1. The appearance of God changed Abraham’s life. Before that, he too struggled with his own strength. Because he did not have the promised descendant, he and Sarah provided a son through their servant Hagar. When the Almighty God appeared to him, He changed their names, established the covenant of circumcision, and confirmed the promise of a son through Sarah. God wants to appear to you too! (Genesis 16:15-16; 17:1-2, 4, 10, 15-16).
2. Similar to Jacob’s experience, if you love God’s will and are willing to suffer for the vision He has given you, He will not forsake you, even if, for a moment, it seems that way. God only allows you to go through certain situations for your own good, in order to transform you according to His will (Genesis 28:11-15; 1 Peter 1:6-7).
3. Christ became incarnate to establish communication between heaven and earth. He is the ladder with its base on earth and its top reaching heaven, which Jacob dreamed of and to which Jesus himself referred. The construction of this ladder is His incarnation—human life, death, and resurrection— which culminated in becoming the Spirit. Today, this ladder is in the church, the embassy of heaven on earth (Genesis 28:12; John 1:51).
4. “Today we have only one focus, which is to do God’s will, that is, to make Christ the Head over all things. We are not striving for fame or positions in the church, but we are all striving for the kingdom of God, for the headship of Christ” (Eph 1:9-10, 22) (Daily Food, book 6, week 1, Friday, p. 16).
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