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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

I always find it so amazing when you allow people to present their religious conviction, or we could say, “their worldview.' In other words, what helps them believe they will have a successful life after death or what gives them hope, strength and happiness? Often, they come up with some customized cocktail personally created composed of conversations and experiences they have picked up along the way. Take a few marvel movies. Add a memorable talk with the bartender after the night club closed. Sprinkle in some new age reasoning. Add a pinch of Confucius. Take some of the current talking points from 'The View.' Insert a splash of your own intuition and there you go! A customized worldview, one that everyone in the history of humanity has missed, but they are absolutely certain they are correct, and they are willing to base their life and eternity on it.
Randy Smith

When we are in prosperity our prayers come from our lips; and therefore the Lord is forced to cast us down, that our prayers may come from our hearts, and that our senses may be wakened from the security in which they are lying.
Archibald Simson

    • Bible Reading: FEB21: Deuteronomy 1-3

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    Today we begin our reading of the fifth book of
    the Bible, and the fifth book of Moses, called
    “Deuteronomy.” This book does not contain a new law,
    replacing the law already given. Rather, it is a second
    stating of the law.

    There are several reasons why Moses restated the
    law. One was that there was now a new generation. The
    old generation, except for Caleb and Joshua, had
    perished in the wilderness, and the new generation
    needed to hear the law again. It was important that they
    know God’s Word afresh, because some of these people
    were twenty years of age and under when the nation fell
    under Kadesh-Barnea. Up to this time they had been
    unsettled; but now they were about to enter the Promised
    Land and become a settled nation. The best way for them
    to prepare for the future was by understanding the past.
    Those who could not remember the past may very likely be
    guilty of the same failures as their forefathers.

    The nation was also on the threshold of having a
    new leader. Moses was going to die, and Joshua was to
    take over the leadership. Moses knew that the success of
    the nation depended upon its obedience to God, and if
    the people understood the Word of God and truly loved
    the Lord, they would follow Joshua and win the victory.
    Moses also warns them of new temptations and gives them
    the way of success.

    In a spiritual sense, many Christians stand with
    Israel in Deuteronomy 1:1-3. They are redeemed from
    Egypt, but they have not yet entered into their
    spiritual inheritance. They stand “on this side Jordan,”
    instead of in the Promised Land of blessing. They need
    to hear God’s Word again, step out by faith, and claim
    the complete inheritance which is in Christ.

    It was not until I read, “The Normal Christian
    Life,” by Watchman Nee, that I fully realized what God
    had given me as a Christian. God used that book to help
    me realize we should reckon ourselves dead to sin and
    alive through Christ. It is His Spirit living within us
    that gives us new life. With His Spirit completely
    controlling us, we have fullness of joy as Christians in
    this earthly walk.

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