Positioned for His promises
“Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. ~ Deuteronomy 11:1
Are you living a life that is positioned for what God has promised, or are you drifting through each day without purpose, reacting to whatever comes your way? Today’s scripture reading reminds us to follow His instruction closely, and to make choices intentionally. God reminded His people of what they had seen, His power in Egypt, His provision in the wilderness, and His faithfulness along the journey. Then He pointed them toward the promise ahead. That promise was based on the condition to love Him, obey Him and to stay faithful to Him.
As a child of God in today’s world, it is easy to become distracted. News cycles, social media, pressure to perform, and constant comparison can slowly shift your focus. It doesn’t take long to find yourself far off His path and on the road of destruction. This chapter calls us back to living intentionally. It reminds us that following God’s plan instead of our own, positions us for His blessing and sustained strength.
Here are some ways to anchor your heart in what He has already done so you can step into the fullness of what God has planned for you in the days ahead:
1. Remember what God has already done
Moses urged the people to remember the mighty acts of the Lord. Memory strengthens faith. When you forget what God has done, you become vulnerable to fear and doubt.
Take time to write down specific moments where God provided for you, opened doors, or carried you through difficult times. When facing a current challenge in leadership, family, or ministry, speak out loud what God has already done in your past. Share testimonies with those you lead, strengthening both your faith and theirs. When you actively remember His faithfulness, your confidence in the present increases.
2. Obedience opens the door to fruitfulness
Deuteronomy 11 makes it clear that loving God and following His way brings life, strength, and fruitfulness in the land. Obedience is not restriction, it is protection and positioning.
In today’s culture, obedience is often viewed as outdated or limiting. Yet God ties obedience directly to flourishing and abundance.
Identify one area where you have delayed obedience, perhaps in a conversation you need to have, a boundary you need to establish, or a step of faith you have been postponing.
Act on what you already know God has asked of you, instead of waiting for a more convenient time. Build daily disciplines, prayer, time in the Word, integrity in small commitments, that reinforce a lifestyle of obedience. Small acts of obedience today prepare you for greater responsibility tomorrow.
3. Plant His Word in your heart daily
Later in the chapter, God instructs His people to lay His words on their hearts, to talk about them, and to keep them continually before them (see verses 18-20). His Word was not meant to be occasional, it was meant to shape daily life. In a world saturated with opinions and information, what consistently shapes your thinking will shape your decisions.
Choose a specific time each day to read Scripture, even if it begins with a short passage.
Speak biblical truth over your household, your team, or your own mind when discouragement comes. Place visual reminders of Scripture in your workspace or home so that God’s promises remain in front of you. When His Word stays before you, it guards your heart and guides your steps.
Recently I was at a place in my leadership journey where I felt stretched by responsibility and new assignments. The pressure to move forward, to build, to grow, and to steward well felt heavy. In the middle of that season, the Lord brought me back to a simple truth, remember what He has already brought me through and follow what He has already said. He reminded me to keep His Word in front of me and to receive His empowering grace in a greater way so that I could enjoy my ministry journey rather than feel crushed under the weight of it.
As I intentionally remembered past breakthroughs, asked for His direction in small daily decisions, and kept the promises of Scripture at the center of my routine, I noticed a shift in my heart and in my attitude. Anxiety began to decrease and the purpose became crystal clear. I felt positioned rather than pressured, and His promised results felt attainable rather than out of reach. Because my steps were rooted in faithfulness and my heart and thoughts were grounded in His Word, I could clearly see that He was with me just as He has been every step of the way.
Today I want to encourage you to live positioned for the promise. Remember His faithfulness. Choose to follow His direction even when it stretches you. Keep His Word before you in a world full of competing voices. As you love Him and keep His commands, you are not just surviving the season you are in, but you are also stepping confidently into the future He has prepared for you.
Today’s scripture reading: Deuteronomy 11
1 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
2 Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the Lord your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—
3 His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;
4 what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day;
5 what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
6 and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel—
7 but your eyes have seen every great act of the Lord which He did.
8 “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,
9 and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’
10 For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;
11 but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven,
12 a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
13 ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
15 And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’
16 “Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,
17 lest the Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.
22 “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
23 then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.
24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.
25 No man shall be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.
26 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today;
28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
29 Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?
31 For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.
32 And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.
Journal:
- What specific works of God in my past do I need to remember today?
- Is there an area where I have delayed obedience? What step can I take this week?
- How can I practically keep God’s Word before me each day?
What promise am I believing God for, and how is my daily life positioning me for it?
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