This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast devoted to helping us gain a deeper love

for the Savior and his gospel through a weekly study of the Scriptures.

Hopefully this study will help further prepare us to accompany the Savior as he reckons.

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And as almost never, I'm your host Shelby Stroud, and this is season 4, episode 8, Genesis

28-33. Surely the Lord is in this place.

Okay, so like I said, I'm Shelby Stroud. I am the off brand Melanie Stroud, your great

value Stroud, if you will, and I'm sorry that she's not here.

So if this is the week you decide to take a break from the podcast, that's absolutely fine.

Just be sure to come back next week because she will be here next week.

Okay, so here we go.

Today's lesson starts out like this.

In chapters 28 and 32 of Genesis, tell of two spiritual experiences that the prophet Jacob

had.

Both happened in the wilderness under very different circumstances.

In the first experience, Jacob was traveling to his mother's homeland to find a wife,

and along the way spent the night on a pillow of stones.

He may not have expected to find the Lord in such a desolate place, but God revealed

himself to Jacob in a life-changing dream.

Jacob declared, surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.

Years later, Jacob found himself in the wilderness again.

This time, he was on his way back to Canaan, facing a potentially deadly reunion with

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