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
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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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