Do you ever feel like life is just against you? Sometimes life is just plain and simply hard. Have you ever felt like you were wrestling with God over answers, over problems, over issues?? Sometimes, I think we wrestle things out in our heads, like going over what we could have done differently or done better or could do better. But did you realize that in the Bible, Jacob physically wrestled with the Lord? I've been pondering on this lately and when things are hard, it is difficult to see what our next steps are or should be. Sometimes we wrestle out our feelings or our attitudes and sometimes it is hard to listen to what God wants for us. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless
I was praying for healing for some people the other day and the thought kept coming to me, if God can raise Jarius' daughter from the dead and heal the leper from leprosy, there is nothing that He can't do. I decided to look up the story of Jarius' daughter because it has been a while since I have read that. There were a few things that really struck me when I was reading this passage this time. This passage is found in Luke 8:40-56 and Mark 5:22-43 Now, I have been raised in the church and heard this story several times through my life and I am raising my kids to read the Bible now. Sometimes, I feel like when I read the Bible, "How could you not have faith and not believe when you could see what was happening right in front of you?" Did you realize that at this time in history, it had been 400 years since a prophet of God had been seen? Now that is something amazing to me. 400 years since any miracles had been performed, yet these people heard that there