Lord, our prayer is for those who have no purpose or have lost a good purpose to find Your purposes as defined in your Word.
Deuteronomy
8 New
International Version
Do Not
Forget the Lord
Be careful to follow every command
I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and
possess the land the Lord promised on oath to
your ancestors. Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty
years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether
or not you would keep his commands. He humbled
you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you
nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread
alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear
out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son,
so the Lord your God disciplines you.
Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.
For the Lord
your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep
springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees,
pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where
bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are
iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.
When you have eaten and are
satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good
land he has given you. Be careful that you do
not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and
his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise,
when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,
and when your herds and flocks grow large and your
silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of
slavery. He led you through the vast and
dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes
and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your
ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might
go well with you. You may say to yourself, “My
power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the Lord
your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so
confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to
them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the Lord
destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.
We Claim
these things with the Power in the Names of Jesus; The Christ; The Messiah.
Amen.
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