking, and he starts talking about different aspects of my life and what will happen and so forth and these were things...that I had not shared with him before ever! So this was my Confirmation that the message was legit and from God. I hung up that phone with a heavy heart. No I don't want to go live in Ohio again!

My stubborn spirit was alive and well and kicking. No, I wont go to Ohio! What for? And I tried to put it out of my mind...but the Lord was ready for that!
All of a sudden, everyone was teaching and preaching about Jonah. I couldn't sign on to youtube without seeing a Jonah teaching or hearing someone refer to Jonah! And that made me scared. I watched the teachings until I was sick of them and it scared me. I think the Lord is Warning me! I better obey God and go to Ohio...Now I know, how Abraham must have felt! For what? Can anything good come from Columbus Ohio? Drat. So I was scared enough to give my son my business and got as big a trailer as I could rent and took the best stuff with me and left a whole lot of furniture and things I didn't have room for.

That was in 2016. I dreaded being here again, especially to live...but, the Lord had several things in store for me. And in 9 years, I did have a task to perform which I did.. Then He gave me my own house, paid off and no mortgage payment. He let my disability go through so I have everything a body needs.

The Lord has totally blessed me so much for my obedience in this thing, that He rewarded me with many things and has brought my heart to a place where, I am glad that the Lord sent me here. It was worth it. And I trust Him even more now!.

I've had the experience several times. I did a summer mission trip one year in college and I was assigned to Nevada. I really didn't want to spend my time in Nevada, but went anyway. Though to be honest I don't think I had a good attitude about it most of the time

 

[BruceLeiter]

I have "wrestled" with God several times. The most intense time was when God healed my major, seven-year depression but left behind four kinds of chronic, physical pain as my "thorn in the flesh" that have lasted until the present. I thanked him for his healing of my depression after lamenting for 8 1/2 months the many losses in my first 43 years of life.

However, thirteen years into my pain, I began to feel again the tiredness of depression and asked God (he's my divine Shrink, but he has also blessed me through human shrinks) what I was getting depressed about. A strong thought came to me that it was my pain.

As a result, I began to lament (wrestle) with God for letting me have the pain; he certainly didn't cause it. I unloaded my anger at him in prayer, the way Job (chapter 10), David (Psalms 6, 22, 39, and 88), Jeremiah (Lamentations 3), and Habakkuk did. After my 60 laments over two months, God came close to me with his peace of Philippians 4:6-7, so that "the" pain became "my" pain and he enabled me to accept it as part of my life with his help to control it.

In our prayers, we don't often persist in them like the widow seeking the unjust Judge's justice in Jesus' parable, because of our culture's fast-food mentality. Persistent prayer is Jesus' point in that story (Luke 18:1-7):

Luk 18:1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Luk 18:2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
Luk 18:3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary....’
Luk 18:7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?"