+ DAILY PRAYER +
Reading Deut 1515 “At the end of seven years you shall grant a remission of debt. 2 And this is the manner of the remission of debt: every ?creditor? shall remit his claim that he holds against his neighbor, and he shall not exact payment from his brother because there a remission of debt has been proclaimed unto Yahweh….
This Daily Devotion covers the first five books of the Bible, Genesis through Deuteronomy also called the Books of Moses or the Pentateuch, in a period of one year in a Monday through Friday format, the Psalms and order of devotion follow those presented in The Treasury of Daily Prayer from Concordia Publishing House.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 118:10-18
10 All nations surrounded me;
in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
11 They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side;
in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
12 They surrounded me like bees;
they went out like a fire among thorns;
in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
13 I was pushed hard, so that I was falling,
but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation.
15 Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous:
“The right hand of the LORD does valiantly,
16 the right hand of the LORD exalts,
the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!”
17 I shall not die, but I shall live,
and recount the deeds of the LORD.
18 The LORD has disciplined me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.
Reading Deut 15
15 “At the end of seven years you shall grant a remission of debt. 2 And this is the manner of the remission of debt: every ?creditor? shall remit his claim that he holds against his neighbor, and he shall not exact payment from his brother because there a remission of debt has been proclaimed unto Yahweh. 3 With respect to the foreigner you may exact payment, but ?you must remit? what shall be owed to you with respect to your brother. 4 Nevertheless, there shall not be among you a poor person, because Yahweh will certainly bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, to take possession of it. 5 If only you listen well to the voice of Yahweh your God ?by observing diligently? all of these commandments that I am commanding you ?today?. 6 When Yahweh your God has blessed you, just as he ?promised? to you, then you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow from them, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. 7 If there is a poor person among you from among one of your brothers in one of your ?towns? that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand toward ?your brother who is poor?. 8 But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and ?you shall willingly lend? to him enough to meet his need, ?whatever it is?. 9 ?Take care? so that there will not be ?a thought of wickedness? in your heart, ?saying?, ‘The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,’ ?and you view your needy neighbor with hostility?, and so you do not give to him, and he might cry out against you to Yahweh, and ?you would incur guilt against yourself?. 10 By all means you must give to him, and ?you must not be discontented? at your giving to him, because on account of this very thing, Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and ?in all that you undertake?. 11 For the poor will not cease to be ?among you? in the land; therefore I am commanding you, ?saying?, ‘You shall willingly open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor that are in your land.’
12 If your relative who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and he or she has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person out ?free?. 13 And when you send him out free from you, you shall not send him away empty-handed. 14 You shall generously supply him from among your flocks and from your threshing floor and from your press; according to that with which Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15 And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you thus ?today?. 16 And then if it will happen that he says to you, ‘?I do not want to go out? from you,’ because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him to be with you; 17 then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust it through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you ?a slave forever?; and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman. 18 It shall not be hard in your eyes ?when you send him forth free?, because for six years he has served you worth twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you ?in whatever you will do?.
19 “Every firstling male that is born of your herd and of your flock you shall consecrate to Yahweh your God; you shall not do work with the firstling of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstling of your flock. 20 Rather ?before Yahweh? your God you shall eat it year by year at the place Yahweh will choose, you and your household. 21 But if there is a physical defect in it, such as lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. 22 In your ?towns? you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean together may eat it, just as they eat the gazelle and as they eat the deer. 23 But you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.”
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Lord God of truth, You converted the apostle Paul from persecutor of the Church to courageous preacher of the true Gospel that Jesus Christ gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age. Deliver us from all false gospels, so that we remain faithful to Christ alone, whose death and resurrection are the source of our salvation; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Concluding Prayer
Heavenly Father, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to direct and rule us according to Your will, to comfort us in all our afflictions, to defend us from all error, and to lead us into all truth; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
