by Susan Barnes | 21 Aug 2023 | Devotions OT
“He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye, like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.” Deuteronomy 32:10-11 After one of our many moves, I was looking...
by Susan Barnes | 23 Mar 2018 | Devotions OT
“The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, ‘Destroy them!’ So Israel will live in safety; Jacob will dwell secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.”...
by Susan Barnes | 16 Mar 2018 | Devotions OT
He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. Deuteronomy 32:4 Some days it’s hard to say, “his works are perfect and all his ways are just.” We look at our world and see the wicked getting...
by Susan Barnes | 9 Mar 2018 | Devotions OT
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.”...
by Susan Barnes | 2 Mar 2018 | Devotions OT
If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner. If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give it back. Do...
by Susan Barnes | 23 Feb 2018 | Devotions OT
The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in it? Let him go home … Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home … Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home …...
by Susan Barnes | 16 Feb 2018 | Devotions OT
However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today....
by Susan Barnes | 9 Feb 2018 | Devotions OT
Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. Deuteronomy 14:22 When it came to offerings, Canaanite cults and other pagan religions functioned in the opposite way to how God intended his people to act. In pagan religions, the devotees...
