The Lord‘s Chosen Place of Worship 12 “These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. 2 You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served … Read More
Month: August 2014
Deuteronomy 12 Devotion
The One Place of Worship Moses taught the Israelites how to stay pure in their worship of Yahweh. The Israelites had one place where they were to gather together in worship. Today, believers are called to be temples where God’s spirit dwells… 1. Destroy the pagan worship centers (vs. 2-4). Anything that would take their … Read More
Deuteronomy 11 Devotion
“If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow – to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him and to hold fast to Him…” ~ Deuteronomy 11:22 TRUTH: Obedience to God brings blessing in your life Why is it we tend to think obedience means captivity or denial? … Read More
Deuteronomy 11
Love and Serve the Lord 11 “You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. 2 And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, 3 his signs and his deeds that he … Read More
Deuteronomy 10 Devotion
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 says, “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that … Read More
Deuteronomy 10
New Tablets of Stone 10 “At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the … Read More
Deuteronomy 9 Devotion
WE WILL WIN Deuteronomy 9 opens with Moses assuring God’s people that they will win over their enemies (vs. 1-3). Moses also cautions them not to attribute their successes to their own merit, but to God’s justice, which was engaged against their enemies, and his faithfulness, which was engaged to their fathers. This chapter reminds … Read More
Deuteronomy 9
Not Because of Righteousness 9 “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons … Read More
Deuteronomy 8
Remember the Lord Your God 8 “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he … Read More
Deuteronomy 8 Devotion
Blessings Or More? In Deuteronomy 8 we see the GPS working during the forty year trek. It wasn’t the “global positioning system” but instead the “God Positioning System”. Since God was leading the way you’d think that the journey would’ve been direct, but there are usually lessons to learn along the way. Although I’m sure … Read More