DIVINE ENCOUNTER

Text: Acts 9:1-5, Gen 32:23-30

Are you struggling with something in your life, are you trouble about the way your life is going? Are you suffering because of what people are thinking or talking about you, if that is you, you need divine encounter for a change. The bible says, a man called Saul of tarsus was a persecutor of the early church and was against the way of Lord, he was an enemy of those who believe in Jesus Christ. He believe in God and thought he was doing God a favour by persecuting any king of the Jews. One day something happened to this man.

It was an accident, a divine accident, the bible says as he journeyed near Damascus, suddenly there shin a light from heaven upon him and he felt the impact of that divine encounter. He fell from his horse back to the earth and a voice said to him Saul, Saul why has thou persecuted me, he said who art thou Lord? And the voice said I am Jesus whom thou persecuted that divine encounter, got him into divine revelation which made him to know that it was God. When you have a divine encounter, you don’t need to be told that you have been touched by God, a divine encounter come with a deep revelation of hidden secret, a divine encounter break curses , an encounter can change your life, change your thinking .The same man that was a persecutor  of Christians, became a disciple of Christ, his life change instantly , his story change why, because he had a divine encounter. When an encounter comes, things that were not move begin to move, life that was tied become loose poverty full off, and curse are broken.

Hear me, every successful character in the bible that we all life to identified with people like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Elijah, Elisha, Paul, Peter and all the apostle and even our Lord Jesus Christ. If we study their life history very well, we will discover that none of them was born with silver spoon in their month so to say their lives were full of struggle in the beginning just like you and me. Joseph and Mary had to smuggle Jesus out to Egypt for Herod not to kill him. Abraham waited many years before becoming a father, Isaac was being divine from the well he dug and waited for 20 years before having Jacob and Esau. Jacob ran away from his brother who promise to kill him when their father die, he ran to his uncle laban who played him 419 over 20 years. Joseph had a dream and from innocence of his heart, told his brothers and father that put him in slavery for 17 years the list are endless but at some point in their lives were never the same again until their death. In the word they had divine encounter that change their position.

What is divine encounter?

Divine encounter is something beyond human reasoning or what man can’t find explanation but the word encounter means to come upon. Tonight God will come upon you and all your battle we be over.

In Gen 32:24-30 the bible says Jacob had an encounter he wrestled and got his breakthrough, Jacob started on a very bad note, he was a corny man crafty and subtle, no one would have thought that he could be eligible for divine encounter.

He stole his brother blessing, not only that, by the time he had gone to stay with his uncle Laban, he rubbed him all most all his entire flock but Laban paid him back by giving lead to him instead of Rachael they agreed on after 7 years, while he was fleeing from his uncle he had the new that frightened him.

His brother Esau who he had defrauded some years earlier was coming to pay him a visit, he did not know whether to go forward or backward.

Nobody can believe that somebody like Jacob can have encounter with God, your background does not determine your future. Jacob did something despite all these atrocities he committed, which qualifies him for divine encounter.

After that

1.  The sentence of death that was hanging over his head was cancel. Divine encounter can cancel death and destruction .

2.  Jacob experience  a change of name.

3.  Jacob encountered God and his future was settle. Your future shall be settle tonight tonight in Jesus name.

4.  Jacob was blessed by God after the encounter

Jacob wrestle in prayer, when you wrestle with something, it means you are violent, so to have divine encounter with God, you need serious prayer.