by David Keesling | Jan 15, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Mark 4:9 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Observation: Jesus was teaching at the seashore. As the crowd grew, He moved His venue from the shore to a boat put out a short distance into the water. Presumably from there, both visibility and acoustics would be...
by David Keesling | Jan 14, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Numbers 14:24 “But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendents will inherit it” (NIV). Observation: Israel was poised on the edge of the Promised Land, and the spies...
by David Keesling | Jan 13, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Numbers 12:15 “So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back” (NIV). Observation: Miriam had exposed a petulant jealous streak by speaking against Moses, saying, “Has the Lord spoken only through...
by David Keesling | Jan 12, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Numbers 9:4–5 “So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover, and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses” (NIV). Observation: A year had passed...
by David Keesling | Jan 11, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Numbers 7:19–23 “The offering … was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels … each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; one gold dish weighingten shekels, filled with incense,...
by David Keesling | Jan 10, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Numbers 4:15, 20 “After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites are to come to do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The...