God’s Family

Numbers 2:2 New International Version (NIV) 2 “The Israelites are to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.” The nation of Israel was organized according to tribes for several...

God Prepares Us

Numbers 1:1-2 New International Version (NIV) The Census 1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2 “Take a census of the whole...

Live God’s Way

Leviticus 27:34 New International Version (NIV) 34 These are the commands the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites. The Book of Leviticus is filled with the commands God gave his people at the foot of Mount Sinai. We can learn from the commands. They show...

Mercy and Grace

Leviticus 26:40-45 New International Version (NIV) 40 “‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41 which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then...

Call On God First

Judges 6:5-10   New International Version     5 They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. 6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried...