Day 73 of the 3rd Bible Study Journey - 14 March 2023 reflections
Day 73, 14 Mar 2023
1) Detueronmy 11,12,13
DEUTERONOMY 11
Love and Obey
1 (Dt 6:5; 10:12) You must love the Lord your God and keep His charge,
His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments always.
2 (Dt 5:24) Know this day that I am not speaking with your children
who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord
your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm,
3 (Dt 7:19) and His signs and His works which He did in the midst of
Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all his land,
4 (Ex 15:9-10; Ps 106:11) and what He did to the army of Egypt,
to their horses, and to their chariots, when He made the water
of the Red Sea to flow over them as they pursued after you,
and how the Lord utterly destroyed them,
5 and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place,
6 (Ps 106:17; Nu 27:3) and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed
them up, their households, their tents, and everything that was in their
possession, in the midst of all Israel.
7 But your eyes have seen all the great deeds of the Lord which He did.
8 (Jos 1:6-7; Dt 31:23) Therefore you must keep all the commandments
which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go
in and possess the land which you are going to possess;
9 (Ex 3:8; Dt 4:40) and that you may prolong your days in 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 which you are entering to possess
is not like the land of Egypt from where you came,
where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot
like a vegetable garden,
11 but the land, which you are entering to possess, is a land of hills
and valleys and drinks water from the rain of heaven,
12 (1Ki 9:3; Jer 24:6) a land for which the Lord your God cares.
The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning
of the year even to the end of the year.
13 (Dt 4:29; 6:17) It will be, if you will diligently obey My commandments
which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God,
and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 (Lev 26:4; Dt 28:12) then I will give you the rain of your land
in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather
in your grain and your wine and your oil.
15 (Dt 6:11; Ps 104:14) I will provide grass in your fields for your
livestock, that you may eat and be full.
16 (Job 31:27; Dt 8:19) Take heed to yourselves that your heart
be not deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them.
17 (Dt 4:26; 6:15) Then the Lord's wrath will be inflamed against you,
and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain
and the land will not yield its fruit, and you will quickly perish
from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
18 (Ex 13:9; 13:16) Therefore you must fix these words of mine
in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand,
so that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 (Dt 4:9-10; 6:7) You shall teach them to your children, speaking
of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way,
when you lie down, and when you rise up.
20 (Dt 6:9) You shall write them on the doorposts of your house
and on your gates,
21 (Ps 72:5; Pr 3:2) so that your days and the days of your children
may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers
to give them, as long as the days of heaven on the earth.
22 (Dt 6:17; 10:20) For if you diligently keep all these commandments
which I am commanding you to do-to love the Lord your God, to walk in
all His ways, and to hold fast to Him-
23 (Dt 4:38; 9:1) then the Lord will drive out all these nations from
before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
24 (Ex 23:31; Jos 14:9) Every place where the soles of your feet tread
will be yours. Your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon,
from the river, the River Euphrates, as far as the Mediterranean Sea.
25 (Ex 23:27; Dt 7:24) No man will be able to resist you, for the Lord
your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land
where you shall tread, just as He has spoken to you.
26 (Dt 30:1) See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 (Dt 28:1-14) the blessing if you obey the commandments of the
Lord your God, which I am commanding you today,
28 (Dt 28:15-68) and the curse, if you will not obey the commandments
of the Lord your God, but turn from the way which I am commanding
you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
29 Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land
which you are entering to possess, that you shall put the blessing
on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 (Ge 12:6; Jdg 7:1) Are they not on the other side of the Jordan,
west where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites,
who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
31 (Dt 9:1; Jos 1:11) For you will cross over the Jordan to go in to possess
the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it,
and dwell in it.
32 (Dt 12:32) You must be careful to do all the statutes and judgments
which I am setting before you today.
Deuteronomy 11
[1] Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his
statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
[2] And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not
known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his
greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
[3] And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto
Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
[4] And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their
chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they
pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
[5] And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this
place;
[6] And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of
Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their
possession, in the midst of all Israel:
[7] But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
[8] Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this
day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to
possess it;
[9] And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto
your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with
milk and honey.
[10] For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land
of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and
wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
[11] But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and
valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
[12] A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God
are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the
year.
[13] And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my
commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to
serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
[14] That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first
rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine,
and thine oil.
[15] And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest
eat and be full.
[16] Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn
aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
[17] And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the
heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and
lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
[18] Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your
soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets
between your eyes.
[19] And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.
[20] And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon
thy gates:
[21] That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the
land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of
heaven upon the earth.
[22] For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command
you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to
cleave unto him;
[23] Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye
shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
[24] Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours:
from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even
unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
[25] There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God
shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye
shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
[26] Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
[27] A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I
command you this day:
[28] And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God,
but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
other gods, which ye have not known.
[29] And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in
unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the
blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
[30] Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth
down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over
against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
[31] For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the
LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
[32] And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set
before you this day.
DEUTERONOMY 12
The One Place of Worship
1 (1Ki 8:40) These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful
to observe in the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given
you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
2 (2Ki 16:4; Dt 7:5) You must utterly destroy all the places where
the nations which you will possess served their gods, on the high mountains,
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
3 (Nu 33:52; Jdg 2:2) And you shall overthrow their altars, and break
their pillars, and burn their Asherah poles
Wooden symbols of a female deity.
with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods,
and eliminate their names out of that place.
4 (Lev 20:23; Dt 16:21-22) You shall not act this way toward
the Lord your God.
5 (2Ch 7:12; Dt 12:11) But you must seek only the place which the Lord
your God shall choose out of all your tribes to establish His name,
and there you must go.
6 (Dt 15:19-20) There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices,
your tithes, the offerings of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings,
and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks.
7 (Dt 12:18; 14:26; Lev 23:40) There you must eat before the Lord your God,
and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your
households, where the Lord your God has blessed you.
8 (Jdg 17:6; 21:25) You are not to do all the things that we are doing here
today, where every man does whatever is right in his own eyes.
9 (Dt 25:19; 1Ki 8:56) For you have not yet come to the rest
and to the inheritance which the Lord your God has given you.
10 (Dt 11:31) But when you cross the Jordan, and dwell in the land
which the Lord your God has given you to inherit, and when He gives
you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,
11 (Dt 12:5; 15:20) then there will be a place which the Lord your God
will choose to cause His name to dwell. There you must bring all that
I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes,
the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow
to the Lord.
12 (Dt 12:7; 10:9) You will rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your sons,
your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite
who is within your gates, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.
13 Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place
that you see.
14 (Dt 12:5; 12:11) Rather, in the place which the Lord will choose in one
of your tribes, there you must offer your burnt offerings, and there you
must do all that I command you.
15 (Dt 14:5) Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates,
whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God
which He has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it,
of the gazelle and of the deer,
16 (Ge 9:4; Dt 15:23) only you must not eat the blood.
You shall pour it on the ground like water.
17 (Dt 12:6; 26:14) You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain,
your wine, your oil, the firstborn of your herds or of your flock,
any of your vows which you vow, your freewill offerings, or the offering
of your hand.
18 (Dt 12:7; 14:23; 12:5) Rather you must eat them before the Lord your God
in the place which the Lord your God will choose-you, your son,
your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite
that is within your gates-and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God
in all that you undertake to do.
19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you
live on the earth.
20 (Dt 19:8; 11:24; Ge 28:14) When the Lord your God shall enlarge your
border as He has promised you, and you say, "I will eat meat," because
you desire to eat meat, then you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.
21 (Dt 12:5) If the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put His name
is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock,
which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you,
and you must eat in your gates whatever your heart desires.
22 Even as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you shall eat them.
The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
23 (Ge 9:4; Lev 17:11) Only be sure that you do not eat the blood.
For the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the meat.
24 You must not eat it. You must pour it on the ground like water.
25 (Ex 15:26; Dt 4:40) You must not eat it, so that it may go well
with you and with your children after you, when you do that
which is right in the sight of the Lord.
26 (Nu 5:9-10; 18:19) You shall take only your holy things which
you have, along with your vows, and go to the place
which the Lord shall choose.
27 (Lev 1:9; 1:13) You must offer your burnt offerings, the meat
and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God,
and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar
of the Lord your God, and you shall eat the meat.
28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you,
so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever,
when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
29 (Jos 23:4; Dt 19:1) When the Lord your God shall cut off the nations from
before you, where you go to possess them, and you dispossess them,
and dwell in their land,
30 (Dt 7:16) take heed to yourself so that you are not ensnared by following
them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you not inquire
after their gods, saying, "How did these nations serve their gods?
Even so I will do likewise."
31 (Jer 32:35; Lev 18:3) You shall not do so to the Lord your God,
for every abomination to the Lord, which He hates, they have done
to their gods. They have even burned their sons and their daughters
in the fire to their gods.
32 (Dt 4:2; Jos 1:7) Whatever I command you, be careful to do it.
You shall not add to it or take away from it.
Deuteronomy 12
[1] These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in
the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all
the days that ye live upon the earth.
[2] Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye
shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the
hills, and under every green tree:
[3] And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn
their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their
gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
[4] Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
[5] But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your
tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and
thither thou shalt come:
[6] And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your
freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
[7] And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in
all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy
God hath blessed thee.
[8] Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man
whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
[9] For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the
LORD your God giveth you.
[10] But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your
God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies
round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
[11] Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to
cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command
you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave
offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
[12] And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and
your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite
that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with
you.
[13] Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every
place that thou seest:
[14] But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes,
there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that
I command thee.
[15] Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy
God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as
of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
[16] Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as
water.
[17] Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy
wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any
of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering
of thine hand:
[18] But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates:
and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest
thine hands unto.
[19] Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou
livest upon the earth.
[20] When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised
thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat
flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
[21] If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there
be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock,
which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat
in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
[22] Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the
unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
[23] Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life;
and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
[24] Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
[25] Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of
the LORD.
[26] Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take,
and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
[27] And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon
the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be
poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
[28] Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go
well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest
that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
[29] When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,
whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest
in their land;
[30] Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after
that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after
their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I
do likewise.
[31] Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to
the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their
sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
[32] What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.
DEUTERONOMY 13
Idolatry
1 (Jer 27:9; 29:8) If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among
you and gives you a sign or a wonder,
2 (Dt 18:22; Jer 28:9) and the sign or the wonder comes to pass
concerning that which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go after other gods,"
which you have not known, "and let us serve them,"
3 (Dt 8:2; 6:5) you must not listen to the words of that prophet
or that dreamer
of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 (Dt 10:20; 2Ki 23:3; 2Ch 34:31) You must follow after the Lord your God,
fear Him, and keep His commandments, obey His voice, and you must
serve Him, and cling to Him.
5 (1Co 5:13; Dt 17:7) That prophet or that dreamer of dreams must be put
to death because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord
your God, who brought you out ofthe land of Egypt and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage, to entice you away from the way in which
the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you must put the evil
away from your midst.
6 (Dt 28:54; 1Sa 18:1) If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son,
or your daughter, or your beloved wife, or your friend, who is as your
own soul, entices you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods,"
which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,
7 namely, of the gods of the people who are all around you, near you
or far away from you, from one end of the earth to the other end
of the earth,
8 (Pr 1:10; Dt 7:16) you shall not consent to him or listen to him,
neither should your eye pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him,
9 but you must surely kill him. Your hand must be first upon him
to put him to death, and afterwards, the hand of all the people.
10 (Jos 7:25) You shall stone him with stones so that he dies
because he has sought to entice you away from the Lord your God
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 (Dt 19:20; 17:13) All Israel shall hear and fear and no more do any
such wickedness as this among you.
12 If you hear it said in one of your cities, in which the Lord your God
has given you to dwell, saying,
13 (Dt 13:2; 13:6) "Certain men, the sons of wickedness, are gone out
from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying,
'Let us go and serve other gods,'" which you have not known,
14 (Dt 17:4) then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently.
If it be true and certain that such an abomination has been among you,
15 (Ex 22:20; Lev 27:28) you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city
to the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock-with
the edge of the sword.
16 (Jos 8:28; Jer 49:2) You must gather all the spoils of it into the middle
of the street and burn the city with fire along with all the spoils within
it for the Lord your God, and it will be a heap forever.
It must not be rebuilt.
17 (Ge 26:4; 26:24) Nothing of the cursed thing there must cling
to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fierceness
of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you,
and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,
18 (Dt 12:25; 12:28) if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God,
to keep all His commandments which I command you today, and
do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 13
[1] If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
[2] And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known,
and let us serve them;
[3] Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer
of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love
the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
[4] Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
[5] And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;
because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD
thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from
the midst of thee.
[6] If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter,
or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul,
entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
[7] Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you,
nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth
even unto the other end of the earth;
[8] Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall
thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal
him:
[9] But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to
put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
[10] And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
[11] And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such
wickedness as this is among you.
[12] If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God
hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
[13] Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and
have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which ye have not known;
[14] Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,
behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is
wrought among you;
[15] Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of
the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle
thereof, with the edge of the sword.
[16] And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street
thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every
whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not
be built again.
[17] And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that
the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and
have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers;
[18] When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all
his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in
the eyes of the LORD thy God.
2) Our Daily Bread for 14 March 2023 titled
Game of Change
Luke 6:27-31
Love for Enemies
Mt 5:38-48
27 (Lk 6:35; Pr 25:21-22) "But I say to you who hear, love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you,
28 (1Pe 3:9; Lk 23:34) bless those who curse you,
and pray for those who spitefully use you.
29 (Isa 50:6; La 3:30) To him who strikes you on the one cheek,
offer also the other. And from him who takes away your cloak,
do not withhold your tunic as well.
30 (Pr 21:26; Ex 22:26-27) Give to everyone who asks of you.
And of him who takes away your goods, do not ask for them back.
31 (Mt 7:12; Gal 5:14) Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
[27] But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which
hate you,
[28] Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use
you.
[29] And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other;
and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
[30] Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy
goods ask them not again.
[31] And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
The handshake spoke volumes. On a March night in 1963, two college basketball
players-one Black, one White-defied the hate of segregationists and shook
hands, marking the first time in Mississippi State's history that its all-
White men's team played against an integrated team. To compete in the "game
of change" against Loyola University Chicago in a national tournament, the
Mississippi State squad avoided an injunction to stop them by using decoy
players to leave their state. Loyola's Black players, meantime, had endured
racial slurs all season, getting pelted with popcorn and ice, and faced
closed doors while traveling.
Yet the young men played. The Loyola Ramblers beat the Mississippi State
Bulldogs 61-51, and Loyola eventually went on to win the NCAA national
championship. But what really won that night? A move from hate toward love. As Jesus taught, "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you"
(Luke 6:27).
God's instruction was a life-changing concept. To love our enemies as Christ
taught, we must obey His revolutionary mandate to change. As Paul wrote, "If
anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is
here!" (2 Corinthians 5:17). But how does His new way in us defeat the old? With love. Then, in each other, we can finally see Him.
By: Patricia Raybon
Reflect & Pray
In your life, what leads you to see others as enemies?
What changes can you make to confront hate with Jesus' love?
Help me, loving God, to see others not as enemies,
but as Your precious people to love like Jesus does.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 6 Showing Grace to Others - Day 3 The Kind Heart of Forgiveness
Eph 4:32
32 (2Co 2:10; Col 3:12-13; Mt 6:12) And be kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Don had lost his job because he stood against his boss and refused to
compromise his Christian principles. Certain friends in the company had
turned against him, choosing to save their own jobs at any cost,
and he felt very alone, abandoned when he most needed the support
of those who cared.
But Don showed no signs of bitterness or unforgiveness. He refused to
recite the details of his firing to those around him, saying simply and
honestly, " I believe my boss was wrong in what he did. But God can show
him." The kindness of Don's heart, and the tenderness with which he
extended forgiveness, became a testimony to all who knew him. Don's
boss never "saw the light", never repented, but Don lived in the freedom of
forgiving.
Comparison is a rare commodity among Christains today. We seem to be
overstocked with judgment and crammed full of condemnation, but we have
little space in the corners of our lives for tenderheartedness. We are quick
to assume that we know another person's heart and have the remedy for
the problem, rather then giving that person the benefit of the doubt,
the room to grow, the freedom to make a mistake and seek forgiveness.
Jesus demonstrated the king compassion necessary in forgiveness when he
looked down at the soldiers who has crucified him, gambling at his feet
for his cloak, and said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what
are doing."
When others hurt and betray us, they often "do not know what they are
doing." we can, in Christ, offer compassionate forgiveness to them -
not condoning their actions or excusing their wrong, but forgiving ,
in the simplicity and purity of God's love.
Application
a) What is the difference between excusing a wrong and forgiving?
b) How has God forgiven me for Christ's sake?
c) What does today's verse tell me about my attitude in forgiveness?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Proverbs 22:7
7 The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is servant to the lender.
7 The rich ruleth over the poor,
And the borrower is servant to the lender.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Saddened by Loss
John 14:1 - 7
1 "Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe also in Me.
2 In My Father's house are many dwelling places.
If it were not so, I would have told you.
I am going to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again
and receive you to Myself,
that where I am, you may be also.
4 You know where I am going, and you know the way."
5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know
where You are going. How can we know the way?"
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.
From now on you do know Him and have seen Him."
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so,
I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest;
and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also:
and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Saskatchewan
Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400
est Muslim Population 17279
CNMM Networks: Saskatoon
Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past
5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have
focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts
of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres
of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a
Christian school.
Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up
in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young
women who were wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.
Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
14th Day of the Month
a) Pray for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation ( Matt 6:10
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
)
b) Pray for those who serve with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and pray to love him with all your heart and all your mind.
Pray to the Lord: "Help me, loving God, to see others not as enemies,
but as Your precious people to love like Jesus does."
Pray to the Lord and pray for eternal life for the wages of sin is death.
Pray to the Lord and pray to remember the spiritual cost of borrowing.
Pray to the Lord and pray to know Him as the Truth, The Way and the Light.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Pray for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation
Pray for those who serve with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Pray that ministry leaders will have opportunities to
reach people in Bahrain with the Gospel .
1) Detueronmy 11,12,13
DEUTERONOMY 11
Love and Obey
1 (Dt 6:5; 10:12) You must love the Lord your God and keep His charge,
His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments always.
2 (Dt 5:24) Know this day that I am not speaking with your children
who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord
your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm,
3 (Dt 7:19) and His signs and His works which He did in the midst of
Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all his land,
4 (Ex 15:9-10; Ps 106:11) and what He did to the army of Egypt,
to their horses, and to their chariots, when He made the water
of the Red Sea to flow over them as they pursued after you,
and how the Lord utterly destroyed them,
5 and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place,
6 (Ps 106:17; Nu 27:3) and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed
them up, their households, their tents, and everything that was in their
possession, in the midst of all Israel.
7 But your eyes have seen all the great deeds of the Lord which He did.
8 (Jos 1:6-7; Dt 31:23) Therefore you must keep all the commandments
which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go
in and possess the land which you are going to possess;
9 (Ex 3:8; Dt 4:40) and that you may prolong your days in 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 which you are entering to possess
is not like the land of Egypt from where you came,
where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot
like a vegetable garden,
11 but the land, which you are entering to possess, is a land of hills
and valleys and drinks water from the rain of heaven,
12 (1Ki 9:3; Jer 24:6) a land for which the Lord your God cares.
The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning
of the year even to the end of the year.
13 (Dt 4:29; 6:17) It will be, if you will diligently obey My commandments
which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God,
and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 (Lev 26:4; Dt 28:12) then I will give you the rain of your land
in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather
in your grain and your wine and your oil.
15 (Dt 6:11; Ps 104:14) I will provide grass in your fields for your
livestock, that you may eat and be full.
16 (Job 31:27; Dt 8:19) Take heed to yourselves that your heart
be not deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them.
17 (Dt 4:26; 6:15) Then the Lord's wrath will be inflamed against you,
and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain
and the land will not yield its fruit, and you will quickly perish
from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
18 (Ex 13:9; 13:16) Therefore you must fix these words of mine
in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand,
so that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 (Dt 4:9-10; 6:7) You shall teach them to your children, speaking
of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way,
when you lie down, and when you rise up.
20 (Dt 6:9) You shall write them on the doorposts of your house
and on your gates,
21 (Ps 72:5; Pr 3:2) so that your days and the days of your children
may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers
to give them, as long as the days of heaven on the earth.
22 (Dt 6:17; 10:20) For if you diligently keep all these commandments
which I am commanding you to do-to love the Lord your God, to walk in
all His ways, and to hold fast to Him-
23 (Dt 4:38; 9:1) then the Lord will drive out all these nations from
before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
24 (Ex 23:31; Jos 14:9) Every place where the soles of your feet tread
will be yours. Your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon,
from the river, the River Euphrates, as far as the Mediterranean Sea.
25 (Ex 23:27; Dt 7:24) No man will be able to resist you, for the Lord
your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land
where you shall tread, just as He has spoken to you.
26 (Dt 30:1) See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 (Dt 28:1-14) the blessing if you obey the commandments of the
Lord your God, which I am commanding you today,
28 (Dt 28:15-68) and the curse, if you will not obey the commandments
of the Lord your God, but turn from the way which I am commanding
you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
29 Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land
which you are entering to possess, that you shall put the blessing
on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 (Ge 12:6; Jdg 7:1) Are they not on the other side of the Jordan,
west where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites,
who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
31 (Dt 9:1; Jos 1:11) For you will cross over the Jordan to go in to possess
the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it,
and dwell in it.
32 (Dt 12:32) You must be careful to do all the statutes and judgments
which I am setting before you today.
Deuteronomy 11
[1] Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his
statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
[2] And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not
known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his
greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
[3] And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto
Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
[4] And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their
chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they
pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
[5] And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this
place;
[6] And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of
Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their
possession, in the midst of all Israel:
[7] But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
[8] Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this
day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to
possess it;
[9] And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto
your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with
milk and honey.
[10] For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land
of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and
wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
[11] But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and
valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
[12] A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God
are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the
year.
[13] And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my
commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to
serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
[14] That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first
rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine,
and thine oil.
[15] And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest
eat and be full.
[16] Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn
aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
[17] And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the
heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and
lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
[18] Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your
soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets
between your eyes.
[19] And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.
[20] And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon
thy gates:
[21] That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the
land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of
heaven upon the earth.
[22] For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command
you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to
cleave unto him;
[23] Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye
shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
[24] Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours:
from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even
unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
[25] There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God
shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye
shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
[26] Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
[27] A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I
command you this day:
[28] And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God,
but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
other gods, which ye have not known.
[29] And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in
unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the
blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
[30] Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth
down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over
against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
[31] For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the
LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
[32] And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set
before you this day.
DEUTERONOMY 12
The One Place of Worship
1 (1Ki 8:40) These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful
to observe in the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given
you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
2 (2Ki 16:4; Dt 7:5) You must utterly destroy all the places where
the nations which you will possess served their gods, on the high mountains,
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
3 (Nu 33:52; Jdg 2:2) And you shall overthrow their altars, and break
their pillars, and burn their Asherah poles
Wooden symbols of a female deity.
with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods,
and eliminate their names out of that place.
4 (Lev 20:23; Dt 16:21-22) You shall not act this way toward
the Lord your God.
5 (2Ch 7:12; Dt 12:11) But you must seek only the place which the Lord
your God shall choose out of all your tribes to establish His name,
and there you must go.
6 (Dt 15:19-20) There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices,
your tithes, the offerings of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings,
and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks.
7 (Dt 12:18; 14:26; Lev 23:40) There you must eat before the Lord your God,
and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your
households, where the Lord your God has blessed you.
8 (Jdg 17:6; 21:25) You are not to do all the things that we are doing here
today, where every man does whatever is right in his own eyes.
9 (Dt 25:19; 1Ki 8:56) For you have not yet come to the rest
and to the inheritance which the Lord your God has given you.
10 (Dt 11:31) But when you cross the Jordan, and dwell in the land
which the Lord your God has given you to inherit, and when He gives
you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,
11 (Dt 12:5; 15:20) then there will be a place which the Lord your God
will choose to cause His name to dwell. There you must bring all that
I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes,
the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow
to the Lord.
12 (Dt 12:7; 10:9) You will rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your sons,
your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite
who is within your gates, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.
13 Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place
that you see.
14 (Dt 12:5; 12:11) Rather, in the place which the Lord will choose in one
of your tribes, there you must offer your burnt offerings, and there you
must do all that I command you.
15 (Dt 14:5) Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates,
whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God
which He has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it,
of the gazelle and of the deer,
16 (Ge 9:4; Dt 15:23) only you must not eat the blood.
You shall pour it on the ground like water.
17 (Dt 12:6; 26:14) You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain,
your wine, your oil, the firstborn of your herds or of your flock,
any of your vows which you vow, your freewill offerings, or the offering
of your hand.
18 (Dt 12:7; 14:23; 12:5) Rather you must eat them before the Lord your God
in the place which the Lord your God will choose-you, your son,
your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite
that is within your gates-and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God
in all that you undertake to do.
19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you
live on the earth.
20 (Dt 19:8; 11:24; Ge 28:14) When the Lord your God shall enlarge your
border as He has promised you, and you say, "I will eat meat," because
you desire to eat meat, then you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.
21 (Dt 12:5) If the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put His name
is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock,
which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you,
and you must eat in your gates whatever your heart desires.
22 Even as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you shall eat them.
The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
23 (Ge 9:4; Lev 17:11) Only be sure that you do not eat the blood.
For the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the meat.
24 You must not eat it. You must pour it on the ground like water.
25 (Ex 15:26; Dt 4:40) You must not eat it, so that it may go well
with you and with your children after you, when you do that
which is right in the sight of the Lord.
26 (Nu 5:9-10; 18:19) You shall take only your holy things which
you have, along with your vows, and go to the place
which the Lord shall choose.
27 (Lev 1:9; 1:13) You must offer your burnt offerings, the meat
and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God,
and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar
of the Lord your God, and you shall eat the meat.
28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you,
so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever,
when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
29 (Jos 23:4; Dt 19:1) When the Lord your God shall cut off the nations from
before you, where you go to possess them, and you dispossess them,
and dwell in their land,
30 (Dt 7:16) take heed to yourself so that you are not ensnared by following
them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you not inquire
after their gods, saying, "How did these nations serve their gods?
Even so I will do likewise."
31 (Jer 32:35; Lev 18:3) You shall not do so to the Lord your God,
for every abomination to the Lord, which He hates, they have done
to their gods. They have even burned their sons and their daughters
in the fire to their gods.
32 (Dt 4:2; Jos 1:7) Whatever I command you, be careful to do it.
You shall not add to it or take away from it.
Deuteronomy 12
[1] These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in
the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all
the days that ye live upon the earth.
[2] Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye
shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the
hills, and under every green tree:
[3] And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn
their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their
gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
[4] Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
[5] But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your
tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and
thither thou shalt come:
[6] And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your
freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
[7] And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in
all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy
God hath blessed thee.
[8] Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man
whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
[9] For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the
LORD your God giveth you.
[10] But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your
God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies
round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
[11] Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to
cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command
you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave
offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
[12] And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and
your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite
that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with
you.
[13] Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every
place that thou seest:
[14] But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes,
there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that
I command thee.
[15] Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy
God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as
of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
[16] Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as
water.
[17] Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy
wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any
of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering
of thine hand:
[18] But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates:
and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest
thine hands unto.
[19] Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou
livest upon the earth.
[20] When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised
thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat
flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
[21] If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there
be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock,
which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat
in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
[22] Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the
unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
[23] Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life;
and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
[24] Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
[25] Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of
the LORD.
[26] Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take,
and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
[27] And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon
the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be
poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
[28] Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go
well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest
that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
[29] When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,
whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest
in their land;
[30] Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after
that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after
their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I
do likewise.
[31] Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to
the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their
sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
[32] What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.
DEUTERONOMY 13
Idolatry
1 (Jer 27:9; 29:8) If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among
you and gives you a sign or a wonder,
2 (Dt 18:22; Jer 28:9) and the sign or the wonder comes to pass
concerning that which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go after other gods,"
which you have not known, "and let us serve them,"
3 (Dt 8:2; 6:5) you must not listen to the words of that prophet
or that dreamer
of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 (Dt 10:20; 2Ki 23:3; 2Ch 34:31) You must follow after the Lord your God,
fear Him, and keep His commandments, obey His voice, and you must
serve Him, and cling to Him.
5 (1Co 5:13; Dt 17:7) That prophet or that dreamer of dreams must be put
to death because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord
your God, who brought you out ofthe land of Egypt and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage, to entice you away from the way in which
the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you must put the evil
away from your midst.
6 (Dt 28:54; 1Sa 18:1) If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son,
or your daughter, or your beloved wife, or your friend, who is as your
own soul, entices you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods,"
which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,
7 namely, of the gods of the people who are all around you, near you
or far away from you, from one end of the earth to the other end
of the earth,
8 (Pr 1:10; Dt 7:16) you shall not consent to him or listen to him,
neither should your eye pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him,
9 but you must surely kill him. Your hand must be first upon him
to put him to death, and afterwards, the hand of all the people.
10 (Jos 7:25) You shall stone him with stones so that he dies
because he has sought to entice you away from the Lord your God
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 (Dt 19:20; 17:13) All Israel shall hear and fear and no more do any
such wickedness as this among you.
12 If you hear it said in one of your cities, in which the Lord your God
has given you to dwell, saying,
13 (Dt 13:2; 13:6) "Certain men, the sons of wickedness, are gone out
from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying,
'Let us go and serve other gods,'" which you have not known,
14 (Dt 17:4) then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently.
If it be true and certain that such an abomination has been among you,
15 (Ex 22:20; Lev 27:28) you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city
to the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock-with
the edge of the sword.
16 (Jos 8:28; Jer 49:2) You must gather all the spoils of it into the middle
of the street and burn the city with fire along with all the spoils within
it for the Lord your God, and it will be a heap forever.
It must not be rebuilt.
17 (Ge 26:4; 26:24) Nothing of the cursed thing there must cling
to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fierceness
of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you,
and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,
18 (Dt 12:25; 12:28) if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God,
to keep all His commandments which I command you today, and
do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 13
[1] If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
[2] And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known,
and let us serve them;
[3] Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer
of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love
the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
[4] Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
[5] And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;
because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD
thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from
the midst of thee.
[6] If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter,
or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul,
entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
[7] Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you,
nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth
even unto the other end of the earth;
[8] Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall
thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal
him:
[9] But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to
put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
[10] And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
[11] And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such
wickedness as this is among you.
[12] If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God
hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
[13] Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and
have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which ye have not known;
[14] Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,
behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is
wrought among you;
[15] Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of
the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle
thereof, with the edge of the sword.
[16] And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street
thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every
whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not
be built again.
[17] And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that
the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and
have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers;
[18] When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all
his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in
the eyes of the LORD thy God.
2) Our Daily Bread for 14 March 2023 titled
Game of Change
Luke 6:27-31
Love for Enemies
Mt 5:38-48
27 (Lk 6:35; Pr 25:21-22) "But I say to you who hear, love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you,
28 (1Pe 3:9; Lk 23:34) bless those who curse you,
and pray for those who spitefully use you.
29 (Isa 50:6; La 3:30) To him who strikes you on the one cheek,
offer also the other. And from him who takes away your cloak,
do not withhold your tunic as well.
30 (Pr 21:26; Ex 22:26-27) Give to everyone who asks of you.
And of him who takes away your goods, do not ask for them back.
31 (Mt 7:12; Gal 5:14) Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
[27] But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which
hate you,
[28] Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use
you.
[29] And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other;
and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
[30] Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy
goods ask them not again.
[31] And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
The handshake spoke volumes. On a March night in 1963, two college basketball
players-one Black, one White-defied the hate of segregationists and shook
hands, marking the first time in Mississippi State's history that its all-
White men's team played against an integrated team. To compete in the "game
of change" against Loyola University Chicago in a national tournament, the
Mississippi State squad avoided an injunction to stop them by using decoy
players to leave their state. Loyola's Black players, meantime, had endured
racial slurs all season, getting pelted with popcorn and ice, and faced
closed doors while traveling.
Yet the young men played. The Loyola Ramblers beat the Mississippi State
Bulldogs 61-51, and Loyola eventually went on to win the NCAA national
championship. But what really won that night? A move from hate toward love. As Jesus taught, "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you"
(Luke 6:27).
God's instruction was a life-changing concept. To love our enemies as Christ
taught, we must obey His revolutionary mandate to change. As Paul wrote, "If
anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is
here!" (2 Corinthians 5:17). But how does His new way in us defeat the old? With love. Then, in each other, we can finally see Him.
By: Patricia Raybon
Reflect & Pray
In your life, what leads you to see others as enemies?
What changes can you make to confront hate with Jesus' love?
Help me, loving God, to see others not as enemies,
but as Your precious people to love like Jesus does.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 6 Showing Grace to Others - Day 3 The Kind Heart of Forgiveness
Eph 4:32
32 (2Co 2:10; Col 3:12-13; Mt 6:12) And be kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Don had lost his job because he stood against his boss and refused to
compromise his Christian principles. Certain friends in the company had
turned against him, choosing to save their own jobs at any cost,
and he felt very alone, abandoned when he most needed the support
of those who cared.
But Don showed no signs of bitterness or unforgiveness. He refused to
recite the details of his firing to those around him, saying simply and
honestly, " I believe my boss was wrong in what he did. But God can show
him." The kindness of Don's heart, and the tenderness with which he
extended forgiveness, became a testimony to all who knew him. Don's
boss never "saw the light", never repented, but Don lived in the freedom of
forgiving.
Comparison is a rare commodity among Christains today. We seem to be
overstocked with judgment and crammed full of condemnation, but we have
little space in the corners of our lives for tenderheartedness. We are quick
to assume that we know another person's heart and have the remedy for
the problem, rather then giving that person the benefit of the doubt,
the room to grow, the freedom to make a mistake and seek forgiveness.
Jesus demonstrated the king compassion necessary in forgiveness when he
looked down at the soldiers who has crucified him, gambling at his feet
for his cloak, and said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what
are doing."
When others hurt and betray us, they often "do not know what they are
doing." we can, in Christ, offer compassionate forgiveness to them -
not condoning their actions or excusing their wrong, but forgiving ,
in the simplicity and purity of God's love.
Application
a) What is the difference between excusing a wrong and forgiving?
b) How has God forgiven me for Christ's sake?
c) What does today's verse tell me about my attitude in forgiveness?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Proverbs 22:7
7 The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is servant to the lender.
7 The rich ruleth over the poor,
And the borrower is servant to the lender.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Saddened by Loss
John 14:1 - 7
1 "Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe also in Me.
2 In My Father's house are many dwelling places.
If it were not so, I would have told you.
I am going to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again
and receive you to Myself,
that where I am, you may be also.
4 You know where I am going, and you know the way."
5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know
where You are going. How can we know the way?"
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.
From now on you do know Him and have seen Him."
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so,
I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest;
and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also:
and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Saskatchewan
Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400
est Muslim Population 17279
CNMM Networks: Saskatoon
Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past
5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have
focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts
of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres
of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a
Christian school.
Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up
in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young
women who were wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.
Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
14th Day of the Month
a) Pray for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation ( Matt 6:10
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
)
b) Pray for those who serve with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and pray to love him with all your heart and all your mind.
Pray to the Lord: "Help me, loving God, to see others not as enemies,
but as Your precious people to love like Jesus does."
Pray to the Lord and pray for eternal life for the wages of sin is death.
Pray to the Lord and pray to remember the spiritual cost of borrowing.
Pray to the Lord and pray to know Him as the Truth, The Way and the Light.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Pray for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation
Pray for those who serve with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Pray that ministry leaders will have opportunities to
reach people in Bahrain with the Gospel .