NUMBERS 14 There is something in Numbers 14 that made me smile. Our prayer group leader has been encouraging us for weeks to pray according to God’s Word. Then I read Moses’ prayer. “And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken…” (Numbers 14:17, KJV) That made me smile. Moses prayed according to what God had already spoken. Then he prayed according to who God had revealed Himself to be. “The LORD is longsuffering, and of great merc

Lies can only remain where there is an absence of truth. Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32) I was bound because I believed lies. Freedom didn’t come because I tried harder. It came because I sat with the Lord until the Holy Spirit began revealing truth. As truth came, the lies began to lose their power. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. He shines His light into places we cannot see on our own. He exposes what deception

Recently someone shared Deuteronomy 9:3 with me, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. “But be assured today that the LORD your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; He will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the LORD has promised you.” I love the order of that verse. God goes first. He goes before His people like a devouring fire. He destroys what they cannot destroy. He su

NUMBERS 12 We can walk away from a conversation thinking nothing of it. God doesn’t. I was reading about Miriam and Aaron speaking against Moses because of the woman he had married. Honestly, it didn’t seem that unusual at first. People talk about people all the time. We talk about the decisions they make. We call it concern. We call it processing. Sometimes we don’t think much about it at all. But God did. God wasn’t looking at the conversation the way they were. Miriam and

NUMBERS 5 I have read Numbers 5 before. More than once. But this time I got stuck on a phrase I had somehow overlooked. A spirit of jealousy. Not jealousy. A spirit of jealousy. When I read the word spirit, my mind immediately went where it has been trained to go. Cast it out. Take authority over it. Deal with it spiritually. But that isn’t what happened in this passage. I kept reading. I found: A spirit of jealousy. An offering of jealousy. The law of jealousy. Bitter water.

LEVITICUS 26 I think one of the most misunderstood words in Scripture is covenant. Many of us were taught: Obedience and disobedience. Blessings and curses. Right and wrong. Heaven and hell. But somewhere along the way, nobody stopped to explain covenant. I was reading Leviticus 26, and after all the warnings, all the consequences, all the discipline that would come upon Israel for their rebellion, God says something that stopped me: “I will remember my covenant.” That sounds

Beautitudes This morning the Beatitudes hit me differently. I have read them before. I have heard teachings on them before. But this morning I noticed something I do not think I fully understood before. Jesus places blessing beside things the world would never call blessed. Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are those who mourn. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the persecuted. And something in me shifted. I think for a long time

EXODUS 18 There is something powerful about Exodus 18. Before Jethro ever gave Moses counsel, they first sat together and talked about the goodness of the Lord. They rejoiced together, worshiped together, offered sacrifices, and broke bread together. There was relationship before correction. Then Jethro watched Moses lead. From morning until evening, Moses carried the weight of the people alone. Every problem. Every dispute. Every decision came to him. And Jethro said: “This

NUMBERS 10 As I studied Numbers 10, I found myself fascinated by the silver trumpets. Each sound had a purpose. One gathered the people. One called the leaders. One sounded the alarm to move. One prepared the people for battle. Another accompanied worship and rejoicing. The more I studied, the more I kept asking myself, What does this look like for us today? We don’t have silver trumpets directing our every move. We have the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice.”

There was something about the story of Obed Edom that settled deep in my spirit. After Uzzah reached out and touched the Ark, fear filled the moment. David was afraid to bring the Ark into the City of David, so it was taken to the house of Obed Edom. For three months, the presence of God rested there. Scripture simply says the Lord blessed Obed Edom, his household, and everything he had because of the Ark of God. When I kept reading, I noticed something else. Years later, his

LEVITICUS 19 I’ve been reading through Leviticus, and honestly, for years I think I misunderstood it. Like many people, I used to read it and see rituals, laws, sacrifices, offerings, blood, cleansing, and endless instructions that felt distant from life today. It almost felt overwhelming. Easy to dismiss. Easy to say, “We don’t do that anymore.” But the more I read it, the more I realized something deeper was underneath all of it. Covenant. Not empty religion. Not performanc

EXODUS 21 I was reading through Exodus 21 and realized something that stopped me. What God called offenses looked very different than what we often call offenses today. In Exodus, offenses were things like violence, theft, injury, neglect, damage, dishonor, and harm done to another person. They were visible. Measurable. Actions that affected families, people, and communities. God addressed them seriously because sin always leaves damage behind it. But today, when many people