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Genesis chapter 32 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 32. Let us pray.
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  Our Father, our God, our king are everything.
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  We thank you, God, for another day.
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  We thank you for giving us life. We thank you, God, for giving us
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  breath. We thank you for family.
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  Yeah. We thank you for food.
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  We thank you for clean drinking water.
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  We thank you, God, that you protected us through the night.
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  We thank you for giving us your eternal word.
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  We thank you, God. Breathe upon us Father.
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  I pray you'll rest upon us God. Send fire, God, I pray that we
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  will be flames of fire God, to go out into the world and light
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  it up. God, I pray that we will be
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  able, Lord, to go into the hardest and darkest places.
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  You'll supernaturally fill us, God, with your presence, with
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  your zeal. God will go in Lord, and flip
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  over the tables, God, and drive out the money changers, Lord,
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  that have been placed upon your house.
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  God, we are the temple, Father. I thank you, Father, in dwelling
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  us and filling us. God, I thank you that you have
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  made us into the ministers of reconciliation, that we are more
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  than conqueror, we are the peacemakers.
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  God, I thank you that you have given us a reason to live, that
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  you have given us more of yourself, that you have given us
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  a greater measure, Father, of your presence.
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  And so, Lord, as we draw near to you, God, I pray that you'll
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  draw near to us. For you are worthy to be
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  praised. You are worthy, God, of all of
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  our attention and adoration. And for the time that we're
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  going to spend together, Lord, I pray that you will come in and
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  you will teach us, Lord, that it'll be your precepts line upon
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  line, God that we learn, Lord, that we'll see that Scripture
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  interprets Scripture today. God, I pray that as we open up
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  the word that is alive and active, God, that you will
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  search our hearts, search our minds, search our motives.
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  God, I pray that you'll pull out anything that doesn't belong.
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  Help us to consecrate this temple, to take out all the
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  worthless idols that cannot see and cannot hear God and
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  pulverize them in the streets. God into dust.
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  Father, I pray that it'll only be you, Elohim, the Most High
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  God, El Elyon. Father, that we lift our eyes
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  and our gaze up to the Maker of heaven and earth, where all of
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  our help comes from. Heal us, God, heal our bodies
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  and heal our minds, Father, heal our families, heal marriage is.
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  God. I pray, Lord, that you'll help
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  us, Lord, help the woman who's struggling right now with making
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  a decision, Lord, to preserve life.
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  God, I pray that you'll help the spouse, Lord, that is thinking
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  about checking out. God help them, Lord, to lock in.
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  Lord, help them to see that what they are doing makes eternal
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  impacts. God, we pray for the strength of
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  the church. We pray for the strength of the
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  family. God, we pray for the sanctity of
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  life. God, we pray for our leaders.
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  Lord, we pray that you'll raise up righteous, just leaders unto
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  yourself. We pray God against the inept
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  leaders. Father, we pray against the
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  spirit God that is behind all of the destructive powers.
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  Lord, we pray against all of the demonic strongholds.
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  God, we tear them down in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  God, I pray for light to flood in.
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  Lord, I pray for fresh wind and fresh fire revival.
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  God to break out across this globe, every continent and every
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  people group. Lord, let us all cry out.
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  Yeshua, come, Lord, come. Maranatha, come.
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  The Spirit and the Bride say come, We love you, we worship
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  you in spirit and truth, for you are worthy, you are holy, and
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  you are awesome and mighty to be praised.
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  We thank you, King Jesus, we love you.
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  King Jesus, I decrease as you increase.
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  Holy Spirit, teach us and give us discernment today.
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  Help us to see these words, Father, as your flesh.
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  Help us to feast upon them and drink from them, God, for you
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  are holy and you are worthy, and we love you, Father, and it's in
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  your holy and precious and powerful, an awesome, a majestic
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  name that we pray Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And Jacob went on his way and
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  the angels of God met him. So think about it for a second,
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  friends, here Jacob is and he's returning.
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  He just left. Oh, Laban, he's already taken
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  Laban to task. He didn't realize that Rachel
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  had stolen Laban's idols. And here he is.
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  He's coming back into Beth El where he saw the ladder set up
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  King Jesus where the angels are ascending and descending upon
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  the Son of Man. This go between and you need to
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  understand that we have access into the throne room.
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  We have access into the holiest of holies because the veil was
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  torn from top to bottom. You can be sure you can bet your
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  bottom dollar, you can bank upon the fact that you have access
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  into the throne room of God and that he hears your prayers and
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  that he answers your prayers. And sometimes he says yes and
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  sometimes he says no. But there is most of the time
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  that he says wait, because most of the best things that God does
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  in your life is in the waiting, friends.
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  But here is Jacob and he's coming through the land and he's
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  passing back through where he had set up this monument unto
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  God and he had the pillow there and he laid down.
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  And now we're going to see what God had in mind when he told him
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  to return back to his land. Verse 2.
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  And when Jacob saw them, he said, this is God's host.
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  And he called the name of that place Mahanahan.
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  So you need to know that these angels of God, they come there,
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  and here comes Jacob out of the Syrian land of Laban, and here
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  he is returning back to Canaan, and he sees these angels and he
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  knows that they're angels. Friends.
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  And some have entertained angels unaware by showing hospitality.
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  You need to understand that angels can come in the form of a
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  human, that you would not know it.
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  And they are watching friends and they are reporting friends.
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  And here Jacob has enough wherewithal to know that these
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  are not just men, that these are the angels of God.
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  Three. And Jacob sent messengers before
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  him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seer, the country of
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  Edom. And look how we Passover verse
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  one and verse 2, and right into verse three, friends.
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  And don't miss verse one and two.
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  There is so much spiritual application here of making sure
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  that we are constantly aware with our radar on and our
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  antenna up, that angels are all around us.
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  Friends for And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall you
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  speak unto my Lord Esau, your servant.
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  Jacob says this. I have sojourned with Laban and
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  stayed there until now. So here comes Jacob's own
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  intellect and his own pride. Here comes Jacob's own
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  understanding and reasoning. And he does not know if Esau is
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  going to kill him like he said that he was.
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  And God's already told Jacob to return back to the land, and if
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  he was trusting God, he would know that he knows that he knows
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  that he knows that Esau cannot do anything.
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  Much like Laban was not able to touch him for either good or
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  bad, it's the same with Esau. But here you see Jacob slide
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  back down into his deal making and all of his own scheming.
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  Let's see how it goes. And he calls, he calls Esau my
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  Lord, and what he's doing is he's trying to win him over.
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  Verse 5 I have ox and asses and flocks and men, servants, women
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  servants, and I've sent to tell my Lord that I may find grace in
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  your sight. So he's saying, I have plenty, I
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  don't need any of yours. I'm not coming to raid.
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  I'm not coming to try to steal or take.
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  I'm coming in peace. 6 And the messengers returned to Jacob,
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  saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he also comes to meet
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  you with 400 men with him. It would look as if Esau had a
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  Mastan army and he's coming to do a hostile takeover of Jacob's
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  people. But if Jacob was really trusting
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  in God, and if he had remembered what God had told him, he would
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  not be operating in the spirit of fear.
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  And that is something for us to remember, friends, that when God
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  speaks it and it's in his word, friends, this is the infallible,
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  inerrant word of God. And we memorize his word and we
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  hold God to it, and we wave it in front of him and say, God,
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  this is what you have promised us.
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  And so if Jacob was operating in in that sense where he could go
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  to God and say, God, you told me to go back to the land, now I'm
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  trusting you for security and provision.
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  I know that you would not be leading me into a trap.
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  But here we see Jacob. He's writhing, trying to figure
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  out the moves of Esau. Let's see how it goes. 7 And
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  Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and divided the
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  people that was with him, and the flocks and the herds and the
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  camels into two bands. So he separated his company, so
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  that if Esau was to take one, then the other would be
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  preserved. 8 And said, If Esau come to the one company and
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  strike it, then the other company which is left shall
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  escape. 9 And Jacob said, Oh, God of my father Abraham, and
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  God of my father Isaac, the Lord, which said to me, Return
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  to your country and to your kindred, I will deal well with
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  you. So God told him he was going to
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  deal well with them. And look at how Jacob here, he
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  is yet to call God his God. God is still to him the God of
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  Abraham and the God of his father.
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  He's yet to become personal to him.
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  Ten I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all
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  the truth which you have showed unto your servant.
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  For with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I'm become
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  two bands. So we go, goes to God, and he
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  says, God, you told me to return, I am sore afraid, and
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  now I have divided my people into two.
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  What shall I do? 11 Deliver me, I pray you, from
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  the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him,
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  lest he will come and strike me and the mother with the
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  children. So here Jacob is operating in
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  the spirit of fear, but he has enough wherewithal to go to God
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  and to beg God to pray protect him.
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  And we see him increasing his faith.
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  And that is what God does with us.
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  He develops us friends. And so much of the things that
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  we go through in this life are for the very purposes of
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  increasing the communication. And God is worthy of your
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  prayers. God is worthy of your time.
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  God is worthy of your talents. Friends, God is worthy to be
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  praised. And so much of the things that
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  we go through could be avoided if we could praise Him in the
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  good times. Praise Him when the chips are
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  high. Praise Him when everything is
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  going good. Do not wait until these low
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  moments fortify your faith in the times that things are going
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  well. Do not wait until the times
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  where you're in the valley because every single Christian
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  that you meet is either going into or coming out of a valley,
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  friends. And that is the reality of this
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  faith that we have. 12 And you said, I will surely do you good,
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  and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
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  numbered for multitude. This is not because of anything
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  that Jacob has done. He is the deceiver, he is the
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  hill catcher. But we remember his grandfather
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  Abraham, the father of faith, the friend of God, that God made
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  a covenant and told him these very same promises.
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  Three and he lodged there that same night, and he took of the
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  which came to his hand a present for Esau, his brother.
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  So he's gathering together this large amassment of animals.
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  14200 She goats. 200 He goats, 200 ewes and 220 Rams, 1530 milk
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  camels with their Colts, 40 kind and 10 bulls. 20 she asses and
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  tenfold. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his
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  servants. Every drove by themselves, and
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  said unto his servants, Passover before me, and put a space
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  between drove and drove. So he's going to walk behind and
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  he's going to allow this amassment of animals to come in
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  waves unto Esau. And he's trying to swoon him and
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  win him over and try to get him on his side and to show that he
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  is not coming in hostility, but he's coming passively.
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  He's coming as a brother and not as a warrior, as an enemy.
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  And if he was truly trusting in God, he would have been at the
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  forefront. He would have ran out to meet
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  him, trusting in God. 17 And he commanded the foremost, saying,
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  When he saw my brother meet you, and asked, you saying, Who are
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  you, and where do you go, and whose are these before you?
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  18 Then you shall say, They be your servant, Jacobs.
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  It is a present sent unto my Lord Esau, and behold, he is
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  behind us. So here was a strategy that
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  Jacob had formulated in his schematic mind to say, I will
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  send waves upon waves upon waves of my servants and animals,
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  until finally, when Esau gets to me, he will have an
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  understanding that I am not coming in violence. 19 And so
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  commanded he the 2nd and the 3rd, and all that followed the
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  drove, saying, On this manner shall you speak unto Esau when
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  you find him? 20 And say, You moreover,
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  behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.
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  For he said, I will appease him for the present that goes before
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  me, and afterward I will see his face per adventure he will
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  accept of me. 21 So went the present over before him, and he
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  and himself lodged that night in the company. 22 And he rose up
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  that night, and he took his two wives and his two women
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  servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the Ford Jabba.
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  23 And he took them and sent them over the brook, and sent
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  over that he had. So finally he had to separate
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  himself from the large company, He had to separate himself from
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  his family, and he got a loan. And we know that our Lord Jesus
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  Christ often withdrew to desolate places.
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  And you need to understand that you have to get a loan, friends.
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  A lot of times in the hustle and bustle, in the rat race of life,
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  when everything is just noise and noise and more noise, and we
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  fill the void with more noise, friends, and it's nothing but a
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  distraction. We need to get alone.
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  We need to cut it all off. We need to get silent before the
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  Lord and let the still small voice speak to us.
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  Friends, we cannot just keep drowning out the voice of God
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  with all of the things in this world, with entertainment and
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  amusement. Friends, we need to get alone.
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  We need to practice the presence of God.
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  We need to have the discipline to sit in the silence and listen
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  unto God. And that is what is about to
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  happen with Jacob. 24 Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a
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  man with him until the breaking of the day.
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  This is the preincarnate Lord Jesus Christ that he's wrestling
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  with. And there is there's no
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  competition, friends. This is all for Jacob's
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  development. This is for Jacob's maturation.
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  This is for the discipleship of Jacob so that he can see that he
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  is there's no strength inside of him, and the best thing that he
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  can do here in this moment is to give up, is to surrender unto
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  Jesus Christ. That is the purpose of this
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  passage. Friends, this is not pointing to
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  the fact that Jacob was some kind of usurper over the Lord
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  Jesus Christ preincarnate. This is not a passage showing
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  that Jacob was victorious over God for the blessing.
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  This is showing that Jacob has no strength and no power, and
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  that Jesus Christ completely over comes him and gets him to
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  understand the futility of his intellect, the futility of his
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  reasoning and schemes, and the futility of all of his own
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  plans, and to completely 100,000% trust in the Lord God
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  Almighty, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, and needs to
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  become personal unto Jacob. And this is where the rubber
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  hits the road. This is where we see the men
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  separated from the boys right here, friends. 25 And when he
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  saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the
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  hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out
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  of joint as he wrestled with him.
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  So he's trying his best to get the best of the Lord Jesus here.
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  And you can see that there is no winning against him.
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  And in the struggle his hip gets put out a joint. 26 And he said,
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  Let me go for the day breaks. And he says, I will not let you
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  go, except you bless me. So here you can see this
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  wonderful passage, that he has enough what wherewithal and
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  mental fortitude to understand that this is not just a man,
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  that he's wrestling, that this is the pre Incarnate Lord.
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  And he says that he will not let him go until he blesses him. 27
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  And he said unto him, What is your name?
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  And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Your name shall be called
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  no more Jacob, but Israel. For as a Prince has you power
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  with God and with men, and has prevailed.
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  So here we see the blessing of God placed upon Jacob, and Jacob
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  is no longer the deceiver. He's no longer having to live up
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  to this false name. He is stepping in to the one who
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  wrestled with God. 29 And Jacob asked him and said, Tell me, I
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  pray you, what is your name? And he said, Why is it that you
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  ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
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  So the Lord Jesus says, You already know that I am who I am,
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  and he blessed him. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place
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  penile. For I have seen God face to
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  face, and my life is preserved. So he had enough understanding
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  to realize that this was not just a man that he's wrestling
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  with, that this is God and that this is the Son of God and this
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  is the preincarnate Christ coming on the scene. 31 And he
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  passed over Pin UL. The sun rose upon him, and he
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  halted upon his thigh. So he was hobbling.
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  He was having a hard time because as he comes out of this
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  wrestling match with God, he is now having to deal with this hip
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  being out of socket. 32 Therefore the children of Israel
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  do not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow
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  of the thigh unto this day, because He touched the hollow of
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  Jacob's thigh and the sinew that shrank.
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  So even the Israelites at the time of the writing, they would
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  not eat this section of the animal because it was in
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  reverence of this story of knowing that the God of Abraham,
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  Isaac, and Jacob is so powerful and that he was so close in
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  proximity unto mankind. And look at how Jacob, he didn't
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  deserve it. And we don't deserve his grace
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  either, friends. We don't deserve these touches
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  from God. We don't get to call the shots.
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  We don't try to tell God how He should show up and how He should
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  show up and when He should show up.
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  God does whatever He pleases. All we can do is break up the
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  fallow ground. All we can do is cultivate the
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  environment and plead for His presence, friends, and God will
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  honor that. And God will show up and show
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  off and blow the pictures off the wall and wreck your theology
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  and wreck your doctrine, friends, with His presence until
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  you cover your mouth and say, I've said too much, Lord.
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  His presence is so incredibly encapsulating.
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  You will be undone, friends. I pray that you have been
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  blessed by this mighty, magnificent, amazing story in
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  God's Word where we actually get to see Jacob become Israel, the
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  very nation that is in our existence today, the very people
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  group that are right here, mainstream politics.
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  Friends, what an amazing fact, What an amazing statement.
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  What an amazing story. I'm praying for you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.