March 7: If you will, I will!!!

Daily reading: Deut. 26:16-19, 27, 28, 29, 30 

I came to the motel lobby early this morning and as I poured my coffee, I chatted with the server. (My husband taught me this. I used to be in my own world, not inviting anyone else in. He, on the other hand, visited with everyone we met. Finally, because of his example, I realized I am God's hands, feet and voice. I began to realize I must open up my mouth and speak to people if I want to be used by God.) As we visited, God nudged me to give her a word. So I told her, God just spoke to me about you! As I was sitting here reading in Deuteronomy 28, He impressed me to let you know He is smiling on you and He's getting ready to bless you! Just keep on making right choices, and He will pour out blessings on you. She said, "Thank you! He already started blessing me this week! I said, 'God I don't have enough gas to make it to work this week!', and then someone tipped me fifty dollars!" She said she's been struggling as a single mom. She said she's a Christian. 

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Amplified Bible (AMP)

28 If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

² And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God.

³ Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field.

⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock.

⁵ Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough.

⁶ Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed shall you be when you go out.

⁷ The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

⁸ The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

⁹ The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

¹⁰ And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name [and in the presence of] the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.

¹¹ And the Lord shall make you have a surplus of prosperity, through the fruit of your body, of your livestock, and of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

¹² The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

¹³ And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them.

¹⁴ And you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

We complicate serving God and doing His will. It's simple, really. Just make right choices. All the time. Making right choices MOST of the time is not good enough. When you decide, once and for all, you will do what Jesus would do in every decision you make all day every day, your life immediately becomes blessed.
You will still go through trials like everyone else, but Jesus will walk with you and guide you through everything. He will fight your battles and take care of your enemies.

Deuteronomy 30:11-14

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹¹ For this commandment which I command you this day is not too difficult for you, nor is it far off.

¹² It is not [a secret laid up] in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it?

¹³ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it?

¹⁴ But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your mind and in your heart, so that you can do it.

Why would I want to go against God's leading? It's very clear in today's Scripture reading what happens to those who don't follow Him. 

Deuteronomy 29:16-29

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¹⁶ You know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we came through the midst of the nations you crossed.

¹⁷ And you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.

¹⁸ Beware lest there should be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose [mind and] heart turns away this day from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a [poisonous] root that bears gall and wormwood,

¹⁹ And lest, when he hears the words of this curse and oath, he flatters and congratulates himself in his [mind and] heart, saying, I shall have peace and safety, ^[a]though I walk in the stubbornness of my [mind and] heart [bringing down a hurricane of destruction] and sweep away the watered land with the dry.

²⁰ The Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall settle on him; the Lord will blot out his very name from under the heavens.

²¹ And the Lord will single him out for ruin and destruction from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law,

²² So that the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a distant land, shall say, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the Lord has made it sick—

²³ The whole land is brimstone and salt and a burned waste, not sown or bearing anything, where no grass can take root, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath—

²⁴ Even all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?

²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.

²⁶ For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they knew not and that He had not given to them.

²⁷ So the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses that are written in this book.

²⁸ And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

²⁹ The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law.

"Dear God, sometimes it seems so hard to make right choices. Many times, the right choice is the unpopular choice. I want to please You and You alone. I don't want to cave in to pressure to do something that may seem okay, but gives me an uneasy feeling in my gut. I want to listen to Your still small voice in the midst of the loud voices. Give me the courage to do what You'd have me do. All the time. Help me to learn to IGNORE the negative emotions that would cause me to doubt my prayerful decisions. I want to follow Your leading and be blessed by You. I praise You for You are worthy. I bow to You and You alone. Thank You for working on me and in my life. Thank You for Your blessings that are coming to me and my family. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN."