Service began with Worship Team leading the congregation with praise and worship.
This was followed by Upa T Thiankhanmuan dedicating offerings to the Lord in prayer.
Sermon by Pastor T Lamkhanthang, based on Genesis 32:22-29 - Jacob Wrestles With God
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”
But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
Summary of the sermon: As human being, we forever strive for independence, self-dependence and self-fulfilment; but that is not God wants. He wants us to depend on Him. God breaks us so that we can submit to Him and depend fully on Him.
Service ended with a benediction by Upa H Zabiak.
