Lessons on Success

Numbers 14:42  “Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.” God promised a land to the children of Israel, and He commanded them to go up and possess the land that flowed with “milk and honey.” In...

What Do You See?

Numbers 13:30  “And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.” Do you remember the kids’ song about the twelve spies that said, “Ten were bad and two were...

The Sin of Complaining

Numbers 11:1  “And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.” Numbers 11 is a story of...

Oxen and Ox Carts

Numbers 7:9  “But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.” Numbers 7 begins with a distribution of an offering to the tribe of Levites so that they...

Spiritual Hygiene

Numbers 5:3  “Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.” “Wash your hands!”  Did your mother ever say this to you?   Do you find yourself saying...