Jacob's prayer

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This sermon preached by Charles Spurgeon invites us to meditate on God's presence.

A true dip in the story of Jacob , a man of many faults and had a change of character after a shocking encounter with God.

This sermon preached by Charles Spurgeon invites us to reflect on our character as Christians and shows us how the Lord is willing to mold us to finally have an intimate relationship with Him and full.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Editora Oxigênio
• Release date: Sep 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9788582182819

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), nació en Inglaterra, y fue un predicador bautista que se mantuvo muy influyente entre cristianos de diferentes denominaciones, los cuales todavía lo conocen como «El príncipe de los predicadores». El predicó su primer sermón en 1851 a los dieciséis años y paso a ser pastor de la iglesia en Waterbeach en 1852. Publicó más de 1.900 sermones y predicó a 10.000,000 de personas durante su vida. Además, Spurgeon fue autor prolífico de una variedad de obras, incluyendo una autobiografía, un comentario bíblico, libros acerca de la oración, un devocional, una revista, poesía, himnos y más. Muchos de sus sermones fueron escritos mientras él los predicaba y luego fueron traducidos a varios idiomas. Sin duda, ningún otro autor, cristiano o de otra clase, tiene más material impreso que C.H. Spurgeon.

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JACOB’S MODEL PRAYER

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

EXPOSITION GENESIS 32

JACOB’S MODEL PRAYER

And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said unto me,

Return unto your country, and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you: I am not worthy of the least

of all the mercies, and of all the truth which You have shown unto Your servant, for with my staff I

passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. Deliver me, I pray You, from the hand

of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and

the mother with the children. And You said, I will surely do you good, and make your

seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude."

Genesis 32:9-12. 

You must have noticed, dear Friends, how very frequently God makes the life of a man to be the reflection of his character. There is an echo in the outward experience, to the inward character of the man.

Look at the life of Abraham. He trusted God in a very eminent degree shall I be incorrect if I say that God also eminently trusted him?

The Lord spoke with Abraham as a man speaks with his friend and when He was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, He said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? And as Abraham had trusted God in so notable a manner, the Lord entrusted his seed with the oracles of God and with the outward forms of religious worship, so that it was through the seed of Abraham that the Truth of God was handed on, from generation to generation, until the days of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then, next, in contrast to the life of Abraham, take the case of Jacob. He begins life by cheating his brother and, however that cheating may have been overruled so as to fulfill