Open Heaven by Tommy Tenney

Author:Tommy Tenney [Tenney, Tommy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780768403015
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

CHAPTER 6

NEVER TRUST ANYONE WITHOUT A LIMP

WRESTLING WITH DIVINE DESTINY

GOD’S PEOPLE NEED MORE THAN just another “good meeting” that sends goose bumps up and down their spines. We need a God-meeting that leaves us with a limp! Where are the Jacobs who will lay hold on the theophany of God and wrestle with their destiny until it is changed? Who will take hold of God and say, “I am not going to let go until You bless me”?

Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” (Genesis 32:24-26 NKJV)

Many people wonder how Jacob could use such improper, impertinent language with God Almighty. I believe that Jacob, “the heel-grabber,” used the only terminology he understood. He may have become a patriarch, but he wasn’t a theologian. People of passion will desperately pursue what the educated tell them can’t be caught. Jacob knew what a blessing was because he remembered what happened when his father laid his hand on his head:

“All I know is that my father’s blessing changed my life and made things different, and I’ve got to have something like that again. The only thing I know to call it is a ‘blessing,’ so touch me.

“I’ve got to have it. I’ve already had a blessing from the earthly perspective. Now I need it from a heavenly perspective. I am not going to let You go until You bless me.”

THIS ISN’T SOME CELESTIAL "BLUE-LIGHT SPECIAL"

All too often we approach God with a discount store mentality. Whether we come for revival, physical healing, or a financial blessing, we hope to get what we want at the cheapest price in the shortest time possible. I don’t know about you, but I have never seen God do things that way. We like to line up like we’ve found some celestial “blue-light special” with our lists of prayers and petitions. Then we say, “Bless me.” I have begun to pray that God would not answer our exact requests, but answer according to our need instead. We know what we want—but do we know what we need?

Jacob’s name literally means “supplanter” or trickster. He was a lifelong deceiver, a trickster who stole his older brother’s birthright and his father’s blessing. To say he was untrustworthy was probably an understatement. Yet Jacob came from a good family, the son of one of the most famous men in history. He grew up “in church” because Abraham and Isaac had passed down to their sons the stories of their encounters with God. Jacob had a calling on his life and a divine destiny to fulfill—but he couldn’t be trusted in his present state. All that was about to change with one encounter.

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