1. Encountering God Part 13: Is God your God?

2. Genesis 31:10-13 "And it came about at the time when the flock were mating that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which were mating were striped, speckled, and mottled. "Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, `Jacob,' and I said, `Here I am.' "He said, `Lift up now your eyes and see that all the male goats which are mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. `I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.”

3. Encountering God: Is God Your God? 1.Our blessings come from the H_________ of God, not from our L________ alone. 2.God B_________ the work of His people’s H__________. 3.If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, you can know that God is F________ you! 4.Jacob knows some things about God: a)He knows God as the S__________ Being. b)He knows God as P____________ and P___________ Maker. c)He knows God as J_________ Giver.

4. Encountering God: Is God Your God? HAND LABORS 1.Our blessings come from the HAND of God, not from our LABORS alone. 2.God B_________ the work of His people’s H__________. 3.If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, you can know that God is F________ you! 4.Jacob knows some things about God: a)He knows God as the S__________ Being. b)He knows God as P____________ and P___________ Maker. c)He knows God as J_________ Giver.

5. Genesis 30:27 Laban said to him, "If now it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the LORD has blessed me on your account."

6. Encountering God: Is God Your God? HAND LABORS 1.Our blessings come from the HAND of God, not from our LABORS alone. BLESSESHANDS 2.God BLESSES the work of His people’s HANDS. 3.If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, you can know that God is F________ you! 4.Jacob knows some things about God: a)He knows God as the S__________ Being. b)He knows God as P____________ and P___________ Maker. c)He knows God as J_________ Giver.

7. Psalm 1:3 “He (the follower of God) will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.”

8. Genesis 31:42 "If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night."

9. Encountering God: Is God Your God? HAND LABORS 1.Our blessings come from the HAND of God, not from our LABORS alone. BLESSESHANDS 2.God BLESSES the work of His people’s HANDS. FOR 3.If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, you can know that God is FOR you! 4.Jacob knows some things about God: a)He knows God as the S__________ Being. b)He knows God as P____________ and P___________ Maker. c)He knows God as J_________ Giver.

10. Romans 8:31-32 “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things.”

11. Genesis 32:9-10 “Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, `Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,' I am unworthy of all the loving kindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.”… "For You said, `I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered”'

12. Encountering God: Is God Your God? HAND LABORS 1.Our blessings come from the HAND of God, not from our LABORS alone. BLESSESHANDS 2.God BLESSES the work of His people’s HANDS. FOR 3.If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, you can know that God is FOR you! 4.Jacob knows some things about God: SUPREME a)He knows God as the SUPREME Being. b)He knows God as P____________ and P___________ Maker. c)He knows God as J_________ Giver.

13. Encountering God: Is God Your God? HAND LABORS 1.Our blessings come from the HAND of God, not from our LABORS alone. BLESSESHANDS 2.God BLESSES the work of His people’s HANDS. FOR 3.If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, you can know that God is FOR you! 4.Jacob knows some things about God: SUPREME a)He knows God as the SUPREME Being. PROVIDERPROSPERITY b)He knows God as PROVIDER and PROSPERITY Maker. c)He knows God as J_________ Giver.

14. Encountering God: Is God Your God? HAND LABORS 1.Our blessings come from the HAND of God, not from our LABORS alone. BLESSESHANDS 2.God BLESSES the work of His people’s HANDS. FOR 3.If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, you can know that God is FOR you! 4.Jacob knows some things about God: SUPREME a)He knows God as the SUPREME Being. PROVIDERPROSPERITY b)He knows God as PROVIDER and PROSPERITY Maker. JUSTICE c)He knows God as JUSTICE Giver.

15. Romans 8:35-37 “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “for your sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

16. Encountering God Part 13: Is God your God?