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The Deceiver Is Deceived

Jacob offered to serve Laban seven years for Rachel's hand in marriage. Seven years later, the old man pulled a fast one on Jacob. He woke up after the honeymoon to find the older daughter, Leah, instead of his desired Rachel. The beguiler had been beguiled. Years later, Laban continued the deceit and Jacob had to leave. What goes around comes around. If you want truth, deal truthfully. 

Genesis 29:25 - "...he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?" 

Rachel's Distress

Laban made Jacob marry his oldest daughter, Leah, before he could take Rachel, the younger. Leah had four sons, but Rachel was barren. She verbalized her despair to God in prayer. After some time, she gave her handmaiden to Jacob, who then bore Dan. Dan, meaning "judge," became a tribe known for its judges, including Samson. Their homeland was the northern-most territory of Israel, above Galilee, against Lebanon. 

Genesis 30:6 - "Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan." 

Little Is Much When God Is In It

Jacob was far from home, fugitive from an angry brother, yet God was with him. His flocks multiplied miraculously. Sometimes our circumstances are mixed - hardship or tragedy on one hand; blessing on the other. Quit your pessimism. If God be for you, who can be against you? What is in thy hand? God will bless and multiply it! Little is much when God is in it. 

Genesis 30:30 - "...it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming." 

Receiving Instructions

Prayer is a two-way street. We pray today. God may speak tomorrow. After Jacob spent twenty years in Laban's household, things went sour. Laban became adversarial. God spoke to Jacob and instructed him to leave. It was a defining moment of Jacob's life. If we want to receive instructions of that kind, we need a heart that desires to hear His voice. We need God's point of view. 

Genesis 31:3 - "And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee." 

Even if God uses us to raise the dead it doesn’t mean we are right or our doctrine is right. Our salvation is to be lined up with scripture from the bible. God will use people who are not right with Him, He used one of the twelve Judas. God loves people so don’t base your walk with God on Him using us.  God using us, it may just mean we were available. Just bear fruit with the Holy Spirit, according to chapter 5 of the Epistle to the Galatians: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. ...Pride will come when we teach This is only my ministry. Remove pride by understanding God will use anyone in healing the sick that believes. 

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We all have futures that we plan around but If God would share with us what’s going to happen in the next 24 hours would we listen!  I once was told not to preach in the next service but to speak healing over 3 people.  But I didn’t obey!  It cost them and me greatly. Praying God lets us hear Him and obey!

Jacob's Vow

After the Lord appeared to Jacob at Bethel, making Covenant, Jacob reciprocated with a vow of his own. Jacob lived his life devoted to the God of his fathers. 3,500 years later, a great nation still witnesses to that relationship. 

Genesis 28:20-21 - "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God." 

I Will Not Leave Thee

When God spoke to Jacob in the dream at Bethel, He prophesied of Israel being scattered to the North, South, East and West. Then He said, "I will bring thee again into this land." That was a prophecy for 3,700 years later, fulfilled in 1948 when the modern State of Israel was born. The United Nations, with Resolution 181, fulfilled a divine mandate, opening the door for God's people to return to their homeland. 

Genesis 28:15 - "...I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of." 

Bethel

Abraham's first stop in the land of Canaan was a place called Luz (looz), ten miles north of Jerusalem. Jacob saw the ladder reaching into heaven there. Later, Jacob wrestled the angel there, who renamed him Israel. He renamed the place Bethel, which means "house of God" (beth=house, el=God). Samuel confirmed Saul as Israel's first king there. King Jeroboam worshipped a Golden Calf there, an unnamed prophet condemned his altar there, and centuries later, Josiah destroyed the altar and the bones of Jeroboam's false prophets there. 

Genesis 28:19 - "And he called the name of that place Bethel." 

Laban

Jacob's encounter with Laban was a prophetic fulfillment. Although Jacob was forced to flee as a fugitive from Esau's jealous rage, God was working for his good. We must not panic when God forces us out of a comfortable situation into a foreign environment. The steps of a man are ordered by the Lord. Jacob found his wives and the twelve tribes were born. Divine destiny. 

Genesis 29:13 - "It came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house." 

We were all  born with a spiritual size hole in us that only God could fill.