Read: Deut. 6-9
God gives us some wonderful promises for obedience. Here are a few:
1. a long life (Proverbs 3:2)
2. free food (Is. 55:1)
3. free clean water
4. free wine and oil
5. all will go well (problem-free) (Jer. 42:6)
6. freedom from enemies
7. healing
This sounds like heaven on earth which is exactly what Jesus prayed in the Lord’s Prayer. We are not only blessed with natural blessings but each of these stand for a spiritual counterpart. God promised to clear out their enemies before them. These enemies were flesh and blood but our enemies are spiritual. These enemies stood for the enemies we face today.
Hittites - fear; terror
Girgashites - strangers drawing near (peer pressure and oppression)
Amorites - a sayer (negative words; discouragement)
Canaanites - a trafficker (deception)
Periziasse - squatter - (robber)
Hivites - showers of life; livers (revelers)
Jebusites - he will be trodden down (depression)
These people carried these spirits and more which is why the Lord told them to conquer them and completely destroy them; make no treaty with them or show them any mercy. We are to totally conquer these spirits in our own walk and destroy them in our lives. We make treaties with them by the words we speak.
They were also not to let their children marry them. We are to not allow our children to take on fear, depression, discouragement, etc. We are to erase those names from off the earth! One day they will be.
Lord, help us to walk in the blessings of obedience. We refuse to give ourselves over to fear or discouragement. The thief will rob from us no more!
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