Do you like spending time in the Old Testament looking at God's character, what matters to Him, and how He so wants to provide for us and protect us? I pray you will feel His love today, that you could absorb all that He has for you who believe and choose to obey Him.
Leviticus 26
V1 "Do not make idols or set an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.
V2 Observe the Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary, I am the Lord.
V3 If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,
V4 I will send you rain in its season , and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field fruit.
V5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.
V6 I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.
V7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
V8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
V9 I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.
V10 You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. "
Leviticus 25:20 You may ask , "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?" v21 I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. v22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
Chapter 25 is about the year of Jubilee, so it's worth your time to read and contemplate what it would mean to live a lifestyle of trust and obedience at this level. We may at some point in the United States have to fully rely on God's provision and safety.
V11 I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.
V12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
V13 I am the Lord your God who bought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke off the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.
Hold your head high, God loves you and cares about every part of your life!
Never give up! Never give in!
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