Day 7

Scripture to Read: Genesis 28:10-22

Today we finish with Jacob and we see how God’s plan to use Jacob is shared with Jacob. We’ve seen all week that God had promised Rebekah that the older son (Esau) would serve the younger son (Jacob). We’ve also seen the sinful decisions that Rebekah, Jacob, and Esau all made because they chose to submit to their fleshly desires and not submit to God. But today we read how God spoke to Jacob in a dream, and God said to Jacob, in Genesis 28:13-15, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants. 14 Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” WOW, despite Jacob’s sin, God was not going to allow His perfect will to be stopped, but God was going to bring His will forth through Jacob. God has chosen each one of us because of His great love for us. He has called us to make disciples to fulfill His perfect plan. Let’s be sure we are choosing to walk in His plan for us.

Challenge & Application

1. What did God teach you today about His plan for your life? 2. How will you walk with God daily in order to fulfill His plan for you?

Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!

Devotionals from this week

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Day 1

The devotions over the next four weeks are all about people in the Bible who are part of Christ’s earthly lineage. We will see that none of these individuals are perfect in any way. The first individual we’ll examine this week is Jacob. We find that Jacob is mentioned in Matthew 1:2, as God led Matthew to share Christ's lineage. As we know, J...

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Day 2

The name Jacob, in Hebrew, means “crafty, deceitful, tricky.” So, from the onset, Jacob’s sin nature (his fleshly nature) was bent toward being deceitful. Each one of us is born with a sinful nature. We saw in yesterday’s devotion, in Romans 3:23, that we have all sinned. We also know what temptation(s) we struggle with the most because of ou...

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Day 3

We must remember, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, that God always keeps His promises. Since we are looking at Jacob this week, we also need to go back a little and look at the promise God made to Jacob’s earthly grandfather, Abraham. When God promised Abram (which was his name until God changed his name to Abraham in Genesis 17:5) that...

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Day 4

No matter what we think, do, or say, God’s will, plan, and purpose will be fulfilled. We cannot stop God’s will, but we can miss His will when we decide to do things our way. God had already made the promise to Rebekah in Genesis 25:23 “Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body; And one people shall be str...

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Day 5

When we are unwilling to wait on God’s perfect plan and choose to do things our way, we will suffer the negative consequences of our bad choice(s). As we saw in yesterday’s devotion, Rebekah and Jacob decided to do things their way by deceiving Isaac so Jacob would receive Isaac’s first blessing instead of Esau receiving Isaac’s first blessin...

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Day 6

As we read Genesis 28:1-9 today, we see how Isaac was sending Jacob away. Isaac thought he was sending Jacob away simply to make sure Jacob took a wife from Abraham’s family line because of Rebekah’s request to Isaac. But we know that Rebekah feared that Esau would follow through on his anger toward Jacob and would kill Jacob once Isaac died....

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Day 7

Today we finish with Jacob and we see how God’s plan to use Jacob is shared with Jacob. We’ve seen all week that God had promised Rebekah that the older son (Esau) would serve the younger son (Jacob). We’ve also seen the sinful decisions that Rebekah, Jacob, and Esau all made because they chose to submit to their fleshly desires and not submi...

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