Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 1--Verse 8See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.We see in the book of Deuteronomy a repetition of events described in Exodus and Numbers. “Deutero” means “second”. We are visiting events and teachings a sec...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 36—Verse 6This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whom they think best, only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father.’This was the Lord’s solution to the problem that arose from marriages between sons and daughters of different tribes of Judah. Don’t do it! It leads to problems.Similar advice is give...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 35—Verse 33You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.He’s talking specifically about murder. Murder pollutes the land. Most of us probably have not murdered anyone. But 1 John 3:15 says that whoever hates their bro...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 34—Verse 2Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders)...The Israelites’ inheritance was LAND for which they did not pay. Crops they didn’t have to plant, homes they didn’t have to build. They just had to go in and take the lan...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 33--Verse 2Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage. Chapter 33 is basically a log of where the children of Israel had been for the last 40 years. It was a record of their journey. Are you keeping a record of yours? Might be a good idea, especially if you move around as much as Israel did. If you count them, Israel moved 40 times in 40 years. And sometim...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 32--Verse 11b...because they have not wholly followed me…In this chapter, we see that because the Israelites didn’t give themselves wholly to the Lord, they cut themselves off from receiving the incredible promised land!I believe the principle we find in this chapter presents us with an opportunity to examine our own hearts. Are we wholly following the Lord? It’s a lo...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 31—Verse 49Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.This small part of this passage today really sticks out to me. In war, we know that there are always casualties. But the Lord protected the men of Israel.Our God is the God who never slumbers or sleeps, the God who watches over us. Today, let’s rememb...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 30-- Verse 2If a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. God cares about our words and the actions that follow. This verse makes me think of Matthew 5:37, “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.” When we put conditions on ourselves, we make it easier to break th...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 29--Verses 1-2aOn the first day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets, and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the Lord…I love seeing these days of Holy gatherings. We are all accustomed to Holidays, but these were different; they were held with revere...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 28--Verse 25And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.All throughout today’s reading, we see time set for holy convocations. A time when everybody takes a break from ordinary work and gathers together. Wouldn’t that be a cool thing to experience today? What would it look like? How would we incorporate it? In Israel, t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 27--Verses 15-17 (NIV)Moses said to the Lord, “May the Lord, the God who gives breath to all living things, appoint someone over this community to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the Lord’s people will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”Moses had just been told by God that he is not allowed to go further because of h...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 26—Verse 52The LORD spoke to Moses…In our English bibles, the word “lord” is written in a few different ways. The two common uses are Lord and LORD. When we see LORD in all capital letters, it refers to the Hebrew name YAHWEH, which is God’s personal name. So this verse can also be translated “Yahweh spoke to Moses…”  This is not some far off, unknown, distant God—thi...  Read More