In this video listen to Genesis 27 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

Genesis 27 contains the fascinating story of Jacob’s deceit of his father Isaac so as to steal the blessing from his brother Esau. Isaac is at this point 137 years old and Jacob and Esau are 77, which is much older than we often think.

Esau previously despised his inheritance and dishonoured his parents and may be receiving a spiritual backhander here as a result. Jacob does the wrong thing, but demonstrates how highly prized the blessing was.

Isaac mistakenly thought there was only one blessing, but we see in the scriptures that there is a blessing for all of God’s people. So go and seek it out. Find your fathers in the faith and ask them to bless you.

Today in churches most Christians think little of the blessing, as ma ...