Tag: heart
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Keep Your Word Quickly
21If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin. 22But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty. 23Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made…
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Care for Neighbor
1If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner. 2If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give…
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Care for the Vulnerable
10When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13and put aside…
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Past and Present
1When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.–Deuteronomy 20 PAST: God has brought you to this current season. He has protected you and provided…
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Boundary Stone
14Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.–Deuteronomy 19 When my wife and I bought our house years ago, the house next door was being rehabbed to sell. It then sat empty for a year and…
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The Prophet
15The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.–Deuteronomy 18 Now this was John’s [the Baptist’s] testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I…
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Rest or Best?
1Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.–Deuteronomy 17
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Empty-Handed
16Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.–Deuteronomy…
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Cancel a Debt
1At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.–Deuteronomy 15 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. (Matthew 6:12) Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. (Colossians 3:13) Think of forgiveness like a…
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Detestable
3Do not eat any detestable thing.–Deuteronomy 14 5 simple statements concerning this verse.
Joel M Bradshaw 