Deuteronomy 7, personalized- compare with
actual
New International Version (NIV)-Driving
Out the Nations
A Prayer
7 When the Lord my God brings me into
the land, the
inheritance, the position, the promotion, the financial establishing, the
prosperity I am entering to possess and drives out before me many
nations—all
the nations against me, all my weaknesses, hindrances and carnality, Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,
Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations, hindrances, blockages, mountains larger and stronger than me— 2 and when the
Lord my God has delivered them over to me and I have defeated them by His power, then I must destroy them totally, resist, rebuke and
refuse them.[a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no
mercy. 3 I will not intermarry, mingle, tolerate or conference with them. I
will not give my daughters,
time, money, hard work, strength to
their sons, agents,
idols or evil ideas or take their
daughters for my sons, 4 for they will turn my children away from following my God
to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against me and will quickly
destroy me. 5 This is what I am to do to them: Break down their altars, every place with
history of sin smash their sacred
stones,
every attachment to sin that is lingering cut down their Asherah poles, every idol that takes up my time [b] and burn their idols in the fire. 6 For I
am a people holy to the Lord my God. The Lord my God has chosen me out of all
the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Thank you Lord
7 The Lord did not set his affection on me and choose me because
I was more numerous than other peoples, for I was the fewest, least, spiritually
young of all peoples. 8 But it was because
the Lord loved me and kept the oath he swore to my ancestors, Pastors, Spiritual
mentors, praying parents, Church that
he brought me out with a mighty hand and redeemed me from the land of slavery, persecution,
frustration, lack, spiritual drag, sorrow, pain, backwardness, distraught, from the power of Pharaoh, horrible superiors,
evil agents, oppressors, king of Egypt. 9 I
know therefore that the Lord my God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his
covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his
commandments. 10 But those who hate him he will repay to their face by
destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.11
Therefore, I will take care to follow the commands, decrees, the voice of
the Holy Spirit and laws He gives me
today.
12 If I pay attention to these laws and am careful to follow
them, then the Lord my God will keep his covenant of love with me, as he swore
to my ancestors, Pastors,
Spiritual mentors, praying parents, Church. 13 He will love me and bless me and increase my numbers financially, in family,
in wealth, in knowledge, in wisdom. He will bless the fruit of my womb, labor, effort, the crops of my land—my grain, new wine
and olive oil—the calves of my herds, fruit of my fruit and the lambs of my flocks in the land he
swore to my ancestors to give me. 14 I will be blessed more than any
other people; none of my men or women linked to me will be childless, nor will any of my
livestock be without young. 15 The Lord will keep me free from every
disease. He will not inflict on me the horrible diseases I knew in
Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate me. 16 I must destroy all
the peoples, diseases, carnality
and sins of the flesh that the Lord my God gives over to me. I
will not look on them with pity and I will not serve their gods,
for that will be a snare to me.
17 I may say to myself, “These nations are stronger than I
am, these
problems are more than I can handle. How can I drive them out or cope?” 18 But I will not be afraid of them; I will
remember well what the Lord my God did to all the Pharaohs and oppressors in my
life and to all Egypt.
19 I saw with my own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders,
the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the Lord my God
brought me out, delivered
and saved me. The Lord my God
will do the same to all the peoples I now fear. 20 Moreover, the
Lord my God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who
hide from me have perished. 21 I will not be terrified by them,
for the Lord my God, who is among me, with me, in me, who goes before and after
me, is a great and awesome God. 22 The Lord my
God will drive out those nations, those troubles, those
mountains before me, little by
little. I will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild
animals will multiply around me. 23 But the Lord my God will deliver them
over to me, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. 24 He
will give their kings, their
rulers and top deceivers into my
hand, and I will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be
able to stand up against me; I will destroy them. 25 The images of their
gods I am to burn in the fire. I will not covet the silver
and gold on them, the
bad habits and sins of the flesh and I will not take it for myself, or I will be
ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord my God. 26 I
will not bring a detestable thing into my heart or house
or I like it, will be set apart for destruction. I will regard it as vile
and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.
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