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SAA Notes
You and I can’t reach into our children’s hearts and move that pointer around to the right direction. Our prayers for our children and grandchildren should take their cue from how God deals with Jacob personally. Prayer is to be the first resort.
SJA Notes
* God Almighty, may Your wisdom be clear to us from Your word today.
“Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, ‘Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.'”
We start to see obedience from Jacob, even as we see great disobedience (and rejection of wisdom) from Esau.
Jacob doesn’t magically become a paragon of virtue. We will continue to see that he is a tricky fellow – But that gives us all hope, God calls us from all different walks and personalities and character traits!
Jacob here starts to really wrestle with God and His purposes for him.
God repeats to Jacob His promises that He gave to Abraham, and repeated to Isaac.
What a wonderful God we have that He would choose a man like Jacob – That He would choose a one like me!
* Father God,
Thank You for calling us, for calling each of us, from darkness and into light. From dead hearts to new birth, from blind enemies to seeing disciples.
Please help us to walk before You in spirit and in truth.
Thank You Lord God for your love.
Amen.