{"id":1507,"date":"2024-02-27T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2024-02-27T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:38:18","slug":"wrestling-with-god-part-1-02-26-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/wrestling-with-god-part-1-02-26-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling with God &#8212; Part 1:  02\/26\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Recordings\/2024\/Trinity_20240226.mp3\">Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>                      Wrestling With God - Part 1\n                           Genesis 32:24-25\n                              02\/26\/2024\n\n\n        24   And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with\n             him until the breaking of the day.\n        25   When the man saw that he did not prevail against\n             Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip\n             was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.\n             (ESV)\n\n        Shortly after Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in\n   313, the bishops of the Church published a list of readings for\n   each Sunday.  The Gospel for the Second Sunday in Lent was the\n   story of the Syrophoenecian woman who sought Jesus' help for her\n   daughter.  For a while, Jesus ignored her prayer.  He said ``it\n   is not good to take the children's bread and feed it to the\n   dogs.''  Yet the woman replied, ``Yes, Lord, but the dogs eat the\n   crumbs which fall from the master's table.''&#91;1]\n\n        The faithful followers of God persevere in their prayers in\n   spite of God's seeming silence.  Jacob, the third Patriarch of\n   the Jewish religion, fled from his father-in-law, and was\n   approaching his hostile brother.  He had sent his wives and\n   possessions across the Jabbok River and waited for the dawn.\n   ``And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the\n   breaking of the day.  When the man saw that he did not prevail\n   against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put\n   out of joint as he wrestled with him.''\n\n        While fervently praying to God for forgiveness and\n   deliverance, Jacob also wrestled with a stranger.  We will see in\n   the coming days that Jacob physically wrestled with God, even as\n   he spiritually wrestled with Him in prayer.\n\n        May our Lord give us the perseverance of faith to firmly\n   trust in God for all things.  Amen.\n   ____________________\n\n   1. See Matthew 15:21-28<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}