Genesis 32:22-32

Genesis 32:22-32

Jacob is on his way to meet his brother Esau. Jacob has no idea how this meeting will turn out. It has been twenty years since he deceived his father in order to get the blessing. It was a bitter departure. How will Esau respond to Jacob?But before Jacob can meet with Esau, he must first meet with God. God has been working in Jacob and preparing him for this moment for twenty years. Jacob will never be the same after he comes face to face with God.Jacob will soon learn that it is better to limp through life and be ruled by God then to walk through life and never be all that God has called you to be.
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Chapter 32
22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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