Hold On to God
Our Daily Bread Podcast
Our Daily Bread Ministries
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I will not let you go unless you bless me. |
| 0:05.0 | Genesis chapter 32, verse 26. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:15.9 | Hold on to God, was written by Patricia Raybon, and read by Joyce Dinkin. |
| 0:21.9 | Genesis chapter 32, verses 22 through 28. |
| 0:28.1 | That night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his |
| 0:34.9 | 11 sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabok. After he had sent them across the |
| 0:41.1 | stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him |
| 0:48.2 | till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip, |
| 0:56.5 | so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, let me go, |
| 1:03.4 | for it is daybreak. But Jacob replied, I will not let you go unless you bless me. |
| 1:13.4 | The man asked, what is your name? |
| 1:15.4 | Jacob, he answered. |
| 1:20.0 | Then the man said, your name will no longer be Jacob, |
| 1:27.4 | but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome. |
| 1:30.3 | Hold on to God, written by Patricia Raybon. |
| 1:35.3 | At our school district's championship wrestling match, |
| 1:39.3 | children as young as eight grappled on gym mats, |
| 1:42.3 | deploying clever holds to wrestle down their opponents |
| 1:46.0 | and win. |
| 1:47.7 | An ancient sport, wrestling demands a savvy combination of takedowns, escapes, pins, and other |
| 1:55.2 | point-winning maneuvers to come out on top. |
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