Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. I want to talk about what it means to walk by faith when we're

not, when we're following people that walk by faith. Many times in life, we're in positions

where we're following people who are following God. What does that mean? Find out on today's podcast.

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Hey friends, welcome back. Busy week here at Faith Baptist Church. We're in the middle of our

missions conference. And wow, has it been an unbelievable week? Just to see all the things that

God is doing, to be around, some of God's choices, servants,

just amazing. So I hope you're having an amazing time wherever you are as well.

We're in Genesis 31, which is an amazing chapter in an amazing book called the Bible.

And we are talking about the story of Jacob.

And just how God is blessing.

And we learned the last chapter that God even has blessed others like Laban,

who really is kind of a deceptive,

and we're going to find an idol-worshipping man.

And yet Laban realizes that he is being blessed because of Jacob. And yet he is continuing to manipulate his other sons, the brothers

of Rachel and Leah, they're on their dad's side. And watch how this all unfolds in

chapter 31. And he heard the words of Laban's sons saying, Jacob have taken away all that was our

fathers. So interesting that the exact opposite was true. So what Jacob is hearing from the family

is somehow I am the one that's stealing from Laban. What Laban, though, realizes, and what Jacob,

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