4/21/2009 7:49 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Obey because of God’s covenant promises
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Deuteronomy 11:8-25
Message of the verses: “8 ¶
"You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding
you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which
you are about to cross to possess it; 9
so that you may prolong your days on the land which the LORD swore to
your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk
and honey. 10 "For the land, into
which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which
you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your foot like a vegetable
garden. 11 "But the land into which
you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water
from the rain of heaven, 12 a land for
which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it,
from the beginning even to the end of the year. 13 "It shall come about, if you listen
obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD
your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, 14 that He will give the rain for your land in
its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your
new wine and your oil. 15 "He will
give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
16 "Beware that your hearts are not
deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.
17 "Or the anger of the LORD will
be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be
no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly
from the good land which the LORD is giving you.
18 ¶ "You shall therefore impress these words
of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on
your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 19 "You shall teach them to your sons,
talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and
when you lie down and when you rise up. 20
"You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your
gates, 21 so that your days and the days
of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers
to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth. 22 "For if you are careful to keep all this
commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk
in all His ways and hold fast to Him, 23
then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you
will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. 24 "Every place on which the sole of your
foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon , and from the river, the river Euphrates , as far as the western sea. 25 "No man will be able to stand before
you; the LORD your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the
land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.”
In this
section Moses again speaks about the commands and the promises that God has
given to Israel Israel Israel
in the 1000 year kingdom of which Jesus Christ will sit and rule from Jerusalem
Warren
Wiersbe says in his book on Deuteronomy that not only was this the Promised
Land but it was also the land of promises as from this land the Lord Jesus
Christ was born, lived for thirty-three years, died on a cross for the sins of
the world, was raised from the dead three days later, and then ascended to
heaven from this land of promises and is now seated at the right hand of God in
order to make intercession for His children.
In this
section Moses tells the children of Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Faith in the Lord and in the promises of the
Lord and in the blessing that He has given to me are key in living a life that
pleases the Lord. Paul speaks of a
series of steps in Ephesians three that will help me out to live a life
pleasing to the Lord. It works in order
and you can’t go to the next one until you have the one before it and so on
down the line: “16 that He would grant you, according to the
riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the
inner man, 17 so that Christ may
dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and
grounded in love, 18 may be able to
comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and
depth, 19 and to know the love of
Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the
fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who
is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to
the power that works within us, 21 to
Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever
and ever. Amen.” Verse twenty is how
Paul climaxes this series of promises to those he was praying for that this may
happen in their lives.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Give myself to the Lord today for worship and service.
- Be strengthened with power through God’s Spirit in my inner man.
- I want to live a life so that Christ may want to dwell in my heart, feel at home in my heart.
- Keep a short list with the Lord.
Memory verses for the week: Ephesians
1:5-10
5 He predestined us
to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind
intention of His will,
6 to the praise of
the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
7 In Him we have
redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to
the riches of His grace
8 which He lavished
on us. In all wisdom and insight
9 He made known to us
the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in
Him
10 with a view to an
administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up
of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him
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