Daily Devotionals

May 30 - Left Handed Warrior - Judges 3:12-30 God used Eglon, King of Moab, to bring judgment on the Israelites for doing “evil in the sight of the Lord.”  After the Israelites came back to God and cried for a “deliverer,” God raised up Ehud.  Ehud was a...

May 29 - Solar Stand Still - Joshua 10:1-15 After Joshua’s victories over Ai and Jericho, Gibeon tricked Israel into making a treaty with them.  God had told Joshua not to make any treaties, but Joshua made the treaty in a lapse of judgment.  Now a coalition...

May 28 - End of an Era 2 - Deuteronomy 33-34 The transition of leadership from Moses to Joshua takes place in today’s reading.  After Moses blesses each tribe of Israel, He assures Israel that God will provide safety.  In chapter 34 Moses is able to see the...

May 27 - End of an Era 1 - Deuteronomy 31-32 Moses is coming to the end of his life.  The Israelites are close to the Promised Land.  Like a large family, Moses gathers the Israelites together.  He encourages them and assures them that the presence of...

May 26 - Laws for a special time - Deuteronomy 21 Deuteronomy is a book of laws.  In today’s reading we read the law if someone has been murdered and found in a field; the law of marrying a captive of war; the law of the firstborn’s inheritance; the law of...

Week 22 May 25 - Balaam’s Donkey - Numbers 22 Balak, King of Moab, sent messengers to the prophet Balaam to request him to curse the Israelites.  Balaam asked guidance from God.  God told Balaam not to go.  Balak sent another group of messengers with...

May 23 - Afraid of Snakes? - Numbers 21:4-9 In this passage we find the Israelites once again complaining to Moses and to God.  They question the motive of Moses and God.  They question the provision of Moses and God.  Why were they so quick to become...

May 22 - Moses Strikes Out - Numbers 20:1-13 Today we read the account of Moses losing his privilege to enter the Promised Land.  God commanded Moses to gather the congregation together around a rock.  Moses was then supposed to speak to the rock which was...

May 21 - A Budding Leader - Numbers 17 The Israelites had continued to complain against leadership.  Moses gave the instructions for each tribe’s leader to write their name upon a stick.  Moses was going to take these rods into the tabernacle for God to...

May 20 - Korah:  Gulp! - Numbers 16 Korah displays an ungrateful heart with the purpose in life that God had given him.  Korah, along with Dathan and Abiram, gathered 250 prominent leaders in Israel to go complain against Moses and Aaron.  Their...