We live in perilous times. Everyone has many challenges, and some people don’t know how to handle their difficult seasons. God doesn’t want us to struggle regardless of how the world is changing. He doesn’t expect us to fight to make ends meet for our lives.

Instead, he wants us to depend on him, absolutely excluding how we feel and what we see.

Here’s a short devotional of how to do that from Pastor Joseph Prince‘s devotionals.

This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. . . . he touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket . . . “Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him. “From now on you will be called Israel . . . ” . . . Then he blessed Jacob there.

Genesis 32:24–29 NLT

Most people would have given up on Jacob, the scheming deceiver and manipulator. But not God.

One night, while attempting to appease the brother he had stolen from, Jacob met the Lord. He grabbed hold of the Lord and for hours, tried to wrestle a blessing from Him.

What to do when you struggle

What did the Lord do? He touched Jacob’s hip socket and put it out of joint, so that Jacob wound up helpless before the Lord.

The Lord changed Jacob that night. He showed Jacob how it was only when Jacob’s grabbing and wrestling finally stopped that His grace was able to flow. That night, God changed Jacob’s name from “deceiver” to “prince” (Israel), and added to him blessings that were beyond his own efforts.

You see, we cannot try to wrestle blessings from God. It is when we give up on our scheming, deceiving, and manipulating to get ahead in life, and completely trust His grace alone that His provision flows unabated.

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