ASK: JACOB

ASK: Prayers From the Old Testament: Jacob

February 9, 2020

Genesis 32:9-30

Jacob’s divine encounter at the Jabbok River has been characterized as the “magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.” It’s in Jacob’s story we can easily recognize our own elements of struggle: fears, darkness, loneliness, vulnerabilities, empty feelings of powerlessness, exhaustion, and relentless pain…