Bethel May 2026

"Surely the Lord is in this place," he whispered, "and I was not aware of it."

With no tent and no fire, he pulled a smooth stone from the earth to serve as his pillow. It was a cold, unforgiving start to his exile. But that night, the hard place transformed. bethel

Jacob was a man on the run. Behind him lay a family fractured by his own deception; ahead lay a vast, uncertain wilderness. As the sun dipped below the horizon of the Judean hills, he found himself alone in a place called , a name that meant "the hard place." "Surely the Lord is in this place," he

When Jacob awoke, the chill of the morning air was still there, but his fear was gone. He looked at the stone that had been his pillow and realized he hadn’t been alone in the desert. Jacob was a man on the run