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Peculiar Grace for Your Destiny

The enemy takes advantage of such times to make us feel
lonely and abandoned. People who don’t duly discern this
period run from pillar to post seeking human attention and
sympathy, thereby missing out on a divine opportunity to
be uniquely shaped for destiny. Throughout the Bible we
have people who came into their desert or wilderness and
came out better by their experience.

1. Jacob’s Desert
From his birth until that unique moment in Genesis
Chapter 28 when JACOB was alone on the road to Padan-
Aram, he seemed to have enjoyed the privilege of his godly
father, Isaac, and a doting mother, Rebekah. For the first
time on record Jacob was alone to fend for his own affairs.
He was actually attempting to escape the vengeance of his
older twin brother, Esau, who he had defrauded twice: first,
by extorting Esau’s birthright for a mess of portage; second,
when, under the tutelage of their mother, he conned their
now blind father Isaac to get the patriarch’s prayer meant
for Esau.

Until the moment he was left unaided by either father or
mother, and now had to face his own life’s destiny with
God, when Jacob was alone, he may have gotten away with
his self-conceited lifestyle, using his human skills to get the
patriach’s blessing he wanted. But God’s grace can be
abused while man insists on doing his own will. God’s
grace is imparted to us to do God’s will, and until man

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