MARCH 11, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:26-28 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God. The translation here uses the word obey in regard to the blessing. Other translations […]
MARCH 12, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:26-28 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God. In the previous devotion we discussed the importance of hearing as it relates to […]
MARCH 10, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:26-28 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God. The choice that was presented to Israel was simple — decide to obey and […]
MARCH 9, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:26-28 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God. There are a couple of Hebrew words that are typically translated as “Behold,” the […]
MARCH 7, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:20-21 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them. The Hebrew word translated as “doorposts” is mezuzot, which is the plural form […]
MARCH 6, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:18-1906 Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the […]
MARCH 5, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:13-14 And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather […]
MARCH 4, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:10-11 For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden; but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of […]
MARCH 3, 2023 Deuteronomy 11:2, 7 Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the Lord your God … but your eyes have seen every great act of the Lord which He did. There is a huge difference in hearing about events that preceded our time and living through them. Hearing about […]
MARCH 2, 2023 Deuteronomy 10:17-18 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. The God of Israel, unlike the false gods of the nations, is no […]
MARCH 1, 2023 Deuteronomy 10:16 Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. I’ll admit that, on the surface, circumcision doesn’t seem to be a proper topic to meditate upon as we start our day, however, there is something all of us can learn from the words of Moses. To see that it is […]
FEBRUARY 28, 2023 Deuteronomy 10:12-13 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? Because […]
