{"id":3099,"date":"2011-06-28T00:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T06:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2011-06-26T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T03:25:10","slug":"a-new-name-for-jacob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"A New Name for Jacob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAnd God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel\u201d (Genesis 35:10).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are familiar with the before story of Jacob. His life and motives weren\u2019t always pure. However, after a \u201cwrestling match\u201d with an angel, his life was never the same. God changed his name to Israel.\u00a0 He carried out the covenant God had made with Abraham and Isaac. God made Israel a great nation.<\/p>\n<p>God may not have to do something quite so dramatic to get your attention, but He will work in your life to help you be the best you can be. It&#8217;s amazing\u2014God can use ordinary people to do extraordinary things for His glory.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER:<\/strong> Thank God for salvation. Think upon the words of <em><strong>\u201cVictory in Jesus.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Pray that an unreached people might hear the &#8220;old, old story&#8221; today.<em><strong><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel\u201d (Genesis 35:10). We are familiar with the before story of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3099\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}