Join the free Bible study by Max Lucado and receive free access to 5 study videos and other Bible study resources when you sign up!

Join the free Bible study by Max Lucado and receive free access to 5 study videos and other Bible study resources when you sign up!

Join the free Bible study by Max Lucado and receive free access to 5 study videos and other Bible study resources when you sign up!

Have you ever wondered if God can really use someone like you?

God uses imperfect people to enact his perfect plans, and no character in the Bible represents this truth better than Jacob. He was less a prodigy and more a prodigal. Strong on savvy. Low on conscience. Jacob took advantage of his famished brother and pulled the wool over the eyes of his dying father, yet God never turned his back on Jacob.

Jacob’s life proves that no matter what we do, no matter how many steps backward we take, no matter how many times we mess up, God is always with us. The grace he gives us through his Son, Jesus, is greater than our biggest setback.

So be encouraged, friend. God’s grace never quits. He did not give up on Jacob. He will never give up on you. 

We hope you'll join us for the God Never Gives Up On You Online Bible Study, brand new from Max Lucado!

Have you ever wondered if God can really use someone like you?

God uses imperfect people to enact his perfect plans, and no character in the Bible represents this truth better than Jacob. He was less a prodigy and more a prodigal. Strong on savvy. Low on conscience. Jacob took advantage of his famished brother and pulled the wool over the eyes of his dying father, yet God never turned his back on Jacob.

Jacob’s life proves that no matter what we do, no matter how many steps backward we take, no matter how many times we mess up, God is always with us. The grace he gives us through his Son, Jesus, is greater than our biggest setback.

So be encouraged, friend. God’s grace never quits. He did not give up on Jacob. He will never give up on you. 

We hope you'll join us for the God Never Gives Up On You Online Bible Study, brand new from Max Lucado!

In this five-session Bible study, you will see how God used Jacob—the misbehaving patriarch —simply because God chose to use Jacob. His story invites us to believe in a God who sticks with the unworthy until we are safely at home.

Dear friend,

If you are looking for a star in a Hallmark movie, Jacob is not your guy.

If, on the other hand, you want to see God’s steadfast devotion . . .

If you could benefit from a tale of God’s unending, unbending, unswerving faithfulness . . .

If you wonder if God could use a person whose halo has slipped . . .

Then the story of Jacob is what you need.

When God wanted to identify himself to his people, he declared himself to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Not just of Abraham and Isaac. He’s also the God of Jacob. God used Jacob in spite of Jacob. Period.

The word for such devotion? Grace.

Grace came after Jacob. Grace found him in the desert. Grace protected him when he lived in exile. Grace wrestled him to the ground in Jabbok and blessed him. Grace led him home to Canaan. Jacob’s story is a testimony to divine, unexpected, unrequested, undeserved kindness.

If God could love and use Jacob, might he be willing to do the same with you?

- Max

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