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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Numbers 14:36-45 Going against the Lord’s command
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 14:36-45 36 The men whom Moses had sent to scout the land, who returned and made the entire community grumble against him by giving a negative report about the land— 37 those men who brought the wicked, negative report about the land—died by the plague before the LORD. 38 Of […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 1:35-39 To Galilee with the Gospel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 1:35-39 Jesus Preaches in Galilee 35 Jesus got up early in the morning, while it was still dark, and went out. He withdrew to a solitary place and was praying there. Our translation, “early in the morning,” is, in Greek, “very, very late at light.” Not midnight, or two, but […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 14:26-35 Condemned for Forty Years
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 14:26-35 26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, 27 “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the Israelites’ constant grumblings against me. 28 Tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you just as I have heard you […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 14:17-25 The command to turn back
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 14:17-25 17 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, just as you have said, 18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in mercy, forgiving guilt and rebellion. Before we talk about Moses pleading for God to forgive the people, this is a good place to […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 14:10-16 Behold, he prays!
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 14:10-16 10 Still the entire community threatened to stone them to death. It’s astonishing that Moses was threatened with getting stoned to death. Stoning was the punishment for sins like idolatry (Leviticus 20:2; Deuteronomy 3:6-10), witchcraft or astrology (Leviticus 20:27), blasphemy (Leviticus 24:14), and adultery (Deuteronomy 22:23-24). Here Moses was […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 14:1-9 Crisis at Kadesh
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 14:1-9 The spies had given their report. The majority admitted that the land was rich and filled with good things God had promised, but they were afraid of the Canaanite people. They couldn’t get the image of towering giants out of their minds. The minority (Caleb and Joshua) encouraged the […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:30-33 A bad report
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:30-33 30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should go up now and take possession of it, because we can certainly conquer it!” The majority report of the spies upset the people. The main complaint will be restated below: The Canaanites looked too big to fight. […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 1:32-34 demons
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU MARK 1:32-34 32 That evening, when the sun had set, the people kept bringing to him all who were sick and demon-possessed. 33 The whole town gathered at the door. 34 He healed many people who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he did not allow […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:26-29 Giants and Canaanites
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:26-29 I made an error in yesterday’s devotion in the paragraph about the building of Hebron. I will submit a replacement for it in the near future, and my apologies for the mistake, entirely my fault. The Report About Canaan 26 They came back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:21-25 Grace carried on a pole
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:21-25 21 So they went up and scouted the land from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob, toward Lebo Hamath. 22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:17-21 The spies enter Canaan
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:17-20 17 Moses sent them to scout the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up this way through the Negev and go up into the hill country. 18 See what the land is like. See if the people who live in the land are strong or weak. See […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 13:1-16 Twelve spies
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 13:1-16 Scouting Canaan 13 The LORD spoke to Moses: 2 “Send men to scout the land of Canaan, which I myself am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a tribal chief among the people of Israel.” 3 Moses sent […]