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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:02 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Monday February 23 > Deuteronomy 10-12 (The Message) > > Deuteronomy 10 > 1-2 God responded. He said, "Shape two slabs of stone similar to the first > ones. Climb the mountain > and meet me. Also make yourself a wooden chest. I will > engrave the stone slabs with the words that were on the first ones, the > ones you smashed. Then you > will put them in the Chest." > > 3-5 So I made a chest out of acacia wood, shaped two slabs of stone, just > like the first ones, and > climbed the mountain with the two slabs in my arms. > He engraved the stone slabs the same as he had the first ones, the Ten > Words that he addressed to > you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the > assembly. Then God gave them to me. I turned around and came down the > mountain. I put the stone > slabs in the Chest that I made and they've been there ever > since, just as God commanded me. > > 6-7 The People of Israel went from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. > Aaron died there and was > buried. His son Eleazar succeeded him as priest. From > there they went to Gudgodah, and then to Jotbathah, a land of streams of > water. > > 8-9 That's when God set apart the tribe of Levi to carry God's Covenant > Chest, to be on duty in the > Presence of God, to serve him, and to bless in his > name, as they continue to do today. And that's why Levites don't have a > piece of inherited land as > their kinsmen do. God is their inheritance, as God, > your God, promised them. > > 10 I stayed there on the mountain forty days and nights, just as I did the > first time. And God > listened to me, just as he did the first time: God decided > not to destroy you. > > 11 God told me, "Now get going. Lead your people as they resume the > journey to take possession of > the land that I promised their ancestors that I'd give > to them." > > 12-13 So now Israel, what do you think God expects from you? Just this: > Live in his presence in > holy reverence, follow the road he sets out for you, love > him, serve God, your God, with everything you have in you, obey the > commandments and regulations of > God that I'm commanding you today-live a good life. > > 14-18 Look around you: Everything you see is God's-the heavens above and > beyond, the Earth, and > everything on it. But it was your ancestors who God fell > in love with; he picked their children-that's you!-out of all the other > peoples. That's where we are > right now. So cut away the thick calluses from your > heart and stop being so willfully hardheaded. God, your God, is the God of > all gods, he's the Master > of all masters, a God immense and powerful and awesome. > He doesn't play favorites, takes no bribes, makes sure orphans and widows > are treated fairly, takes > loving care of foreigners by seeing that they get food > and clothing. > > 19-21 You must treat foreigners with the same loving care- > remember, you were once foreigners in Egypt. > Reverently respect God, your God, serve him, hold tight to him, > back up your promises with the authority of his name. > He's your praise! He's your God! > He did all these tremendous, these staggering things > that you saw with your own eyes. > > 22 When your ancestors entered Egypt, they numbered a mere seventy souls. > And now look at you-you > look more like the stars in the night skies in number. > And your God did it. > > Deuteronomy 11 > 1So love God, your God; guard well his rules and regulations; obey his > commandments for the rest of > time. > > 2-7 Today it's very clear that it isn't your children who are front and > center here: They weren't > in on what God did, didn't see the acts, didn't experience > the discipline, didn't marvel at his greatness, the way he displayed his > power in the miracle-signs > and deeds that he let loose in Egypt on Pharaoh king > of Egypt and all his land, the way he took care of the Egyptian army, its > horses and chariots, > burying them in the waters of the Red Sea as they pursued > you. God drowned them. And you're standing here today alive. Nor was it > your children who saw how > God took care of you in the wilderness up until the time > you arrived here, what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab son > of Reuben, how the Earth > opened its jaws and swallowed them with their families-their > tents, and everything around them-right out of the middle of Israel. Yes, > it was you-your eyes-that > saw every great thing that God did. > > 8-9 So it's you who are in charge of keeping the entire commandment that I > command you today so > that you'll have the strength to invade and possess the > land that you are crossing the river to make your own. Your obedience will > give you a long life on > the soil that God promised to give your ancestors and > their children, a land flowing with milk and honey. > > 10-12 The land you are entering to take up ownership isn't like Egypt, the > land you left, where you > had to plant your own seed and water it yourselves > as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are about to cross the river > and take for your own is a > land of mountains and valleys; it drinks water that > rains from the sky. It's a land that God, your God, personally tends-he's > the gardener-he alone > keeps his eye on it all year long. > > 13-15 From now on if you listen obediently to the commandments that I am > commanding you today, love > God, your God, and serve him with everything you have > within you, he'll take charge of sending the rain at the right time, both > autumn and spring rains, > so that you'll be able to harvest your grain, your grapes, > your olives. He'll make sure there's plenty of grass for your animals. > You'll have plenty to eat. > > 16-17 But be vigilant, lest you be seduced away and end up serving and > worshiping other gods and > God erupts in anger and shuts down Heaven so there's no > rain and nothing grows in the fields, and in no time at all you're starved > out-not a trace of you > left on the good land that God is giving you. > > 18-21 Place these words on your hearts. Get them deep inside you. Tie them > on your hands and > foreheads as a reminder. Teach them to your children. Talk > about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; > talk about them from the time > you get up in the morning until you fall into bed > at night. Inscribe them on the doorposts and gates of your cities so that > you'll live a long time, > and your children with you, on the soil that God promised > to give your ancestors for as long as there is a sky over the Earth. > > 22-25 That's right. If you diligently keep all this commandment that I > command you to obey-love > God, your God, do what he tells you, stick close to him-God > on his part will drive out all these nations that stand in your way. Yes, > he'll drive out nations > much bigger and stronger than you. Every square inch > on which you place your foot will be yours. Your borders will stretch from > the wilderness to the > mountains of Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the > Mediterranean Sea. No one will be able to stand in your way. Everywhere > you go, God-sent fear and > trembling will precede you, just as he promised. > > 26 I've brought you today to the crossroads of Blessing and Curse. > > 27 The Blessing: if you listen obediently to the commandments of God, your > God, which I command you > today. > > 28 The Curse: if you don't pay attention to the commandments of God, your > God, but leave the road > that I command you today, following other gods of which > you know nothing. > > 29-30 Here's what comes next: When God, your God, brings you into the land > you are going into to > make your own, you are to give out the Blessing from Mount > Gerizim and the Curse from Mount Ebal. After you cross the Jordan River, > follow the road to the west > through Canaanite settlements in the valley near Gilgal > and the Oaks of Moreh. > > 31-32 You are crossing the Jordan River to invade and take the land that > God, your God, is giving > you. Be vigilant. Observe all the regulations and rules > I am setting before you today. > > Deuteronomy 12 > 1 These are the rules and regulations that you must diligently observe for > as long as you live in > this country that God, the God-of-Your-Fathers, has given > you to possess. > > 2-3 Ruthlessly demolish all the sacred shrines where the nations that > you're driving out worship > their gods-wherever you find them, on hills and mountains > or in groves of green trees. Tear apart their altars. Smash their phallic > pillars. Burn their > sex-and-religion Asherah shrines. Break up their carved gods. > Obliterate the names of those god sites. > > 4 Stay clear of those places-don't let what went on there contaminate the > worship of God, your God. > > 5-7 Instead find the site that God, your God, will choose and mark it with > his name as a common > center for all the tribes of Israel. Assemble there. Bring > to that place your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and > Tribute-Offerings, your > Vow-Offerings, your Freewill-Offerings, and the firstborn > of your herds and flocks. Feast there in the Presence of God, your God. > Celebrate everything that > you and your families have accomplished under the blessing > of God, your God. > > 8-10 Don't continue doing things the way we're doing them at present, each > of us doing as we wish. > Until now you haven't arrived at the goal, the resting > place, the inheritance that God, your God, is giving you. But the minute > you cross the Jordan River > and settle into the land God, your God, is enabling > you to inherit, he'll give you rest from all your surrounding enemies. > You'll be able to settle down > and live in safety. > > 11-12 From then on, at the place that God, your God, chooses to mark with > his name as the place > where you can meet him, bring everything that I command > you: your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, tithes and > Tribute-Offerings, and the best of your > Vow-Offerings that you vow to God. Celebrate there in > the Presence of God, your God, you and your sons and daughters, your > servants and maids, including > the Levite living in your neighborhood because he has > no place of his own in your inheritance. > > 13-14 Be extra careful: Don't offer your Absolution-Offerings just any > place that strikes your > fancy. Offer your Absolution-Offerings only in the place > that God chooses in one of your tribal regions. There and only there are > you to bring all that I > command you. > > 15 It's permissible to slaughter your nonsacrificial animals like gazelle > and deer in your towns > and eat all you want from them with the blessing of God, > your God. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat. > > 16-18 But you may not eat the blood. Pour the blood out on the ground like > water. Nor may you eat > there the tithe of your grain, new wine, or olive oil; > nor the firstborn of your herds and flocks; nor any of the Vow-Offerings > that you vow; nor your > Freewill-Offerings and Tribute-Offerings. All these you > must eat in the Presence of God, your God, in the place God, your God, > chooses-you, your son and > daughter, your servant and maid, and the Levite who lives > in your neighborhood. You are to celebrate in the Presence of God, your > God, all the things you've > been able to accomplish. > > 19 And make sure that for as long as you live on your land you never, > never neglect the Levite. > > 20-22 When God, your God, expands your territory as he promised he would > do, and you say, "I'm > hungry for meat," because you happen to be craving meat > at the time, go ahead and eat as much meat as you want. If you're too far > away from the place that > God, your God, has marked with his name, it's all right > to slaughter animals from your herds and flocks that God has given you, as > I've commanded you. In > your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want. > Just as the nonsacrificial animals like the gazelle and deer are eaten, > you may eat them; the > ritually unclean and clean may eat them at the same table. > > 23-25 Only this: Absolutely no blood. Don't eat the blood. Blood is life; > don't eat the life with > the meat. Don't eat it; pour it out on the ground like > water. Don't eat it; then you'll have a good life, you and your children > after you. By all means, do > the right thing in God's eyes. > > 26-27 And this: Lift high your Holy-Offerings and your Vow-Offerings and > bring them to the place > God designates. Sacrifice your Absolution-Offerings, the > meat and blood, on the Altar of God, your God; pour out the blood of the > Absolution-Offering on the > Altar of God, your God; then you can go ahead and eat > the meat. > > 28 Be vigilant, listen obediently to these words that I command you so > that you'll have a good > life, you and your children, for a long, long time, doing > what is good and right in the eyes of God, your God. > > 29-31 When God, your God, cuts off the nations whose land you are > invading, shoves them out of your > way so that you displace them and settle in their land, > be careful that you don't get curious about them after they've been > destroyed before you. Don't get > fascinated with their gods, thinking, "I wonder what > it was like for them, worshiping their gods. I'd like to try that myself." > Don't do this to God, > your God. They commit every imaginable abomination with > their gods. God hates it all with a passion. Why, they even set their > children on fire as offerings > to their gods! > > 32 Diligently do everything I command you, the way I command you: don't > add to it; don't subtract > from it. > > 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. 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