All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Numbers 6:5 Growing up, my interest in a girl was directly proportional to how attractive I found her. I know that’s shallow, but the reality was that my value of a girl was attached to her physical appearance. So, I believed…
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He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. Numbers 6:3-4 Way back when I was…
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When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. Numbers 6:2-3 It’s the Summer Olympics and so, every night, my wife and I sit and watch a recap of the day’s events, hoping…
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. . . As the LORD commanded Moses. So he listed them in the wilderness of Sinai. Numbers 1:19 When I was in treatment ten years ago, I began plotting my comeback. My life had fallen apart, and I wanted to put it back together. I planned to get out of treatment and immediately become…
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But if they confess their iniquity . . . and they make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. Leviticus 26:40-42 Every time I used drugs, I felt bad, asked God’s…
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Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.…
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I will break the pride of your power . . . Leviticus 16:19 I often think of pride at thinking a lot of myself. I’m a big deal. I’ve certainly been guilty of that, but pride is also simply thinking of myself a lot. This kind of pride is much more subtle. With this kind…
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But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting…
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Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely. The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it securely. Leviticus 25:18-19 A couple years ago, one of the guys sitting in jail explained the math…
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The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. Leviticus 25:23 My wife and I are currently neck-deep in the process of building a house. In this process, we’ve often asked ourselves this question – How much is too much? What we’re asking…
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