Deuteronomy 7:11-15 – “So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do. ¹² If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors. ¹³ He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you. ¹⁴ You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock. ¹⁵ The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead, he will inflict them on all those who hate you.”

Deuteronomy 7:11-15 is capsulized in verse 11 – “Therefore you are to keep the (not a but the) commandment – both the statutes (boundaries) and ordinances (laws).”   In verse 12, we discover that obedience brought the promise of God to keep His Covenant of Kindness.   It promised God’s love (which is never earned), productivity, and fruitfulness.   There was a complete victory over all enemies.

Deuteronomy 7:20-22 reveals that God’s Hornets would lead the way for them, and a little at a time, God would give them possession of their Promised Inheritance.   We get frustrated over any delay.   God explained that wild beasts would overrun them because they were not ready to occupy fully.

God prepares us to receive and maintain blessings before He fully releases them.   If granted too soon, blessings can become a curse, a cause of pride, or an open door for wild beasts (demons).  Therefore, rather than lament and gripe about not having, ask God what preparation we need to make to receive and maintain the blessings!   Focus on our hearts, not the desired blessing.

In that condition, God will give us the desires of our hearts.  It will be a blessing if our hearts are one with His.  If not, He may give us what we ask, but with it will come leanness of soul.  We want God’s blessings in God’s timing so that we can not only be blessed but be blessings.   Deuteronomy 8:3, the wilderness experience taught them the value of God’s words…“In order to make you understand that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of Adonai.”

We need to focus on fully surrendering and developing the heart to receive and maintain, not just getting what we want when we want it.  When done in God’s way, preparation always precedes blessing.  With prepared hearts, we can receive all God has for us and become all He desires for us to be. We can live as overcomers and mighty weapons in His hands!  Today is our day of Victory!

We can have Victory over All our Enemies!