The Blessing Is Hidden In The Struggle| The Garden, The Flood & The Promise | Chad Narayan

Zoe Church LA

Chad Veach

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this message Pastor Chad Narayan delivers a powerful sermon titled "The Blessing is Hiding in the Struggle," where he unpacks the transformative journey of Jacob and God's grace through our pain, struggle, and calling. With humor, insight, and heart, Pastor Chad illustrates how our wounds often precede our blessings and how wrestling with God leads to identity and purpose. At Zoe, our mission is simple: People Saved, Disciples Made, Leaders Raised, and The Church Released. Through every service, we seek to share the love and hope of Jesus, impact lives, and see transformation in communities in Los Angeles and around the world. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share this stream with friends and family! 📱 Connect with us: Website: https://www.zoechurch.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoechurchla Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zoechurchla 📍 Join Us In Person: Highland Park: 9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | 12:15 PM 5206 N Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA 90042 West Adams: 5:30PM | 7:00PM 2600 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90016

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome everybody to another week here at Zoe Church. It is a Father's Day edition. Happy Father's Day to everybody out there.
0:08.0	And to everybody who gives, we just want to say thank you so much for your generosity.
0:12.2	Thank you so much for your obedience to give and to tithe. And for everybody who gives offerings, we cannot thank you enough.
0:20.4	We're jumping into part eight of our series entitled The Garden, the Flood, and the Promise.
0:28.7	For any information you're looking for, feel free to go to our website.
0:33.1	zoeachurch.org. Here we go.
0:35.4	We're continuing on in a series we've been in entitled the garden,
0:40.4	the flood, and the promise. The garden, the flood, and the promise. And we've been doing a study
0:45.9	through the book of Genesis, a study through the book of Genesis. And we've looked at,
0:51.0	we've looked at the garden, Adam and Eve, eating the apple, disobeying God,
0:57.0	and sin entering the world because of the decision
1:00.4	that they made to go against what God had said.
1:03.5	Then we looked at the flood, Noah on the ark,
1:06.1	all the animals on the boat, all that stuff, right?
1:09.5	So we looked at the flood. Then the last couple weeks, we've been studying the promise, all that stuff, right? So we looked at the flood. And in the last couple weeks,
1:11.7	we've been studying the promise, the promise of God that comes through Abraham, his son, Isaac.
1:19.0	And today, the life that we're going to look at is Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now,
1:25.2	there's four major themes that we've been looking at through the book of Genesis.
1:28.3	Four major themes. The first one is that God is creator. He is sovereign. There is no God like
1:37.2	our God. Somebody say, amen. There's no God like our God. And Genesis starts that theme to let us know that the God that we serve is unlike any other.
1:47.7	The second thing is that you and I are created in his image.
1:52.8	His DNA is in you and I.
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