Month: February 2016

Deuteronomy 2:7 “For the LORD your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have not lacked […]

1 Peter 3:9 “not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.” It’s not too often that we learn a purpose […]

Deuteronomy 2:5 “do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a footstep because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.” I was glad to see this passage. […]

1 Peter 3:9 “not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.” This verse is at the end of a section […]

Numbers 35:12 ‘The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for trial.” Israel was just beginning a new stage. They had no courts. […]

1 Peter 2:25 “For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.” We are referred to as sheep throughout the bible. It’s not flattering. We aren’t called lions or […]

Numbers 34:1,2 ‘Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance, even the land […]

1 Peter 2:25 “…for by His wounds you were healed.” This phrase puts it very concisely. The story of our healing is a great one. Early on, all that God was and offered was withheld from us due to our […]

Numbers 33:55 “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns […]

1 Peter 2:24 “and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed”. If we know it or not, we […]