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Then Jacob said, \u201cO God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, \u2018Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you\u2019: I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies. Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children. For You said, \u2018I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.\u2019\u201d<\/b>\u00a0(Genesis 32:9-12)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\nSomeone once said, \u201cyou can\u2019t go home again,\u201d meaning that we can\u2019t really return to our exact past. But Jacob tried to go home after being gone 20 years, remembering that brother Esau had vowed to kill him, so Jacob ran for his life. However, he could not stay away from the Promised Land forever, so in Genesis 32 Jacob came back to Canaan to face both his past and his future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nJacob didn\u2019t first respond well to the pressure of coming home. He reacted in fear and unbelief. Then Jacob did something right, going to the LORD and praying with faith, thanksgiving, and God\u2019s word.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nFirst, notice Jacob\u2019s prayer had\u00a0God\u2019s word<\/i>:\u00a0the LORD who said to me, \u201cReturn to your country and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you\u201d<\/b>\u00a0(what God said in Genesis 31:3);\u00a0For You said, \u201cI will surely treat you well\u2026\u201d<\/b>\u00a0(what God said in Genesis 28:13-15). Praying the words of God\u2019s word is important, and many prayers fall short because God\u2019s word is not in them. Often, there is often none of God\u2019s word in our prayers because there is so little of God\u2019s word in us. Jacob did well to remember what God said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nSecond, Jacob\u2019s prayer had\u00a0thanksgiving<\/i>. He said,\u00a0I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies<\/b>. Jacob understood he was not worthy of what God had done, or what he was asking God to do. Instead, he relied on what God promised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nFinally, Jacob\u2019s prayer had\u00a0faith<\/i>. He prayed,\u00a0deliver me, I pray<\/b>. Jacob boldly asked God to do something based on God\u2019s own promise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nNo matter how great Jacob\u2019s prayer seemed to be, the true quality of his prayer would be seen after he prayed. Real prayer, great prayer, changes us. We can leave our prayer and face our situation with a different mind. George Mueller, a great man of faith and prayer, once was asked, \u201cWhat is the most important part of prayer?\u201d He replied: \u201cThe fifteen minutes after I have said \u2018Amen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nToday, pray according to God\u2019s word, pray with thanksgiving, and pray with faith. Most of all, stay firm in faith\u00a0after<\/i>\u00a0you\u2019re done praying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Then Jacob said, \u201cO God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, \u2018Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you\u2019: I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You … Continue reading “Enduring Word – Devotion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194443,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194440\/revisions\/194443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}