Leviticus 18 - Praying God's Word

Please read Leviticus 18.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/lev/18/1/s_108001

Meditate on verses 2b and 4.

I am the LORD your God.

You are to perform My judgments

 and keep My statutes to live in accord with them;

 I am the LORD your God.

The Israelites spent over 400 years living among the Egyptians who engaged in activities abominable to the LORD. Now they were entering another land full of perverse people with laws condoning lewd and impure behaviors. God commanded His people not to walk in the statutes of the Egyptians and the Canaanites; God’s people were to obey His rules (vs. 3-4). He even gave laws for maintaining sexual purity.

Here is the LORD’s list of those you are never to have intercourse with:

·      Any blood relative (v. 6)

·      Father or mother (v. 7)

·      Stepmother (v. 8)

·      Sister, stepsister, half-sister (vs. 9, 11)

·      Aunt (vs. 12-14)

·      Uncle (v. 14)

·      Daughter-in-law (v. 15)

·      Sister-in-law (vs. 16, 18)

·      Grandchildren (vs. 10, 17)

·      Neighbor’s wife (v. 20)

·      Anyone the same sex as you (v. 22)

·      Any animal (v. 23)

Hear and heed the Word of the LORD.  Nations’ laws do not change God’s Laws.   Stand firm on His Truth.

Pray Leviticus 18:30 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, help _______ and me to keep Your charge,

that we do not practice any of the abominable customs

 which are practiced before us, so as to defile ourselves with them.

Because You are the LORD our God, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL 2 ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell