Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. And the title of our post today is

supernatural guidance. The Hebrew word for intercession is paga. You're going to hear that a lot

over the next day or so.

Like many Hebrew words, paga represents more of a general concept which can be applied to various

scenarios.

The concept of paga is of two or more people, places, or things, meeting, coming together for pretty much any reason.

Therefore, it is used in the context of encounter, meet, in order to visit, request, attack, and more.

In the context of land or light upon, boundaries, because land joins or meets at a boundary.

So it's used for boundaries.

Burdens being placed or laid upon someone because it meets them.

And more. These meetings can even be by chance, so it means to happen upon.

Paga is translated as intercession, interestingly enough, not because it means asking or

petitioning, it doesn't, but because intercession is meeting with God, creates meetings between

God and others, meets and attacks spiritual enemies,

and builds boundaries of protection, etc. Looking at references where Paga is used to describe various activities, regardless of the

English word used to translate it, gives us different pictures of what intercession

paga can accomplish.

This week we will look at a significant use of paga in the life of Jacob.

The context is loaded with insights into what can occur when intercession, paga takes place.

To understand this passage regarding Jacob, we need to first look back at the life of Abraham,

his grandfather.

Genesis 12, now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country, from your relatives, from your father's house, to the land

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