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Pastor Heath Lambert discusses how God prepares His servants for special Kingdom tasks through various biblical examples.

God is calling special Kingdom servants for a special time. In this message from Genesis 32, Pastor Heath Lambert reveals how God prepares servants for very special Kingdom tasks—from Jacob at Peniel to Moses at the Burning Bush, David facing Goliath, Paul on the Damascus Road, and Billy Graham in 1949. Discover three realities in God's preparation: his call includes confrontation through confusing encounters where you eventually recognize God behind the situation; includes affliction with pain that wounds for preparation but doesn't destroy; and leads to transformation from Jacob the deceiver to Israel the man who strove with God and survived. Don't miss this sobering truth: God always breaks his Kingdom servants before he uses them—before you soar in service, you must learn to walk with a limp.

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