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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:56 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Sunday March 1 > Deuteronomy 28-30 (The Message) > > Deuteronomy 28 > 1-6 If you listen obediently to the Voice of God, your God, and heartily > obey all his commandments > that I command you today, God, your God, will place > you on high, high above all the nations of the world. All these blessings > will come down on you and > spread out beyond you because you have responded to > the Voice of God, your God: > > God's blessing inside the city, > God's blessing in the country; > God's blessing on your children, > the crops of your land, > the young of your livestock, > the calves of your herds, > the lambs of your flocks. > God's blessing on your basket and bread bowl; > God's blessing in your coming in, > God's blessing in your going out. > > 7 God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They'll come at you on one > road and run away on > seven roads. > > 8 God will order a blessing on your barns and workplaces; he'll bless you > in the land that God, > your God, is giving you. > > 9 God will form you as a people holy to him, just as he promised you, if > you keep the commandments > of God, your God, and live the way he has shown you. > > 10 All the peoples on Earth will see you living under the Name of God and > hold you in respectful > awe. > > 11-14 God will lavish you with good things: children from your womb, > offspring from your animals, > and crops from your land, the land that God promised > your ancestors that he would give you. God will throw open the doors of > his sky vaults and pour rain > on your land on schedule and bless the work you take > in hand. You will lend to many nations but you yourself won't have to take > out a loan. God will make > you the head, not the tail; you'll always be the top > dog, never the bottom dog, as you obediently listen to and diligently keep > the commands of God, your > God, that I am commanding you today. Don't swerve > an inch to the right or left from the words that I command you today by > going off following and > worshiping other gods. > > 15-19 Here's what will happen if you don't obediently listen to the Voice > of God, your God, and > diligently keep all the commandments and guidelines that > I'm commanding you today. All these curses will come down hard on you: > > God's curse in the city, > God's curse in the country; > God's curse on your basket and bread bowl; > God's curse on your children, > the crops of your land, > the young of your livestock, > the calves of your herds, > the lambs of your flocks. > God's curse in your coming in, > God's curse in your going out. > > 20 God will send The Curse, The Confusion, The Contrariness down on > everything you try to do until > you've been destroyed and there's nothing left of you-all > because of your evil pursuits that led you to abandon me. > > 21 God will infect you with The Disease, wiping you right off the land > that you're going in to > possess. > > 22 God will set consumption and fever and rash and seizures and > dehydration and blight and jaundice > on you. They'll hunt you down until they kill you. > > 23-24 The sky over your head will become an iron roof, the ground under > your feet, a slab of > concrete. From out of the skies God will rain ash and dust > down on you until you suffocate. > > 25-26 God will defeat you by enemy attack. You'll come at your enemies on > one road and run away on > seven roads. All the kingdoms of Earth will see you > as a horror. Carrion birds and animals will boldly feast on your dead body > with no one to chase them > away. > > 27-29 God will hit you hard with the boils of Egypt, hemorrhoids, scabs, > and a n incurable itch. > He'll make you go crazy and blind and senile. You'll grope > around in the middle of the day like a blind person feeling his way > through a lifetime of darkness; > you'll never get to where you're going. Not a day will > go by that you're not abused and robbed. And no one is going to help you. > > 30-31 You'll get engaged to a woman and another man will take her for his > mistress; you'll build a > house and never live in it; you'll plant a garden and > never eat so much as a carrot; you'll watch your ox get butchered and not > get a single steak from > it; your donkey will be stolen from in front of you and > you'll never see it again; your sheep will be sent off to your enemies and > no one will lift a hand > to help you. > > 32-34 Your sons and daughters will be shipped off to foreigners; you'll > wear your eyes out looking > vainly for them, helpless to do a thing. Your crops > and everything you work for will be eaten and used by foreigners; you'll > spend the rest of your > lives abused and knocked around. What you see will drive > you crazy. > > 35 God will hit you with painful boils on your knees and legs and no > healing or relief from head to > foot. > > 36-37 God will lead you and the king you set over you to a country neither > you nor your ancestors > have heard of; there you'll worship other gods, no-gods > of wood and stone. Among all the peoples where God will take you, you'll > be treated as a lesson or a > proverb-a horror! > > 38-42 You'll plant sacks and sacks of seed in the field but get almost > nothing- the grasshoppers > will devour it. You'll plant and hoe and prune vineyards > but won't drink or put up any wine-the worms will devour them. You'll have > groves of olive trees > everywhere, but you'll have no oil to rub on your face > or hands-the olives will have fallen off. You'll have sons and daughters > but they won't be yours for > long-they'll go off to captivity. Locusts will take > over all your trees and crops. > > 43-44 The foreigner who lives among you will climb the ladder, higher and > higher, while you go > deeper and deeper into the hole. He'll lend to you; you > won't lend to him. He'll be the head; you'll be the tail. > > 45-46 All these curses are going to come on you. They're going to hunt you > down and get you until > there's nothing left of you because you didn't obediently > listen to the Voice of God, your God, and diligently keep his commandments > and guidelines that I > commanded you. The curses will serve as signposts, warnings > to your children ever after. > > 47-48 Because you didn't serve God, your God, out of the joy and goodness > of your heart in the > great abundance, you'll have to serve your enemies whom > God will send against you. Life will be famine and drought, rags and > wretchedness; then he'll put an > iron yoke on your neck until he's destroyed you. > > 48-52 Yes, God will raise up a faraway nation against you, swooping down > on you like an eagle, a > nation whose language you can't understand, a mean-faced > people, cruel to grandmothers and babies alike. They'll ravage the young > of your animals and the > crops from your fields until you're destroyed. They'll > leave nothing behind: no grain, no wine, no oil, no calves, no lambs-and > finally, no you. They'll > lay siege to you while you're huddled behind your town > gates. They'll knock those high, proud walls flat, those walls behind > which you felt so safe. > They'll lay siege to your fortified cities all over the country, > this country that God, your God, has given you. > > 53-55 And you'll end up cannibalizing your own sons and daughters that > God, your God, has given > you. When the suffering from the siege gets extreme, you're > going to eat your own babies. The most gentle and caring man among you > will turn hard, his eye evil, > against his own brother, his cherished wife, and even > the rest of his children who are still alive, refusing to share with them > a scrap of meat from the > cannibal child-stew he is eating. He's lost everything, > even his humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts > against your fortified > towns. > > 56-57 And the most gentle and caring woman among you, a woman who wouldn't > step on a wildflower, > will turn hard, her eye evil, against her cherished husband, > against her son, against her daughter, against even the afterbirth of her > newborn infants; she plans > to eat them in secret-she does eat them!-because she > has lost everything, even her humanity, in the suffering of the siege that > your enemy mounts against > your fortified towns. > > 58-61 If you don't diligently keep all the words of this Revelation > written in this book, living in > holy awe before This Name glorious and terrible, God, > your God, then God will pound you with catastrophes, you and your > children, huge interminable > catastrophes, hideous interminable illnesses. He'll bring > back and stick you with every old Egyptian malady that once terrorized > you. And yes, every disease > and catastrophe imaginable-things not even written in > the Book of this Revelation-God will bring on you until you're destroyed. > > 62 Because you didn't listen obediently to the Voice of God, your God, > you'll be left with a few > pitiful stragglers in place of the dazzling stars-in-the-heavens > multitude you had become. > > 63-66 And this is how things will end up: Just as God once enjoyed you, > took pleasure in making > life good for you, giving you many children, so God will > enjoy getting rid of you, clearing you off the Earth. He'll weed you out > of the very soil that you > are entering in to possess. He'll scatter you to the > four winds, from one end of the Earth to the other. You'll worship all > kinds of other gods, gods > neither you nor your parents ever heard of, wood and stone > no-gods. But you won't find a home there, you'll not be able to settle > down. God will give you a > restless heart, longing eyes, a homesick soul. You will > live in constant jeopardy, terrified of every shadow, never knowing what > you'll meet around the next > corner. > > 67 In the morning you'll say, "I wish it were evening." In the evening > you'll say, "I wish it were > morning." Afraid, terrorized at what's coming next, > afraid of the unknown, because of the sights you've witnessed. > > 68 God will ship you back to Egypt by a road I promised you'd never see > again. There you'll offer > yourselves for sale, both men and women, as slaves to > your enemies. And not a buyer to be found. > > Deuteronomy 29 > 1 These are the terms of the Covenant that God commanded Moses to make > with the People of Israel in > the land of Moab, renewing the Covenant he made with > them at Horeb. > > Moses Blesses Israel on the Plains of Moab > 2-4 Moses called all Israel together and said, You've seen with your own > eyes everything that God > did in Egypt to Pharaoh and his servants, and to the land > itself- the massive trials to which you were eyewitnesses, the great signs > and miracle-wonders. But > God didn't give you an understanding heart or perceptive > eyes or attentive ears until right now, this very day. > > 5-6 I took you through the wilderness for forty years and through all that > time the clothes on your > backs didn't wear out, the sandals on your feet didn't > wear out, and you lived well without bread and wine and beer, proving to > you that I am in fact God, > your God. > > 7-8 When you arrived here in this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king > of Bashan met us primed > for war but we beat them. We took their land and gave > it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of > Manasseh. > > 9 Diligently keep the words of this Covenant. Do what they say so that you > will live well and > wisely in every detail. > > 10-13 You are all standing here today in the Presence of God, your God- > the heads of your tribes, > your leaders, your officials, all Israel: your babies, > your wives, the resident foreigners in your camps who fetch your firewood > and water-ready to cross > over into the solemnly sworn Covenant that God, your > God, is making with you today, the Covenant that this day confirms that > you are his people and he is > God, your God, just as he promised you and your ancestors > Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. > > 14-21 I'm not making this Covenant and its oath with you alone. I am > making it with you who are > standing here today in the Presence of God, our God, yes, > but also with those who are not here today. You know the conditions in > which we lived in Egypt and > how we crisscrossed through nations in our travels. > You got an eyeful of their obscenities, their wood and stone, silver and > gold junk-gods. Don't let > down your guard lest even now, today, someone-man or > woman, clan or tribe-gets sidetracked from God, our God, and gets involved > with the no-gods of the > nations; lest some poisonous weed sprout and spread > among you, a person who hears the words of the Covenant-oath but exempts > himself, thinking, "I'll > live just the way I please, thank you," and ends up ruining > life for everybody. God won't let him off the hook. God's anger and > jealousy will erupt like a > volcano against that person. The curses written in this > book will bury him. God will delete his name from the records. God will > separate him out from all > the tribes of Israel for special punishment, according > to all the curses of the Covenant written in this Book of Revelation. > > 22-23 The next generation, your children who come after you and the > foreigner who comes from a far > country, will be appalled when they see the widespread > devastation, how God made the whole land sick. They'll see a > fire-blackened wasteland of brimstone > and salt flats, nothing planted, nothing growing, not > so much as a blade of grass anywhere-like the overthrow of Sodom and > Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, > which God overthrew in fiery rage. > > 24 All the nations will ask, "Why did God do this to this country? What on > earth could have made > him this angry?" > > 25-28 Your children will answer, "Because they abandoned the Covenant of > the God of their ancestors > that he made with them after he got them out of Egypt; > they went off and worshiped other gods, submitted to gods they'd never > heard of before, gods they > had no business dealing with. So God's anger erupted > against that land and all the curses written in this book came down on it. > God, furiously angry, > pulled them, roots and all, out of their land and dumped > them in another country, as you can see." > > 29 God, our God, will take care of the hidden things but the revealed > things are our business. It's > up to us and our children to attend to all the terms > in this Revelation. > > Deuteronomy 30 > 1-5 Here's what will happen. While you're out among the nations where God > has dispersed you and the > blessings and curses come in just the way I have set > them before you, and you and your children take them seriously and come > back to God, your God, and > obey him with your whole heart and soul according to > everything that I command you today, God, your God, will restore > everything you lost; he'll have > compassion on you; he'll come back and pick up the pieces > from all the places where you were scattered. No matter how far away you > end up, God, your God, will > get you out of there and bring you back to the land > your ancestors once possessed. It will be yours again. He will give you a > good life and make you > more numerous than your ancestors. > > 6-7 God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your > children's hearts, > freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole heart > and soul and live, really live. God, your God, will put all these curses > on your enemies who hated > you and were out to get you. > > 8-9 And you will make a new start, listening obediently to God, keeping > all his commandments that > I'm commanding you today. God, your God, will outdo himself > in making things go well for you: you'll have babies, get calves, grow > crops, and enjoy an > all-around good life. Yes, God will start enjoying you again, > making things go well for you just as he enjoyed doing it for your > ancestors. > > 10 But only if you listen obediently to God, your God, and keep the > commandments and regulations > written in this Book of Revelation. Nothing halfhearted > here; you must return to God, your God, totally, heart and soul, holding > nothing back. > > 11-14 This commandment that I'm commanding you today isn't too much for > you, it's not out of your > reach. It's not on a high mountain-you don't have to > get mountaineers to climb the peak and bring it down to your level and > explain it before you can > live it. And it's not across the ocean-you don't have > to send sailors out to get it, bring it back, and then explain it before > you can live it. No. The > word is right here and now-as near as the tongue in your > mouth, as near as the heart in your chest. Just do it! > > 15 Look at what I've done for you today: I've placed in front of you > Life and Good > Death and Evil. > > 16 And I command you today: Love God, your God. Walk in his ways. Keep his > commandments, > regulations, and rules so that you will live, really live, live > exuberantly, blessed by God, your God, in the land you are about to enter > and possess. > > 17-18 But I warn you: If you have a change of heart, refuse to listen > obediently, and willfully go > off to serve and worship other gods, you will most certainly > die. You won't last long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to > enter and possess. > > 19-20 I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before > you Life and Death, > Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children > will live. And love God, your God, listening obediently to him, firmly > embracing him. Oh yes, he is > life itself, a long life settled on the soil that God, > your God, promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. > > 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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