Prayer: Father, thank You for Your warnings about being influenced, seduced, or even trapped by entertaining conversations about other gods and religious beliefs. You have declared, You are the only God, Adonai. Amen.
Reading: Deuteronomy 12 key: vs. 30-31
30 be careful not to be trapped into imitating them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.’ 31 You are not to act like this toward Adonai your God! For every abomination of Adonai, which He hates, they have done to their gods—they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
Attention: The challenge which our nation faces is choosing which God or gods they identify with. Should we be so bold as to declare our God (Adonai) is the true God. It is a polarizing question and never more so in the USA than today. For the forces of everything opposed to Adonai and the concept of One God, is forcing us to declare.
Adonai through Moses’ warned the Hebrew nation not to “inquire” about the gods of the nations He was dispossessing before their eyes, to give the land to His covenant people.
The issue is still the same today. Is God (Adonai) the only God? Are we to worship Adonai only (exclusively)? If Adonai is the only God, then He is the only voice we listen too. Are we listening only to Adonai, or are we acquiescing to the world’s narrative about who God is? This is why we need to know the whole scripture, Genesis to Revelation. Adonai has told us who He is and if we are His followers, He tells us who we are and what He commands of us.
The Old Testament Commandment is the same as the New Testament Commandment, “Love Adonai with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,” and “love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22: 37-39; Deuteronomy 7:9).”
One last observation about embracing the worship of other nations gods. One of the great abominations which Israel experienced as they become tolerant and inclusive of foreign gods and their worship, they also sacrificed ‘their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.” By embracing foreign gods, this is how low they sank in their depravity.
I plead with you today, do not get lured or trapped into the curiosity of exploring the practices and worship of the occultic gods which have crept into the USA. You do not need to go overseas. Occult practices are going on in your neighborhoods. Please open your eyes and pray against, speak against the demonic forces which are hounding our neighborhoods, our schools and children.
Action: I choose today to declare my allegiance to Adonai and to pray against, speak against the demonic activity in my neighborhood.
Yield: I yield to Adonai and to the Holy Spirit which resides within me.
Engage: I choose to engage in the Kingdom work of being Ekklesia in my neighborhood.
Relationship: I choose to be in Spirit filled relationship with Adonai.
Prayer: Father, You called the Hebrew nation to an exclusive covenant relationship with You. I choose to be exclusive with You too! You only will I serve! Amen.
Memory Verse: Colossians 1:18b
18 He is the head of the body, His community.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead—
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Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”