We live in a fast-paced, ever-moving world where everyone seems to be rushing in every direction.

And yet, in scripture, God desires to teach us that walking with him is our greatest and most important adventure.

Join Scott Pauli along this journey as we rediscover the joy of our walk with Christ.

Jacob is having the hardest time of his life.

He has tried to make a way for himself.

He's deceived his own daddy.

He has angered his brother.

Now father and mother have had to send him away from home.

He is, in some respects, the first prodigal.

He is a wanderer.

He is a traveler. He is aimless and purposeless. He's trying to figure life out. Perhaps that's you today or perhaps that's someone

that you know. May I encourage you? There's hope. If you're alive right now, if you're breathing,

the Bible says a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Jacob could testify to that. He felt like a dog. He felt like he'd hit bottom.

And he's running for his life. He thinks his own brother's going to try to kill him.

And so by divine appointment, Genesis chapter 28 and verse 11 says,

And he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all night because the sun was set,

and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place

to sleep. I'm reminded of what the psalma says that the Lord giveth his beloved sleep. Isn't it beautiful

that even in the hard times of life and the night hours

of life, you can rest. And in the midst of this sleep, God meets with Jacob. In the middle

of the night, in the middle of his circumstances, the Lord appears to him in a dream and changes

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