AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Saturday – April 15, 2023, Nisan 24, 5783
FROM THE PROPHETS CHAMBER
DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS – PART FOUR
Greetings dear and precious saints of God and welcome back to From the Prophets Chamber. This week I will be continuing to teach from Deuteronomy chapter twenty-eight. This is so important dear ones. The Lord has a wonderful life planned out for us but it does not happen automatically. We either make it happen or not. The very dirty word obedience is the master key. As you know I reference this chapter often when referring to the blessings of God and the curse which is of ourselves. Do not be confused, we trigger the blessing in obedience to God and we trigger the curse in obedience to Satan. God is not going about blessing some and cursing others due to some unfathomable plan that brings glory to Him and somehow works for our good. Before I go further, please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible by every means available to you. Thank you for sharing. The featured picture is of me teaching at Faith Chapel in Pennington, Texas recently. Please be sure you are reading out loud. Now, let’s take a look at the opening verses of our Bible text.
Deuteronomy 28:1-2 (KJV)
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
What God is about to talk about “shall come to pass” not maybe, sometimes, perhaps, or you just never know. The Lord then lays out three requirements for blessings, to come upon us. We must listen with ears to hear, to understand, and implement. Second, we are “to observe” the voice of the Lord our God. This word, observe, is far more than to simply look at. Here is the definition of the Hebrew word transliterated to English as shāmar meaning to hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to, be circumspect, take heed, keep, mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save, wait (for), and to watch (-man) according to Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Third we are to do all His commands. Can you believe it? We are to actually do all of His commands! (Mild author sarcasm added) Do we really understand this? God is not unjust so we are well able especially in Christ Jesus with the help of the Holy Spirit. Many reading this believe they are doing all of His commands. Are all of the blessings enumerated down through verse thirteen present in our lives? If not, then we are not doing all that He commands in faith motivated of love (agapē). This is very simple little children. The Lord is not done with this first verse yet, let’s look again, and continue.
Deuteronomy 28:1 (KJV)
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
If we listen to understand and implement, guard the commands in our hearts, and do them the Lord Himself will set us high above all the nations (heathen) of the earth. It is never the plan nor the will of God that we ever be under but always over. Do not be confused we are always to be submitted without question to God and to all in authority over us. In this position we have absolute authority over all things.
Luke 10:19 (KJV)
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Do we have any lesser authority in Christ Jesus?
Mark 11:23 (KJV)
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Think of Daniel and the three Hebrew children.
Daniel 1:19-21 (KJV)
19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.
20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.
What about us? The Wisdom of God is available to us!
Lord willing, I will pick up right here next Saturday.
By: Dr. David R. Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (KJV)
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
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