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Walking With God · The Bible Bit Podcast

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  Welcome back. This is Kimmy Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries bringing
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  you another Bible bit for you to enjoy.
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  Walking with God.
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  Today as we conclude our study on Genesis 32, 22-32, and let God's truths unfold
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  and penetrate our heart,
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  we realize that we may be battered from our storms, but we come out victorious,
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  through Jesus Christ, who gives us the victory.
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  1 Corinthians 15, 57.
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  Genesis 32, 31 says, And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him,
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  and he halted upon his thigh.
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  I love this picture that God gives us of the sun shining on Jacob.
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  All night long he had wrestled.
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  All night long he had struggled, but morning comes, and Jacob crossed over the
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  brook of Jabbok, but with a limp.
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  Jacob had received a blessing, but he would also carry with him a reminder of
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  the night he encountered God.
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  Every step that Jacob would take for the rest of his life would remind him that
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  his own strength wasn't and isn't enough.
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  The limp that Jacob was left with after wrestling all night with the Lord wasn't
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  evidence that God had forsaken him.
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  It was a constant reminder that the Lord was with him, blessing him.
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  Too often we want a blessing without a trial, a victory without a battle,
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  and a blessing without a season of waiting.
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  We want it all, and we want it our way. But sometimes the very struggle we wish
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  we could forget becomes the part of our testimony that God uses the most for his glory.
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  Sometimes our struggles are to build us up, make us stronger.
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  Or even are not for us at all. Sometimes our trials and our struggles are for someone else.
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  Jacob's limp reminds all of us that a changed life doesn't mean an easy life.
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  You can love God and still experience pain. You can trust God and still have
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  questions without answers.
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  You can even obey God and still face difficult circumstances.
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  But you don't have to face any of those trials and struggles alone. Hebrews 13, 5.
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  God is always with you, helping you, guiding you, directing you, and loving you.
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  Jacob wasn't spared the agony of meeting Esau face to face. His problems didn't disappear overnight.
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  Jacob's future still held some uncertainty. But Jacob had been changed by his
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  encounter with God, and now he wasn't facing the uncertainties the same way
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  he was previously experiencing them.
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  God had humbled Jacob. Jacob had encountered God, and God had changed him for the good.
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  My friend, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love
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  God, to them who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8, 28.
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  God transforms us for his glory and our good.
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  Friend, your pain doesn't have to be the end of your story.
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  God can and will, if you let him, bring comfort in sorrow, wisdom through difficulty,
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  and renewed faith in seasons of weakness.
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  The sun rose on Jacob, and the sun will rise again on every repentant heart.
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  The night may be long, but keep trusting in the Lord.
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  Joy comes in the morning. Psalm 35. 5.
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  Genesis 32, 22-32 is an account of a man who came to the end of himself and encountered God.
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  Jacob went into that night depending upon his own strength. He came out leaning on God.
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  Jacob went into that night carrying the weight of his past.
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  He came out with a new name and a changed walk, 1 John 1.9.
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  Whatever you are facing, remember that the God who met Jacob at Jabbok is still
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  able to meet you in your hour of need.
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  You may not know what tomorrow holds, but you can place your life in the hand
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  of the one who holds tomorrow.
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  Don't let your weaknesses and your past failures convince you that God cannot use you.
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  Let it remind you that his grace is sufficient, and declare like Paul in 2 Corinthians
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  12, 9, and he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee,
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  for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
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  Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my affirmities,
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  that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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  Remember you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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