Is Your Spirit Despondent?

But if you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:  ... Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit. Deuteronomy 28:15, 64-65 HCSB 

Moses gave the Hebrew people final warnings just before they went into the Promised Land, after their time of Exodus and wandering in the desert. There were promises if they obeyed the God’s Commandments and promises if they disobeyed. This curse from disobedience involved the person receiving a despondent spirit. This didn’t indicate that they were filled with the Holy Spirit and lost that, it was just a hopelessness that became theirs in relation to the curse. The Hebrew people were given the original Ten Commandments…and then more details on exactly how they should live and treat each other on many occasions. God was pretty specific on how He wanted these chosen people of His to relate to others—and to Him. Obedience was a choice…and they didn’t always choose that. Do we? We have the same choices today. God wants us to be obedient, and we have the same free will that the Hebrew people had, but the difference is we have God’s grace and mercy through His Son, our Lord and risen Savior, Jesus Christ. How well do you know Jesus? Is He your Savior? Does knowing Jesus make a difference in your life? 

Prayer ~ Heavenly Father, forgive us when we act like the Hebrew people who had to wander around in the desert another forty years. May we listen closely to Your voice speaking to us from Your Word…and may our hearts be touched that we would be obedient. We don’t want to have a hopeless spirit within us…but we want to be filled with Your Spirit—the Holy Spirit—in a fresh new anointing today…and every day. We praise You for Your plan of Salvation and for Jesus’ obedience to go to the cross. We are grateful that He isn’t still on the cross—but that He is resurrected and is seated at Your right hand in Heaven.

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All scripture quoted from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise noted.