The God of Jacob

By J Kediretswe Sejewe (Pastor Jerry)

J Kediretswe Sejewe (Pastor Jerry) is a passionate teacher of God’s unconditional love and grace. He delights in opening up the word of grace and nurturing the saints to embrace the supernatural that the message of grace brings. His Ministry is marked by healing, manifestations of power and the prophetic. He is married to Tshireletso and t

• Language: English
• Publisher: Black Lacquer Press & Marketing Inc.
• Release date: Dec 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781951313197

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Contents

Prologue

Why I Wrote This Book

On Legalism

To Know As We Are Known

From Birth

The Penuel (Face To Face With God)

We Are Bethel

The Blessing

The Kind Intentions Of God

The Believer’s Identity

Miracles, Signs And Wonders

Understanding Grace

Covenant Keeping God

Jacob’s Well (Till Shiloh Comes)

Conclusion

Endnotes

PROLOGUE

By all counts and by any man’s standards, Jacob was a very unusual character. His life was full of intrigue, suspense, audacious faith and he lived to experience some of the most pivotal and controversial Divine Encounters on record. He also obtained favor with men, angels and God. An uncommon man, serving an uncommon God in a dark and perilous era. Although Jacob is a bad name, God is not ashamed to be called, The God of Jacob. Do you know that Jesus is not ashamed to call you brother? ¹ If Abraham deserved t o be called The Father of Faith, then Jacob should be called The Father of Grace. No other individual recorded in scripture epitomizes the heights of God’s Divine Election and stands in such violent faith to obtain such favor and experience the supernatural like Jacob. To top it all up, he deserved none of it and yet he walked in it and built a legacy that has endured to the present day and for all eternity. The entire account of his life is a description of a scandal never matched until Jesus walked the earth and dispensed grace daily to all kinds of low lives, scoundrels, prodigals, prostitutes and hustlers.

He obtained Abraham’s Blessing, wrestled an angel, slept under an open heaven, heard God’s audible voice, became a guest and blessed the king of the world (Pharaoh), fathered the prime minister of the then world (Joseph). Supernatural provision was the norm for him and he prophesied the coming of the Christ. Jacob was the real deal.

Why I Wrote This Book

This a book about Divine Providence, Divine Favor, Divine Grace and Divine Faithfulness. It is impossib le that God should lie for He has said in His precious Word;

God is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes His mind. Does He speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill? (Num 23:19, HCSB)

I recently gave up my wrestling match-up with the Holy Spirit and finally submitted to carry out this Divine Assignment. Bob Mumford once said that the scripture which says "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee"² is a threat and not a promise! A prophet came to me recently and said "I’m seeing you sitting at a desk to write a book, to pour out your experiences and revelations to help the Body of Christ".

I had been putting off some of my assignments with the hope that one day I will be worthy to speak on God’s behalf. I have now chucked all that away as I delve into the service of The God of Jacob.

I believe that this book is going to be an eye opener for millions around the world and especially those called to the work of the ministry who need to be audacious. I say to them, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth³.

Too many sons of God who are called and appointed according to His purposes are struggling with and don’t seem to be able to shake off feelings of unworthiness regarding God’s call on their lives.

The LORD has said to them even as He had previously spoken to another:

The LORD said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. (Gen 12:1, HCSB)

Satan keeps whispering into their ear and saying: Yeah, hath God said?⁴ The simple truth is that nobody in this world qualifies to receive the anointing of The Holy Spirit and to become God’s spokesmen. It is the people who know the God of Jacob who shall become strong and do great exploits and shine like the firmaments of the heavens. It has been said that God qualifies the called. Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jer 1:5, KJV)

On Legalism

As members of the Body of Christ, we need to set out to rediscover and recapture the lost vision of the goodness of the God of Jacob. There is legalism and lethargy in our doctrine of how it is that a man can rise up and answer his predestined call to serve God and impact the nations to the glory of our God. Too many times we look for the familiar and use our observations to form doctrines on the attributes of those called to ministry. I hear the Spirit of God say that He is looking for Jacobs, cheats, hustlers (supplanters) and any other forms of unusable characters so He can raise up an end time army of those who will understand that it is all of grace.

This book is written with this army in mind. Many know of King David’s Mighty Men or the Gibborim. They were mighty men of valor who did great exploits and conquered many an enemy for their king.

And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. (2Sam 23:14-17, KJV)

The Bible says that some of David’s men arose and broke through enemy lines to fetch water for their master. Here is what most of the people who know the above accounts don’t know:

In addition, every man who was desperate, in debt, or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About 400 men were with him. (1Sam 22:2, HCSB)

The Gibborim were not always mighty until they joined themselves to the God of David, the Covenant Keeping God of Jacob. They were broke, they were in distress and they were not satisfied with their lives and what they had become until they joined David and sung the ancient song of the sons of Korah with him:

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.

Selah.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah.

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah. (Ps 46:1-11, KJV)

It is true that "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (Phil 2:13, KJV)

My heart’s prayer is that everyone who reads this book will catch the same spirit of the mind as the Gibborim and sing in celebration as they behold the wonders of the God of Jacob. I yearn to hear them cry out and say:

Look! There is a river whose streams make the city of God rejoice, even the Holy Place of the Most High (Psalm 46:4)

It is with this that I invite you to walk through the revelation of the God of Jacob, may your life be transformed forever as you do so in Jesus name!

TO KNOW AS WE ARE KNOWN

The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. LORD, Your love is eternal; do not abandon the work of Your hands. (Ps 138:8, HCSB)

During the Reformation and the subsequent period during which men like Charles Hudson Spurgeon ministered, there was a strong emphasis on doctrine of the Providence of God being taught to the people of God. There is evidence of the same in John Bunyan’s classic-The Pilgrim’s Progress which comes from an earlier era. The belief and trust in something called Providence is quite clear. The doctrines of Predestination and Election were prominent ever since the times of the great African bishop Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. Many biblical scholars have contended on such difficult subjects as The Sovereignty of God and the will of man. Some schools of thought or paradigms particularly Calvinists emphasized