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🗓️ 5 July 2024

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.
0:10.0	Our Reading titled Grapling with God was written by Alison Keita.
0:16.5	A longtime friend sent me a note after my husband's death.
0:20.6	It said, Alan was a grappler with God.
0:24.9	He was a real Jacob and a strong reason why I am a Christian today.
0:30.5	I'd never thought to compare Alan's struggles with the Patriarch Jacobs, but it fit. Throughout his life, Alan struggled with himself
0:40.3	and wrestled with God for answers. He loved God, but couldn't always grasp the truth that he loved him,
0:49.3	forgave him, and heard his prayers. Yet his life had its blessings, and he positively influenced many.
0:59.2	Jacob's life was characterized by struggle, too.
1:03.2	In Genesis 32, he connive to get his brother Esau's birthright.
1:08.3	He fled home and struggled for years with his kinsman and father-in-law Laban.
1:13.6	Then he fled Laban. He was alone and afraid to meet Esau, yet he just had a heavenly encounter.
1:22.9	The angels of God met him, perhaps a reminder of his earlier dream from God.
1:29.3	Now Jacob had another encounter. All night he wrestled with a man, God in human form,
1:37.5	who renamed him Israel, because he struggled with God and with humans and overcame.
1:45.0	God was with and loved Jacob despite and through it all.
1:52.3	All of us have struggles, but we're not alone.
1:56.5	God is with us in each trial.
2:00.3	Those who believe in him are loved, forgiven, and promised eternal life.
2:06.8	We can hold fast to Him.
2:13.8	Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Genesis chapter 32, verses 22 through 32.
2:23.2	That night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his 11 sons, and crossed the fort at the Jabok.
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