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Deuteronomy 1 – Trust and Obey

Apr11

Good evening Y’all. Welcome back 🙂

Today we begin our study on the book of Deuteronomy. I’m excited to see all that God through the Holy Spirit will teach us in this book 🙂

I’m going to share two lessons that I learnt from today’s chapter.

Be blessed 🙂

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1.) Trust and obedience–

“But the people refused to go in and rebelled against the Lord’s command. “They murmured and complained in their tents and said, ‘The Lord must hate us, bringing us here from Egypt to be slaughtered by these Amorites. What are we getting into? Our brothers who spied out the land have frightened us with their report. They say that the people of the land are tall and powerful, and that the walls of their cities rise high into the sky! They have even seen giants there—the descendants of the Anakim!’ “But I said to them, ‘Don’t be afraid! The Lord God is your leader, and he will fight for you with his mighty miracles, just as you saw him do in Egypt. And you know how he has cared for you again and again here in the wilderness, just as a father cares for his child!’ But nothing I said did any good.“They refused to believe the Lord our God” (Deut 1: 26-32 TLB)

The Israelite’s had seen God do wonders for them but when it came to obeying and going into the promised land to possess it, they just couldn’t trust God enough to see them through. Instead they chose to believe the report of the spies who said the land was too difficult to conquer. Notice God had already given them the land – it was already theirs. All they needed to do was to get up, go into the  land with God leading them and drive out the inhabitants, but they were afraid and didn’t trust God.

Do we believe God’s promises or would we rather believe what someone else has told us about our situation? Trust and obedience work hand in hand. We can’t say we trust God when we don’t obey His instructions. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. If He has done it before, He can do it again.
Lets take God at His word and trust Him to fulfill what He has promised. Numbers 2:19 tells us God is not a man that He would lie, if He has said it, He surely will do it.

2) Pride and Self Reliance –
In verse 41- 46, when the children of Israel realized they had upset God with their disobedience, they decided to go fight for the land. Moses told them not to go because God wasn’t with them.

“You spoke up, “We’ve sinned against God. We’ll go up and fight, following all the orders that God, our God, has commanded.” You took your weapons and dressed for battle—you thought it would be so easy going into those hills! But God told me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t do it; don’t go up to fight—I’m not with you in this. Your enemies will waste you.’” I told you but you wouldn’t listen. You rebelled at the plain word of God. You threw out your chests and strutted into the hills. And those Amorites, who had lived in those hills all their lives, swarmed all over you like a hive of bees, chasing you from Seir all the way to Hormah, a stinging defeat. You came back and wept in the presence of God, but he didn’t pay a bit of attention to you; God didn’t give you the time of day. You stayed there in Kadesh a long time, about as long as you had stayed there earlier.”(Deut 1:41-46 MSG)

Again they disobeyed, they thought they were strong enough to fight the Amorites. They were very quick to forget it had been God all along helping them win their previous battles. This time they decided to rely on their own strength. Needless to say they lost the battle and many of them were killed.

Are we relying on God or on our own strength? Jeremiah 17:5 tells us that “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD”.

I pray God will give us the grace to trust Him wholeheartedly and to continually rely on Him. Amen.

Thanks for joining today. Pls feel free to share your thoughts on the chapter.

I’m blogging through the book of Deuteronomy with Good Morning Girls. Pls check out www.goodmorninggirls.org for loads of bible study resources for Deuteronomy

Have a blessed evening 🙂

Numbers 9 – God’s Positioning System

Nov5

Good evening y’all. I’ve finally caught up with backlog of blogging :). This blog is on Numbers chapter 9. Be blessed 🙂

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“Moses said, “Wait here while I go into the sacred tent and find out what the Lord says about this.” (Numbers 9:8 CEVUS06)

Moses found himself in a situation he was unfamiliar with. He had never known of anyone celebrating Passover without being ceremonially unclean. The Israelites had every right to partake in the passover and when they came to meet Moses, he could have easily replied them saying “yes you should be okay to celebrate” but I love what Moses response was. He didn’t assume on God’s behalf, rather he went to seek God’s face concerning the issue.

Often times we assume things on God’s behalf rather than asking Him to confirm what He wants us to do (I’m guilty of this offence so many times! 😦 ).  We shouldn’t just assume what He wants from us, rather we should take time out to seek His face.

If we seek God, we will find Him, just as He promised. He will never leave us stranded. We can save ourselves a lot of heartache when we learn to take a leaf from Moses’ book.

It’s one thing to seek God’s opinion and it’s another thing to carry out His response: especially when His response is not desirable. May God give us the grace to be obedient to Him even when it’s not convenient for us, in Jesus’ Name I pray.  Amen.

In addition, the Israelites only left, or remained, in a location when God instructs them so. God led them by day as a cloud and at night as fire: they only broke camp whenever the pillar cloud or fire moved. God was basically their GPS system. They never got tired of following the GPS of God or at any point ever thought they knew better than their GPS system. This is obedience taken to another level…lol. They demonstrated total dependance and reliance on God.

Who is your GPS system: God or yourself or your TomTom?

How much easier and sweeter would our lives be if only we would allow God to be the One directing and leading us? If we would surrender and give the control over to him.

He knows it all. He created everything. He knows what’s best for us. So why not let Him take the wheel?

Proverbs tells us not to lean on our understanding.

“With all your heart you must trust the Lord and not your own judgment.  Always let him lead you, and he will clear the road for you to follow”. (Proverbs 3:5-6 CEVUS06)

Psalmist tell us that those who put their trust in God will not be put to shame.

“No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others. Show me the right path, O  lord ; point out the road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you”. (Psalms 25:3-5 NLT)

Today why don’t you hand over the control to God?  Ask for grace to ‘trust and obey’ Him completely.

Prayer:
Dear Lord, we thank You for today. We thank You for Your love towards us. We ask You for forgiveness for all the times we have been disobedient. We also pray that Your Holy Spirit may help us obey and trust You. Lord, we hand over control of our lives to You. Please direct and lead us. Thank You, dear Lord, in Jesus’ Name we have prayed. Amen.

Thank you for joining today.

Have a wonderful evening basking in God’s goodness 🙂

***With God all things are possible***