DEUTERONOMY'S PORTRAIT OF GOD''

#1.THE PERSON OF GOD). HEAR, O ISRAEL' THE LORD IS OUR GOD, THE LORD ALONE (DEUT. 6;4) (''LOOK NOW; I MYSELF AM HE' THERE IS NO GOD OTHER THAN ME'(DEUT. 32;39)(#2.THE GREATNESS' OF GOD'')(''THE LORD YOUR GOD IS THE GOD OF GODS, AND LORD OF LORDS. HE IS THE GREAT GOD, MIGHTY AND AWESOM, WHO SHOWS NO PARTIALITY AND TAKES NO BRIBES''(DEUT.10;17)(#3. THE GRACE OF GOD) '('I WILL SAY IT AGAIN; THE LORD YOUR GOD IS NOT GIVING YOU THIS GOOD LAND BECAUSE YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS,FOR YOU ARE NOT-''YOU ARE A STUBBORN PEOPLE'' (DEUT. 9;6)(#4. THE LOVE OF GOD)(HE LOVED ISRAEL'S ANCESTORS)( ''BECAUSE HE LOVED YOUR ANCESTORS, HE CHOSE TO BLESS THEIR DESCENDANTS AND PERSONALLY BROUGHT YOU OUT OF EGYPT WITH A GREAT DISPLAY OF POWER' (DEUT. 4;37) HE LOVED ISRAEL ''FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE, WHO BELONG TO THE LORD YOUR GOD. OF ALL THE PEOPLE ON THE EARTH,THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU TO BE HIS OWN SPECIAL TREASURE.THE LORD DID NOT CHOOSE YOU AND LAVISH HIS LOVE ON YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE LARGER OR GREATER THAN OTHER NATIONS,FOR YOU WERE THE SMALLEST OF ALL NATIONS'IT WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE LORD LOVES YOU,AND BECAUSE HE WAS KEEPING THE OATH HE HAD SWORN TO YOUR ANCESTORS. THIS IS WHY THE LORD RESCUED YOU WITH SUCH AMAZING POWER FROM YOUR SLAVERY UNDER PHARAOH IN EGYPT'' (DEUT.7;6-8)('FOR THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL BELONG TO THE LORD; JACOB IS HIS SPECIAL POSSESSION, HE FOUND THEM IN A DESERT LAND,IN AN EMPTY, HOWLING WASTELAND. HE SURROUNDED THEM AND WATCHED OVER THEM; HE GUARDED THEM AS HIS MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSION.LIKE AN EGAL THAT ROUSES HER CHICKS AND HOVERS OVER HER YOUNG, SO SO HE SPREAD HIS WINGS TO TAKE THEM IN AND CARRY THEM ALOFT ON HIS PINIONS. THE LORD ALONE GUIDED THEM; THEY LIVED WITHOUT ANY FOREIGN GODS'(32;9-12)(''HE WOULD CONTINUE TO LOVE ISRAEL'' ''HE WILL LOVE YOU AND BLESS' YOU'' AND MAKE YOU INTO A GREAT NATION, HE WILL GIVE YOU MANY CHILDREN AND GIVE FERTILITY TO YOUR LAND AND YOUR ANIMALS WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN THE LAND HE SWORE TO GIVE YOUR ANCESTORS, YOU WILL HAVE LARGE CROPS OF GRAIN, GRAPES, AND OLIVES, AND GREAT HERDS OF CATTLE, SHEEP AND GOATS''(DEUT.7;13)(#5.''THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD'' HE PROVIDED FOR ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS'' THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS BLESSED EVERYTHINGYOU HAVE DONE,AND HAS WATCHED YOUR EVERY STEP THROUGH THIS GREAT WILDERNESS'',DURING THESE FORTY YEARS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS BEEN WITH YOU AND PROVIDED FOR YOUR EVERY NEED SO THAT YOU LACKED NOTHING''(DEUT. 2;7) ''FOR FORTY YEARS I LED YOU THROUGH THE WILDERNESS,YET YOUR CLOTHES' AND SANDELS DID NOT WEAR OUT.YOU HAD NO BREAD OR WINE OR OTHER STRONG DRINK, BUT HE GAVE YOU FOOD SO YOU WOULD KNOW THAT HE IS THE LORD YOUR GOD'(29;5-6)(''HE DID SO IN SPITE OF THEIR CONSTANT SIN '')(''REMEMBER HOW ANGRY YOU MADE THE LORD YOUR GOD OUT IN THE WILDERNESS''. FROM THE DAY YOU LEFT EGYPT UNTIL NOW,YOU HAVE CONSTANTLY REBELLED AGAINST HIM''(DEUT. 9;7)(#6)(HE WILL OF GOD'' ''AND NOW ISRAEL, WHAT DOES THE LORD YOUR GOD REQUIRE OF YOU ? HE REQUIRES YOU TO FEAR HIM, TO LIVE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, TO LOVE AND WORSHIP HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND SOUL, AND TO OBEY THE LORD'S COMMANDS AND LAWS THAT THAT I'M GIVING YOU TODAY ''FOR YOUR OWN GOOD'' (DEUT.10;12-13)(#7)(''THE WORD OF GOD'' HIS WORD IS CLEAR AND NEAR'' THIS COMMAND I'M GIVING YOU TODAY IS NOT TOO DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND OR PERFORM. (''IT IS NOT UP IN HEAVEN'') SO DISTANCE THAT YOU MUST ASK, WHO WILL GO TO HEAVEN AND BRING IT DOWN,SO WE CAN HEAR IT' AND OBEY IT?'' IT IS NOT BEYOND THE SEA,SO FAR AWAY THAT YOU MUST ASK,''WHO WILL CROSS THE SEA TO BRING IT TO US SO WE CAN HEAR AND OBEY IT?'' ''THE MESSAGE IS VERY CLOSE AT HAND ''IT IS ON YOUR LIPS AND IN YOUR HEARTS SO THAT YOU CAN OBEY IT''(DEUT.30;11-14) ('DON'T ADD TO IT OR TAKE AWAY FROM IT'' ''AND NOW, ISRAEL LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THESE LAWS AND REGULATIONS THAT I'AM ABOUT TO TEACH YOU. OBEY THEM SO THAT YOU MAY LIVE, SO YOU MAY ENTER AND OCCUPY THE LAND THE LORD, THE GOD OF YOUR ANCESTORS,IS GIVING YOU. DO NOT ADD TO OR SUBTRACT FROM THESE COMMANDS I'AM GIVING YOU FROM THE LORD YOUR GOD. JUST OBEY THEM'(DEUT. 4;1-2)(''MEDITATE ON IT PERSONALLY ''SO COMMIT YOURSELVES COMPLETELY TO THESE WORDS OF MINE. TIE THEM TO YOUR HANDS AS A REMINDER,AND WEAR THEM ON YOUR FOREHEAD' (DEUT.11;18)(""TEACH IT TO YOUR CHILDREN'' TALK ABOUT THEM WHEN YOU ARE AT HOME AND WHEN YOU ARE AWAY ON A JOURNEY,WHEN YOU ARE LYING DOWN AND WHEN YOU ARE GETTING UPAGAIN WRITE THEM ON THE DOORPOST OF YOUR HOUSE AND ON YOUR GATES''(DEUT.11;19-20)(''PUT IT INTO PRACTICE'' ''THE MESSAGE IS VERY CLOSE AT HAND;IT IS ON YOUR LIPS AND IN YOUR HEART, SO THAT YOU CAN OBEY IT''(DEUT.(30;14). I THANK GOD FOR HIS WORD' AND I ASK GOD TO NOT ONLY BLESS HIS PEOPLE, BUT TO REMOVE ALL THE BLOCKINGS IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE' I ASK FOR A MORE SIMPLIFIED WAY' SO THAT WE ALL MAY QUICKLY UNDERSTAND MORE' AND MORE' WE NEED MORE LOVE LORD' I KNOW YOU KNOW ALL THINGS BUT I WANT TO TALK TO YOU LORD' HEAR YOUR SERVANT' FOR IT IS YOU WHO PLACE ME WHERE I AM' NOT I MYSELF' FOR I DID NOT KNOW THESE PEOPLE FROM NO WHERE' WHAT IS THIS' AND WHO' IS THIS, AND WHY IS THIS' YET I KNOW IT IS NOT ME' FOR I' AM NO BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE' OPEN OUR EYES AND OUR MINDS LORD SO THAT WE CAN RENEW OUR MINDS, FOR OUR WAY OF THINKING IS NOT YOUR WAY, SO LORD BLESS US, HELP US HEAL US, WE NEED TO BE ONE IN YOU LORD, BLESS US WITH THAT' HEAL THE SICK' BLESS THOSE WHO ARE AFRAID AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO TURN' BLESS OUR CHILDREN LORD' FOR THEY HAVE LOST THE WAY, AND SO HAVE WE' WE NEED YOU LORD, RIGHT NOW' I COME BEFORE YOU LORD WHERE I AM' I KNOW YOU HEAR' I KNOW YOU SEE' I NEED YOU TO ACT' IN THE NAME OF JESUS I NEED YOU TO MOVE AND DO ALL THE THINGS I TALKED ABOUT, NOT ONLY THAT LORD' FORGIVE OUR WRONGNESSES, AND PUT US BACK AT OUR RIGHTFUL STANDINGS BEFORE YOU LORD' WE RESPECT YOU LORD' WE LOVE YOU LORD' FOR WE KNOW THAT IT'S MAN THAT SUFFER MAN' WE KNOW YOU WANT THE BEST FOR US, WE KNOW THIS, HELP US TO DO ALL YOU WANT US TO DO, AND WHERE WE FALL SHORT, RESUPPLY US ALL WITH MORE SO WE CAN ARISE OUT OF OUR WEAKFUL WAY AND WITH YOUR POWER LORD RISE TO SERVE YOU THE WAY YOU INTENDED FOR US TO DO' ALL OF THESE AND MORE, WE ASK IN THE NAME OF JESUS, FOR WE KNOW YOU LOVE US LORD, AND WE THANK YOU LORD FOR ALL THINGS, GOOD AND BAD, FOR OUR LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS, AND NOT ONLY THAT, SO AS OUR SOULS. THANK' YOU LORD' BLESS YOU LORD, AND LET THE PEOPLE OF GOD SAY YES TO THE PROMISES OF GOD' LET THE CHURCH SAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS WE ASK ALL OF THIS STANDING IN FAITH'' IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH' TO GOD THE GLORY AMEN, AND AMEN. PS. PEOPLE OF GOD' GOD IS GETTING READY TO POUR OUT ALL THAT WE ASK FOR AND MORE' WE MUST BELIEVE GOD FOR WHAT WE ASK FOR' WE MUST HOLD ON TO OUR FAITH , LAST NIGHT, I DREAMED I SAW A MAN TEARING OPEN BAGS OF CONCRETE PUTTING THEM IN A LONG WALK WAY, BY HIMSELF' HE WAVED TO ME, AN I WAVED BACK. AND RIGHT NEXT TO HIM WAS A BIG FIELD AND THERE I SAW PILE AFTER PILE OF LARGE FRESHLY POURED CONCRETE PILED UP LIKE TEEPEES I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY THEY WERE BUT I KNOW THERE MORE THAN TWENTY PILES AND ONE MAN THERE ALSO AND THE TRUCK WAS DUMPING, ANOTHER PILE THEN TWO MEN CANE UP TO ME FROM WHERE THE FIRST MAN WAS, THEY WAS'NT THERE AT FIRST, SO I SAID YOU MEN HAVE A LOT OF WORK CUT OUT FOR YOU' THEY LAUGH AND SAID WE SHO DO' ISAID YOU CAN'T DO IT FROM HERE' THEY SAID WE KNOW'' AND WE ALL LAUGH BUT THE THOUGHT CAME TO ME AND SAID' BUT THE FRESH CONCRETE WILL NOT WAIT, IT'S GETTING HARD'' THEN I WOKE UP' PRAISE' THE LORD' WHO? KNOWS WHAT THAT MEAN' IF YOU DO' THEN MOVE ON 'T, AND GET WHAT GOD HAS PLAN FOR US' I' JUST DID MY PART' NOW THE REST IS UP TO YOU' GO' GO' DO' DO' GET'IT' GET' IT GET'IT CLAIM YOUR BLESSINGS' WHATEVER'' IN THE NAME OF JESUS, CLAIM IT BY FAITH'' PEACE' WSERVANTGODGIVETH'' PEACEWEOUT' AND WHEN GOD BLESS DON'T FORGET TO GIVE BACK'' AND DON''T FORGET TO THANK HIM''AMEN.