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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Mark 2:18-20 Why fast
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 2:18-20 A Question About Fasting 18 John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. They came and asked Jesus, “Why is it that John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast?” There are two kinds of fasting described here and for different reasons, but it’s clear […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 20:18-22 When I disagree with my government
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 20:18-22 18 Edom said to him, “You must not pass through our territory, or we will go out to meet you with the sword.” The refusal of the king of Edom hardly surprises us, nor could it have surprised Moses very much. The life of mankind is difficult in many […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 20:14-17 A test on Edom’s doorstep
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 20:14-17 Edom Denies Israel Passage 14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has come upon us. 15 Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt for a long […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 20:12-13 The sin at Meribah
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 20:12-13 12 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough to honor me as holy in the eyes of the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this assembly into this land which I have given to them.” We saw that Moses did two […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 20:2-11 Moses and the rock
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 20:2-11 Water From the Rock 2 There was no water for the community, so they assembled together against Moses and Aaron. 3 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD! 4 Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 20:1 Miriam
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 20:1 The Death of Miriam 20 The people of Israel, the entire community, came to the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed at Kadesh. Miriam died there and was buried there. Centuries later, when the Lord spoke of her, he spoke of her as […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 2:15-17 That sinners would repent
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 2:15-17 15 Then when Jesus was reclining at a table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples because many of them also were following him. The house of a wealthier person such as Levi (Matthew) was often built in a mixed style, […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 19:19-22 like a bug zapper
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 19:19-22 19 The ceremonially clean person will sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, after the ceremonially clean person has purified the unclean person, that person will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he will be clean […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 19:17-18 Sprinkled Water and “Holy Water”
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 19:17-18 17 For the unclean person, take some of the ashes from the burnt sin offering, put them into a vessel, and add water from a flowing source to the ashes. 18 A ceremonially clean person is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the water on […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 19:11-16 Contact with a body
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 19:11-16 We saw in the previous verses that the men who touched the red heifer or its ashes became unclean for a day. Now the Lord explains how different it is for anyone who touches a dead body, whether someone who has just died, someone being buried, or even the […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 19:7-10 Their washing and ours
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 19:7-10 7 Then the priest will wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water. Afterward he will come into the camp, and the priest will be unclean until evening. 8 The one who burns the heifer is to wash his clothing in water and bathe his flesh in water. […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 19:1-6 The red heifer is burned
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 19:1-6 In this chapter, God gives Israel the procedure for purification from the uncleanness of death. Purification Rites 19 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron: 2 These are requirements of the law which the LORD has commanded. Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, one […]
