JULY 5, 2023 Deuteronomy 30:6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. Everyone who professes faith in the One, True God and His Son, strives to love Him with all their heart — […]
JULY 4, 2023 Deuteronomy 30:3 The Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. Where there is repentance there is restoration. When God’s people repent with all their hearts and determines to return to Him and to His […]
JULY 3, 2023 Deuteronomy 30:1-3 When all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice with all your heart and with all your soul … that the Lord your God will bring you […]
JULY 2, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. As we discussed in the previous devotion, there are different ideas as to what was meant by the words above. Today I want to present another view […]
JULY 1, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. The traditional understanding of this verse is that there are certain issues and truths that God keeps to Himself and those He has revealed to mankind in […]
JUNE 30, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:19 And so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart”—as though the drunkard could be included with the sober. Far too often, people delude themselves into thinking […]
JUNE 29, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:18 That there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood. Moses explained to the people that giving undue attention and […]
JUNE 28, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:16-17 For you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by, and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold. Having lived in Egypt, Israel was well acquainted with […]
JUNE 27, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:14-15 I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone, but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today. This is a very powerful statement. Moses declared that the covenant presented to the fathers before them, and that which was being presented to […]
JUNE 26, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:10-11 All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, your little ones and your wives. As this and the subsequent verses reveal, the entire congregation of Israel had assembled to hear these final words offered by […]
JUNE 25, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:10-11 All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, your little ones and your wives. Jewish tradition states that these words were spoken by Moses on the last day of his life. If that is so […]
JUNE 24, 2023 Deuteronomy 29:5-6 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. Can you imagine wearing the […]