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When God Speaks, Listen
Scripture Focus “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my…
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It Could Never Happen to Me
Scripture Focus “You may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you… Only he must not acquire many horses for himself… And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart…
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A Faith That Remembers
Scripture Focus “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.” — Deuteronomy 16:1 (ESV) Devotional Thought Deuteronomy 16 contains Moses’ instructions concerning three important feasts Israel was…
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Maybe It’s Time to Set Them Free
Scripture Focus “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.”…
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What Are You Taking In?
Scripture Focus “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.” — Deuteronomy 14:3–5 (ESV) Devotional Thought When you begin reading through Deuteronomy…
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Guard the Voices You Listen To
Scripture Focus “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods’… you shall not listen to the words…
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When Worship Becomes Just a Ritual
Scripture Focus “You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire… You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way. But you shall seek the place that the LORD your God will choose… There you shall go.” — Deuteronomy…
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A Heart Prepared for His Word
Scripture Focus “And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me. Then I turned…
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What Do You Have That You Did Not Receive?
Scripture Focus “Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.’” — Deuteronomy 9:4 (ESV) Devotional Thought Here in Deuteronomy 9, Moses warns Israel about…
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Small Miracles
Scripture Focus “Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.” — Deuteronomy 8:4 (ESV) Devotional Thought As Moses continues reminding Israel of their history with God, he mentions something here that I wonder if the people even noticed. For forty years…
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