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    1) Jacob worked hard for seven years to marry Rachel, demonstrating the need to work hard to achieve your dreams. 2) Jacob ensured he was called to the task of caring for Rachel's father's sheep, highlighting the importance of finding purpose in your work. 3) Jacob demanded his reward after the seven years of labor, showing that you must be willing to demand what is due to you for your efforts.

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    1) Jacob worked hard for seven years to marry Rachel, demonstrating the need to work hard to achieve your dreams. 2) Jacob ensured he was called to the task of caring for Rachel's father's sheep, highlighting the importance of finding purpose in your work. 3) Jacob demanded his reward after the seven years of labor, showing that you must be willing to demand what is due to you for your efforts.

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    1) Jacob worked hard for seven years to marry Rachel, demonstrating the need to work hard to achieve your dreams. 2) Jacob ensured he was called to the task of caring for Rachel's father's sheep, highlighting the importance of finding purpose in your work. 3) Jacob demanded his reward after the seven years of labor, showing that you must be willing to demand what is due to you for your efforts.

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    Success Lessons From Jacob 2

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    1) Jacob worked hard for seven years to marry Rachel, demonstrating the need to work hard to achieve your dreams. 2) Jacob ensured he was called to the task of caring for Rachel's father's sheep, highlighting the importance of finding purpose in your work. 3) Jacob demanded his reward after the seven years of labor, showing that you must be willing to demand what is due to you for your efforts.

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    Success Lessons from Jacob

    Don’t be limited by
    your gender or
    background
    Rachel was a shepherd-
    While he was still talking with them, Rachel
    Genesis 29:9 

    came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd.


    Numbers 27:4 Why should the name of our father disappear from his
    clan just because he had no sons? Give us property along with the rest
    of our relatives.
    John 1:43-46 Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good be from
    Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see
    1 Sam 16:6-11 And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are these all the children?”
    And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending
    the sheep.” Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him; for we will
    not sit down until he comes here.
    Work Hard to a
    achieve your
    dream.
    The world will not give you what you
    desire but what you are willing to
    work for .
    Gen 29:18 Since Jacob was in love with Rachel,
    he told her father, “I’ll work for you for seven
    years if you’ll give me Rachel, your younger
    daughter, as my wife.”

    Whatever your hand finds to do, do it


    with all your might, for in the realm
    of the dead, where you are going,
    there is neither working nor
    planning nor knowledge nor
    wisdom.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10, NIV)
    You Must be
    called for that
    Task
    The most frustrating thing is to work
    in field you don’t believe in or
    something you don’t love.
    It was easy for Jacob to work for
    Rachel because he loved her.
    Whatever you do in this life, find
    purpose first.

    Gen 29:20 So Jacob served seven


    years to get Rachel, but they
    seemed like only a few days to
    him because of his love for her.
    You Must
    Demand for your
    Reward
    Jacob did not Just sit after seven years of working for
    Rachel, he went and demanded for his reward.
    The world will not simply give you what you want
    because you are hard working, but you must be willing
    to demand for what is due to you.
    Gen 29:21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife,
    for my time is completed, that I may have relations with
    her.”
    Learn from
    • Hannah –the mother of Samuel
    • Woman with an Issue of blood

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    The world will give
    you Leah not Rachel
    Even after Jacob had worked for Seven years for Rachel, he
    ended up with Leah instead of Rachel.
    Gen 29:25 When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob
    said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served
    you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?”
    The systems of this world are not designed simply hand you
    your Rachel.
    • Know your Rachel so well that you will not mistake her for
    Leah.
    Matthew 11:12 From the days of John the Baptist until
    now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the
    violent take it by force.
    You must be will to fight for What you want
    Genesis 29:20 So Jacob served seven years to get
    Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to
    him because of his love for her.
    27Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give
    you the younger one in return for another seven
    years of work.”
    Luke 11:5-8 I say to you, though he will not rise
    and give to him because he is his friend, yet
    because of his persistence he will rise and give
    him as many as he needs

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    Success is born out of
    determination
    And there was a widow in that town who
    3 

    kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant


    me justice against my adversary.’
    • 4 “For some time he refused. But finally,
    he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t
    fear God or care what people think, 5 yet
    because this widow keeps bothering me,
    I will see that she gets justice, so that she
    won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

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