Deuteronomy 8:14 - Prayer Tents

8Keep and live out the entire commandment that I'm commanding you today so that you'll live and prosper and enter and own the land that GOD promised to your ancestors.H4687H6680H3117H8104H6213H2421H7235H935H3423H776H3068H7650H1 2Remember every road that GOD led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not.H2142H1870H3068H430H3212H705H8141H4057H6031H5254H3045H3824H8104H4687 3He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don't live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from GOD's mouth.H6031H7456H398H4478H3045H1H3045H3045H120H2421H3899H905H4161H6310H3068H120H2421 4Your clothes didn't wear out and your feet didn't blister those forty years.H8071H1086H7272H1216H705H8141 5You learned deep in your heart that GOD disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child.H3045H5973H3824H376H3256H1121H3068H430H3256 6So it's paramount that you keep the commandments of GOD, your God, walk down the roads he shows you and reverently respect him.H8104H4687H3068H430H3212H1870H3372 7GOD is about to bring you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys.H3068H430H935H2896H776H776H5158H4325H5869H8415H3318H1237H2022 8It's a land of wheat and barley, of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey.H776H2406H8184H1612H8384H7416H776H8081H2132H1706 9It's land where you'll never go hungry—always food on the table and a roof over your head. It's a land where you'll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the hills.H776H834H398H3899H3808H4544H2637H776H68H1270H2042H2672H5178 10After a meal, satisfied, bless GOD, your God, for the good land he has given you.H398H7646H1288H3068H430H2896H776H5414 11Make sure you don't forget GOD, your God, by not keeping his commandments, his rules and regulations that I command you todayH8104H7911H3068H430H8104H4687H4941H2708H6680H3117 12Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in,H398H7646H1129H2896H1004H3427 13see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up—H1241H6629H7235H3701H2091H7235H7235 14make sure you don't become so full of yourself and your things that you forget GOD, your God, the God who delivered you from Egyptian slavery;H3824H7311H7911H3068H430H3318H776H4714H1004H5650 15the God who led you through that huge and fearsome wilderness, those desolate, arid badlands crawling with fiery snakes and scorpions; the God who gave you water gushing from hard rock;H3212H1419H3372H4057H8314H5175H6137H6774H4325H3318H4325H6697H2496 16the God who gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, some- -thing your ancestors had never heard of, in order to give you a taste of the hard life, to test you so that you would be prepared to live well in the days ahead of you.H398H4057H4478H1H3045H6031H5254H3190H319 17If you start thinking to yourselves, "I did all this. And all by myself. I'm rich. It's all mine!"—H559H3824H3581H6108H3027H6213H2428 18well, think again. Remember that GOD, your God, gave you the strength to produce all this wealth so as to confirm the covenant that he promised to your ancestors—as it is today.H2142H3068H430H5414H3581H6213H2428H6965H1285H7650H1H3117 19If you forget, forget GOD, your God, and start taking up with other gods, serving and worshiping them, I'm on record right now as giving you firm warning: that will be the end of you; I mean it—destruction.H7911H7911H3068H430H1980H310H312H430H5647H7812H5749H3117H6H6 20You'll go to your doom—the same as the nations GOD is destroying before you; doom because you wouldn't obey the Voice of GOD, your God.H1471H3068H6H6440H6H6118H8085H6963H3068H430