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Genesis chapter 32 verses 9 through 12 and Jacob said oh god of my father Abraham and God of my father, Abraham, and God of my father, Isaac, O Lord, who said to me,

return to your country and to your kindred that I may do you good.

I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness

that you have shown to your servant.

For with only my staff I cross this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him that he may come and attack me the mothers with the children.

But you said I will surely do you good and make your offspring as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for

multitude.

What a great picture of prayer that I want to encourage you with when it comes to how to

pray, how we pray from the very beginning of this prayer and at the very end so kind of bookends on the prayer.

Jacob says to God you said this.

God of my father, Abraham, God of my father, Isaac, oh Lord, who said to me,

return to your country and your kindred that I may do you good.

God, you told me to come back here.

And now at this point Jacob is preparing to meet E.S.

And he's concerned that E.S. is going to attack and harm him and his family because of the tension with Jacob and he saw before

Jacob left and so he's afraid of that and so he says God you said this God you said

return to your country and to your kindred that I may do you good. That's how he

starts the prayer and then how he ends the prayer. He says, I'm afraid, God, but you said,

I will surely do you good.

And make your offspring as the sand of the sea,

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