Deuteronomy 28:13 

'The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. You will always be at the top, never at the bottom.'

- This is a promise of positional victory.
- You can be the head and not the tail.
- You can be at the top and not at the bottom.
- All this becomes possible as we follow and obey God's ways.

PRAYER: Lord, I desire to live in a place of positional victory. Thank You that because of the favour and blessing I can enjoy as I follow and obey Your ways, I can live in a place of victory. Amen

Deuteronomy 28:12b

'You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.'

- This is a promise of independence.
- What a blessing to be able to lend to others and never need to borrow.
- It also speaks of being 'debt-free'.
- It is a place of freedom and release that God has for you.

PRAYER: Lord, I long to know this blessing and this freedom in my life. Help me in all I do to honour You so that I can enjoy this blessing. Amen.

INCREASE YOUR CAPACITY TO RECEIVE. ENLARGE YOUR THINKING by MEDITATING ON THE WORD and you shall be LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY STREAMS of WATER, THAT WILL YIELD FRUIT IN SEASON and OUT OF SEASON WITH EVERGREEN LEAVES. WHATEVER you do WILL PROSPER...... PRAISE and MAGNIFY HIM because with GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, and HE has an UNLIMITED SUPPLY of EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN THIS LIFE.... Have a FANTASTIC DAY, TAPPING into FATHERS' UNLIMITED SUPPLY......

Deuteronomy 28:12

'The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of His bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands.'

- This is a promise of an 'open heaven'.
- An open heaven is an unhindered manifestation in the earth of all that heaven is.
- It speaks of both natural and spiritual blessing.
- Just love God with all your heart, it's so worth it!

PRAYER: Lord, now Lord, as I place my complete trust and confidence in You, would You cause the heaven's to open and bless all the work of my hands. Amen.

  If we were to ask you, “What’s more important in marriage, Feelings or  Actions?” you would most likely reply, “Actions, of course.” That is  because mature adults who are thinking rationally and objectively (at this  moment in time), know that we can’t always trust our feelings. In fact I (Steve) have learned that it is a rare occurrence where I can trust my feelings. I believe that is because feelings are ME focused and not OTHERS  or CINDY focused. If left to my own tendencies it would all be about me  “feeling good.”  It is also true that our actions can sometimes be motivated by our feelings. This is where we need to “test” the motives behind our actions. We think this will become clearer as we proceed through the rest of this  week’s Marriage Message. And while the story that is told deals with a couple on the verge of divorce, we all can — and should, learn a lesson from it. The story comes from the book, Courtship After Marriage, by Zig  Ziglar:  Don Hawkins, who spent almost 20 years in the pastorate, tells a story of
  the time a couple from his church came to see him —en route as a last stop  before seeing their respective lawyers about a divorce. It seems the  husband had become involved in an affair. His wife became angry and decided to retaliate in kind. According to Don, the tension was electric. The husband sat on one side of  the room hurling accusations. The wife sat on the other side, cold as ice, but occasionally blasting away with fireball-type epithets at him.   Don suggested to this couple that they go back to that point in time where  they were in love. To which the man replied, “But I don’t love her anymore.”   Don said to the man, “You do respect the Bible, don’t you?” “Yes,” he  replied. “Well, Scripture says, ‘Love Your Wife.’”  “Yes, but we’re not living together as husband and wife. We have separate bedrooms.” “Oh, you’re living in rooms next to each other?” “That’s  right.” “Well, Scripture has a word for you, ‘Love Your Neighbor.’”  ‘The young man retorted, “I don’t feel like she’s a neighbor. We relate to each other more like enemies.” To which Don replied enthusiastically,  “That’s great. I have good news for you. Scripture covers that base as  well. It says, ‘Love Your Enemies.’”  Both husband and wife told Don, “But we just don’t feel like loving each other, and we certainly wouldn’t want to be hypocritical, would we?”   Don said, “Why don’t we suspend the discussion of hypocrisy for a week? 
  Let me encourage you to go back to treating each other like you loved each other.”  To the husband he said, “You call her from work.” To the wife he said,   “You have a nice meal prepared.” And to both he said, “Speak kind words to  each other, even try to show some physical affection with an occasional  hug or touch of the hands. Let’s see what happens in a week’s time.”   The following week, the couple returned to Don’s office. He was surprised  to note that instead of taking seats on the opposite side of the office,  both sat down on the same couch. Turning to the husband, Don asked,  “What’s the deal?” 
To which the wife replied, “He’s been nicer to me than he’s been since we were married 10 years ago.” Smiling, the husband said, “I guess you can love your enemy.”   Now, I don’t want to mislead you. As Don shared this with me, he was  careful to point out that this couple’s problems didn’t just disappear
overnight or vanish like a fog in the morning sun. There was a lot of hard work to do to resolve the conflicts, anger, bitterness, and hurt that had  built up over years of marital neglect. Yet by turning to the kind of actions they practiced for each other in the very beginning, by starting the courtship process over —they became  motivated to work on their marriage relationship.
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  Okay, so what is the lesson for those of us not on the verge of divorce? 
  Like Cindy and me, you may never even consider divorce as an option. But  that doesn’t mean our marriages reflect the love of Christ. And, if we are honest, we have all had conflicts, anger, bitterness, and hurt that have built up over time due to marital neglect.We believe that if we decide NOW to implement loving actions in our marriage it is not only going to improve our relationships now, but it will help us to regain the proper  focus (Christ first and our spouse second) and help to heal past hurts.   For further study as a couple, we recommend you go to our web site and you both read Marriage Message #105 — Living in an Intentional Marriage and   Marriage Message #142 — When Loving Feelings Take Effort.  And, if you are highly motivated but don’t know where or how to start  Loving Actions, go to the web site and in the Communications section read   the articles, “100 Ways to Love Your Husband His Way” and “100 Ways to  Love Your Wife Her Way.”   We pray God’s richest blessing upon your marriage.    God Bless! Steve and Cindy Wright