{"id":4071,"date":"2024-05-28T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackaby.net\/members\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2024-05-24T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:16:15","slug":"taking-matters-into-our-own-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/2024\/05\/28\/taking-matters-into-our-own-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Matters into Our Own Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Isaac approached the end of his life, he requested his favorite meal before he blessed his older son and died.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Isaac&#8217;s desire to fulfill his physical appetites gave his younger son Jacob an opportunity for deceit.<\/p>\n<p>With his mother&#8217;s help, Jacob prepared the stew, disguised himself as Esau, and received the blessing that was rightfully his brother&#8217;s.\u00a0 As soon as Isaac pronounced the blessing, a hungry Esau returned from his hunting, made the meal his father had requested, and learned that his father had blessed his brother.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his life, Esau&#8211;like Jacob&#8211;was tempted to take control of his own life and destiny, and it&#8217;s undoubtedly a temptation you have also faced.\u00a0 It takes steady faith to leave our lives and future in God&#8217;s hands.\u00a0 Too often we tire of waiting on God or something else compels us to turn from the Lord.\u00a0 Yet when we seize control of our lives, disaster inevitably follows.\u00a0 Ask the Lord to help you release your hold on your life and entrust it to His capable hands instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, &#8220;The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.&#8221;   Genesis 27:41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15228,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/15228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}