“Learning Things the Hard Way”

                                                   Genesis 29:1-30

1)    Jacob Learns about ___    LOVE___________

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.” – Song of Solomon 8:7

2)    Jacob Learns about ____PATIENCE________

“So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.” – Genesis 29:20

3)    Jacob Learns about ____ADVERSITY_____

“The Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.” – Proverbs 3:12