How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is made for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwetz, and our adventure through God's entire word continues in Genesis 28,

as Dr. J. Vernon McGee is going to take us through a lonely night that Jacob spent as he was running scared.

But as is often the case, God uses this pivotal situation to meet him in a special way.

So as you find your seat on the Bible bus, here's a great

voicemail from a fellow listener. My name is Bob. I'm calling from Maplewood, Missouri, and I love through

the Bible, and I love the Bible, how it speaks to hearts and minister to the needs. I saw the

world prayer team prompt for Kenya this morning,

and that reminded me of an incident that I had four years ago,

it was actually almost five years ago, in 2021, in April of 2021, when I was in the hospital.

I was reading Jay Vernon McGee's commentary on Genesis when a nurse walked in, and she asked me what I was reading.

So I explained to her what it was about through the Bible, and I showed her the app on my phone.

And I said, it's over in 150 different languages, and she surprised me.

She said, oh, is it in Swahili?

I said, well, let's look.

So I started scrolling through the languages. I showed it to her, and she is it in Swahili? I said, well, let's look. So I started scrolling through the languages.

I showed it to her, and she saw it before I did the Swahili language, and so I clicked on it.

And, of course, the music and the teaching came on in Swahili, and she was so excited about it.

So I showed her how to download it out of her phone, which she did.

And the next night she came in and she said, I want you to know, I downloaded the app of my phone.

And I'm listening to the study.

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