The Alive Gathering

06-28-2026 Walking Away Differently

A few weeks ago, Pastor Davis was notified by the leasing company that the building we have been in for 31 years was sold by the holding company. Therefore, The Alive Gathering Ministries must close their doors. We know that God has a plan for each of us as a church family. We are glad that we have been able to bless you who have watched our sermons since the onset of COVID. We appreciate your prayers as we follow God's leading. We are happy to let you know that the equipment, seating and fixtures from The Alive Gathering Ministries will be shipped to Seirra Leone on the West Coast of Africa to furnish a new church there. God is good! All the time, God is good. May you all be Blessed in your walk with the Lord.

Scripture Reading:
Isaiah 55:6-9 (NIV)
6) Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
7) Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for
he will freely pardon.
8) "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
9) "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Sermon Text:
Genesis 32:24-32 (NIV)
24) So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
25) When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
26) Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27) The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered.
28) Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome."
29) Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
30) So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
31) The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.
32) Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.