I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are!”. (Numbers 14:12 NLT) Moses and his people God was intending to destroy all Israel and Moses could have had it all. The greatest hindrance to God receiving his glory has […]
Category Archives: Gleanings from the Word
“Now the Lord was angry with me on your account, and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. (Deuteronomy 4:21 NASB) Moses had disobeyed God, and as a result, he had been forbidden […]
“Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water.” Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank. (Numbers 20: 8a, 11 NASB) […]
But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them all!”. (Numbers 11:29 NLT) Joshua jealous for Moses’ sake I don’t know if you have noticed, but we can often get offended by how God does things […]
What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord, whose people he has chosen as his inheritance. (Psalms 33:12 NLT) God bless America has become an American refrain. Politicians voice it, vocalists sing it, ordinary people pray it, yet, a more appropriate arrangement of the words might be, America bless God. After the terrorist […]
But Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, (Matthew 20:25-26 NLT) Jesus taught his […]
And since God gave these Gentiles the same gift he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to stand in God’s way?” (Acts 11:17 NLT) Good is always the worse enemy of God’s best. How God has led us to do things in the past is not always the […]
For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me—for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?” (Genesis 44:34 NASB) It is the most grievous of all things to break the heart of a father. Judah experienced the fear of piercing his father’s […]
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me,And from the words of My groaning? But you are holy. (Psalms 22:1, 3a NKJV) There are times when all believers may feel like God has gone on vacation. We should not be too surprised when we experience […]
But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?” (Exodus 6:30 NKJV) Clearly, Moses did not view himself as up to the task that God had placed before him. Things can start out as an honest evaluation of your deficiencies, yet repeated over and over again, can devolve from humility […]