Contending For Breakthrough Part 1

May God calibrate your heart to His beat as you read this! 

       Genesis 32 begins with Jacob meeting the angels of God and calls that place Mahanaim, meaning camp of armed hosts. Soon after he sends his servants to greet Esau, the brother he fled from twenty years earlier. But terror and distress overtake Jacob when his servants bring the news that Esau is on his way to meet him along with four hundred men. Jacob may have been cunning and deceitful as his name suggests, but he had every reason to fear his brother...
        Every first born hebrew male was entitled to a double portion of his father's inheritance. Esau hated his brother Jacob for taking away his birthright and his blessing. But the account in Genesis 25 states it was Esau who sold his birthright to Jacob in a desperate attempt to satisfy his hunger pangs for a bowl of stew. Esau shifted his eyes from the reward God had for him and gave into the momentary pleasures of his flesh. Oh the pointlessness of such momentary pleasures! The bible says in Genesis 25:34, "Esau scorned his birthright as beneath his notice". Esau sold his birthright for very cheap. How much you value something, determines the cost you are willing to pay for it. What Esau despised and sold for cheap became Jacob's gain. On Rebekah's insistence in Genesis 27, he even succeeded in gaining Esau's blessings from his father Isaac. This started the family feud and Esau hated his brother Jacob and determined to kill him (Genesis 27:41). Thereon from Genesis 28 to 32, Jacob left home in Beersheba and travelled toward Haran and raised his family. 
       Once again the memory of all that transpired so many years ago between Jacob and his brother comes to the forefront when Jacob's servants bring him the news of his brother coming with four hundred men to meet him. The fear of Esau smiting his wives and children, grips Jacob. What must he do, what can he do, what should he do.....we always have a choice to either be paralyzed by fear or face our fears and do the impossible.