Are you keeping the foreign gods in your house until now?
Jacob got out of Laban’s experience but the spirit of self-dependency was still in him. When Jacob knew of the coming of Esau to towards him, he prayed to the Lord saying: "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children” (Genesis 32:9,11), but the prayer did not stop Jacob from trusting himself and leaning on his own understanding, for after the prayer, he immediately prepared a present to his brother Esau to solicit his sympathy for he said "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face.”(Genesis 32:20).