BTC Presents: "....but God..." A Weekday Morning Devotional Series Genesis 32: 9-12 Pt 2

Show Notes

Genesis 32: 9-12

Creators & Guests

Host

Chad McBeam

Business Leader, Foster Advocate and Fighter of Human Trafficking, Chad enjoys hosting this podcast channel as a way to spread and highlight the great examples of those who live out their faith daily. He can also be seen on occasion on your TV or Film Screen or be heard narrating one of your books as his love of acting has stuck with him since his childhood.

Writer

Aaron Marcarelli

After getting his under-graduate degree from Cal State University San Bernardino where he played college baseball and received all American honors. he was a graduate assistant baseball coach at both Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, Tennessee, and at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.  He received his master’s degree in Teaching from Whitworth, with plans to someday be a head baseball coach at a university.  However, God had other plans.  Aaron started teaching English and History and coaching baseball and other sports at the high school level and found out how much he loves high school kids, and he has been doing that for the past 27 years.     Personally, heI has been married to his wife Sharon for 32 years, they have one daughter, Amanda Parrish, who has been married to Austin Parrish for 2 years. Aaron also has two grandsons Travis age 2 ½ and Aden who is 13 months and are blessed to have another on the way due in May. Aaron loves reading, golfing, and spending time with his wife and grandkids.

Designer

Linda Cowen

Linda Cowen of San Antonio Christian School is our gracious and talented art designer for the But God, weekday morning devotional series.

What is ...But God?

A weekday morning devotional series written by Aaron Marcarelli and hosted by Chad McBeam

“Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,’ I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies. Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children. For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’ ””
Genesis 32:9-12 NASB1995
Today we look specifically at verse 9.

“Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,’”
Jacob, has been running away for far too long. God wants him to face his problems. He even reminds God that it was Him who called him out of his comfortable lifestyle. “Lord you said…”
How often do we do this with God? We remind HIM
of HIS promises. That is actually quite funny. Obviously, it’s not Him that needs the reminder, it’s us reminding ourselves. As Often, Bible verses have more than one meaning and this one is no different.
Yes Jacob is reminding God of His promises, (as we have established in reality he’s reminding himself) but also those promises are to us as well. “I will prosper you,’” This is true for us as well. We have been given the greatest gift, the forgiveness of sins, for all eternity. Not only that, through Christ’s resurrection we have become adopted heirs of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Having been given the keys to the Kingdom of God.
I would say that is the most prosperous one can get.
What do we learn from Jacob? We must seek first The Kingdom of God and God’s call upon our lives. We must Stop running away from our problems! We must Face them and enter into the will of our Heavenly Father. For just like Jacob, He has called us to do great things!
Lord we thank you for the gift of eternal life with you. We thank you for your promises! We thank you for your mercies which are new every morning. Help us Lord to enter into your perfect and pleasing will so that we can do great things. We pray In Jesus Name Amen…!