Our Daily Bread Today Deut 8 ++

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Deuteronomy 8:1-20
A Call to Remember and Obey
1"Be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then you will live and multiply, and you will enter and occupy the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors. 2Remember how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness for forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would really obey his commands. 3Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people need more than bread for their life; real life comes by feeding on every word of the LORD. 4For all these forty years your clothes didn't wear out, and your feet didn't blister or swell. 5So you should realize that just as a parent disciplines a child, the LORD your God disciplines you to help you.
6"So obey the commands of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and fearing him. 7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and pools of water, with springs that gush forth in the valleys and hills. 8It is a land of wheat and barley, of grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, olives, and honey. 9It is a land where food is plentiful and nothing is lacking. It is a land where iron is as common as stone, and copper is abundant in the hills. 10When you have eaten your fill, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
11"But that is the time to be careful! Beware that in your plenty you do not forget the LORD your God and disobey his commands, regulations, and laws. 12For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in, 13and when your flocks and herds have become very large and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else, 14that is the time to be careful. Do not become proud at that time and forget the LORD your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt. 15Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock! 16He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good. 17He did it so you would never think that it was your own strength and energy that made you wealthy. 18Always remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you power to become rich, and he does it to fulfill the covenant he made with your ancestors.
19"But I assure you of this: If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods, worshiping and bowing down to them, you will certainly be destroyed. 20Just as the LORD has destroyed other nations in your path, you also will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.


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~ Lena’s Journalin’ Today~
Today’s question to us all….Do we love the LORD our God?
Do we love God?
Is he our Lord?
“Our” is a word of unity. Is it us/we who love God? Or a few of us who do?
Are we willing to ask ourselves and each other, about this love and the need to increase it’s level of unified power?
God’s love is ALL powerful. It IS the power of God, LOVE. Love created us, created the worlds for us to rule, Love gave all for us, and cured the consequences of our mistakes and rebellious nature. Love did that for us no matter where we were or who we became.
Do we know anything at all about the intensity of this love?
If we do, if we really do, its revelation will command a response, a love reflection from us.
What does that reflection look like?
It is outlined all throughout this scripture passage. It looks like a sacrifice, of me for you. It looks like someone who started out heading a certain direction in life and turned around to follow after love’s way. It looks like change for the unity of others; it yields to another’s will and way.
It obeys, whether it desires to or not, It disciplines it’s mind, heart, will, body to follow after another.
If we obeyed, displayed true love to God in all He’s told us up to this point, it would take us a whole lifetime to display the response, exactly. It will take your whole lifetime.
There’s a scripture, if you abide in Me and My words abide in you, you’ll ask what you will and it will be done for you from My Father.
Abide means stick with His word, live with His word, keep it no matter what. Its keeping is not dependent upon whether things allow it or don’t allow it to be kept; it’s kept no matter what because I decided to. Not because my peers think I should, not because my body acts like I should, but because I love Him , because He loves me too, we’re so in love it’s forever.

About Proverbs here, Whenever I send this e-mail out and when anything I say, as a Christian sister to a Christian sister, or to one who is seeking to know God more and more, if there’s ever anything that seems to pinpoint anything of truth that maybe we aren’t yet living, we don’t yet seem to measure up to yet, and then there is a time when you say to me, something from God’s word that maybe I’d not yet seen or not yet seen that way, rather than explaining to you why I don’t yet live that, I take what you’ve said to God and I say tune me up, sharpen my life, clean me up, show me the truth in that, even if it hurts, and so our fellowship is based on truth and change, We help God make changes in one another, we are able to be used by God’s word as messengers, etc.
Let me give you and at home example.
I was sad last week at a bunch of sad things that were happening. I began to complain to my husband about the sad things and how misunderstandings were causing separations of people I loved from me in some instances. I didn’t like it and I wanted it to be made right, like now wasn’t soon enough. He didn’t sympathize with me at all, which I’d have loved. He said something that at the time I felt was harsh, to my plight and complaints. He said don’t talk about it so much, get on your knees and pray! I was like Oh how dare you be so mean! You are mean; you just don’t want to listen to me, right? But then I heard the truth of what he’d said inside of my spirit, I began to turn my thoughts around, I realized all my description of how hurt I was, was not changing a thing. In fact if he’d have at least allowed me to finish and explain myself would not have changed anything, I might have felt like he understood, but his understanding still would not have done anything for me or the situation. The only thing that could help me or help bring peace or reconciliation or fix a problem like that is God. Prayer from the stance of desiring God to win in the situation was /is the answer. My husband’s irons sharpened mine, and guess where I’ve been since? On my knees, did he win, was he right?, Yes Praise the Lord he was! His mannerism might be able to use work in my eyes, but the word that was sifted through the filter of my soul received the correction of the word and made an adjustment for change. That was the point, to make a change into the realm that brings change, that brings answers. Amen.

Proverbs 27:17-19
17 You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. 18 If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored.
19 Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
Psalm 122:1
1 When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.