Pastor Jack Bettencourt
Country Cowboy Church, Standard CA (c) 2007
Date 07-01-2007Jeremiah 33:3
'Call to Me,
and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you
do not know.'
Jeremiah 29:11-14
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD,
thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then
you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your
heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back
from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all
the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you
to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
Exodus 15:26
and said, "If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and
do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all
His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have
brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you."
Deuteronomy 28:1-14
"Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD
your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you
today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the
earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you,
because you obey the voice of the LORD your God: "Blessed shall you be
in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. "Blessed shall be
the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of
your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your
flocks. "Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. "Blessed
shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
"The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated
before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee
before you seven ways. "The LORD will command the blessing on you in
your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will
bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. "The LORD
will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to
you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His
ways. Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the
name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you. And the LORD will
grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of
your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which
the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. The LORD will open to you
His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its
season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many
nations, but you shall not borrow. And the LORD will make you the head
and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you
heed the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today,
and are careful to observe them. So you shall not turn aside from any of
the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go
after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy 28:15-47
"But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD
your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes
which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and
overtake you: "Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be
in the country. "Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
"Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land,
the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. "Cursed
shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
"The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that
you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish
quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have
forsaken Me. The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has
consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. The LORD will
strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe
burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they
shall pursue you until you perish. And your heavens which are over your
head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.
The LORD will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the
heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. "The LORD will
cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way
against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become
troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. Your carcasses shall be
food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no
one shall frighten them away. The LORD will strike you with the boils of
Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you
cannot be healed. The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness
and confusion of heart. And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man
gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be
only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.
"You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall
build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a
vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. Your ox shall be slaughtered
before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be
violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you;
your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to
rescue them. Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another
people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day
long; and there shall be no strength in your hand. A nation whom you
have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your
labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. So you
shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. The LORD
will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which
cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your
head. "The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a
nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you
shall serve other gods--wood and stone. And you shall become an
astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD
will drive you. "You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather
little in, for the locust shall consume it. You shall plant vineyards
and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the
grapes; for the worms shall eat them. You shall have olive trees
throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with
the oil; for your olives shall drop off. You shall beget sons and
daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into
captivity. Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your
land. "The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above
you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but
you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the
tail. "Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and
overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the
voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes
which He commanded you. And they shall be upon you for a sign and a
wonder, and on your descendants forever. "Because you did not serve the
LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of
everything,
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