by Dana Sereg | Jun 12, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 33:11 New International Version (NIV) 11 Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it. Jacob sent gifts ahead of him. He may have been using the gifts to...
by Dana Sereg | Jun 11, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 33:4 New International Version (NIV) 4 But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept. Esau greeted his brother with a hug. This must have been difficult. There had been a time when Esau had plotted...
by Dana Sereg | Jun 10, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 33:3 New International Version (NIV) 3 He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother. In this time bowing down to the ground seven times was the sign of respect given to a king. Jacob was taking every precaution...
by Dana Sereg | Jun 7, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 33:1-11 New International Version (NIV) Jacob Meets Esau 33 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in...
by Dana Sereg | Jun 6, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 32:27-29 New International Version (NIV) 27 The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered. 28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” 29 Jacob...
