Sometimes it seems that things are going well, and at other times, things seem to be going badly. And we let those things dictate our feelings and our outlook on life. When things are going well, we’re happy and we think God is with us. If they are going badly, we get discouraged and think that God must have abandoned us. We end up being tossed around by our circumstances. Remember that everything happens for a reason. Every Trials we overcome, blessings we received, its not about luck but its all about God Favor

2. Text: Genesis 30:31-43
• VV 39
So the flocks conceived before the rods,
and the flocks brought forth streaked,
speckled, and spotted. 40
Then Jacob
separated the lambs, and made the flocks
face toward the streaked and all the
brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his
own flocks by themselves and did not put
them with Laban’s flock.

3. People today were considering
two kinds of luck!
• A: Good Luck
• B: Bad Luck

4. Theme: It’s not
because of luck but it’s
because of God’s Favor

5. Story about a Farmer
• He owned
a single
Horse

6. • This Horse
escaped and
went to the
Mountain
•Suddenly

7. • that it is a
sign for a bad
luck that is
about to
come.
• His Neighbor told him…

8. • The horse
returned
with a herd
of wild
horses from
the hills
•A week later,

9. • His Neighbor again came to him
and said
• “Congratulation
your bad luck
change it into
good fortune”

10. • he fell off its back
and broke his leg.
Everyone agreed
that the coming of
the horses was very
bad luck.
• Then, when the farmer’s son was
attempting to tame one of the wild
horses,

11. • When they saw
that the farmer’s
son had a broken
leg, they let him
stay. Everyone
was very happy at
the farmer’s good
luck.
• Some weeks later, the army marched into
the village and forced every able-bodied
young man to go fight in a bloody war.

12. Remember!
•God’s Favor is active
in every
circumstances.

13. What happened after the
flocks have saw the Rod?
• V41
And it came to pass, whenever the
stronger livestock conceived, that
Jacob placed the rods before
the eyes of the livestock in the
gutters, that they might conceive
among the rods.

14. Numbers 21:9
• 21:9 So Moses made
a bronze snake and
put it on a pole
(Rod). Anyone who
had been bitten
would look at the
bronze snake and be
healed.

15. When Moses raised his Rod the
red sea was Divided!

16. • Archaeologist
tried to
searched for
the Rod of
Moses, they
never
searched the
one who
gives favor
which is God.

17. What does it means of the Rod?
• 37
Now Jacob took for himself rods of
green poplar and of the almond and
chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them,
and exposed the white which was in
the rods. 38
And the rods which he had
peeled, he set before the flocks in the
gutters, in the watering troughs where the
flocks came to drink, so that they should
conceive when they came to drink.

18. Numbers 24:17
• 17
“I see Him, but not
now; I behold Him, but
not near; A Star shall
come out of Jacob; A
Scepter (Rod) shall
rise out of Israel, And
batter the brow of
Moab, And destroy all
the sons of tumult.

19. • 10
Then the angel said to them, “Do
not be afraid, for behold, I bring
you good tidings of great joy which
will be to all people. 11
For there is
born to you this day in the city
of David a Savior, who is Christ the
Lord.
Luke 2:10-11

20. What we need to do with the Rod?
• We need to know the Real
Meaning of it.
• We need to put it in a Proper
Place.
• We need to focus our eyes on it.

21. After we have done these
things!
1: Receive the fruit of our
labor
2: Reproduction of blessings
3: Reaching our Dreams
After he discover the Rod

22. Conclusion
• Scientifically there is no explanation
that the Rod was the reason that the
flocks were conceived and born a
spotted young.
• Moreover, the division of the red sea
was not because of the Rod. It’s
because of God’s favor!