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The Story of Redemption
for Christians: Jacob prevailed because he was persevering and
determined.
All who desire the blessing of God, as did Jacob, and will lay
hold of the promises, as he did, and be as earnest and persevering
as he was, will succeed as he succeeded. There is so little exercise
of true faith and so little of the weight of truth resting upon many
professed believers because they are indolent in spiritual things.
They are unwilling to make exertions, to deny self, to agonize before
God, to pray long and earnestly for the blessing, and therefore they
do not obtain it. That faith which will live through the time of trouble
must be daily in exercise now. Those who do not make strong efforts
now to exercise persevering faith, will be wholly unprepared to
exercise that faith which will enable them to stand in the day of
trouble.
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