Day 54
Reading: Deut. 8:1- 11:32
To maintain the blessing that God bestows requires one lives by the commandments of God. Live according to the Word of God and you will remain in the place God has given you. One can only flourish by living according to the Word of God. The tests we go through in life are to humble us, to sieve the heart and reveal what the contents of the heart are. Every challenge we go through is a test of our obedience to the Word of God.
God desires to feed us with manna, which is heavenly food for our earthly journey. As we journey here on earth we need heavenly strengthening and this is from eating the Bread of Heaven. I am not alive because of the natural food, however, I am created to live by every Word that proceeds from God. I am born to live by the living Word, not just the written word but the 'live' word of God. The word used in Hebrew that is translated lives means that the spoken Word of God will quicken, preserve, revive, nourish, recover, repair, save, and be made whole. The spoken Word will quicken, preserve, revive, nourish, repair, save, and will make one whole. Lord, speak Your Word continually to me.
The Word of God was so strong that the clothes they wore did not wear out and their feet did not swell with all the walking. Obedience to the Word of God will cause me to inherit the land whole. The Word is bringing me into the good land. I am coming to a place where I will never see scarcity again, as I will lack nothing by the Word of God bringing me to the promised land flowing with milk and honey. I will not forget that it is God that brings me to the place of His goodness. I will continually give thanks that it is the power of God that empowers to get wealth that I may establish the Covenant of God.
By the power of God, I am dispossessing greater nations than I. God goes as a consuming fire ahead of me and delivers my enemies to me. I drive them out by the prophetic word which has gone ahead of me. The Word of God declares I am blessed to be fruitful, increase, multiply, subdue my enemies and have dominion.
Don't think that the blessings that have come into your life have come because of your own righteousness. Know that it is the power of God. I am possessing the land, not because of my works but because God has judged those who are being evicted from the land and God is handing it over to His children. I am possessing the land because of God's promise to Abraham. I am an heir of the promise.
As you and I possess the land we should not forget the times of rebellion where we failed God. This is not so as to grieve but to constantly remember that it's because of God's grace and mercy that we are possessing the promised land. I am possessing the land by the mercies of God. Disobedience has consequences that are perilous. Rebelling against the Word of God has severe consequences. Fear God.
Learn to intercede for people. Moses interceded for 40 days and 40 nights praying that God would be merciful and not destroy the children of Israel. It's not a five-minute prayer that he prayed. He travailed for long that God would be merciful. In today's instant generation understanding this is an issue. We need to understand the language of travailing. No one person that has been used by God to change the world has not understood what it means to wait on the Lord. Waiting on the Lord requires a travailing at times. This builds character. This shows God your level of hunger for Him and Him alone.
God requires of me to fear Him, to walk in all His ways, to love Him and serve Him with my all. The entire universe belongs to God. Circumcise the foreskin of the heart, remove stubborn wayward thinking and behaviours and follow God wholeheartedly!
Keeping the commandments of God makes one strong, gives one the capacity to possess the land, empowers one to maintain possession of what God has given, livestock will have food to eat, a holy fear comes on those who see you leaving them in awe, and will result in the blessing of rain on the land to be available in season.
It's my responsibility to ensure my heart is right before God. That I am not walking in deception believing in another god and not Yahweh, the Lord of all, who reigns over all the affairs of men. It's my duty and responsibility to lay up the Word of God in all my being and to teach my children. It's not another person's responsibility to teach my children the way of the Lord. It's my responsibility to ensure I teach them the way and Word of the Lord.
Memory verse: Deut. 10:12-13
Decree:
Father, I love You. I yield my all to You alone. I declare that You are my Lord, my All in all. Cleanse my heart of any impurities that contaminates my love for You. Lord, give me the grace to teach my children the Word of God. I decree that I will not be an irresponsible parent relying on others to teach my children the Word of God. I decree that I will abide in Your Word and may Your Word abide in me. I decree that from today a dread imparted by God comes on all that concerns me causing me to walk into the land and dispossess those sitting on what is mine. I will walk boldly and confidently in God for His covenant cannot be broken. I choose to obey the commandments of God all the days of my life. I will see and hold the blessings of God all the days of my life in Jesus name. Amen
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