Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Jacob prayed

Genesis 32:9-12

Then Jacob prayed,

"O God of my father Abraham,

God of my father Isaac,

O LORD, who said to me,

'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant.
I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two groups.

Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.

But you have said,

'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' "

Genesis 32:28

Then the man said,

"Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."

No comments: