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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:40 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Sunday February 22 > Deuteronomy 7-9 (The Message) > > Deuteronomy 7 > 1-2 When God, your God, brings you into the country that you are about to > enter and take over, he > will clear out the superpowers that were there before > you: the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the > Perizzite, the Hivite, and the > Jebusite. Those seven nations are all bigger and stronger > than you are. God, your God, will turn them over to you and you will > conquer them. You must > completely destroy them, offering them up as a holy destruction > to God. > > Don't make a treaty with them. > > Don't let them off in any way. > > 3-4 Don't marry them: Don't give your daughters to their sons and don't > take their daughters for > your sons-before you know it they'd involve you in worshiping > their gods, and God would explode in anger, putting a quick end to you. > > 5 Here's what you are to do: > > Tear apart their altars stone by stone, > smash their phallic pillars, > chop down their sex-and-religion Asherah groves, > set fire to their carved god-images. > > 6 Do this because you are a people set apart as holy to God, your God. > God, your God, chose you out > of all the people on Earth for himself as a cherished, > personal treasure. > > 7-10 God wasn't attracted to you and didn't choose you because you were > big and important-the fact > is, there was almost nothing to you. He did it out of > sheer love, keeping the promise he made to your ancestors. God stepped in > and mightily bought you > back out of that world of slavery, freed you from the > iron grip of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know this: God, your God, is God > indeed, a God you can depend > upon. He keeps his covenant of loyal love with those > who love him and observe his commandments for a thousand generations. But > he also pays back those > who hate him, pays them the wages of death; he isn't > slow to pay them off-those who hate him, he pays right on time. > > 11 So keep the command and the rules and regulations that I command you > today. Do them. > > 12-13 And this is what will happen: When you, on your part, will obey > these directives, keeping and > following them, God, on his part, will keep the covenant > of loyal love that he made with your ancestors: > > He will love you, > he will bless you, > he will increase you. > > 13-15 He will bless the babies from your womb and the harvest of grain, > new wine, and oil from your > fields; he'll bless the calves from your herds and > lambs from your flocks in the country he promised your ancestors that he'd > give you. You'll be > blessed beyond all other peoples: no sterility or barrenness > in you or your animals. God will get rid of all sickness. And all the evil > afflictions you > experienced in Egypt he'll put not on you but on those who hate > you. > > 16 You'll make mincemeat of all the peoples that God, your God, hands over > to you. Don't feel sorry > for them. And don't worship their gods-they'll trap > you for sure. > > 17-19 You're going to think to yourselves, "Oh! We're outnumbered ten to > one by these nations! > We'll never even make a dent in them!" But I'm telling you, > Don't be afraid. Remember, yes, remember in detail what God, your God, did > to Pharaoh and all Egypt. > Remember the great contests to which you were eyewitnesses: > the miracle-signs, the wonders, God's mighty hand as he stretched out his > arm and took you out of > there. God, your God, is going to do the same thing to > these people you're now so afraid of. > > 20 And to top it off, the Hornet. God will unleash the Hornet on them > until every > survivor-in-hiding is dead. > > 21-24 So don't be intimidated by them. God, your God, is among you-God > majestic, God awesome. God, > your God, will get rid of these nations, bit by bit. > You won't be permitted to wipe them out all at once lest the wild animals > take over and overwhelm > you. But God, your God, will move them out of your way-he'll > throw them into a huge panic until there's nothing left of them. He'll > turn their kings over to you > and you'll remove all trace of them under Heaven. Not > one person will be able to stand up to you; you'll put an end to them all. > > 25-26 Make sure you set fire to their carved gods. Don't get greedy for > the veneer of silver and > gold on them and take it for yourselves-you'll get trapped > by it for sure. God hates it; it's an abomination to God, your God. And > don't dare bring one of > these abominations home or you'll end up just like it, > burned up as a holy destruction. No: It is forbidden! Hate it. Abominate > it. Destroy it and preserve > God's holiness. > > Deuteronomy 8 > 1-5 Keep and live out the entire commandment that I'm commanding you today > so that you'll live and > prosper and enter and own the land that God promised > to your ancestors. Remember every road that God led you on for those forty > years in the wilderness, > pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he > would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments > or not. He put you through > hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you > with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so > you would learn that men > and women don't live by bread only; we live by every > word that comes from God's mouth. Your clothes didn't wear out and your > feet didn't blister those > forty years. You learned deep in your heart that God > disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child. > > 6-9 So it's paramount that you keep the commandments of God, your God, > walk down the roads he shows > you and reverently respect him. God is about to bring > you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, > streams out of the hills and > through the valleys. It's a land of wheat and barley, > of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey. It's land > where you'll never go > hungry-always food on the table and a roof over your head. > It's a land where you'll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the > hills. > > 10 After a meal, satisfied, bless God, your God, for the good land he has > given you. > > 11-16 Make sure you don't forget God, your God, by not keeping his > commandments, his rules and > regulations that I command you today. Make sure that when > you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your > herds and flocks flourish > and more and more money come in, watch your standard > of living going up and up-make sure you don't become so full of yourself > and your things that you > forget God, your God, > > the God who delivered you from Egyptian slavery; > the God who led you through that huge and fearsome wilderness, those > desolate, arid badlands > crawling with fiery snakes and scorpions; > the God who gave you water gushing from hard rock; > the God who gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your > ancestors had never heard > of, in order to give you a taste of the hard life, to > test you so that you would be prepared to live well in the days ahead of > you. > > 17-18 If you start thinking to yourselves, "I did all this. And all by > myself. I'm rich. It's all > mine!"-well, think again. Remember that God, your God, > gave you the strength to produce all this wealth so as to confirm the > covenant that he promised to > your ancestors-as it is today. > > 19-20 If you forget, forget God, your God, and start taking up with other > gods, serving and > worshiping them, I'm on record right now as giving you firm > warning: that will be the end of you; I mean it-destruction. You'll go to > your doom-the same as the > nations God is destroying before you; doom because > you wouldn't obey the Voice of God, your God. > > Deuteronomy 9 > 1-2 Attention, Israel! This very day you are crossing the Jordan to enter > the land and dispossess > nations that are much bigger and stronger than you are. > You're going to find huge cities with sky-high fortress-walls and gigantic > people, descendants of > the Anakites-you've heard all about them; you've heard > the saying, "No one can stand up to an Anakite." > > 3 Today know this: God, your God, is crossing the river ahead of you-he's > a consuming fire. He will > destroy the nations, he will put them under your power. > You will dispossess them and very quickly wipe them out, just as God > promised you would. > > 4-5 But when God pushes them out ahead of you, don't start thinking to > yourselves, "It's because of > all the good I've done that God has brought me in here > to dispossess these nations." Actually it's because of all the evil these > nations have done. No, > it's nothing good that you've done, no record for decency > that you've built up, that got you here; it's because of the vile > wickedness of these nations that > God, your God, is dispossessing them before you so that > he can keep his promised word to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and > Jacob. > > 6-10 Know this and don't ever forget it: It's not because of any good that > you've done that God is > giving you this good land to own. Anything but! You're > stubborn as mules. Keep in mind and don't ever forget how angry you made > God, your God, in the > wilderness. You've kicked and screamed against God from > the day you left Egypt until you got to this place, rebels all the way. > You made God angry at Horeb, > made him so angry that he wanted to destroy you. When > I climbed the mountain to receive the slabs of stone, the tablets of the > covenant that God made with > you, I stayed there on the mountain forty days and > nights: I ate no food; I drank no water. Then God gave me the two slabs of > stone, engraved with the > finger of God. They contained word for word everything > that God spoke to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the > assembly. > > 11-12 It was at the end of the forty days and nights that God gave me the > two slabs of stone, the > tablets of the covenant. God said to me, "Get going, > and quickly. Get down there, because your people whom you led out of Egypt > have ruined everything. > In almost no time at all they have left the road that > I laid out for them and gone off and made for themselves a cast god." > > 13-14 God said, "I look at this people and all I see are hardheaded, > hardhearted rebels. Get out of > my way now so I can destroy them. I'm going to wipe > them off the face of the map. Then I'll start over with you to make a > nation far better and bigger > than they could ever be." > > 15-17 I turned around and started down the mountain-by now the mountain > was blazing with > fire-carrying the two tablets of the covenant in my two arms. > That's when I saw it: There you were, sinning against God, your God-you > had made yourselves a cast > god in the shape of a calf! So soon you had left the > road that God had commanded you to walk on. I held the two stone slabs > high and threw them down, > smashing them to bits as you watched. > > 18-20 Then I prostrated myself before God, just as I had at the beginning > of the forty days and > nights. I ate no food; I drank no water. I did this because > of you, all your sins, sinning against God, doing what is evil in God's > eyes and making him angry. I > was terrified of God's furious anger, his blazing > anger. I was sure he would destroy you. But once again God listened to me. > And Aaron! How furious he > was with Aaron-ready to destroy him. But I prayed > also for Aaron at that same time. > > 21 But that sin-thing that you made, that calf-god, I took and burned in > the fire, pounded and > ground it until it was crushed into a fine powder, then > threw it into the stream that comes down the mountain. > > 22 And then there was Camp Taberah (Blaze), Massah (Testing-Place), and > Camp Kibroth Hattaavah > (Graves-of-the-Craving)-more occasions when you made God > furious with you. > > 23-24 The most recent was when God sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, > ordering you: "Go. Possess the > land that I'm giving you." And what did you do? You > rebelled. Rebelled against the clear orders of God, your God. Refused to > trust him. Wouldn't obey > him. You've been rebels against God from the first day > I knew you. > > 25-26 When I was on my face, prostrate before God those forty days and > nights after God said he > would destroy you, I prayed to God for you, "My Master, > God, don't destroy your people, your inheritance whom, in your immense > generosity, you redeemed, > using your enormous strength to get them out of Egypt. > > 27-28 "Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't make too > much of the stubbornness of > this people, their evil and their sin, lest the Egyptians > from whom you rescued them say, 'God couldn't do it; he got tired and > wasn't able to take them to > the land he promised them. He ended up hating them and > dumped them in the wilderness to die.' > > 29 "They are your people still, your inheritance whom you powerfully and > sovereignly rescued." > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
