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This is your daily reminder. God has not run

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out of mercy, not for you, not today. Welcome

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to the New Mercies podcast. Welcome to Deuteronomy

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chapter 8. It is Wednesday, February the 18th.

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My reading today is the chapter of Deuteronomy

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chapter 8, and it kind of goes hand in hand with

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Haggai 1 that we read yesterday. I encourage

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you, if you didn't get a chance to listen or

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watch Haggai 1 yesterday, go and check that video

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out. It is talking about misplaced priorities.

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And so it kind of helps us lead into Deuteronomy

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8. Deuteronomy 8 talks about what happens with

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prosperity. God is telling the people of Israel,

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you've come out of the wilderness and you're

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going to go into a land that is beautiful and

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amazing. And just don't forget me. Don't forget

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me. There is a... A couple of verses in here

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I want to read today. I encourage you to read

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the whole chapter. It's all great. A couple of

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verses that stood out to me that I think are

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important for us, valuable for us, and maybe

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we can get something out of today. In Deuteronomy

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8, I want to read verse number 4. The Bible says,

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Your clothing did not wear out on you, and your

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foot did not swell these forty years. Know then

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in your heart that as a man disciplines his son,

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the Lord your God disciplines you. So you shall

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keep the commandments of the Lord your God by

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walking in his ways and by fearing him. For the

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Lord your God is bringing you into a good land,

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a land of brooks, of water, of fountains and

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springs flowing out of the valleys and hills,

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a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig

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trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees

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and honey, a land in which you will eat bread

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without scarcity. in which you will lack nothing,

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a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose

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hills you can dig copper. And you shall eat and

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be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God,

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for the land he has given you is good. I want

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to emphasize just a couple of things out of this

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text. There is a lot in Deuteronomy 8, in every

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one of the verses. I encourage you to go read

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all 20 verses. It's amazing and incredible. But

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today I want to encourage you with this, two

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things. Just two things. We're going to be...

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So I hope and pray that as you read Deuteronomy

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8, that you take out more than just the two things

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that I'm going to say. Read it for yourself.

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See what the Lord says to you. I'm just telling

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you what he's telling me, right? I'm seeing a

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thread as I prepare and study, and as I'm in

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the Word every day, I see these threads that

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God is beginning to weave through for me. This

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one is verse number four specifically, and it's

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a weird verse. He says, when you were wandering

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in the wilderness, a couple of things had happened.

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Your clothes didn't wear out. Your feet didn't

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swell. 40 years your feet didn't swell up. I

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don't know about you. I can't walk for a week

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and my feet not swell up, right? That just doesn't

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make any sense. Physiologically, my body will

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do things. 40 years they walked, and he says

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your feet didn't swell. Your clothes didn't wear

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out. I took care of you. He talks about in this

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text the manna that was provided. You know, as

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I look at all this, he says in here, It's a daily

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walk. For 40 years, every day that you were walking,

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your feet didn't swell, your clothes didn't wear

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out. How is that the case? How is that possible?

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It's possible because there were daily miracles.

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Do you know the term day or daily appears 2 ,626

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times in the Bible? That's a lot of times. 2

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,626 times. I believe it's because God wants

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to emphasize this is a daily walk. It is not

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a weekly walk. It's not a monthly walk. It's

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a daily walk. It's something he does every day.

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And we will miss the miracles because they seem

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really small. Your clothes didn't wear out for

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40 years. 40 years. I don't know. There needs

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to be a clothing company that comes out that

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can guarantee a 40 -year run on clothing. They'll

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sell out, right? Forty years their clothes didn't

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wear out. Forty years their feet didn't swell.

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Forty years manna showed up. Those are miracles.

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Miracles. And God is trying to help the people

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around us. Don't forget that. Don't forget I

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took care of you when you had nothing. I am about

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to give you a land where you have everything.

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You're going to have so many crops. You're going

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to have streams flowing. You're going to have

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beauty. You're going to have all kinds of amazing

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things. Don't forget me. Don't forget me. I don't

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want you to have prosperity and then be comfortable

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and not remember what I've been doing for you.

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Sometimes in our lives, I think we grow to areas

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of influence and maybe affluency, and we grow

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to areas of comfort, and we don't rely or lean

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on the Lord as much as we did, and we don't go

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back to that childlike faith we had. I'll never

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forget the day I got saved. It was a Sunday evening

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at a church in my dad's office. I was so excited.

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I was a kid. I was eight years old and about

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to turn nine. I remember going up to my kid's

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choir practice, my kid's music practice thing,

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and telling my teacher first thing, I just got

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saved. Then I remember going to school the next

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day on the school bus. telling my friends, I

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just got saved. I have my Bible with me. I have

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my cool Bible with me. And I was carrying it.

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I was like, let me show you what the Bible says

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about this. And I was telling my friends, here

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I was this, I don't know, your third grade or

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something. I was telling it, you know, here's

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what's going on. Let me read the Bible to you.

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I was so excited. And now I look and I've gotten

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older and it's harder for me to do that now.

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Why is that? Probably because I've gotten comfortable.

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Probably. I've lost a little bit of that passion.

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Now, I hope and pray that that passion continues

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to grow in my life, and it's always on the forefront

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of my heart and my life. But I do know that sometimes

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we may find ourselves getting comfortable and

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forgetting about all of the miracles. The breath

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you have in your lungs today is a miracle. You

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don't have tomorrow guaranteed. You don't. You

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have today, and it's a gift from God. It's a

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miracle that we're here. It's a miracle that

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Jesus came and died and rose again. It's a miracle

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that he gave us life. It's a miracle that he

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saw me and he wanted me. It's a miracle that

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he gave me life. He brought me back from death

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into life. All of those are miracles. It's a

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miracle that I'm here today, and it's a miracle

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that we have the ability to communicate with

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God. We can talk to God. We have full access

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to him, greater than they did in the Old Testament.

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We have the mediator, Jesus. We have the one

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who is interceding for us right now. We have

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the Holy Spirit. God who's in us that's connected.

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That's all miracles. Every bit of that. I am

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a life full of miracles. Have we forgotten? Have

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we forgotten? My encouragement to you today,

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there's a lot in Deuteronomy 8. Please go read

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it all. It's so good. It's so good. Such great

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reminders. As the children of Israel are about

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to inherit a land, we have the same God that

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gave the land to them. is the same God who has

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given us miracle after miracle after miracle.

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Don't let our prosperity and our influence and

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our wealth or whatever it is that we have, don't

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let it distract us or cause us to not remember

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how great this God is. Today, I'm challenging

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you in this. Write down some things God has done

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in your life that maybe you tend to forget. And

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just see if he'll continue to bring those back

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to your mind so that you can worship him more

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fully.