Daily Devotional from Numbers 14--Verse 3 (CSB)Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?It’s easy to read this story and get frustrated at the Israelites. Their cries have been heard, God delivered from oppression, and now leads them in a pillar of cloud and fire, and he feeds them d...  Read More

May 31Daily Devotional from Numbers 13--Verse 30But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."God promised a national homeland for the children of Israel. As they left Egypt and approached the Promised Land, the Lord told Moses to send men to check out the land of Canaan.Spies - one from each of the 12 tribes - were se...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 12—Verses 6-8aAnd he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD.”I love reading Bible stories. The Old Testament prophet...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 11—Verse 1And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.It’s a repetitive theme. The people complain. About their leaders, about God, their circumstances, what they don’t have, or what they don’t lik...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 10—Verse 9When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who is attacking you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and be saved from your enemies.We serve a God who fights on our behalf. All we have to do is sound the call. Are we being spiritually attacked? Sound the call. Pray. Blast your worship. Sin...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 9--Verse 23At the command of the Lord they camped, and at the command of the Lord they set out.Sometimes we stay put; sometimes we move forward. It all depends on what the Lord is doing.Verses 15-23 describe the cloud by day and the fire by night. When it lingered over the tabernacle, Israel remained. When the cloud lifted, Israel broke camp. And they lived this way f...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 8--Verse 14Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.God set aside the tribe of Levi to be the servants of the Tabernacle. When they entered the Promised Land, only the tribe of Levi did NOT receive any land as an inheritance – they just got cities within the other tribes’ lands. Because God was supposed to be t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 7--Verse 89And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.Mother Teresa was once asked in an interview, “What do you say when you pray?” She replied, “Nothing, I just listen.”It’s interesting that w...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 6--Verse 27So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.You’ve probably heard the blessing in verses 24-26. But did you notice that God is the one who gave Aaron and his sons the words to speak over the Israelites? Even more amazing is that we still hear this blessing spoken over us today—the very words of God given as a blessing to His p...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 5—Verse 29This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself, or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife.This chapter sets forth a specific way of determining guilt or innocence in a wife accused of adultery in ancient Israel. It shows both the severity of the act ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 4--Verse 20But they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.To think the priests couldn’t even look past the veil, no looking, no touching or else they would die. We see later in 2 Samuel 6:6-11 Uzzah is struck dead when he tried to save the ark from falling when the oxen stumbled. But there is good news! It’s not like this anymore....  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 3—Verses 11-12And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine.”God chose the tribe of the Levites, specifically to minister to Him and to care for and guard all of the components of the tabernacle. They were to prot...  Read More