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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Numbers 23:13-20 The second oracle begins
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 23:13-20 Balaam’s Second Message 13 Balak said to Balaam, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will see only their outskirts. You will not see all of them. From there curse them for me.” 14 Balak took Balaam into the field of Zophim, to […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 23:7-12 Balaam’s first oracle
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 23:7-12 7 Balaam took up his oracle. He said: Balaam’s oracles follow a distinct pattern, perhaps worthy of study or at least noticing. The content is what interests us the most, of course: From Aram, Balak has brought me. Balak, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains, […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 23:1-6 faith through the means of grace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 23:1-6 Balaam’s First Message 23 Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.” In contexts like visions and parables, the number 7 usually represents holiness. Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 22:36-41 the floor is lava
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 22:36-41 Balak Meets Balaam 36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the Moabite town on the Arnon border at the edge of his territory. 37 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I send for you urgently when I summoned you? Why didn’t you […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 22:33-35 Faith and the means of grace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 22:33-35 The Angel of the Lord is speaking: 33 The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away from me, I would have surely killed you by now and let the donkey live.” 34 Balaam said to the Angel of the […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 22:30-32 God’s concern for animals
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 22:30-32 We return now to the false prophet Balaam, angry with his donkey who has turned aside three times from the wrath of the unseen Angel of the Lord. 30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, the one you have always ridden to this day? Is […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 114:1-2 Out of Egypt
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 114:1-2 114 When Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. (RSV) Psalm 114 sings the story of the exodus, a crucial moment in Israel’s history, when God moved forward his […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 22:21-29 The donkey speaks
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 22:21-30 Balaam’s Donkey 21 Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the officials of Moab. 22 But God’s anger burned because Balaam was going with them. God sent Balaam off with the Moabites, but then God’s anger burned against Balaam. Is there a contradiction here? […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 22:13-20 Balaam and the means of grace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 22:13-20 13 Balaam got up in the morning and said to Balak’s officials, “Go back to your land, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.” 14 The officials of Moab got up and went back to Balak. They said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.” We […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 22:7-12 faith vs. knowledge
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 22:7-12 7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went with payments for his occult practices in their hand. They came to Balaam and told him what Balak said. 8 Balaam said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will report to you what the LORD says […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 22:1-6 Introducing Balaam
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 22:1-6 Balak Hires Balaam 22 The Israelites set out and camped on the Plains of Moab along the Jordan across from Jericho. 2 Balak son of Zippor saw everything that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 So Moab was afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. Moab […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 21:32-35 Og and Fellowship
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 21:31-35 32 Moses sent spies to Jazer. They took its towns and drove out the Amorites who were there. 33 They turned and went up on the road to Bashan. Og king of Bashan came out with all his people to confront Israel in battle at Edrei. Jazer is a […]
